Maxinne Soderquist (Off)
Jan 6, 2020
Maxinne Soderquist passed away peacefully in her home in Montrose, Colorado of natural causes on January 6, 2020. She was raised in Alamosa, lived in Gunnison, Los Alamos, Paonia, Cimarron, and Montrose but her soul remained most at home in the Cimarron mountains. To all who knew her, she was the embodiment of grit, strength, and resilience against all odds....
Brandon Alan Butler
Jan 4, 2020
Brandon Alan Butler
Sep. 12, 2001 – Jan. 4, 2020
It is with great sorrow and sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of our beloved son, grandson, brother, cousin, nephew, friend and teammate, Brandon Alan Butler. Brandon, age 18, passed away on Saturday evening, January 4th, 2020 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, surrounded by his friends and...
Gene Stone
Jan 2, 2020
Gene Stone
July 23, 1925 – January 2, 2020
Gene Stone passed away in Montrose on January 2, 2020. He was born July 23, 1925 to Harry and Blanche Stone in Palisade. Colorado. Gene was one of eight children in the family including five sisters Alberta (Hamblin), Betty (Newberry), Dorothy (Weber), Evelyn (Frank), Edna (Barnard) and...
Phyllis Jean Westcott (Downing)
Jan 1, 2020
Phyllis Jean (Downing) Westcott, age 85, of Montrose, passed away Wednesday night, January 1, 2020, at Montrose Memorial Hospital.
She was born October 20, 1934, in Twin Falls, ID, a daughter of the late Harold Downing of Idaho.
Phyllis married Nedwrin Ray Westcott on July 14, 1956. They were married for 44 years before his death in 2000.
Ray and...
Janet L. Lambert (Smith)
Jan 1, 2020
JANET L. LAMBERT
October 2, 1919 – January 11, 2020
Janet L. Lambert, aka, Leliah Janet Lambert went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on January 11, 2020.
Janet was born and raised in Syracuse, Indiana to Edward and Edith Smith. She accepted the Lord as her personal Savior at the age of nine. She...
Barbara Joan Taylor
Dec 31, 2019
Barbara Joan Taylor, 81, of Montrose, Colorado, passed away on Dec. 31, 2019 at Hope-West Hospice Facility in Grand Junction, Colorado, surrounded by her loving family.
Barbara was born in Denver, Colorado, to Gerold O. Taylor and Denise M. Prather. Barbara attended high school at Saint Mary’s Academy in Denver, graduating in 1957. Barbara married her husband, Roy C. Taylor,...
Jennie Lou (Pennie) Love (Gagliardi)
Dec 27, 2019
Jennie Lou “Penny” Love
Jennie Lou “Penny” Love of Montrose passed away at age 92 on December 27, 2019 at Valley Manor Nursing Home due to complications of Dementia. A private life celebration will be held at Crippin Funeral Home in Montrose. Officiating will be Launa Stryker. Penny was a long-time resident of Cimarron and Montrose. Born on March...
Joe Lloyd Archuleta
Dec 25, 2019
Joe Lloyd Archuleta
July 29, 1929 – December 25, 2019
Lloyd was born and raised in Olathe, Colorado on July 29, 1929. He attended Fairview School until the eighth grade. He began farming with his father at a young age. He found a love of the land that he followed for all of his life by farming chili, potatoes, onions,...
Donald P Funston
Dec 24, 2019
Donald P Funston, age 90, died peacefully surrounded by his wife and children at Cappella of Grand Junction, December 24, 2019.
Don was born Feb. 26, 1929 to Herbert Spencer and Susan Mary (Shapel) Funston in Iola, Kansas. At the age of seventeen he left high school and enlisted in the US Navy joining three other brothers already serving their...
Lucia Arnold (Batstone)
Dec 20, 2019
Lucia Batstone Arnold, 72, entered her new home in Heaven on December 20, 2019. She was born in Columbia, South Carolina on May 24, 1947 and was adopted as an infant by John K. and Sarah P. Batstone of Clearwater, Florida.
Lucia attended elementary and Junior High Schools in Clearwater, Florida and graduated from Clearwater High School in 1965. She...
Sue Ann Zielke (Myers)
Dec 17, 2019
Sue Zielke went to her Heavenly home on December 17, 2019. She has a devoted and loving husband, and a large extended family, which includes half-brothers and half-sisters. who will miss her greatly!
Sue Ann Myers was born during a raging snow storm in Orem, Utah, on Jan. 5, 1949. She was the second daughter of Clifford O. Myers and...
Naomi Monique Giron
Dec 14, 2019
Naomi Monique Giron, age 28, left to be with the Lord on December 14, 2019. She was born on March 22, 1991 to Deedee Giron and Mario Rascon. Naomi spent her childhood in Delta growing up with her brother, sister, and lots of cousins. She had a free spirit and a smile of gold that could light up an entire...
Merrill Victor Kintz
Dec 12, 2019
Victor Kintz (Merrill Victor Kintz)
An inspiration to many who knew him, Victor “Vic” Kintz (Merrill Victor Kintz) went to his Heavenly reward on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, 2019, having suffered a heart attack. Born to Jack and Arlene (Trine) Kintz in Scottsbluff, Nebraska on January 9, 1945, his family moved to western Colorado,...
Shirley Hill (Williams)
Dec 11, 2019
Shirley “Mae” Williams Hill
February 7, 1930 – December 11, 2019
Our dear mother has gone home to be with the Lord. Her faith and love for Christ has supported her enduring journey from being born premature at 3 pounds to everything else this world could throw at her. She worked very hard all her life and made a substantial...
Ronald E. O'Hair
Dec 10, 2019
Ronald E. O’Hair
March 4, 1939 – December 10, 2019
Ronald E. O’Hair age 80 passed away on December 10, 2019 at home surrounded by his loving wife Donna O’Hair of 51 years. Ron was born March 4,1939 in Telluride, Co. to Albert G. O’Hair and Leona Inman. Ron joined the Air Force in 1956. He is survived by his...
Mary Ann Schmalz (Distel)
Dec 9, 2019
MARY ANN SCHMALZ
November 26, 1939 – December 9, 2019
Mary Ann Schmalz passed away on December 9, 2019, surrounded by her husband and children.
Mary Ann was born on November 26, 1939 in Montrose, CO to George and Mary Ann (Holstmeister) Distel. Mary Ann grew up in the Olathe area, attending school in Montrose and graduating from Montrose High...
Stanley (Stan) Paul Pennypacker, Ph.D.
Dec 7, 2019
Stanley Paul ‘Stan’ Pennypacker, Ph.D.
Stanley Paul Pennypacker, 78, died peacefully in his home in Montrose, CO, on December 7, 2019. He was born in Fleetwood, PA on February 24, 1941, to the late Lovina F. Strause Pennypacker and Leo A. Pennypacker. He walked to a one-room schoolhouse near Walnuttown, PA prior to attending Oley Valley High School. Stan...
Clifford Duane Ary
Dec 6, 2019
Clifford Duane Ary
Cliff passed away of natural causes 12/6/19 at Montage Creek, Montrose. Cliff was 83 years old.
Cliff was born 02/09/1936 in Frederick, Colorado. He was preceded in death by parents, Lloyd and Helen Ary, and brothers, Bill (Carol) Ary of Lakewood, Colorado, and Bob (Marlyn) Ary of Meeker, Colorado. Cliff spent his childhood in Missouri and Colorado...
Edna Marie Rowan (Waugh)
Nov 30, 2019
EDNA MARIE ROWAN
12/15/1927 – 11/30/2019
EDNA WAS BORN TO CLARK WAUGH AND MABEL CORBALLY WAUGH. SHE SPENT HER ENTIRE LIFE IN MONTROSE. SHE GRADUATED FROM UNCOMPAHGRE SCHOOL AND MONTROSE HIGH SCHOOL. EDNA MOVED TO MONTROSE AND LIVED WITH HER AUNT PAULINE RAMAGE SO SHE COULD ATTEND MONTROSE HIGH SCHOOL SINCE THERE WAS NO BUS SERVICE AT THAT TIME FROM...
Iola Pearl Walker (Cope)
Nov 27, 2019
A LIFE WELL LIVED
Iola Pearl Walker went to be with the Lord on November 27, 2019. She was born on July 3, 1922 to Alexander and Maude Cope in Meade, Kansas. In 1937, the Cope family moved from the harshness of the Oklahoma dustbowl to the beauty of the San Juan mountains where they settled in Ridgway,...
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