Robert Sexton

Robert (Bob) Sexton 1929- 2021 Bob was born May 2, 1929 in Berkeley California to Kenneth Sexton and Anna Belle Compton Sexton. He grew up on his family's ranch near Willows, California. He went through school in Willows graduating in 1947. He attended the University of California at Davis for a year then transferred to Utah State in Logan Utah.

Bob returned to the ranch in 1949 and went into partnership with his father. In 1952 Bob flew to Australia and worked as a 'jackaroo'. Bob worked on several sheep stations in the outback and made one trip to a cattle station in Queensland. In December his fiancée Louise Johnson flew to Australia and the couple was married January 2, 1953 in Adelaide SA. After honeymooning in Australia and New Zealand they sailed home to California.

In 1955 Bob, Louise, and daughter Debbie moved to the Laramie, WY area and he went to work for the Joe Miller Co. Bob passed the Wyoming Game Warden exam in 1963 and took a temporary job building fence on Sheep Mountain and in the Seminoles. He ran the Dubois game check station in the fall and helped build the Downer Bird Farm near Hawk Springs where he worked for two years. In 1966 he became a damage control warden in Laramie. He attended the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy at UW in Laramie.

Bob worked on game damage control and game law enforcement until 1975 when he was promoted to law enforcement specialist. In 1979 he was assigned as a bodyguard during the Mark Hopkinson murder trial in Jackson Wyoming.

Bob's hobbies were guns, hunting, and shooting. He hunted Dall sheep in Canada and Big Horn sheep in Wyoming as well as antelope and deer in the Red Desert.

He competed in police revolver matches for over 20 years, winning Wyoming State champion 5 times. Over the years he also competed in police revolver matches in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Iowa.

After retiring in 1984 Bob went into pistol smithing and commercial reloading of pistol ammunition. He volunteered for youth shooting sports in Wyoming and New Mexico. He was chief hunting instructor for NRA Youth Adventure camp in New Mexico for 12 years, a Wyoming 4-H shooting sports leader and a Wyoming Hunter Ed instructor since 1966.

Because he suffered from asthma Bob was rejected by the navy and the draft but he found many other ways to contribute to his community. Bob and Louise both volunteered as instructors for the Becoming an Outdoors Woman camps in both Wyoming and New Mexico. He was a member of the 4-H Shooting Sports leader training team and chairman of the Wyoming State 4-H Foundation Board of Directors. They worked as bailiffs for district court and elections judges for Albany County and also helped with the community Thanksgiving Dinner.

Bob is survived by his daughters Debbie (Bill) Wempen, Janice Sexton, and Sandra (Larry) Goza. He is also survived by his sister Arleigh Simmons, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife Louise, parents, brother Hank Sexton and son Mike Sexton.

A Celebration of Bob's Life will be held at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, March 4, 2021 at the Albany County Fairgrounds. Honor's provided by the L.A.S.T. Team.

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