Wei Chen Xu

Wei Chen Xu died in Cheyenne on August 29, 2026. He was 70. Born in Cheyenne on July 2, 1956, into a Chinese-American household that treated work as a language. He learned early that a day is something you finish, not something you wait for. He moved freight on paper before it moved on steel. A timetable pencil stub outlasted computers; he filed delays without blaming the weather out loud. Colleagues still mention a timetable pencil stub. He married Mei in 1979. They kept a house that stayed modest when the neighborhood did not. They raised a son and a daughter through public schools and ordinary weather. After Mei died in 2019, he kept the routines that still made sense: the walk, the garden, the Sunday call. Neighbors remember a rake leaned against a shared fence after a storm. He liked early mornings before the heat or the noise. He died in Cheyenne, among streets he never needed to explain. The extra coffee is still in the thermos.