Theodore McCoy Obituary

Theodore N. McCoy, M.D. 1933- 2025 It is with a combination of sadness and joy that we announce the death of Theodore Neal McCoy, MD, age 92, on July 18, 2025. Dr. McCoy suffered a stroke in his home on July 11, 2025, and died peacefully at home a week later while under hospice care. The sadness is felt because Ted's friends and family will truly miss his curmudgeonly presence in our lives; and the joy arises as we know Ted was ready to be reunited with all those he loved and adored who had predeceased him. For this next adventure in his life, we are very happy for him.

Ted McCoy was born in Lawrence, Kansas on January 23, 1933, to J. Wayne McCoy of Cedarvale, Kansas and M. Catherine Creveling McCoy of Ark City, Kansas . The McCoy family eventually settled in Topeka, Kansas where Ted graduated from Topeka High School in 1951. After graduation he attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and became an active member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, graduating from KU in 1955 with a degree in Zoology. Ted went on to study medicine at the University of Kansas Medical School in Kansas City, Kansas where he also completed a residency in Urology. In 1960 he became a medical officer with the US Air Force and was stationed in Little Rock, Arkansas and Mountain Home, Idaho. While in Idaho, Dr. McCoy met and served with Walter E. Reckling, M.D., a Wyoming native who later practiced as a general surgeon in Cheyenne. Dr. Reckling encouraged Ted to come to Cheyenne after his discharge and start a private practice in Urology. Ted and his wife Anne moved to Cheyenne in 1961 where he spent his entire 30-year medical career and his retired life thereafter

Following his retirement from medicine, Ted undertook a second "career" as an oil and watercolor paint artist. He attended Laramie County Community College art classes year after year where he often joked that he never was able to pass a class. Ted was an avid supporter of the arts throughout the Cheyenne region and gained very positive recognition for his paintings of Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico scenes and people.

Ted was an avid trout fisherman and fly tyer pursuing his hobby in the lakes and streams of southeast Wyoming. Ted was an active member of the Cheyenne Rotary Club for 30 years and was an ardent member of the club's "get away" table.

Ted McCoy was a very charitable person. He regularly and generously supported a large number of local and regional charities for many decades.

Ted was predeceased by his first wife of 56 years, Anne Miller of Dodge City, Kansas, on March 27, 2015, and by his second wife of 7 years, Judy Crane Elliott of Chevy Chase, Maryland, on May 6, 2023. He was also preceded in death by his son Theodore N. McCoy, Jr., "Neal", his brother Thomas Wayne McCoy, and his parents. He is survived by his son Miller W. McCoy (who was Ted's constant and devoted caregiver in his final years), and his wife Michele of Cheyenne, his sister-in-law Linda McCoy of Lawrence, Kansas, nieces Cathy Hanson, Halina Bini and Samantha Gallegos, and several cousins. A celebration of Ted's life will be held at a later date.

In keeping with Ted's good example, friends are encouraged to make a donation in Ted's memory to a charity of choice.