Edward Croft Horsley

Edward Croft Horsley, 86 passed away in Casper, WY at the Wyoming Medical Center on Friday, November 13, 2015. Ed was the third child of Dr. W. W. and Glen (Croft) Horsley, delivered by his maternal grandfather, Dr. Edward W. Croft on January 14, 1929. His father taught him one of the important lessons of life – how to work, making him gardener of his personal and the city of Lovell’s rose gardens when he was only twelve years old. His father also taught him the recreational loves of his life – fly fishing and hunting. Upon graduating from the University of Wyoming he followed in the footsteps of his grandfather and father and graduated from the University Of Colorado School Of Medicine. He practiced family medicine and surgery for 31 years in Worland. He particularly enjoyed obstetrics and pediatrics, witness the miracle of birth and the delight of little children.

On August 23, 1954 he married Charlene Madsen of Price, Utah, in the Salt Lake Temple.

His hobbies included leather work and wood carving taught him by his good friend Bill Dillon.

He was a lifelong fifth generation member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in many callings, including a seventy, bishop and a counselor to a state president. From November 1949 to May, 1952 he served a mission in West Germany. He decided to spend his retirement years in missionary service, serving in London, England, Sydney, Australia, and Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana in West Africa. He loved temples and the ordinance work therein, as well as the family history work associated with them.

He was preceded in death by his daughter Lesli, son David and his three siblings, Dr. A. W. Horsley, Helen Kienlen, and Jerome Horsley.

Survivors include his wife, Charlene, a son, Lance Scott of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; son-in-law Darrel Copeland; grandchildren Jared Copeland (Nena), Holly Veibell (Bret), April Young, Bryan Copeland (Vanessa); 14 great-grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews and grandnieces and nephews, whom he loved dearly.

Funeral services will be held 10:00 am, Tuesday, November 17 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Worland with Bishop Jerry Kienlen officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in the Lovell Cemetery at 2:00 pm, where he carved a monument from a rock from his beloved Big Horn Mountains. Memorial donations may be made to the General Missionary Fund, Perpetual Education Fund, Books of Mormon, Temple Construction or Temple Attendance funds of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in care of Bryant Funeral Home, PO Box 524, Worland, WY 82401. Please make checks payable to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with the choice in the memo line. Online condolences may be made at http://www.bryantfuneralhomeonline.com.