![]() ![]() ![]() He recalled how, when he joined the department, there was one homemade truck, no protective gear and no centralized dispatch center. The Torrington volunteer Fire Department is his passion. “My fire department experiences have been real rewarding for me in 55 years,” Roger said. He’s been classified as “active reserve” with the department for the past 30 years. And, this week, he was honored for more than 50 years service to TVFD.ĭuring his more than half-century in the department, he’s served in a number of different roles, from firefighter up to president, secretary and treasurer. He joined the Torrington Volunteer Fire Department in 1963. “We were the new family in town and I was asked to do many things, being President of the Chamber Commerce, on the planning commission, on the Eastern Wyoming College Board for nine years and on the Hospital Board for 11 years,” Roger said. After graduating from Torrington High School in 1952, he married and moved away, returning to Torrington a decade later when his father died suddenly. The prisoners were put to work on the farms, mostly those owned by German families, taking the place of the men who went to war.ĭuring high school, Roger worked for the city, part of a crew who built East D Street. military in the North Africa, scores of German soldiers were captured, and the prisoners were brought to camps in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska. “The whole farming community was German, white Russian, which was the Eastern Block,” he said.ĭuring military campaigns by the U.S. Growing up during the war years, local farmers did not have laborers to work their fields, because all the young men had entered the service, Roger recalled. “This is why when going through the cemetery you will see the headstones with hundreds of German names,” he said. This valley was the source of sugar for America in 1941. In the 1920’s, German immigrants came to America, some settling in Goshen County to become sugar beet farmers. Roger’s father worked for L B Murphy in Nebraska moving to Torrington in 1936 when he was 2 years old ![]() TORRINGTON – Roger Hamer’s boyhood memories are mostly of World War II and prisoners of war interred in camps around Torrington.īut as a young man he thought of his involvement with the fire department. He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Janet Cruickshank, his children Iain and Anna, his grandchildren, his sisters, Barbara Kern and Jackie Cohen, and numerous nieces and nephews.Ī celebration of his life will be scheduled at a later date.Updated: 4 years ago / Posted Long-time TVFD firefighter honored by department Cruickshank is preceded in death by his father, James Cruickshank, his mother Catherine (Malloy) Cruickshank, his brothers Michael Cruickshank and Steven Cruickshank. He was never short of pithy, witty sayings nor of heartfelt words of encouragement, especially when the going got tough.ĭr. He was a friend, confidant, and inspiration to those who knew him. Cruickshank was an avid mountaineer, cyclist, weightlifter, hunter and college football fan who passionately followed both the University of Nebraska and Naval Academy teams. He was so proud of his children, who both attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. Together, they have four grandchildren, David, Catherine, Andrew and Merrick.ĭr. 17, 1983, and they had two children Iain Cruickshank (Jenn), and Anna Hooper (Austin). Cruickshank married Janet Primozich on Dec. He was a visionary aerospace engineer who worked on many different elements of space technology, particularly for national defense with Pratt & Whitney and NASA before retiring from Lockheed Martin in Colorado Springs.ĭr. from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His education culminated with receiving a Ph.D. He graduated from high school in Torrington, Wyoming before attending the U.S. Naval Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ![]() Updated: 5 months ago / Posted Decem– December 1, 2022ĬOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ![]()
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