Trudy Workman 

May 2, 1957 – Oct. 5, 2016  

Trudy Workman, 59, died peacefully at her home in Lovell on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. She was born on May 2, 1957, in Lovell to Preston Duncan and Greta Godfrey Workman, who lived in Worland at the time.As a young adult, she resided in several different places, including Billings and Hammond, Mont., Powell, Provo, Utah, and the U.S.V.I. However, she lived most of her life in her parents’ house and always considered Lovell her home.[caption id="attachment_11760" align="alignright" width="215"] Trudy Workman [/caption]Trudy graduated through the Lovell Schools in 1975. She studied theatre and speech at Northwest Community College, where her class traveled abroad one summer to the United Kingdom. She spent a semester at Brigham Young University and ultimately received her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Eastern Montana College in 1985.She was married to National Park Service ranger Richard Broderick Jones from 1980–1982, and while together created their daughter Amanda Ryan Jones Cohen.She held a variety of jobs, but most of her career was spent in education. After completing two rural teaching contracts, she found her calling in the Resources Department of the Big Horn County School District No. 2 as a teacher’s aide. She also served as the head speech and debate coach for Lovell and Rocky Mountain high schools for nearly a decade. She secured many trophies for these schools, producing state champions and national qualifiers. Being able to provide countless teenagers with a structured environment for them to creatively grow and learn how to express themselves was what she considered a crowning achievement. Eventually, mounting disabilities concluded that career and attending to her mental and physical health became her top priority.Trudy was enthusiastic and shared many of her abilities with her community. She was blessed with talent in music and song, playing both the piano and guitar. She participated in multiple staged productions; remembered most notably for her role as The Matchmaker in Lovell’s production of the Fiddler on the Roof. She took pride in getting to meet John Wayne during her time as Lovell Rodeo Queen.She decorated wedding cakes and made annual Christmas candies, hosted and facilitated community events and took summer road trips with her daughter. These were just a few of her many passions. She had a real love for animals and nurtured several cats, dogs, fish, birds and her childhood palomino horse Tonka. She developed a wide variety of treasured collections, for which she diligently cared. Her fancy hats, among these, were shared with those able to be in attendance at her service.She was preceded in death by her father, Pres, and is survived by her mother, Greta, sister Marla (Norman) Winters, her daughter Ryan (Eric) Cohen and her two grandchildren Preston Indi Jones Cohen and Marlowe Jones Cohen. She is also survived by her uncles and aunts: Dennis and Rose Godfrey, Kenneth A. and Sharon Blackburn, Dallen Workman and Claude and Glenna Workman, many cousins, her eight nieces and nephews and their children. She developed lasting memories with her stepchildren H. Clay and April M. Jones, who also survive her.She was born and raised in the LDS Church, received her endowments in the Idaho Falls Temple and accepted a variety of different callings.A viewing and services for Trudy were held on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, at the Lovell LDS Stake Center. She was interred at the Cowley Cemetery following those services.