Sylvanus "Van" Harrsch, 76, died Dec. 15, 2000, in Orem, Utah.
      Funeral Services are 11 a.m. Wednesday at Ferries Funeral Home.
Interment will follow at the Sheridan Municipal Cemetery with military
rites by the Wyoming National Guard and American Legion.
      He was born April 30, 1924, in Broadus, Mont., the oldest child of
Ernest Adolph and Kathern Clark Harrsch.
      As a young boy, he moved with his family to Sheridan, where he
attended grade school and graduated from Sheridan High School.
      Harrsch served in World War II as an Army medic with the 82nd
Airborne.  He took part in six campaigns in Europe.  He was briefly
captured behind enemy lines in Holland and was wounded at Anzio.  His
awards include the Bronze Star and the French Croix de Guerre.
      After the war, he married Wilma Evelyn Drake of Sheridan, and raised
three children.  A military family, they lived in various locations in the
United States and Germany before settling in Salt Lake City, Utah.
      There he retired from the Army and began his post-military career as
a hospital administrator with Holy Cross Hospital and the University of
Utah.
      He is preceded in death by his wife, Evelyn; a son, Greg; and
daughter, Mary Kay Thompson; his parents; and a brother, Vernon Harrsch.
      Survivors include a daughter, Diane Ingersoll, Sheridan; a brother,
LeRoy Long, Montpelier, Idaho; and four sisters, Jeann Hunsaker, Orem,
Charlotte Grunig, Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, Patricia Abbott of Las Vegas,
Nevada, and Colleen Jensen, Montpelier.