Funeral Services: will be 10:00 a.m., Saturday, October 23, 2004, at the Stevenson-Wilson Funeral Home Chapel in Gillette, WY
Interment: will follow at the Mount Pisgah Cemetery in Gillette
Kristina Michelle Borrego, age 24, of Gillette, Wyoming, died October 19, 2004, at her home in Gillette of undetermined causes.
Kristina Michelle Bohn, was born March 21, 1980, the daughter of Mark C. Bohn and Lisa (Ryan) Bohn at the Williams Air Force Base (AFB) in Chandler, Arizona. She left Arizona at the age of three weeks, when her father was transferred with the Air Force to Colorado Springs, Colorado. At age two, she moved again to the Netherlands, where her father was stationed at Soesterberg AFB, where she attended pre-school and began kindergarten. Returning to the states in 1986, Mark was given an assignment at Warren AFB in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Kristina spent the next three years in Cheyenne. In 1989, the family moved to Everett, Washington, where Kristina attended grade school and junior high. In 1993, the family moved back to Wyoming, residing in Saratoga, then Hanna, Wyoming. Kristina attended Hanna Junior High and High School. It was here that Kristina made many of her lifelong friends. She met and married her best friend, Ryan Borrego in March of 1998. The couple had two sons, Jordon and Austin. Kristina loved being a wife and mother. In 2000, the family moved to Gillette, Wyoming, where she worked at the Campbell County Recreational Center, Bell Knob Golf Course and recently as a bank teller at the First Interstate Bank. Here in Gillette, Kristina made many friends.
Kristina had a special light about her. She loved life and lived it to the fullest. She had an extreme compassion for friends and even strangers. She was always giving, if someone needed help. She worked with the Special Olympics, enjoying every minute of it. Kristina loved to ski in the winter and spend time at the lake during the summer. She enjoyed attending her childrens sporting activities, but most of all, she loved being a mother, daughter and sister.
Kristina is survived by her husband, Ryan Borrego; two sons: Austin and Jordon Borrego, all of Gillette, Wyoming; her father, Mark Bohn of Bloomfield, Indiana; her mother, Lisa Hento and brother, Jacob Hento of Story, Wyoming; three sisters: Brittany and Nicole Fank, both of Rawlins, Wyoming; and Shannon Ryan; her paternal grandparents, Robert and Barbara Jasin of Apache Jct., Arizona; and two uncles: Ernest Kinney of Florida; and Terry Bohn of California.
She was preceded in death by her great grandmother, Hazel Bostwick; and her maternal grandparents.
A memorial has been established in Kristinas name to benefit her children. Condolences may be sent in care of Stevenson-Wilson Funeral Home, 210 W. 5th Street, Gillette, WY 82716 or via the internet at www.stevensonandsons.com
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