Laurie Vossler was a man who always put God and his family before anything else. Grandpa sure loved his family with his whole heart. He and my grandma built a strong, loving, Christ-centered marriage that their kids and grandkids aspire to have.
Laurie was a tough, hard-working man with a tender and kind heart who always put others before himself. He was a man who never met a stranger; he was always willing to help whoever and whenever he could. After he passed away, we got a card from a guy who none of us knew. He wrote that he had walked into the grocery one day looking for a jacket, because it was cold. Grandpa literally gave him the coat off his back. He would do anything for anyone.
Laurie grew up on a farm in Circle, Montana with his parents and six siblings. They moved to Reed Point, then to Wyoming, and finally, in 1968, to Boulder, where his parents went to work for the Montana Developmental Center. That fall, Laurie met the love of his life, Patty Gruber. She was his waitress at the 4B’s restaurant in Helena; he told his cousin Aaron Remmich, who was Patty’s school bus driver, that she was going to be his wife someday. The two married soon after graduating from Jefferson High School, on September 12, 1970.
