Jace Layman Memorial Fund

With heavy hearts and on behalf of Jace Layman's family and friends, Jamie Richards Matthew and I would like to start an account for our bleoved Jace. For all those who have been asking "how to help out" please consider donating if you can. This account will help offset funeral expenses for his family. It will also be used to start a memorial fund in his honor. Jace just turned 20 this year and was living his best life, living the cowboy dream. On Thursday, June 22, 2023 Jace Layman passed away due to an undetermined medical emergency while working for the Padlock Ranch in Sheridan County, Wyoming.

Jace was full of life and a cowboy at heart from day one. He worked many jobs including working for a landscaping business, machine shop, and then for the family ranch guiding folks and packing mules. But as he grew, so did his dreams of being a cowboy working for a cow/calf operation anywhere west. Jace was rarely seen without a rope in his hand, roping anything that stood still. He took to riding colts, developing horse and livestock skills, and forged a life he loved. He found himself on a feedlot in Terry, Montana briefly, before moving to Rosebud, Montana to work for the Wacker family on the Cross 4. From there, he moved to Nevada for a while staying near Reno, and then on to the King’s River Ranch north of Winnemucca, Nevada. He loved the buckaroo life, and as a cowboy usually does, he moved again, back to Montana, making more friends along the way. After searching for the right fit, with his dog, borrowed horses, and cowboy gear loaded on the truck, Jace found himself at the Padlock Ranch. Here, he had finally found a place he would enjoy sticking around for a while. Jace worked the last few weeks of his too-short life riding colts, roping, and living his best life right up until the end in the branding pen surrounded by strangers who had become close friends.

Each of your donations, big or small will go to help the family with all costs associated with funeral expenses as well as set up a memorial fund in Jace's name, honoring this young cowboy! Paying it forward is something this cowboy was raised on. Let us come together and show his family how much this young man impacted the cowboy community in his short life.