CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - Barb Watters, a former mayor of Casper and advocate for the city’s Jewish community, has died. She was 56.
The Casper Star-Tribune reports that Watters died Thursday after battling cancer. The city manager’s office announced her death in a memo to city workers.
Watters served as mayor from 2003-2004 and was a city councilwoman from 2000-2004.
She previously served nine years on the Casper police force and was an advocate for the Jewish community.
She founded Congregation Kol Ha’am in Casper in 2007.
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Information from: Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune, http://www.trib.com
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