Michel Sutherland
Thermopolis, Wyoming
Michel Gordon Sutherland was born October 5 1947 in Worland Wyoming to Chancy and Iona Sutherland. Mike and his brother Steve grew up on a farm near Ethete Wyoming and graduated from Lander High School. He married out of high school and had a son David. He worked for various oil and gas companies in Wyoming prior to being drafted in 1970 for the US Army as a mechanized infantryman. He was deployed to Germany for several years and out processed at Ft. Carson Colorado in 1974 and relocated to Lander Wyoming where he met and married Evelyn MacKearney and became stepfather to Ann Talmadge. He worked a couple years for US Steel before becoming a patrolman for the Wyoming Highway Patrol in 1976 in Thermopolis Hot Springs County Wyoming. Mike was respected admired and adored by all in the community and loved his job. After 30 years of service…