Family Files February 2022 - Person Sheet
NameGasper BONATTO , M
Birth4 Nov 1902, Wyoming
Death18 May 1970, Rock Springs North, Sweetwater, Wyoming
BurialRock Springs Cemetery, Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
Misc. Notes
Coal mining, both parents born Italy. Lived same place in 1935
Living next to Krpan mike age 29 from Austria and mary 26 born Illinois, Michael James 5 Colorado and Jacquline Joyce 4 born WY
1930 FC
Blairtown, Sweetwater, Wyomin with Jasper )Gasper) 26 single WY, Pauline Bonatto 57 widowed, Italy Immigration 1899; Margaret 21 CO and single, Lena Hansen 24 and married and Richard Hansen her 6 month son so born Oct 1929 in MN. Father was born in Utah and mother WY
‘Rock Springs Daily Rocket-Miner, May 23, 1970
GASPER BONATTO
Funeral services for Gasper Bonatto, 67, 701 Fourth Avenue West, Rock Springs, were conducted Thursday at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, with the Rev. Patrick Trujillo officiating. Burial was in Rock Springs Municipal Cemetery.
Pallbearers were John Reay, Stan Myska, Andy Angelovic, Onesimo Branch, Harry Fitchett and John Fornengo.
Mr. Bonatto died Monday at Sweetwater County Memorial Hospital, where he had been a patient since March 13. He had been in ill health since Dec. 30.
A life-time resident of Rock Springs, he was born here Nov. 4, 1902, the son of the late Lucca and Appolonia Faletti Bonatto. He married Mary Rose Kruljac in Rock Springs, July 19, 1938.
Employed by the City of Rock Springs until ill health forced his retirement, he attended schools here and was a member of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mary, Rock Springs; a daughter, Mrs. Robert B. (Eleanore) Whisler, Rock Springs; one son, John, San Carlos, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Ray (Peggy) Litton, Downey, Calif.; two granddaughters, Gianna and Andrea, both of Rock Springs, and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents and three sisters, Lena, and Elizabeth Ann and Elizabeth Marie, twins.”20
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Birth9 Dec 1909, Colinsville, Missouri
Death21 Aug 1988, Reno, Washoe Co., Nevada
BurialRock Springs Cemetery, Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
Marriage19 Jul 1938, Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyoming