Dry Bones Coffee comes to life

New business aims to open in early December

The long-awaited Dry Bones Coffee will open in early December. The new shop on South Sixth Street in Greybull will serve all the coffee usuals, along with Redbull, Lotus, boba and more, while also serving as a testament to family and the local community. 

The Didricksons moved to Greybull from Washington state about three and a half years ago to work at Camp Bethel in the Big Horn Mountains. Owner Jamie Didrickson first envisioned the coffee shop while working at the Big Horn County courthouse a couple years later. Coming from coffee central, Didrickson has slung coffee off and on since she was 15. 

“I felt like God put it on my heart,” Didrikson said. The name ‘Dry Bones’ stuck with her, and she looked it up to find Bible verse Ezekiel 37, where the prophet walks through a desert valley and finds a pile of dry bones, which God invites him to speak life into. 

“They rose up in this valley of dead, where it seems like there is no life or no hope, and that has been my story since I moved here three years ago,” Didrickson said. 

Life has thrown a few wrenches in the Didricksons’ plans. Two weeks before Jamie was originally set to open the shop in early October, her son Wyatt Didrickson received a cancer diagnosis. 

“[Dry Bones Coffee], all of the sudden, became not even a thought in the back of my mind, it was nothing … My son is the priority, and it was all focus on him,” Jamie said.

Wyatt, a 2025 Greybull High School graduate, began receiving treatments for Rhabdomyosarcoma at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Jamie has been back and forth to visit him and plans to continue doing so; two weeks on, two weeks off at Dry Bones. 

Picking up the slack when Jamie is out of town will be Kyleigh Williams, Jamie’s niece who moved out from Washington to help her family get the shop rolling. 

“I feel like this is my baby and I’m entrusting someone else with it – but it’s Kyleigh. She might actually do this better than I can,” Jamie said. “It’s just letting go, it’s just saying, ‘You know what, this is something I can’t control in life right now.’ It’s just opening up my hand and saying … Jesus take the wheel.”

 “Or Kyleigh take the coffee,” Williams interjected. 

It has been the work of a dedicated family and larger community to get the project past the finish line. Thick wood slab shelving and countertops came from Jamie’s father, Randy Simmons’s, sawmill in Port Angeles, Washington. Jamie’s twin daughters, Audrey and Emily Didrickson, will work at the shop after school. 

Jamie reported countless people stopping in to give words of encouragement and help paint during setup. Cards have come in from people she’s never met before, and a recent benefit for Wyatt drew in a crowd of 300 and $44,000. When rain sunk the coffee shop’s foundation in its early stages, Jamie arrived to find Mike Laird had already fixed it. When she offered him free coffee forever, he turned it down. 

“I’ve never felt so taken care of and loved on by a community ever in my life… I’ve never had people come alongside of me, pick me up, hold me, hold my hand…,” Jamie said. “

As a thank you, Dry Bones Coffee will offer an invitation-only limited menu soft opening starting Tuesday, Dec. 9. Teachers, educators and school staff are invited to stop in for a free 20 ounce drink. The celebration will continue Wednesday, Dec. 10 for local heroes — veterans, firefighters, cops, EMS and Search and Rescue; then Thursday, Dec. 11 for farmers and ranchers, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. all days.  

The official grand opening event will be held Saturday, Dec. 13 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a limited menu again offered to the public for free. Biscuits and gravy will be provided until supplies run out. 

“This is the smallest way, as far as the free drinks go, that I can give back to the community for how they have surrounded my family and have given an unmeasurable amount to me and to my family. It’s a drop in the bucket for what I can do to give back,” Jamie said. 

For their starting winter hours, Dry Bones Coffee plans to be open Monday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. They are located at 441 South Sixth Street in Greybull, across from the Big Horn Co-op property.

“I’m very humbled, very honored to be a part of this community and I can’t wait to invest my time and my services in this community,” Jamie said.