Susan Carol Anderson

Susan Carol Anderson died in Casper, Wyoming, Nov. 10, 2025, of ovarian cancer.

While she was best known as a television reporter, anchor, and host of Report to Wyoming on KTWO Television & Radio in the early 80s, she was also editor of the Casper Journal for five years, writer of a long-standing Journal column about daily life, “Living in Wyoming,” a policy advisor, speech writer, and legislative liaison for two Wyoming governors, Democrat Dave Freudenthal and Republican Matt Mead. She was an organizer who successfully ran a bond campaign to fund five Casper College buildings, including the Walter H. Nolte Gateway Center, the Music Building, The Inga Thorson Early Childhood Learning Center, The Residence Hall, and the college’s portion of the UW building and Student Union. She also served as an administrator at the Casper Mountain Science School, a job she particularly enjoyed. She served in both the Wyoming House and the Wyoming Senate in the early 90s and advocated for many issues and people, including the 10-acre mining exemption and stalking legislation. While at KPIX in San Francisco, she was awarded two Emmys for production and editing of a documentary involving Fidel Castro and the Black Caucus, interviewing Castro in Cuba.

Susan was born in the Pleasant Hills neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA, on Oct. 22, 1945. She often recalled how you could write your name in the coal dust that settled on the milk bottles delivered to their house each morning due to the pollution in the city at the time.

She was a National Merit Scholar and attended The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. She then moved to New York City and earned a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. She worked at the NBC radio station in New York City for a period before moving to San Francisco, where she started as a film editor and worked her way up to producing the evening news at KGO Television. Over a period of years, she worked at all the major television stations in San Francisco.

While fishing near Laramie in 1980, she became immediately hooked on Wyoming, and she applied for a job at KTWO Television & Radio. She landed the job. She quickly became an avid outdoor enthusiast. She climbed the Grand Teton three times, summiting twice. She loved to ski and hike, and through seven years of cancer treatments, she skied or walked a distance every day. You would recognize her if you ever worked out at the YMCA.

There are many examples of Susan’s tenacity. In late grade school, Susan saw a dress she liked. It was a flower print, pleated from the waist to the knee and sleeveless. Her father told her they couldn’t afford such a dress. So, Susan cut roses from the beds in their family’s front yard on Rosemont Street and went door-to-door selling them to indulgent neighbors. She said she felt “pretty special” in that dress.

Her father told her she couldn’t go to college unless she went to Penn State and studied to be a teacher, the only job he could imagine she could get as a woman. But she found a way to attend and graduate from the College of Wooster with a double major in English and Psychology. While there she worked on the college newspaper "The Voice". When Columbia University journalism school would not admit her because she would be “taking a job from a man,” she got a job in the Dean’s office and by the following fall was enrolled in their College of Journalism, where she earned a master’s degree.

In Casper, the Rotary Club did not admit women. But Susan and her good friend Bobbi Brown applied and became the first two women to join the Casper Rotary Club. The vote to admit women was 50-50, and Susan said every time she went to Rotary, she knew half the men at the table didn’t want her there. But she focused on the half that did and persevered.

Once, her Saab got stuck in two gears, reverse and fifth, while she was in Jackson. She wanted to be in Casper for a New Year’s Eve party that involved her new boyfriend. She thought the transmission was stuck in third gear, so she made a run for it. When the car eventually lost momentum to top Togwotee, she turned around and backed over the pass…in a snowstorm! She made it to Casper in time for the gig and eventually married that boyfriend. It was well known that she would work hard to achieve any result she wanted.

She married Dale Bohren at their Casper Mountain cabin on June 23, 1990. Each of them had a teenage boy, and in 1995, Susan delivered a baby girl to complete their family. She was most passionate about her family.

The couple started several small businesses and, in 1998, bought the Casper Journal weekly newspaper with their friends at Wyoming Financial, which Susan edited for five years.

In 1990, in partnership with photographer Zbiginiew Bzdak, Susan wrote a full-color coffee table book called “Living In Wyoming: Settling For More.” It was a snapshot of the people and places in Wyoming that intrigued and attracted her to the state. It was a smashing local success and was updated and reprinted in 1992.

She worked with the Casper Journal to compile a book of her columns that had been published in The Journal. Its title was “Wyoming is Wild, and the Kids Are Barbarians!” It was also a local success and went to a second printing.

At the time of her death, Susan was researching and working on writing a historical novel about how women got the vote in Wyoming, set in the 1800s in the South Pass area. She had written 50,000 words when she passed.

Susan loved to read and often consumed multiple books, magazines, and newspapers every week. As a result, she was terrific company and could converse on nearly any subject.

Susan knew how to be a friend, and in addition to the individuals she knew all around the globe, she was a member of a group of six women who met regularly for 42 years. As some members moved to new places, the group kept meeting, often traveling to each other’s towns to keep up the conversation.

She could recognize a Pennsylvania accent anywhere and was an avid lifelong Steelers fan.

Susan loved the people at the Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church in Casper, where she served as a deacon. She valued and loved helping others.

She is survived by her husband, Dale Bohren of Casper, Dan Hewitt (Jessica) and grandchildren Riley and Caroline, of Providence, Rhode Island, Anna Bohren of Casper, Anahad Bohren of Green River, and brother Ray Anderson (Sara), of Arlington, VA, as well as nieces Lynn Anderson, Heather Anderson, Corinna (Bohren) Bakken, Lyssa Griffin Zwolanek, Abigail Harvey, Sydney Triolo and nephews Peter Anderson, Django Bohren, Andre Bohren, Tucker Bohren, Josh Griffin, JP Griffin, David Vawter, Andy Vawter, Paul Vawter, Ben Bohren, Z Jadwick and Hot Vawter.

When things got harder in the last seven years of her life as she dealt with ovarian cancer, Susan began living in the moment because there were more good minutes in a day than bad. And faced with the prospect of passing, she said, “make the party joyous.”

A memorial for Susan Anderson will be held at 3 PM Saturday, November 22nd, at the Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church, 4600 S. Poplar. There will be a bonus for wearing Steelers colors.

Services for Susan will be livestreamed, please access with the following link:

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