LANDER - Funeral services for Kenneth Raymond Plumb, 69, will be held on Friday at 2 p.m. at the Chapel of Mount Hope, Hudson's Funeral Home, with the Rev. Tom Lane of the First United Methodist Church of Lander officiating.

Burial will be at the Mount Hope Cemetery with military graveside rites by Don Stough Post 33, American Legion, Popo Agie Post 954, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Friday Truan Marine Corps League Detachment 683 and the Lander Valley High School Naval Junior ROTC.

Mr. Plumb died at the Lander Valley Medical Center on March 25, 1996, following a lengthy battle with lung cancer.

He was born April 24, 1926, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the son of Frank and Esther (Haefele) Plumb. He was a building contractor by trade. The family moved to Verse and Sheridan to farm and work at the Sheridan Flour Mills in 1936. When his country called, he left high school to join the Navy, serving from November 1943 to July 1946.

The Plumbs moved to the Lander area in 1964. He was the contractor for the construction of the Rocky Mountain Hall and the Circle of Love at Ft. Washakie. In addition to the many commercial and residential buildings, built by the Kenneth Plumb Building Co.. he also built the Veteran's Memorial, a bi-eentennial project, in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Lander.

Mr. Plumb married three times. He married Bernice Neard, who died in 1952; Joan Dewey on Dec. 23, 1952 in Sheridan, and Eileen Hopkins in Under on July 25, 1991.

He was a life member of the Don Stough Post 33, American Legion and active in the Popo Agie Post 954, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Whenever his organization called, he was always there to help.

He is survived by his wife Eileen of Lander; a daughter, Luan Plumb of Casper; three sons, Kelvin of Riverton, Galen of Lander and Wayne of Laramie; two stepchildren, Julie Glandt and Ralph Hallam Jr., both of Lander; one sister, Margaret Kenneman of Thermopolis and six grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by one wife and one grandson.

Casper Star-Tribune - Mar. 28, 1996.