Clayton Kenneth Sides

Lusk, WY – Memorial services for Clayton Kenneth Sides, 85, will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday August 9, 2025, at Niobrara County Fairgrounds in Lusk, Wyoming.

Clayton died on July 10, 2025, at Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, Wyoming following complications from a fall.

Clayton was born on August 8, 1939, at his family’s ranch homestead in Lance Creek, Wyoming. He was the second child born to Stewart and Alice (Calhoun) Sides. He attended school in the Niobrara County area and graduated from Niobrara County High School in 1957.

Clayton married Karen Kay Magoon from Lusk on June 30, 1957, and the couple celebrated their 68th anniversary this year. He enlisted in the National Guard and was stationed in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri when their first child was born in 1958. After his discharge from the military, he moved his small family to Cheyenne, Wyoming. The couple had two more children in 1959 and 1961 in Cheyenne, where he worked for Salt Creek Freightways.

In 1964 he moved his family to Casper, Wyoming and was employed as a heavy equipment mechanic for many years. In 1986, he left employment from Power Service and started his own business, “Clay’s Auto Repair”. While residing in Casper, he began to study the Bible with Jehovah’s Witnesses and dedicated his life to Jehovah God and was baptized on March 4, 1973. He has served the congregation faithfully as an elder for many years up to his death.

In 2000, years after all the kids left home, the couple moved back to Lusk to take over Karen’s family ranch and remained there until his death, although he did live in an assisted living facility in Douglas for a few months.

Survivors include his wife, Karen Kay Sides of Lusk, WY; a daughter, Cheryl Ann Brandon and her husband, Dirk, of Denver, CO; a son, Kenneth Carl Sides and wife, Carrie, of Lusk, WY; a daughter, Holly Beth Northway and her husband, Dan, of Lusk, WY; 6 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren; 2 step sisters, Beverly Miller of Lance Creek and Bernice Lowe of Lusk; a nephew, Randy Tschacher of Abilene, TX and a niece, Tamee (Tschacher) Young of Santana, KS; and a brother-in-law, West Magoon (Tana Libolt) of Centennial, WY.

He was preceded in death by his parents and his sister, Donna Kay Tschacher of Boise, ID.

Memorials may be made to Worldwide Work of Jehovah’s Witnesses at:

https://donate.jw.org/en/USA/donations/WW