Claryce Helen Hopka

Claryce Helen Hopka was born October 8, 1932 to Paul and Chleo Hopka in a farm house in Pine Bluffs. She was the 3rd of 5 living children and they nicknamed her "Sis" at an early age. She loved helping her dad on the farm and preferred that to working inside the house, but being the oldest girl, she couldn't always forsake her household chores to be outside, much to her dismay.

After graduating second in her class from Pine Bluffs High School in 1950, she promptly moved into the Cheyenne YWCA and got a job. That year she met the love of her life, Merrill Graham Sargent, aka "Sarge", a city boy...