Lifelong Sheridan resident Alice J. Carnes, 78, died March 6, 2008, at her residence. Viewing will be 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Kane Funeral Home. Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Church of the Nazarene with the Rev. Arthur Maendl officiating. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Big Horn. She married Richard Carnes in 1947. She was a distributor of the Denver Post in the 1940s and early 1950s, taught Sunday school at the Open Bible Church, and was a Brownie Scout leader. She and her husband started the first motorcycle club in Sheridan in the 1950s. The couple built their home together, owned and operated two gas stations and built Carnes' Auto Repair on Broadway. They also operated Ideal Cleaners for 12 years. Mrs. Carnes cleaned doctors' clinics and other offices, sold Watkins Products for more than 40 years, was a bookkeeper, clerk and seamstress, raised beef, and was an in-home caregiver. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include two sons, Kenneth R. of Glenrock and Troy of Sheridan; a daughter, Ginger Wallace of Sheridan; three sisters, Margaret Kathleen Dahle of Colorado, Mary Gallagher of Oregon, and Edith Carnes of California; a brother, Roger Krout of Sheridan; seven grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
Lifelong Sheridan resident Alice J. Carnes, 78, died March 6, 2008, at her residence. Viewing will be 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Kane Funeral Home. Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Church of the Nazarene with the Rev. Arthur Maendl officiating. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Big Horn. She married Richard Carnes in 1947. She was a distributor of the Denver Post in the 1940s and early 1950s, taught Sunday school at the Open Bible Church, and was a Brownie Scout leader. She and her husband started the first motorcycle club in Sheridan in the 1950s. The couple built their home together, owned and operated two gas stations and built Carnes' Auto Repair on Broadway. They also operated Ideal Cleaners for 12 years. Mrs. Carnes cleaned doctors' clinics and other offices, sold Watkins Products for more than 40 years, was a bookkeeper, clerk and seamstress, raised beef, and was an in-home caregiver. She was preceded in death by her husband. Survivors include two sons, Kenneth R. of Glenrock and Troy of Sheridan; a daughter, Ginger Wallace of Sheridan; three sisters, Margaret Kathleen Dahle of Colorado, Mary Gallagher of Oregon, and Edith Carnes of California; a brother, Roger Krout of Sheridan; seven grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
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