Obituary: Basil Llewellyn Lugenbeel, July 31, 1921 ~ May 24, 2011

Basil Llewellyn “Luge” Lugenbeel, age 89, of Duchesne, died May 24, 2011, at the Uintah Basin Medical Center in Roosevelt.He was born July 31, 1921, in Fort Morgan, Colo., to Claude D. and Helen Dawson Lugenbeel.He married Betty Kay Purkey and later divorced. Luge attended elementary school in Wickenberg and Goodwin, Ariz. He was graduated from Rio Blanco County High School in Meeker, Colo., in 1939. He served in the U.S. Army during World War…