Dolores Kisner

    Dolores M. Kisner (Dunham, Clabaugh) was born Dec. 7, 1919, in Butte, Nebraska. She was frail from old age and died Jan. 17, 2018, in Holyoke at Regent Park Nursing & Rehab.
    Dolores had an eighth-grade education. During her grade school years in South Dakota, she rode to a country school with her teacher. Later she rode her own horse.
    She married Henry Clabaugh during the Depression. They moved to Laramie Peak, Wyoming, to work in a logging sawmill to provide wood for the war effort. Dolores cooked for the logging crew on a wood stove. They received “ration” stamps during that time for some foods and lived in a log house, which later burned down.
    Her life consisted of raising seven children, working hard and living poor. She raised a big garden to feed the family and canned for winter hard times. She raised hundreds of chickens, and her husband hunted deer for meat. Later the family moved to Torrington, Wyoming, so all the children could go to a proper school.
    Dolores is survived by four children, Betty Bingham of Carthage, Missouri, Mary Carlsen of Paoli, Susan Capps of Arvada and Paul Clabaugh of Tennessee; daughter-in-law, Edith Clabaugh of Torrington; 12 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
    She was preceded in death by her sons, twins Leonard and Larry Clabaugh and David Clabaugh.
    Baucke Funeral Home has been entrusted with cremation. Dolores’ ashes will be interred in Torrington alongside other family members. There will be no funeral; however, personal memorials may occur.