The following obit is reprinted from the Jan. 1, 2004 edition of the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle with
permission of Cheyenne Newspapers, Inc. Copyright 2003. All rights reserved.
Althea Masser
1919-2003
Althea (Dunbar) Masser, 84, died Dec. 29 at Linden Court nursing home in North Platte,
Neb.
She was born on Aug. 13, 1919, in Elsie, Neb., to David and Mabel Kirk Brittain.
The family lived in several different communities while she was growing up, and she
graduated from Loomis High School in 1937. She attended Nebraska Weslyan in
Lincoln, where she graduated in 1941 with a degree in music education. She began her
teaching at Arapahoe and Elwood. She also taught later in McCool Junction.
She met Lloyd Dunbar, and they were married in Loomis on Nov. 24, 1943. The family
moved to Wyoming in 1956 and she taught for 14 years in Grover, Colo., Burns and
Yoder. Lloyd died in 1965, and she moved to Grant in 1970 where she taught in the
Grant Elementary School for 15 years before she retired in 1985.
She married the Rev. Albert Masser in 1975. She was ative in supporting his ministry in
the Grant and Brule congregational churches. She developed Alzheimer's and was
moved to Cheyenne in 1997 to be closer to family. She lived in an assisted-living unit for
three years before moving to Curtis, where she lived at the Sunset Haven nursing
home.
She was a member of the First Congregational Church in Grant and the Eastern Star.
She is survived by three daughters, Karon Rue of Curtis, Ramona Gazewood of
Cheyenne and Dana Lawhon of Killeen, Texas; a son, David Dunbar of Laramie; nine
grandchildren; and other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands; and a daughter, Janet
Dunbar.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Grant Congregational Church with the
Pastor John Keener officiating.
Burial will be at 3 p.m. at Holdrege Cemetery.
Friends may contribute to a memorial established to the Alzheimer's Association.
Bullock-Long Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Note: I am of no relation, but my sympathies go out to those of you who are.
This is here as a lasting memorial for Mrs. Masser.
