Jan Aakhus

Jan Aakhus was born November 14, 1952, in Winner, SD, to Alden “Al” Aakhus and Jean Beck Aakhus. He grew up in Tripp County, SD, and Itasca County, MN, attending a Tripp Co. oneroom schoolhouse and Gregory High School before graduating from Colome High School in 1971. He was a proud union member and a master carpenter and millwright, working on coal-fired plants in the west, oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, the iron range in Minnesota, and on restoration work at Hells Canyon Dam in Idaho. He moved to Casper, WY, from Nampa, ID, where he married Lynn Lolli. They later divorced. Jan Alden Aakhus of Casper, WY passed away December 27, 2024, age 72, in Casper, WY. He is survived by his daughter Paige Aakhus and her partner Grant Lewis, of Casper; grandchildren Allesia, Uriah, and Aurora; sisters Gaetha Pace of Boise, ID, Sally Petersen (Jim) of Racine, WI, Susan Robertson of Baxter, MN, and Sandra Pace (who later passed away); and his many much-loved South Dakota and Northern Minnesota cousins, especially Ken Beck of Tripp County, SD, and Jim Aakhus of Itasca County, MN.

He was preceded in death by his parents Jean and Al Aakhus, nephew Mark Petersen, and niece Ana Lucia Pace.