Daniel Arthur Van Den Berg died Aug. 9, 2018, at Lake District Hospital in Lakeview, Ore. He was 78.
Wayne Troy Toombs, longtime Delta resident, died Sept. 30, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 69.
Robert Eugene Pearce died Aug. 25, 2018, at the age of 73.
He was born Jan. 24, 1945, in Denver to Orpha (Kauffman) and Dale Pearce.
Karey Ann Wagler died Aug. 30, 2018, at the age of 48. She was laid to rest in the Paradox Cemetery on Sept. 8.
Longtime Surface Creek area resident Gerald D. "Jerry" Seale died Sept. 4, 2018, at Community Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 82.
Victor Eugene (Bruderer) Hansford died Sept. 2, 2018, under hospice care. He was 75.
Patricia A. Brown of Paonia died Sept. 7, 2018, at HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 77.
Eugene William Caresia of Delta died Sept. 2, 2018, at his home. He was 92.
Cedaredge resident Irene Morris died Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at the HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 75.
A celebration of life service will be held for Mary Woodruff on Sept. 22 at 10 a.m. at the Hotchkiss Senior Citizens Center, 276 Main Street, Hotchkiss.
Laurie Arlene Etter Clauson Stahly died July 16, 2018, at San Juan Living Center in Montrose. She was 55.
Edwin "Ed" Marston, a physicist turned environmental journalist and political organizer, died Aug. 31, 2018, in Grand Junction, of complications of West Nile disease. He was 78.
A memorial service will be held Friday, Sept. 7, at 2 p.m. at Delicious Orchards, one mile from the Paonia exit on Highway 133.
Eugene William Caresia of Delta died at his home Sept. 2, 2018. He was 92.
Charles Earl Bryant died Aug. 23, 2018, at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kan. He was 59.
June Irene Morrison died Aug. 26, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 89.
Mary Louise Rule Read died Aug. 24, 2018, while under the care of Lumina Hospice. She was 91.
Paonia resident Gerald "Jim" Westwood died Aug. 22, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 88.
Delta County resident Cindy Jo Scott died Aug. 16, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 64.
Terry Lynn Rutan of Delta died at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction on Aug. 24, 2018. She was 71.
Robert Eugene Pearce of Crawford died Aug. 25, 2018, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 73.
Mary Jo Anderson of Fredonia, Ariz., died at her daughter's home in Hotchkiss on Aug. 23, 2018. She was 86.
Walter Earl Buchanan died Aug. 24, 2018, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction after a brief illness. He was 80.
Dorothy L. "Dottie" LaRue died Aug. 21, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 69.
Longtime area resident Drew Wayne Cotten died Aug. 23, 2018, due to complications from cancer. He was 52.
William (Bill) Gerald Kendrick of Delta passed away peacefully at home the 23rd of August at 88 years of age. He was born Dec. 1, 1929, in Denver and grew up in the small town of Palmer Lake, Colo.
Delta resident Kevin Drummond died Aug. 15, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 96.
Cedaredge resident Richard M. Bell died Aug. 18, 2018, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Grand Junction. He was 81.
Hotchkiss resident Jeffery H. Milstein died Aug. 16, 2018, at his home. He was 57.
Amanda Faith Wright of Cedaredge died Aug. 13, 2018, at her home. She was 33.
Norma Jean Olin died Aug. 15, 2018, at HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 89.
Raymond Edward Sievers was born on Feb. 17, 1930, in Hotchkiss, Colo., to Kate and John Sievers. His older siblings were Marguerite Sievers Emge, Beth Sievers Davidson, Helen Sievers Herrick, and Bill, Lee, Jack, and Bob Sievers.
Longtime Delta area resident Helen Sukle passed away peacefully at her home, Monday morning at the age of 99 with her children at her bedside.
A visitation for family and friends will be held from 6 to 7 p.m., on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, at Saint Michael's Catholic Church in Delta.
Irene LaVonne Althoff died at her home in Orchard City on Aug. 2, 2018. She was 88.
Longtime Hotchkiss resident Wilma Johnson died July 13, 2018, at her home. She was 71
Frances McMillen died Aug. 8, 2018, at Montrose Memorial Hospital. She was 80 and a resident of Colorow Care Center in Olathe.
Austin resident Roger R. McPherson died Aug. 6, 2018, at his home. He was 76.
Eckert resident Virgina R. Young died Aug. 3, 2018, at her home. She was 86
Jim Sullenger of Edmond, Okla., died Aug. 11, 2018, at his home. He was 71.
Longtime Hotchkiss resident James "Jim" Roberts died Aug. 11, 2018, at his home. He was 75.
Amanda Faith Wright died Aug. 13, 2018, at her home in Cedaredge. She was 33.
Marilyn Theos Sullivan of Paonia died Sunday, July 29, 2018, at HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 75.
Donna J. Heronemus of Delta died Aug. 4, 2018, at Willow Tree Care Center. She was 90.
John "David" Shelton died July 31, 2018, at his home in Cedaredge. He was 79.
Farmer and former Delta County assessor Howard U. Tidwell died Friday, July 27, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 84.
Paonia resident Vanette A. Hambek died July 31, 2018, at Paonia Care and Rehab Center. She was 91.
A celebration of life for Marvin Stephens will be held Saturday, Aug. 11,
Joyce A. Felix, recently of Lindale, Texas, died in Tyler, Texas, Aug. 3, 2018, at the age of 83.
A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8, at the Olathe Cemetery.
Eckert resident Virginia Young died Aug. 3, 2018, at her home. She was 86.
Christopher Allan Tafoya passed away July 27, 2018 at his home in Cedaredge, Colo. Christopher lost his battle with a rare type of cancer that settled in both lungs.
Maxine Hazel Wheatcroft of Manhattan Beach, Calif., passed away peacefully at her family home since 1957 on July 22, 2018 ,at the age of 90 surrounded by her family and dog, Molly. She was born May 19, 1928, in Los Angeles to Hazel Beatrice Treaster and Pinckney William Baker.
Delta resident Lynda Jean Vincent died July 24, 2018, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 54.
Donald L. Smith of Austin died July 27, 2018, at the VA Medical Center in Grand Junction. He was 82.
Farmer and former Delta County assessor Howard U. Tidwell died July 27, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 84.
Charles Douglas Gohn of Chatsworth, Calif., died July 4, 2018, at Chatsworth Park Health Care Center after a long battle with multiple sclerosis (MS). He was 75.
Crawford resident Julieanne Marquez died July 25, 2018, in San Diego, Calif. She was 39.
Delta resident William G. "Bill" Beveridge died July 20, 2018, at his home. He was 68.
Hotchkiss, Colo., resident Howard R. Brooks passed away on Tuesday, July 25, 2018, at his residence. He was 86 years of age.
Derelyse Roatcap O'Brien, age 88, passed away peacefully in her home with family by her side on April 3, 2018. She was born in Olathe, Colo., to Oscar and Alene Roatcap, both pioneers of Delta County.
Joseph Boyden Alexander died at HopeWest in Grand Junction on July 16, 2018. He was 96.
Samuel Narcisco Giron died July 3, 2018, due to a car accident in Olathe. He was 54.
Elsie L. Carroll of Delta died July 19, 2018, at her caregiver's home in Hotchkiss. She was 87.
Longtime Delta County resident Bertha Romero died July 16, 2018, at her home. She was 86.
Lifetime North Fork area resident Dawn L. Young died July 8, 2018, at her home. She was 56.
Judith Lynn Johnson passed away into the presence of her Savior on June 14, 2018, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Denver, after circulatory surgery. She was 77.
Longtime Hotchkiss resident Wilma J. Johnson died July 13, 2018, at her home. She was 71.
Longtime Olathe resident Jack Prisbrey died July 14, 2018, at his home. He was 78.
Larry Robert Moore died Monday, June 11, 2018, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 78.
Lifetime Delta resident Jim Shea died July 15, 2018, at Crossroads Assisted Living Center in Delta. He was 86.
Barbara Sue Caldwell died July 12, 2018, at Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 68.
Alice was born June 8, 1926, in Enid, Okla. At 20 months old she was placed in an orphanage.
Cedaredge resident Michael D. Bauer died from a stroke on July 13, 2018, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Grand Junction. He was 51.
Former Somerset resident Charlotte Rose Ambrose died July 13, 2018, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 87.
Lifetime North Fork area resident Dawn Young died Sunday, July 8, 2018, at her home. She was 56.
Crystal Dawn Pipher (Lemon, Reigles, Laub), born Jan. 18, 1936, was found June 6, 2018, at her home in Delta, Colo. She was born at the homestead on Crystal Creek at the dawn of day and delivered by her father.
Mary was the eldest of four children born to Jack Joseph Reirdon and LoRene Madison Taliaferro Reirdon. Mary grew up and attended school in Durant, Okla,, graduating from Durant High School in 1955.
Joseph Boyden Alexander, age 96, passed peacefully away at HopeWest, Grand Junction, Colorado, July 16, 2018.
Joe was born to Granville Monroe and Fairye Silvia Cox Alexander on April 11, 1922, in Curlew, Nebraska. The family settled on California Mesa in 1927, where Joe spent the rest of his life. He graduated from Olathe High School in 1941 and was often heard quoting that his favorite subject was "ditching class." He joined the Army during WWII and served in the Philippines and was a part of the occupying troops in Japan.
Frances Tuttle passed away on Friday, July 6, 2018, at Crossroads Memory Care Unit in Delta, with her family by her side.
Frances was born on Aug. 17, 1935, in Fort Collins, Colo., to William and Esther Schaefer Schilling.
James Leroy Wallace died Friday, July 6, 2018, at his home in Eckert, Colo., at the age of 69.
Jim was born on Nov. 14, 1948 in Twin Falls, Idaho, to William and Fern (Magoffin) Wallace.
Paonia resident Perry Gale Harding died July 1, 2018, at his home. He was 95.
Hotchkiss resident Joyce V. Lyon died June 21, 2018, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 89.
Cedaredge resident Donna Richardson died July 5, 2018, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 87.
Ronald Eugene Smalldridge died June 23, 2018, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 80.
Frances Tuttle died July 6, 2018, at Crossroads Memory Care in Delta.
She is survived by her husband, Robert, of Delta; and a son, Stuart (Mary Paspernacki) Tuttle of Flagstaff, Ariz.
Lifetime Delta resident Amanda M. "Mandy" Morfitt Watson died June 30, 2018, after a courageous fight. She was 37.
Paonia resident Perry G. Harding died Sunday, July 1, 2018, at his home. He was 95.
Cedaredge resident Maynard N. Nelson died Friday, June 29, 2018, at Crossroads Memory Care in Delta. He was 90.
Ginger Gay Kinderknecht died June 16, 2018, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. She was 72.
Gary Lee Charles was born on Dec. 21, 1945, in Waltham, Mass., to the late Randall and Lillian Charles. Gary was ushered into the arms of Jesus on June 3, 2018, surrounded by his loving family at his home in Kalispell, Mont., after battling cancer.
Verna Rose Pottorff died June 24. 2018, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 89.
Kitty Halene Dobbs died June 23, 2018, at her home in Paonia after a long battle with cancer. She was 85
Delta County resident Mildred "Millie" Eda Carver died June 23, 2018. She was 69.
Judith "Judi" Anne Dixon died May 23, 2018, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. She was 74.
Phil Espinoza of La Sal, Utah, formerly of El Llano, N.M., died March 3, 2018, in Grand Junction. He was 73.
Wilda Aline Bruce was born on July 18, 1933. She died June 8, 2018, at the age of 84 due to complications from a damaged heart following surgery at Montrose Memorial Hospital.
Longtime civic leader Raymond Lyle "Butch" Penick died Monday, June 18, 2018 at his residence in Delta, Colorado. He was 72.
Lifetime Delta County resident Shelden Glenn Smart died suddenly June 8, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 48.
Phil Espinoza of La Sal, Utah, formerly of El Llano, N.M., died March 3, 2018, in Grand Junction. He was 73.
Delta resident Marilyn Honeycutt died June 13, 2018, at her residence. She was 62.
Jerri Sue Murchison, beloved daughter of Gordon and Gay Murchison, and the most special baby sister of Rhonda, Rick, Becky, Robin, and Deana, left this life on Wednesday, May 23, 2018. She was residing in Georgetown, Colo.
Ardith "Evelyn" Grant of Hotchkiss died Wednesday, June 6, 2018, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 87.
Rudyard Kerwood "Bud" Loose died at his daughter's home in Littleton on April 6, 2018.
He was born Sept. 1, 1926, in Humboldt, Kan., to Dr. Frank and Dorthea Loose.
Longtime Delta resident Dorothy A. Glidden died June 5, 2018, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 86.
Wilda Aline Bruce died June 8, 2018, at Montrose Memorial Hospital, due to complications from a damaged heart following surgery. She was 84.
Grand Junction resident Leona Ann Mitchell died June 6, 2018, at HopeWest Hospice in
Honey Shane Lee died April 25, 2018.
A celebration of life will be held Saturday, June 16 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Paonia, 40772 Lamborn Mesa Road.
Delta resident Richard Ivan "Rick" Smith passed away Wednesday, June 6, 2018, at his residence. He was 65 years of age.
Brenda L. Lincoln of Delta died June 1, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 65.
Rosie A. Urban died Monday, June 4, 2018, at her home in Cañon City. She was 73.
Teresa Kay Ferganchick died May 26, 2018, at her home in Eckert. She was 63.
Grover "Jerry" C. Huston died June 2, 2018, at HopeWest Hospice in Grand Junction.
He was an educator for the Delt
Robert "Bob" Howard Geisler of Delta died May 12, 2018, of a heart attack, causing a motorcycle accident in rural Gunnison County. He was 51.
Karleen R. Sollenbarger of Eckert died May 31, 2018, at her home. She was 68.
Jose Maximillion Archuleta Jr. died May 31, 2018, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 60.
Hotchkiss resident, Edwin "Steve" Croker, passed away Tuesday, May 29, 2018, at his home in Hotchkiss, Colo. Steve was 75 years old.
Jerri Sue Murchison, beloved daughter of Gordon and Gary Murchison, and the most special babysitter of Rhonda, Rick, Becky, Robin, and Deana, left this life on Wednesday, May 23, 2018. She was residing in Georgetown, Colo.
Montrose resident Robert John Hedges died May 16, 2018, at Montrose Memorial Hospital. He was 61.
Eckert resident Ruth Hendrickson died March 21, 2018, at her daughter's home in Cedaredge. She was 93.
Crawford resident Sylvia Ann Mills died May 27, 2018, at Paonia Care Center. She was 74.
Crawford resident Robert D. Paul Jr., died May 25, 2018, at his home. He was 75.
Kristina Jann Hutchins died May 23, 2018, in a car accident. She was 73.
Rudyard "Bud" Loose died at his daughter's home in Littleton on April 6, 2018.
Cedaredge resident Donna Waibel died Friday, May 25, 2018, at her home. She was 91.
Irene Bennett died April 25, 2018. A memorial service will be held Sunday, June 3, at 3 p.m. at the Cedaredge Seventh-day Adventist Church. Private burial has already taken place.
Cedaredge resident Maria R. Moran died May 19, 2018, at her home in Cedaredge. She was 78.
Jose "Leo" Aurelio Archuleta died May 26, 2018, at his home in Austin. He was 82.
Lucie (Ankenman) Shrader was born to Edith and Nelson Ankenman April 22, 1929, in Crawford, Colo., on the Ankenman Homestead. Later, the family moved to Delta where she attended Delta High School, graduating in 1947.
Military services for William "Rocky" P. Branigan III will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, at Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado in Grand Junction.
Paula Antoinette (Schieber) Moore died Feb. 24, 2018, at St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital in Effingham, Ill. She was 87.
Delta resident Joanne Burns died May 17, 2018, at the Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 82.
Lifelong Delta resident John R. "Johnny Bob" Pope died May 21, 2018, at Willow Tree Care Center in Eckert. He was 86.
Fern Sedberry died May 18, 2018, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta.
Family viewing was held May 20 at Taylor Funeral Home in Delta.
Bernard E. "Bob" Bouwens died Feb. 7, 2018, at his son's home in Phoenix, Ariz. He was 88.
Longtime North Fork resident, Sidney L. (Sid) Christian, passed away on Saturday, May 12, 2018, at the Paonia Care Center. He was 91 years old.
Delta resident Lucretia "Criss" Roberts died May 8, 2018, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. She was 77.
Longtime Delta resident Berta Linkletter died May 13, 2018, at Montrose Memorial Hospital. She was 91.
Cedaredge resident Jayne Countryman died May 7, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 62.
A celebration of life memorial for Edwin "Fred" Heinze will be held Friday, May 18, at 6 p.m. at the arbor in Confluence Park, Delta.
Clayton D. Sorensen died March 13, 2018, at the age of 54. A celebration of life will be held in the Paonia Town Park Sunday, May 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Dale William Kuhn of Delta died May 12, 2018, at HopeWest Hospice in Grand Junction. He was 88.
Delta resident Tillie M. Jackson died Dec. 19, 2017, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 80.
Delta resident Lucretia N. Roberts died May 8, 2018, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Grand Junction. She was 77.
Mark E. Scheetz of Delta died April 24, 2018, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Grand Junction. He was 51.
Cedaredge resident Julia Doles died April 22, 2018, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 83.
Delta resident Edwin "Fred" Heinze Jr. died April 30, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 66.
Eckert resident Irene E. Bennett died April 25, 2018, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 90.
Former Delta resident Leonard Valdez died April 25, 2018, at his home in Clifton.
Memorial services are pending at True Life Church in Cedaredge.
Joseph J. Hofer of Glenwood Springs died Feb. 28, 2018, in Olathe after a long battle with cancer. He was 59.
Former longtime Paonia resident, Helen Ruth Wade, passed away on Thursday, April 26, 2018, at the HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction, Colo. She was 75 years old.
Honey Shane Lee walked this earth for over eight decades, and left it peacefully, early Wednesday morning, April 25, 2018, in Colorado Springs, Colo., where she lived near her youngest daughters for the last 14 years. Prior to Colorado Springs, she was a long-time resident of Paonia, Colo.
Jim Smith died April 5, 2018, at the age of 79.
He was born Jan. 27, 1939, in Montrose to Edwin and Iris Smith.
Mabel I. Howard of Delta died April 18, 2018, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 93.
Verla Huffington, a longtime Delta resident, died Monday, April 23, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 84.
Helen Gayle Alcott (formerly Helen Gayle Harding, Sandifer and Pobrik) of Paonia, Colo., and most recently Lexington, Ky., passed away on April 10, 2018, in her daughter Keydron Wheeler's home under hospice care. She was 86.
Donald Gene Anderson died peacefully, assured of his salvation, at Hospice/HopeWest on April 20, 2018, in Grand Junction, Colo., at the age of 77.
Donald is survived by his wife Barbara Anderson, children, Mark Anderson (Lisa) (Idaho Falls, Idaho, Paul Anderson (Allison) Delta, Colo., seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Olathe resident Charles Duain Cox passed away peacefully on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, at the HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction, Colorado. Duain was 85 years old.
Eleanor Kehmeier, the daughter of William Dan Kehmeier and Alberta Muriel Gregory, was born at her parents' ranch on Tongue Creek on July 3, 1931. She was preceded in death by her parents and brothers, Alan Kehmeier and Bill Kehmeier, and sisters, Iona Gilger and Dorothy Kehmeier.
Lyle Linn Linman died April 7, 2018, at his home in Wray after a hard-fought battle with brain cancer. He was 60.
Clarice Ruth Marvel died at her son's home in Montrose on April 13, 2018. She was 94.
Grand Junction resident Lois Webb died Tuesday, April 17, 2018, at the Larchwood Inn in Grand Junction. She was 85.
Henrietta Keenan died March 31, 2018, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 86.
John LeRoy Borich "Pete" passed away Sunday evening April 15, 2018 at his home in Loma, Colo., with his loving wife Louise at his side. He was 89 years of age.
Bernard E. "Bob" Bouwens died at his son's home in Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 7, 2018. He was 88.
Truman D. Peters died April 5, 2018, due to complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 79.
Russell L. Crick of Fruita died Tuesday, April 10, 2018, at his home. He was 72.
Hotchkiss resident Baudelia Renalado De Gonzalez died April 9, 2018, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Grand Junction. She was 72.
Former Cedaredge resident Roberta Moore Smartt died April 12, 2018, in Phoenix, Ariz. She was 93.
Cedaredge resident Ruth B. McKenna died April 9, 2018, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 91.
Cedaredge resident Rita Shupe died at her home Thursday, April 12, 2018. She was 97.
Paonia resident Ronald R. Ayers died Friday, March 2, 2018, at his home. He was 85.
Cole Michael Lahoe was born Oct. 6, 2011, to Michael and Kristi (Brandstadt) Lahoe in Montrose, Colo. Cole earned his wings April 11, 2018, at 6:21 a.m. at Children's Hospital.
Doug Tiffany, longtime resident of Delta, Colo., passed away Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, from complications with pneumonia. He was 58 years old.
Jim Smith died Jan. 27, 1939, at the age of 79.
He was born Jan. 27, 1939, in Montrose to Edwin and Iris Smith.
Cedaredge resident Ruth B. McKenna died Monday, April 9, 2018, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 91.
Henrietta Keenan died March 31, 2018, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 86.
Pauline Karcher was born to Merle Lee (a barber) and Thelma Pauline (Berga) Karcher at her grandma's house in Newport, Ohio, on April 6, 1927. She was the second of nine children.
Betty Jo Wilkening died Feb. 20, 2018, following a long illness. She was 91.
Bernard E. "Bob" Bouwens died Feb. 7, 2018, at his son's home in Phoenix, Ariz. He was 88.
Harrise Eugene "Gene" Passmore of Montrose died April 5, 2018, at his home after a lengthy battle with cancer and COPD. He was 76.
William Parnell Branigan III died March 28, 2018, from complications of cancer in Cedaredge.
He was born on May 5, 1943, to Air Force Major William and Muriel Branigan in Monroe, La.
Alice Mae Sanburg died April 4, 2018, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 89.
Eckert resident Paul R. Gardner died Thursday, April 5, 2018, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Grand Junction. He was 63.
Emma Pearl Holiman went to be with her Lord on April 5, 2018, at the age of 54.
Emma was born in Delta, Colo., on Sept. 20, 1963, to Roy and Myrneta Schroeder.
Hotchkiss resident, Margaret R. (Marge) Mohning, passed away peacefully on Sunday, April 1, 2018, at Paonia Care Center in Paonia, Colo. Margaret was 93 years old.
W. Rex Raney was born in Collbran, Colo., Aug. 17, 1921, and made his way to the celestial fishing/hunting grounds April 7, 2018, surrounded by loving family.
Rex grew up in a farming family in both Collbran and Fruita.
Mike passed away peacefully at his home on March 10, 2018 attended by his loving wife Pat. He was 74.
Jennie Mary Turner, age 87, passed away peacefully at the Beehive Homes in Price, Utah, on the evening of March 30, 2018.
She was born Aug. 19, 1930, in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada to William Bert and Annie Kowalski Ostrynski.
William Parnell Branigan III passed away peacefully on March 28, 2018, from complications of cancer in Cedaredge, Colo. Most people knew him as Rocky, we knew him as Dad and Pop.
Cedaredge resident Margaret Louise "Peg" Mullen died March 21, 2018, at Delta County Hospital. She was 91.
Beverly Anne "Bev" Record died March 27, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 87.
Eckert resident Ruth Hendrickson died March 21, 2018, at her daughter's home in Cedaredge. She was 93.
Valerie Ann Martin died March 27, 2018, at her daughter's home. She was 66.
Frederick "Fred" Stephen Fisher died March 8, 2018.
Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 7, at the Taylor Funeral Service Chapel, with James Gall officiating. Inurnment will be in Wyoming.
Orchard City resident Romie L. Johnson died Saturday, March 31, 2018, at his residence. He was 86.
Cedaredge resident Lester F. Matthies died March 25, 2018, at his home. He was 92.
Longtime Delta resident Jack Goodwin died March 26, 2018, at his home. He was 81.
Kevin Dwaine Liddell died Saturday, March 31, 2018, at his home in Austin. He was 60.
Henrietta (Ayer) Keenan passed away peacefully on March 31, 2018, at the Colorow Care Center in Olathe, Colo. She was 86.
Longtime Crawford resident Mildred "Maxine" Gregory McCullough died March 25, 2018, at her home. She was 87.
Joseph Hofer of Glenwood Springs died Feb. 28, 2018, in Olathe after a long battle with cancer. He was 59.
Barbara M. (Woods) Sunderland, age 91 of Sidney, Neb., passed away Friday, March 16, 2018, at the home of her son, Michael K. Sunderland in Sidney, Neb.
Cremation has been held, and Barbara's ashes will be scattered at a later date which has not been decided on.
Paonia resident Michael L. Furcolow Jr. died March 14, 2018, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 72.
Mary Ann (Myers) Kastning passed away on March 19, 2018. She was preceded in death in 2013 by her beloved husband of 67 years, William R. Kastning.
Robert E. Rathburn of Eckert died March 14, 2018, at his home. He was 98.
Donn Vornholt died March 15, 2018, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. He was 95.
Montrose resident James J. Veitch died March 12, 2018, at his home. He was 71.
Cedaredge resident Linda F. Richards, died March 15, 2018, at her daughter's home in Cedaredge. She was 65.
Sharon Kay Prosser died March 13, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 73.
Phil Espinoza of La Sal, Utah, formerly of El Llano, Utah, died March 3, 2018, in Grand Junction. He was 73.
Delta resident Peggy L. Mattler-Shadowalker died March 15, 2018, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. She was 62.
Longtime Paonia resident Clayton Sorensen died March 13, 2018, in Cedaredge. He was 54.
Ed Horton passed away peacefully March 10, 2018, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta, with a good friend at his bedside and music playing. He was 75.
Longtime Delta County resident Richard A. Tuck died March 5, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 62.
Homer Lee Miller of Loma died March 5, 2018, in Grand Junction.
A private family service will be held at a later date.
Lynn Oco "Pete" Hylton Jr. of Paonia died March 9, 2018, at the VA Medical Center in Grand Junction. He was 86.
Steven Roy Dunstan died March 7, 2018, at Paonia Care and Rehabilitation Center. He was 67.
Lifetime Paonia resident Charles Anthony "Tony" Cone died March 4, 2018, at his home. He was 66.
Longtime Delta resident Kenneth Lawrence Holton died March 8, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 75.
Frederick "Fred" Stephen Fisher died Thursday, March 8. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 7, at Taylor Funeral Service Chapel.
Paonia resident Hilda Anna Jones died March 3, 2018, at Paonia Care Center. She was 92.
Kevin Earl Galloway, 45, of Allen, Kan., passed away Sunday, March 4, 2018.
He was born June 25, 1972, in Montrose, Colo., the son of Glendene and Rebecca (Bridges) Galloway.
Lifetime Delta resident Dorothy M. Smith died Feb. 20, 2018, at Four Corners Health Care in Durango. She was 93.
Paonia resident Imogene Shirley Johnson died Feb. 24, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 91.
Longtime Delta resident Edward Dale Scott died March 3, 2018, at the HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 79.
Betty Jo Wilkening, age 91, died February 20, 2018 following a long illness.
Betty Jo was born June 24, 1926, in Otterville, Mo.
Don Neal Ridgway died on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta, Colo. He was 89 years of age.
Delta County resident Richard A. Tuck died March 5, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 62.
Preston "Corky" Menzel died Feb. 22, 2018. He struggled with a heart condition and lost the battle at age 55.
Hope M. Fernandez of Delta died Feb. 22, 2018, at Willow Tree Care Center. She was 78.
Patrick Lee Groom of Carbondale died Feb. 20, 2018, in Hotchkiss. He was 69.
Thomas Luis Pacheco of Delta died Dec. 17, 2017.
He was born May 2, 1958, in Uravan to Albert and Virginia Pacheco.
Paonia resident Diana Fay Phillips died Feb. 18, 2018, at her home. She was 56.
Lifetime Delta resident Dorothy M. Smith died Feb. 20, 2018, at Four Corners Health Care in Durango. She was 93.
Eckert resident Barbara A. Smalldridge went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, at the HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction, Colo. Barbara was 80 years old.
Miriam Hartig, wife of Irvin, mother of Karyn (Dave) Troudt, Tom (Marion) Hartig and Polly Jo (Andy) Wick joined our heavenly family on Feb. 23, 2018.
Miriam's mother and father, Frank and May Klassen, welcomed this baby girl into their family on June 17, 1919.
Former Buena Vista resident Larry A. Pelc died Feb. 12, 2018, in Delta, where he resided for the past five years. He was 76.
Nina May Den Beste died Jan. 22, 2018, at Crossroads Memory Care. She was 96.
Daniel Hannigan died Feb. 11, 2018, at Centennial Healthcare Center in Greeley. He was 80.
Michael Joe Farmer died Feb. 7, 2018, in St. Augustine Beach, Fla., after an extended illness. He was 80.
Delta resident, Marion R. Drown, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, at his home in Delta, Colo. Marion was 68 years old.
Hotchkiss resident SGM James B. Allen, U.S. Army Retired, passed away peacefully at his home in Hotchkiss, Colo., Feb. 9, 2018. He was 81.
Delta resident Peter "Pete" Tullio died Feb. 9, 2018, at Colorow Care Center. He was 94.
Cedaredge resident Charlene A. Burnett died Feb. 10, 2018, at her home. She was 76.
Longtime Paonia resident Debrra Faye Wallace, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018 in Paonia, Colo. Debby was 62 years old.
Eugene Lyle Moe passed away peacefully at home in Austin, Colo., on Jan. 22, 2018, at the age of 85.
Gene was preceded in death by his parents, John and Beulah; brothers, Ted and Doyce; and son, Gary.
Cedaredge resident Maxine Matthews died Feb. 1, 2018, at Crossroads Living Center in Delta. She was 86.
Delta resident Tommie Lee Lane died Feb. 3, 2018, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 80.
Longtime Paonia resident Debrra "Debby" Faye Wallace died Jan. 30, 2018. She was 62.
Roy H. Long of Cory died at his home on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018.
Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9, at Taylor Funeral Service Chapel, with burial to follow at the Mesa View Cemetery.
Michelle Suzette Marie (Kelly) Clements died at her home Feb. 1, 2018, after years of painful medical complications.
Charles Robert "Bob" Hicks, 65, a husband, brother, father, grandfather, and dear friend, passed away Jan. 12, 2018, at Hemet Valley Medical Center. Bob was born July 19, 1952, in Delta Colo., the son of Jack Hicks and the late Charlie Lea Hillis Hicks.
Eugene Lyle Moe passed away peacefully at home in Austin, Colo., on Jan. 22, 2018, at the age of 85.
Gene was preceded in death by his parents, John and Beulah; brothers, Ted and Doyce; and son, Gary.
On Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, Benjamin Philip Caleb Hayner chose to leave this world. His struggles were too hard.
Gertrude "Hazel" Long died Jan. 25, 2018, at Pioneer Park Health Care Center in Lone Tree, Iowa. She was 94.
Zora Magdalene "Madge/Maggie" Burson Marksberry died Jan. 26, 2018, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 91.
Former Paonia resident Richard C. "Dick" McGaughey Jr. died on Jan. 17, 2018, in Omaha, Neb. He was 85.
Olathe resident Robert August Liddell died Jan. 18, 2018, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. He was 91.
Elnora Belle Turner died Jan. 21, 2018, at her home in Goodyear, Ariz. She was 100.
Don Lee Case of Delta died Jan. 30, 2018, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. He was 88.
Cedaredge resident Sandra H. "Sandy" Miller passed away Monday, Jan. 22, 2018 at her home in Cedaredge, Colo. Sandy was 80 years old.
Sandra Davis passed away 80 days short of 55 years married to Ralph (R.D.) Davis. She went to be with Jesus on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction after a second, year-long battle with triple-negative breast cancer.
Nina May Den Beste, 96, passed away peacefully on Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, at the Crossroads Memory Care facility in Delta, Colo. She was born in Eckert, Colo., on July 23, 1921, to Rufus G. and Viva Pyle Loucks, the middle child of five.
Charles Robert "Bob" Hicks, 65, a husband, brother, father, grandfather, and dear friend, passed away Jan. 12, 2018, at Hemet Valley Medical Center. Bob was born July 19, 1952, in Delta Colo., the son of Jack Hicks and the late Charlie Lea Hillis Hicks.
Celia Roberts died at her home in Paonia Jan. 21, 2018.
She was born and raised in Kentucky.
Longtime Delta resident June Calhoun died Jan. 16, 2018, in Sun City, Ariz. She was 88.
Delta resident Fred H. Anders died Jan. 17, 2018, at the Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 94.
Longtime Delta resident Doug Tiffany died Jan. 15, 2018, from complications with pneumonia while visiting family in North Carolina. He was 58.
Charles "Charlie" Joseph Mangano of Cedaredge died Jan. 17, 2018, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 72.
Delta resident Connie Heronemus died Jan. 22, 2018, at HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 68.
Gladys M. Weldon died Jan. 19, 2018, at the Homestead Assisted Living in Montrose. She was 94.
Former Delta resident Helen L. Watson died Jan. 16, 2018, at San Juan Living Center in Montrose. She was 94.
Dorothy Bernice Dermer Simillion of Glenwood Springs died Jan. 18, 2018, at Paonia Care Center after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's.
A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, at Rosebud Cemetery in Glenwood Springs.
Jann M. Ungaro passed peacefully in the early hours of Jan. 20, 2018, the day of her birth 90 years ago. Surrounded by loving family at St. Mary's Hospital, she exemplified grace, courage and dignity in death as she did in life.
Glenna Jean Gieck of Delta died at her home Jan. 13, 2018, of acute liver and kidney failure. She was 77.
Eckert resident Florence M. Rathburn died Jan. 10, 2018, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 94.
Grand Junction resident Robert Spindler died Jan. 4, 2018, at the HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 90.
Dorothy (Warner) Hill died Dec. 29, 2017, at her daughter's home in New Mexico. She was 95.
Crawford resident Jerry Nels Beall died Jan. 1, 2018, at his home. He was 72.
Carolie M. Karner of Eckert died Jan. 5, 2018, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 95.
Grand Junction resident Earl J. Buzzard died at HopeWest Jan. 6, 2018. He was 83.
Lifetime Delta resident Amos Leon died Dec. 29, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. He was 80.
Longtime Delta resident Clinton H. Davis died Dec. 20, 2017, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. He was 84.
Lifetime Delta resident Don B. Howard died Dec. 24, 2017, at his home. He was 71.
Dr. Charles Marvin Cox of Delta died Dec. 29, 2017, at his home. He was 85.
Longtime Cedaredge resident Dorman Floyd Frost died Dec. 28, 2017, at his home. He was 87.
Kenneth Allen Egbert died Dec. 23, 2017, at Horizons Care Center. He was 78.
GySgt. Harley M. Wyatt, USMC, Ret., was called home for his final tour.
Mr. Wyatt passed away at St. Mary's Hospital on Dec. 22, 2017, surrounded by his loving family.
Crawford resident Bob Little Hawk Heid died on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017 at his ranch on Fruitland Mesa. He was 91.
Delta resident Tillie M. Jackson died Dec. 19, 2017, at the HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 80.
Delta resident Gary K. James died Dec. 25, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. He was 75.
Paonia resident Helen M. Sample died Dec. 14, 2017, at her daughter's home in Paonia. She was 76.
Frances Elaine LeGault died Dec. 24, 2017, at her home in Delta. She was 97.
Martha Mae Brown, aka "Marti," born Dec. 16, 1932, led an engaging, adventurous earthly life until Nov. 25, 2017. Having no known surviving family, many friends want to let the greater community know of her moving on to other worlds.
Agnes Joan LeRoy, who was born and raised in Paonia, died Dec. 7, 2017, in Pueblo. She was 90.
Lifetime Delta resident Craig Triantos died Dec. 11, 2017, at San Juan Living Center in Montrose. He was 68.
Raymond "Ray" H. Werner of Delta died Dec. 11, 2017, at San Juan Living Center in Montrose. He was 83.
Jimmy Eugene Retherford Jr. died Dec. 12, 2017, at his home in Delta. He was 54.
Grover J. Thurman died Dec. 9, 2017, at the age of 98.
He was born to Ernest and Jimmie Thurman on Oct. 6, 1919, at the family home in Hotchkiss.
Crawford resident Lewis R. Leatherwood died Dec. 5, 2017, at his home. He was 70.
David Ewell Smith was born in Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 21, 1937. He passed away at Horizons Care Center in Eckert, Colo., just 10 days prior to his 80th birthday.
Delta resident Bernice "Bernie" Musser died Nov. 30, 2017, at HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 95.
Bill Glenn Carson died Dec. 5, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 88.
Longtime Cedaredge resident Pernie B. Matthies died Dec. 10, 2017, at her home. She was 88.
Cedaredge resident Morty Baran died Oct. 6, 2017, while visiting his daughter in Massachusetts. He was 81.
Delta resident James "Jim" W. Anderson Sr. died Dec. 8, 2017, at his home. He was 75.
Gunnison and Delta County resident George William Volk Jr. died Dec. 11, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 95.
Raymond H. "Ray" Werner of Delta died Dec. 11, 2017, at the San Juan Living Center in Montrose. He was 83.
Lifetime Delta resident Craig Triantos died Dec. 11, 2017, at the San Juan Living Center in Montrose. He was 68.
Johanna ("Hanni") Pfluger, of Cedaredge, passed away Dec. 7, 2017. She was 84 years of age.
Lifetime North Fork area resident Josephine C. "Josie" Minerich died Dec. 2, 2017, at Paonia Care and Rehabilitation Center in Paonia. She was 98.
Cedaredge resident Morty Baran died Oct. 6, 2017, while visiting his daughter in Massachusetts. He was 81.
Lifelong Delta resident Bill M. James died Dec. 1, 2017, at the Veterans Life Center in Grand Junction. He was 93.
Delta County resident Yoshiko Wolverton died Nov. 24, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 89.
It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of our beloved husband, father, brother, uncle, and friend, Melvin Simler. Melvin ended his earthly journey on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017.
Delta resident Ronald L. Bell passed away peacefully on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, at his home in Delta, Colo. Ron was 78 years old.
Montrose resident Douglas Meyer died Nov. 25, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 70.
Delta resident Kenneth E. Asher died Dec. 3, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 78.
Billie Carson died Dec. 5, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 88.
Cedaredge resident Marjorie Loveland Becker Doty died Nov. 12, 2017. She was 92.
Paonia resident Victor George Woods died Nov. 20, 2017, at his home. He was 54.
Delta resident Jesse C. "J.C." Sanderson died Nov. 23, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. He was 90.
Hotchkiss resident Kristen Marie Guyer died Nov. 25, 2017, at HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 28.
Lifetime Delta resident Anna Viola Archuleta died Nov. 25, 2017, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Grand Junction. She was five days shy of 91.
Lifetime Delta resident Larry D. Sanders died Nov. 23, 2017, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 72.
Marjorie Loveland Becker Doty was born in Benkelman, Neb., on June 4, 1925, and went to be with her Lord on Nov. 12, 2017.
Robert Max Campbell of Moffat died Nov. 9, 2017, after a long illness. He was 65.
Connie Jean Lawrenson of Austin died Nov. 17, 2017, under the care of hospice. She was 65 and suffered from AL amyloidosis.
Jan Lynn Hovey died Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, at her home in Delta. She was 57.
Cedaredge resident Preston E. Lauderbach Jr. died Nov. 3, 2017, at his home. He was 57.
Lifetime Delta resident Jerry L. VanPelt died Nov. 13, 2017, after a brief illness. He was 66.
North Fork Valley resident Harold "Emory" Townsend, age 94, passed away on Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, at his home on Rogers Mesa in Hotchkiss, Colo.
Emory was born on Sept. 11, 1923, in Richards, Colo., to the late Charles and Veda (Binford) Townsend.
Delta resident Donald LeRoy Brunker died Nov. 7, 2017, at his home. He was 81.
Jack Neil Brown of Cedaredge died Nov. 7, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 78.
Kenny Lavon Wallace died Oct. 20, 2017, of congestive heart failure. He was 63.
John F. Austin of Hotchkiss died Feb. 24, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 84.
Norma L. Bunzel of Delta died Nov. 11, 2017, at Horizons Care Center after a long battle with Alzheimer's. She was 87.
Delta resident Warren R. Anderson died Oct. 21, 2017, at Horizons Care Center after a long battle with Alzheimer's. Graveside services were held Oct. 24 at the Delta City Cemetery.
Edward Pete Sunich Jr. of Paonia died Nov. 12, 2017, at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County after battling stage 4 renal cancer. He was 68.
Anna "Pauline" Johnston died Sept. 29, 2017, at her home in Cortez. She was 87.
Eckert resident Arthur "Art" Fred Hawk died Nov. 6, 2017, at his home in Eckert. He was 90.
Andrew James Carr died of cardiac arrest Nov. 6, 2017, at his home in Clifton. He was 54.
Mickey Edward Smart died Nov. 4, 2017, at the San Juan Living Care Center in Montrose. He was 76.
Longtime Delta resident Joanne I. Phillips died Oct. 26, 2017. She was 82.
Lawrence Earl "Larry" Colclasure of Cedaredge died Oct. 23, 2017. He was 82.
Peggy Sutton died Oct. 16, 2017. Memorial services will be held Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. at the Delta Church of Christ, 164 Grand Boulevard.
Eula Mae Jones (Lyen) passed away peacefully with her family by her side on Oct. 29, 2017, at her home in Cedaredge, Colo. She was 77 years old.
Longtime Cedaredge resident Marjorie Ruth Bertram died Oct. 16, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 93.
Longtime Crawford resident Mavis Jean Scherrer died Oct. 26, 2017. She was 87.
Delta resident Lylah Yvonne Hanson Canty died Oct. 24, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 84.
Dave Hooker (Little Grandpa, Grandpa Hooker, Papa) passed away peacefully in his own home surrounded by his family on Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017 after a long and courageous battle with PSP.
A Celebration of Life service will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017 at Heritage Hall, Delta County Fairgrounds in Hotchkiss, Colo.
Lawrence Earl "Larry" Colclasure of Cedaredge died Oct. 23, 2017. He was 82.
Don was born June 13, 1919 in Burwell, Neb., to William Bruce and Anna Belle (Davis) Smith. Don's mother died in 1921 when he was only two years of age; he was cared for in the next 3-4 years by relatives in Nebraska.
Bridget Anne Spiker died Oct. 15, 2017, at University Hospital in Aurora. She fought a tough battle with leukemia, and although she was the victor, her body was unable to fight the side effects of the stem cell treatment. She was 43.
Edna Mae Ballard died Oct. 13, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 93.
Longtime Cedaredge resident Marjorie Ruth Bertram died Oct. 16, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 93.
Longtime Hotchkiss resident Mary Jo Chermak died Oct. 18, 2017, at her home on Rogers Mesa. She was 96.
Cedaredge resident Peggy Sutton died Oct. 16, 2017, after a massive stroke. She was 78.
Cedaredge resident Karen "Leslie" Delk died Oct. 14, 2017, at her home. She was 72.
Lawrence Earl "Larry" Colclasure of Cedaredge died Oct. 23, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 82.
Longtime Cedaredge resident Beverly Williams (formerly Beverly Clothier) died Sept. 30, 2017, from complications of emphysema. She was 80.
Delta resident Melvin Lee Arterburn died Oct. 8, 2017, in a tragic fishing accident on the Gunnison River. He was 75.
Delta resident Donna Jean Jensen died Oct. 4, 2017, at her home. She was 65.
Longtime Grand Junction resident Raymond Baker died Sept. 28, 2017, at Larchwood Inns in Grand Junction. He was 92.
Longtime Delta County resident Iris E. Hibbert died Oct. 8, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 91.
Edna Mae Ballard died Oct. 13, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 93.
Longtime Delta resident Leona M. Dacus died Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, at her home. She was 90.
Nick Terliamis of Paonia died Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, at Horizons Care Center. He was 82.
Alma Jean (Flaiz) Hintz lost her battle with cancer at the Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction on Oct. 2, 2017.
She was born in Delta Dec. 11, 1939, to Rollie and Nancy (Harris) Flaiz.
Wanda Jean Gibson of Green River, Wyo., died Oct. 5, 2017, at her home. She was 62.
Dorothy Trebeck Roeber died Oct. 5, 2017, at her son's home in Paonia. She was 91.
Lifetime Delta County resident Robert Cole Perkins died in a car accident on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. He was 59.
Cedaredge resident Kathleen Westlake died Sept. 24, 2017, in Wheat Ridge. She was 91.
Randall "Randy" Wayne Thompson of Hotchkiss died Oct. 4, 2017, at Horizons Care Center. He was 64.
Bob Cockroft died Oct. 4, 2017, at his cabin on Upper Surface Creek on Grand Mesa. He was 87.
Lifetime Delta County resident Dixie J. Minear died Sept. 26, 2017, at her home in Pea Green. She was 79.
Claudie (Cissie) Frey Helmick passed away Sept. 20, 2017. She left this world in her sleep in Lander, Wyo., where she was in hospice care suffering from cancer.
Charlotte Ann Keough Wilson passed away on Oct. 5, 2017, just hours shy of her 89th birthday at Heidi's Chateau Assisted Living in Montrose. She lived all her life in the Hotchkiss area and is lovingly remembered by friends, family and community as a woman who worked hard, gave of herself to her community and family, and supported those she loved with quiet, unwavering loyalty.
Delta resident Gay Nell Muse died Sept. 18, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center. She was 88.
Glenna Catura Justin died Sept. 27, 2017, at her home in Delta. She was 89.
Wayne Troy Toombs, longtime Delta resident, died Sept. 30, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 69.
Hotchkiss resident Fay Bertha Columbia died May 20, 2017, of complications due to pneumonia. She was 80.
Cedaredge resident Ira Joseph Hutchinson died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, at his home. He was 87.
Longtime Cedaredge resident Donna K. Rendon died Sept. 23, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 67.
Paul R. Sharp, age 82, beloved husband, dad and grandpa, passed away Sept. 19, 2017, in Colorado Springs after a long battle with Alzheimer's. He was born in Pueblo, Colo., on Aug. 3, 1935, the youngest child of GW and Pauline Sharp.
Longtime Cedaredge resident, Herbert L. Briscoe, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017 at Horizon Care Center in Eckert. He was 97 years of age.
Lifetime North Fork resident Charlie J. Todd died Sept. 10, 2017, at the Paonia Care Center. He was 97.
Longtime Paonia resident Christopher David Hanson died at his home in Colusa, Calif., on Sept. 2, 2017. He was 53.
Longtime Cedaredge resident Stanley Neil Hocker died Sept. 14, 2017, at La Villa Grande Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 90.
Longtime Delta County resident Arnold Dailey died Sept. 7, 2017, in Colorado Springs, where he resided for the last five years. He was three weeks short of 90.
Leroy Thomas "Buzz" Busby died Sept. 1, 2017, at Rhode Island Suites in Ransom, Kan.
He was born on Dec. 8, 1940, to Rubin "Ray" and Muriel (Robb) Busby in Grass Valley, Calif.
Casey Joe Gillenwater died in a car accident Sept. 13, 2017. He was 25.
Longtime Delta County resident Donald S. Laux died Sept. 16, 2017, at his home. He was 89.
Lifetime Delta County resident Robert Cole Perkins died in a car accident Sept. 14, 2017. He was 59.
Marvin "Buck" C. Krumholt died Sept. 15, 2017, at Park West Medical Center in Knoxville, Tenn. He was 80.
Eckert resident Herbert Lee Briscoe died Sept. 17, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 97.
Austin resident Marvin R. Stephens died Sept. 17, 2017, at his home. He was 86.
Firmin Jose Aragon died Sept. 14, 2017, at his home in Cedaredge. He was 83.
JoAnn (Jody) N. Evans, 88, died Sept. 3, 2017, at Center Rehabilitation and Nursing while under the compassionate care of Pathways Hospice.
Jody was born June 6, 1929, on a ranch near Crawford, Colo.
Ronald Ray Reese of Delta died Sept. 7, 2017, at HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 90.
Rudolph Andrew "Andy" Garcia died Sept. 8, 2017, at his home in Delta. He was 56.
Lifetime North Fork resident Charlie J. Todd died Sept. 10, 2017, at Paonia Care Center. He was 97.
Former Delta resident George W. "Wes" Gates died Sept 10, 2017, at the VA Medical Center in Grand Junction. He was 91.
Durward "Duke" William Jardon, and his wife, Edith Virginia Jardon, both died recently at their home in Delta. Duke died on July 18, 2017, and Edith passed eight days later on July 26.
Mary Anna Sunich of Paonia died Aug. 29, 2017, at Paonia Care and Rehabilitation Center. She was 91.
Lifetime Delta County resident Lawrence E. Hiler died at his home Aug. 30, 2017. He was one day short of 79.
Edith Colleen Kumpar of Littlestown, Pa., died Aug. 29, 2017, at York Hospital in Pennsylvania. She was 77.
Montrose resident Margie Nutter died suddenly Aug. 29, 2017, at her home. She was 65.
Dorothy Louise Sisson of Eckert died Aug. 25, 2017, at Horizons Care Center. She was 92.
Lola Mae Bangert died Sept. 1, 2017, at the age of 96.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, at Taylor Funeral Service Chapel in Delta. Interment will follow at Delta City Cemetery.
Ramsay Merle Mohr died Aug. 1, 2017, as a result of an accident, while he was vacationing with his wife in Mexico. He was 64.
Delta resident Donald L. Hoskins died Aug. 8, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 74.
Former Hotchkiss resident Irma Crick died Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, at Larchwood Inn in Grand Junction. She was 94.
Delta resident, Lloyd Raymond "Ray" Short passed away peacefully Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, at his residence in Delta, Colo. He was 95 years old.
Dorothy Louise Sisson, of Eckert, was born May 18, 1925. She passed away peacefully at Horizons Health Care Center on August 25, 2017.
Cedaredge resident Florence Ann Knutson died Aug. 25, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 74.
Leota A. Koutz of Broomfield died Aug. 22, 2017, at Broomfield Skilled Nursing and Rehab Center. She was 90.
Alan D. Benson of Hotchkiss died Aug. 23, 2017, at Paonia Care Center. He was 93.
Harry B. Kingery passed away in his chair with his puppy Migs by his side on August 11, 2017.
He is survived by his loving wife of 50 years Dian, two children as well as several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Longtime Eckert resident John "Ed" Douglass died Aug. 10, 2017, at Horizons Care Center. He was 89.
The family of Earl Cabe wishes to extend an invitation for the celebration of Earl's life on Saturday, Aug. 26, at 2 p.m. at Pat's Bar and Grill in Hotchkiss.
Earl Bryan Cabe completed his life's journey on Dec. 25, 2016, with his best friend Bobby Dickerson and Joan by his side at his home in Crawford.
Alma Mae Baker Snider died Aug. 17, 2017, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 89.
Delta resident Garry D. Lippard died Aug. 12, 2017, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 75.
Alice Merty Beaman Winkler died Aug. 8, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert, where she resided since October 2010. She was 97.
James "Clown Jim" Robert Hoffbauer died Aug. 5, 2017, at his home in Cedaredge. He was 64.
Elton Haskell Caddell of Eckert died Aug. 10, 2017, at his home. He was 86.
Delta resident Garry D. Lippard died Aug. 12, 2017, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 75.
With Great Sadness, we share that Montie George Slaughter entered into Eternal Peace on Aug. 9, 2017. Montie was born on March 8, 1934, to Oscar and Fredricka Slaughter in Bremerton, Wash.
Lifetime Cedaredge resident Richard "Dick" Fischer died Aug. 1, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 87.
Andrew "Jene" Young, lifetime Delta County resident, died July 30, 2017, at his home in Eckert. He was 88.
Austin resident Betty J. Koehn died Aug. 1, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 87.
Suzie Stramel of Cedaredge died Aug. 6, 2017, from breast cancer at Porter Hospice Residence in Littleton. She was 62.
Dorothy Boren of Delta died Aug. 3, 2017, at the Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 81.
Services were held Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, at Memorial Gardens Funeral Home and Cemetery for Margaret Rose Sargent Lewis of Delta, formerly of Colorado Springs.
Margaret was born July 3, 1921, in Seattle, Wash., to Joseph Melvin Sargent and Margaret Jane Johnson Sargent, and passed from this life on July 30, 2017, in Grand Junction.
Delta resident Omer Smith Jr. died Sunday, July 23, 2017, at his home. He was 64 years.
Doris Jane Beach died July 26, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 86.
Earla Jean Bailey-Roy died July 29, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. She was 78.
Renee Lawley died in Denver July 7, 2017, after suffering serious health problems for several years. She was 54.
Evelyn Audin Brown passed away in her sleep on July 7, 2017, just four days before her 93rd birthday. Born on July 11, 1924, in Hotchkiss, Colo., Evelyn was the youngest child of Harry (the Circle S Kid) Edwards and Lena Pearl Edwards.
Delta resident Benjamin L. Martinez died July 31, 2017, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. He was 62.
Carolyn Dean (Wadlow) Renfrow passed away on July 19, 2017, at AltaVita Memory Care Centre in Longmont. Carolyn was born in Grand Junction, Colo., on May 14, 1929, to J.T. "Jack" and Mary (Eddy) Wadlow.
Longtime Austin resident Jack W. Eichhorn died June 10, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 90.
Nancy Mae Johnson of Eckert died July 15, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 75.
Carolyn D. Renfrow, formerly of Delta, died July 19, 2017, at AltaVita Memory Care Centre in Longmont. She was 88.
Eckert resident JoAnne Graham died July 19, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 94.
Emma Edna Neil of Eckert died July 19, 2017, at the Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 72.
Mildred "Millie" Louise Evans of Gainesville, Ga., died July 21, 2017. She was 68.
Longtime Paonia resident Marvin C. Westerman died July 20, 2017, at his home. He was 90.
Grand Junction resident Pete "Pat" Patric Sanchez died July 12, 2017, in Grand Junction. He was 46.
Crawford resident Carolyn M. St. Geme died July 9, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 82.
Olathe resident Grace A. Nation died July 12, 2017, at her home. She was 77.
Edward L. Gallegos of Olathe died July 13, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 73.
Rufus Webb of Grand Junction died July 11, 2017, at the HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 88.
Richard "Dick" Durward Braslin of Paonia died July 12, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 77.
Beulah Mae Smith of Riverside, Calif., formerly of Olathe, died July 13, 2017, at her home. She was 91.
Kelly Ann Christian of Hotchkiss died July 14, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 58.
Longtime Hotchkiss resident Gary L. Boden died July 4, 2017, in Ontario, Canada, doing what he enjoyed -- traveling, playing golf and fishing for "the big ones." He was 69.
Jerry Kitsmiller, age 76, passed away on July 8, 2017, at his home in Montrose, Colo.
Jerry Lee Kitsmiller was born on Oct. 20, 1940, in Grand Junction, Colo., to parents, Lee and Stella Kitsmiller.
Beverly Brown of West Plains, Mo., died July 7, 2017, from cancer. She was 72.
Gary L. Boden of Hotchkiss died July 4, 2017, in Ontario, Canada, doing what he enjoyed -- traveling, playing golf and fishing for "the big ones." He was 69.
Hotchkiss resident Nancy Neuenschwander died July 5, 2017, at her home. She was 79.
Longtime Cedaredge resident Robert A. Honganen died July 5, 2017, at his home. He was 84.
Raymond Garland Lowrance of Eckert died June 23, 2017, after battling cancer. He was 86.
Crawford resident Carolyn M. St. Geme died Sunday, July 9, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 82.
Cedaredge resident Jerry Lee Bentley died July 9, 2017, at his home. He was 78.
Lee Edwin Horn was born Sept. 10, 1928, in Detroit, Mich., the son of Robert Edward Horn and Osie Mary Storm-Horn. He died July 9, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 88.
Grand Junction resident Rufus W. Webb died Tuesday, July 11, 2017, at the HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 88.
Delta resident Carol Fortune died Sunday, June 11, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 67.
Longtime Cedaredge resident Bailey Nathan "Nat" Key died Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Grand Junction. He was 83.
Dahlgren Roberta Andrews died June 25, 2017, at the Collier Hospice Center in Wheat Ridge. She was 95.
Charlotte Ann (Bowman) Short was born in Reeds Spring, Mo., in 1940 and grew up in Springfield, Mo.
She married David Short in 1958 and they had six children, one of whom died at an early age.
Julie Lynn Trembly died from cancer June 10, 2017, at HopeWest Hospice. She was 57.
Dahlgren Roberta Andrews died Sunday, June 25, 2017, at the Collier Hospice Center in Wheat Ridge. She was 95.
Cedaredge resident Kent Tenny Brakken died June 8, 2017, from injuries sustained in a car accident in Ogallala, Neb.
He was born Oct. 26, 1945, to Carl and Grace Brakken in Cable, Wis.
Paonia resident Harold E. Ellena died June 25, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 75.
Delta resident Carol Fortune died June 11, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 67.
Tee Kue died Sunday, June 11, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction following a one-car accident on Highway 65. He was 16.
Cedaredge resident E. Leroy Kenner died June 16, 2017, at his home. He was 84.
Hotchkiss resident Rodney K. Tribble died June 17, 2017, at his home. He was 58.
Robert Warren "Bob" Arnold died June 17, 2017, in Lexington, Okla. He was 73.
Darlene J. Griffith died June 16, 2017, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 70.
Ella Nora Russell died Dec. 9, 2016, at her home in Cleveland, Tenn. She was 71.
Austin resident William John "Bill" Mathews Jr. died May 28, 2017, at his home. He was 72.
Bryan Scott Reim died June 3, 2017, in a tragic swimming accident at the potholes of Escalante Creek. He was 35.
Delta resident Carol Fortune died June 11, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 67.
Delta resident Dan Leroy Fergeson Jr. died June 10, 2017, of brain cancer. He was 25.
Teresa L. Schoen of Delta died May 31, 2017, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center. She was 63.
Eunice "Ricki" Carlill died May 23, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 69.
Clarence Paul Guthrie of Delta died June 2, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center. He was 87.
Alice Loretta Gale died May 31, 2017, at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo., after suffering from Alzheimer's for several years. She was 81.
Katherine Elizabeth Ross of Lafayette, Ind., died May 28, 2017, at IU Health Arnett Hospital. She was 80.
Sandra Obergfell Tarr died May 31, 2017, at the Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 82.
Former Delta resident Emma Lou Bruner died Dec. 9, 2016, in Mesquite, Nev.
Lela Margaret "Jo" Lockhart died May 28, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 94.
Glenn Phillip Corrigan lived 82 full years. He died June 2, 2017, at his home in Cedaredge, Colo., after a brief battle with cancer.
Betheline Kesterson passed away May 23, 2017, at Brookdale-Longmont in Longmont, Colo. She was 91 years old.
Floyd A. Anderson of Paonia died June 1, 2017, at the Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction.He was 86.
Floyd A. Anderson of Paonia died June 1, 2017, at the Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction.He was 86.
Elmer Lou Jackson, 82, died May 16, 2017. He was the son of Louis and Mildred Jackson of Paonia.
Jerry Keith Jones died May 10, 2017, at his home in Cal-Nev-Ari, Nev. He was 77.
Delta resident John R. "Jack" Finnegan died Tuesday, May 17, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. He was 85.
Anita Lea Gonzales of Delta died May 24, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 58.
John W Miley, 89, died Jan. 13, 2017.
He is survived by a daughter, Tracey (Wayne) Wood; and granddaughter, Jennifer (Paul) Obregon.
William Oliver Fredericks died May 16, 2017, at his home in Delta. He was 77.
John H. Hallock, longtime resident of Delta, died April 3, 2017, at Good Samaritan Society in Loveland after a short illness. He was 98.
Diana Norene Pierce of Delta died May 1, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 74.
Katie Jo Park died May 15, 2017, at her home in Colorado Springs. She was 38.
Wilma Lucile Lugard of Delta died May 18, 2017, at HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 81.
Anastasia Lynn Smith died May, 20, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital.
She was born May 20, 2017, in Delta.
Kenneth Roy Lane of Montrose died May 20, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 94.
Tamara Jo Seehuetter died May 18, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 56.
On May 17, 2017, Inge Lange passed away at her home in Paonia, Colo., following a long and brave battle with cancer. Her loving family was by her side.
Cedaredge resident Earl Hagen died March 12, 2017.
Memorial services will be held May 20 at 11 a.m. at Cedaredge Community United Methodist Church.
Ramona "Mona" Vasquez-Hill died April 30, 2017, at her home in Cedaredge. She was 69.
Richard A. Esra of Hotchkiss died May 10, 2017, at Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 58.
Grand Junction resident Cheryl Ann Holton died May 9, 2017, at the HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 56.
Austin resident Ronald C. Johnson died May 14, 2017, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 77.
Hotchkiss resident John M. O'Connell Sr. died May 7, 2017, in Eckert after a brief illness. He was 79.
John H. Hallock, longtime resident of Delta, died April 3, 2017, at Good Samaritan Society in Loveland after a short illness. He was 98.
Gay was a person who rarely revealed her inner thoughts. Yes, she lived her life by maxims she freely expressed, like, "Where there's a will, there's a way ... you just have to find it!" but often nothing deeper.
Delta resident Curtis Sisson Sr. died May 3, 2017, at Denver Hospice in Denver. He was 88.
Anthony "Tony" Abeyta, former resident of Delta, died April 13, 2017, in a car accident in Lindon. He was 53.
Mary Lillian Orris of Fruita, formerly of Meeker, died May 3, 2017, at Memorial Hospital at Craig.
Graveside services were held May 9 at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado in Grand Junction.
Longtime Delta resident MaryJane Delia Howell died April 27, 2017, at her home. She was 73.
Anthony "Tony" Abeyta, former resident of Delta, died April 13, 2017, in a car accident in Lindon. He was 53.
Donald Arlo Morrow of Paonia died April 28, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 90.
Rosemary Wright of Delta died Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at Rose Memorial Hospital in Denver. She was 78.
Mergildo Eddie Trujillo died Friday, April 28, 2017, at his home in Delta. He was 70.
David Lawrence Campbell, formerly of Delta, died April 20, 2017, in Green Valley (Ariz.) Hospital. He was 86.
Juanita Kae "Georgie" White died April 17, 2017, at her home in Delta. She was 61.
Kenneth Leroy Dolph of Longview, Wash., died March 9, 2017, in Rochester, Minn., after a long battle with heart disease. He was 74.
David Lawrence Campbell, formerly of Delta, died April 20, 2017, in Green Valley (Ariz.) Hospital. He was 86.
Robert Duane Roesler of Hotchkiss died April 16, 2017, at Montrose Memorial Hospital. He was 70.
William "Bill" Silas Feely died at his home April 17, 2017. He was 82.
Cedaredge resident Joseph McFadden died April 14, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 90.
Cedaredge resident Gladys Rozella Bertram died April 20, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 91.
Nancy Belle Stull of Paonia died at Paonia Care and Rehabilitation Center on April 23, 2017. She was 84.
Clarence "Bill" Hart died at his home in Paonia April 23, 2017. He was 45.
Gregory Scott Fast of Somerset died April 4, 2017, at his home after a courageous fight with cancer. He was 59.
Delta resident Roy Bernard Norris died April 7, 2017, at Crossroads at Delta. He was 99.
Geraldine N. "Gerry" Carrow of Paonia died April 4, 2017, at Paonia Care and Rehabilitation Center. She was 96.
Victor George Petranovich of Eckert died April 13, 2017, at his home after a long battle with multiple sclerosis and cancer.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday, April 20, at Cedaredge Cemetery.
Cedaredge resident Joan M. Cronin died April 12, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 89.
Michael Edward Hennessey died March 16, 2017, at his son's home in Brookings, Ore. He was 79.
Delta resident Margaret Monica Gerd died March 11, 2017, at her home. She was 85.
Jerilyn "Jeri" Gail Gonzalez Floyd died Feb. 24, 2017, after a long battle with cancer. She was 59.
Former Delta resident Jim Coan died Feb. 16, 2017, at his home in Wasilla, Alaska. He was 89.
Kathleen M. Dent died April 3, 2017, at her daughter's home in Delta. She was 82.
Connie Colleen Andregg Harding died in Las Cruces, N.M., on April 7, 2017. She was 66.
Anna Marie "Sam" O'Brien of Paonia died April 1, 2017, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 75.
Judith Ann Aitken of Cedaredge died March 28, 2017, after a short illness. She was 68.
Montrose County resident Robert C. Kramer died March 31, 2017, at his home. He was 80.
Cedaredge resident Leona Matilda Chapman died March 26, 2017, at the Beehive Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 94.
Shirley Mae Tafoya, former resident of Delta and current resident of Valley Manor Care Center in Montrose, died March 27, 2017. She was 63.
Delta resident Jack Hawkins died March 28, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center. He was 78.
Lifetime Crawford resident Stanley George died March 28, 2017, at Mantey Heights Rehabilitation and Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 81.
Verlin Floyd Rockey died March 21, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 72.
Merrill J. "Sandy" Sanderson of Cliff, N.M., died March 15, 2017, at his home. He was 87.
Myron B. Bennett, longtime Eckert resident, died March 1, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 83.
Charles Steele Burgin died March 13, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 87.
Delta resident Marjorie Joyce Pell died Sunday, March 19, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 80.
Elwood Archie Rogers of Delta died March 23, 2017, at Montrose Memorial Hospital. He was 86.
Georgia Brunken died March 24, 2017, at Mapleton Care Center in Lakewood. She was 84.
Cedaredge resident Ruth C. Dawson died March 23, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 91.
Thomas Franklin McCormick, age 67, of Paonia passed away Tuesday, March 14, 2017. He was born in Fargo, N.D., on Sept. 10, 1949.
Betty (Griffith) Kading passed away peacefully on March 22, 2017, at Colorow Care Center, Olathe, surrounded by her family.
Betty was born on July 10, 1921, in Cory at her parents' home.
Jerilyn (Jeri) Gail Gonzalez Floyd was born on May 17, 1957, at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, Calif., the eldest child of Jack and Waynella Gonzalez. In 1971, the Gonzalez family moved from Torrance, Calif., to Cedaredge.
Maria Panciera Botsford was born in Corona, N.Y., to Joseph and Jenny Panicera. When Maria was seven years old, her family moved to Shelton, Conn., where she attended grade school and high school.
Longtime Delta County resident Maxine Burch died March 15, 2017. She was 95.
Wayne Robert Hockaday died suddenly March 13, 2017, at Washakie Medical Center in Worland, Wyo. He was 82.
James Melvin Dagnan died Feb. 27, 2017, at his home in Cedaredge. He was 77.
Barbara E. Thompson, former resident of Cedaredge, died March 15, 2017, at Eagle Ridge at Grand Valley in Grand Junction. She was 97.
Cedaredge resident Earl W. Hagen died March 12, 2017.
He graduated from the South Dakota School of Mines in 1955 and worked as an engineer and manager for Caterpillar Tractor Company for 35 years.
Longtime Cedaredge resident, Master Sergeant Arnold D. Quillen, died March 6, 2017, at Paonia Care Center. He was 82.
Longtime Delta resident Renee H. Porter died March 17, 2017, at her home. She was 75.
Longtime Delta resident Elbert "Bert" Dougan died Saturday, March 18, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was just a few days shy of his 95th birthday.
Clifford A. Caesare of Delta died March 12, 2017, at his home. He was 75.
Dr. Melvin K. Beach died at Colorow Care Center in Olathe on March 8, 2017. He was 99.
Longtime Paonia resident Goldie Taylor died March 3, 2017, at her home. She was 83.
John Thomas Morris died March 7, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital after a short illness. He was 95.
Delta, Colorado resident, James Edwards, passed away on Thursday, March 9, 2017, at his home with his family beside him. He was 77 years of age.
Donald Kermit Cramer, age 84, died Feb. 26, 2017, of Alzheimer's complicated by his ordeal in the Wild Horse area in early January.
He was born Sept. 13, 1932, at home in Bennett, Colo., the son of Kermit C. Cramer and Fern Dunbar Cramer.
A celebration of life will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 18, in the Grand Ballroom at the DoubleTree Hotel in Grand Junction.
Former Delta resident Doris Edelen died March 6, 2017, at Crossroads Adult Care Home in Tucson, Ariz. She was 83.
Marilyn Packer, longtime Delta County resident, died March 6, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 83.
Residente de Delta Francisca Villarreal fallecio el dia 9 de Marzo del 2017 en la localidad donde vivia. Francisca tenia 69 anos de edad.
Jerald Wilcock Orton died at home March 1, 2017, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 75.
Larry V.C. Linn, 34, of Delta, Colo., passed away Feb. 16, 2017.
Larry worked as a chef.
Cedaredge resident Harold "Lynn" Gray died Feb. 28, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 86.
John Frost Austin died Feb. 24, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital. He was thrown 90 feet by a hit and run driver last May, an accident that ultimately led to his death. He was 84.
Myron B. Bennett, longtime Eckert resident, died March 1, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 83.
Colonel (Ret.) Joe Bolton Hick, MD, of Columbia, S.C., died March 1, 2017, due to complications following routine surgery. He was 83.
Robert "Bob" Duane Nicodemus died Feb. 24, 2017, at his home in Cedaredge. He was 89.
Paonia resident Rose Byers died Monday, March 6, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 93.
A celebration of life for Ruth Miller will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 16, at the Chicken Roost in Delta.
Lifetime Delta County resident John L. Stephens died March 4, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 97.
Billie Bowen died Feb. 12, 2017, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 86.
Jerald Wilcock Orton died March 1, 2017, at his home in Olathe after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease. He was 75.
Della Womack died Feb. 26, 2017, at Horizon's Care Center in Eckert. She was 80.
Delta resident Ted Haskell Sr. died Feb. 18, 2017, after a long battle with COPD. He was 65.
Robert William Eklund, Jr. passed away peacefully at his home on Feb. 24, 2017. The second of four children, he was born Aug. 15, 1920, in Lindsborg, Kan., to Robert William, Sr. and Daveta Childs Eklund.
Margaretta "Peggy" Andrews died Feb. 16, 2017.
She was born in Wilmington, Del., Feb. 17, 1930, to Robert and Margaretta (Parr) Foulk.
Kenneth James Holgate died Feb. 21, 2017, at his home in Cory. He was 79.
Betty Ruth (Matheny) Lynn, 87, born Jan. 26, 1930 in Shenandoah, Iowa, passed peacefully at home in Fredericksburg, Va., on Feb. 21, 2017.
Devoted mother, loved and honored by daughter and son, she was married to Jerry Lynn for 66 years.
Cherryanne "Cherry" Drew died Feb. 17, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 74.
Robert Nicodemis died in a home fire Feb. 23, 2017. A remembrance service will be held at Stolte Shed in Cedaredge Saturday, March 4, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Amber Roxanne Schaefer of Cedaredge died Feb. 15, 2017, at her home. She was 34.
Lifetime Crawford resident Jean Clark died Feb. 15, 2017, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 92.
Mary Ethelyn (Horne) Davis died in Yucca Valley, Calif., on Feb. 3, 2017. She was 93.
Merlin L. "Leon" Grant died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, at HopeWest in Grand Junction.
Visitation will be Thursday, Feb. 23, at Taylor Funeral Chapel in Hotchkiss from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Willard P. "Will" Heddles, 74, of Tiffin, Ohio, died Jan. 31, 2017, at Beaumont Hospital in Trenton, Mich., after sustaining life-threatening injuries in a car accident.
He was born in Delta Feb. 20, 1942, to Willard and Mary (Walsh) Heddles.
Hotchkiss resident Elias Gonzalez died Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital after a long illness. He was 76.
Mary Ethelyn (Horne) Davis died in Yucca Valley, Calif., on Feb. 3, 2017. She was 93.
Gerald "Jerry" Lynn died peacefully in his home on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017 in Fredericksburg, Va., at the age of 87. Jerry is survived by his wife, Betty R. Lynn;
Ronald Lawrence "Cowboy" Brenner of Delta died Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, at the HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 78.
Longtime Delta County resident Kennadine J. Duncan died Feb. 5, 2017, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 83.
Mary Grace Farmer of Cedaredge died Feb. 8, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 97.
Virginia Carol Scheele died Feb. 3, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center. She was 79.
Longtime Delta County resident Loretta Herd died Feb. 8, 2017, at HopeWest in Grand Junction. She was 84.
Alan Beach Greager died Feb. 10, 2017, at Banner Casa Grande Medical Center in Casa Grande, Ariz. He was 69.
Gladys Josephine Varela, better known as "Josie Varela," a resident of Olathe, Colo., lost her life in a tragic car accident in Delta County on the evening of Feb. 6, 2017, while commuting home from school at CMU. Her father, Victor H. Varela Mariman, was by her side.
Cedaredge resident Ethel L. Kissner died Feb. 2, 2017, at her home. She was 72.
Hotchkiss resident Miklos "Nick" Takacs died Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 83.
Catherine M. Fuller died Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 97.
Virginia C. Scheele of Delta died Feb. 3, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center.
Services will take place at a later date.
Longtime Delta County resident Kennadine J. Duncan died Feb. 5, 2017, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 83.
Delta and former Crawford resident, Martin Cegielski died peacefully at his home on Feb. 5, 2017 from complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 72 years old.
Gale Everett Conger was born to Elmer and Anna Conger on Aug. 30, 1925, at his grandmother's house along the Republican River in the small township of Trenton, Neb. He started his life on two sections of land in southwest Nebraska.
Charles "Terry" Dacus of Delta died Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, of heart disease. He was 83.
Steven E. Harris of Eckert died Jan. 27, 2017, at Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 67.
Myron Becker died Jan. 27, 2017, at Olivia White House in Flagstaff, Ariz. He was 84.
Delta resident Wanda L. Teel died Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 95.
Delta resident Paul Griffith died Jan. 26, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 83.
On Jan. 17, 2017, Richard "Dick" Proctor completed his journey after a hard-fought battle with dementia, and walked onto the shores of the River of Life whole and complete, welcomed by the Great Water Master - God Himself.
Linda Kay Reynolds of Delta died Jan. 15, 2017, after a lengthy illness. She was 72.
Richard L. Proctor died Jan. 17, 2017, at Paonia Care Center.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 3, at Clifton Christian Church.
Longtime Delta resident John Rodney Preator died Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017, at his home. He was 68.
Virgil Decker of Delta died Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, at his home. He was 93.
Brenda Louise Giron died at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction on Jan. 8, 2017. She was 54.
Crawford resident Richard Joseph Coppinger died Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, at Paonia Care Center. He was 56.
Charles "Fred" Wyatt of Cedaredge died Jan. 17, 2017, at VA Medical Center in Grand Junction. He was 98.
Carpenter died in Duncan, Okla., on Oct. 17, 2016, of heart failure.
She was born Aug. 17, 1935, to Sam and Ruby Pennington in Cañon City.
Cedaredge resident, Karri Louise Sherrill passed away Jan. 15, 2017, at her home in Cedaredge, Colo. She was 54 years old.
Delta resident Ruth Doll died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, at Horizons Care Center. She was 87.
Velma Warren of Anchorage, Alaska, died at Providence Horizon House on Nov. 21, 2016. She was 85.
Gordon "Kelly" Leigh Payne Jr. of Paonia died Dec. 17, 2016. He was 61.
Mary J. Weldon died Jan. 11, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 68.
Norman E. Kroschel died Jan. 11, 2017, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 85.
Juan Carrillo of Delta died Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital. He was 86.
Leota Ann Mattive, longtime resident of Cedaredge, died Jan. 16, 2017. She was 76.
Eleanor H. King of Dawsonville, Ga., died Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017. She was 98 and a former resident of Delta.
Jean Barber died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, at the Delta County Memorial Hospital in Delta. She was 92 years of age.
Joe Nemecio Martinez died Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, at Larchwood Inn in Grand Junction. He was 100.
Charles R. "Chuck" Hardon died Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, at Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 85.
Helen Wakefield of Crawford died at HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction Dec. 24, 2016. She was 74.
Hazel Pacheco Branom, a resident of Grand Junction since 1994, died Dec. 28, 2016, at her home. She was 97.
Longtime Delta County resident John Wilburn Hawkins Jr. died Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 98.
Katherine "Kathy" Lucille Allison Geddes of Crawford died Dec. 30, 2016, at her home. She was 74.
Longtime Delta resident Erma L. Bloom died Monday, Dec. 26, 2016, at her home. She was 75.
Sim "Scotty" Ashlock of Austin died Dec. 25, 2016, in Grand Junction. He was 70.
The world lost one of its most gentle souls on Dec. 27, with the passing of Constantino (Connie) Chairez. He was 99.
Longtime Delta resident Pauline Newsom died Dec. 31, 2016, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 95.
Margaret Mae "Rusty" Wollbrinck Knob died Dec. 10, 2016, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She was 82.
William "Bill" Kelley died Dec. 22, 2016, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. He was 90.
Crawford resident Mason Mills died Dec. 25, 2016, at Crossroads Memory Care in Delta. He was 70.
Longtime Nucla resident Leora May Skees died Dec. 19, 2016, at her home in Farmington, N.M. She was 88.
Paonia resident Brett J. Rolf died Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, at his home. He was 58.
Norbert Miessler died Dec. 21, 2016, at San Juan Living Center in Montrose. He was 90.
After two decades of fighting CLL, Don Smith Ross died Dec. 22, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 86.
Paonia resident Kathy Gillenwater died Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, at Paonia Care and Rehabilitation Center. She was 54.
Dorothy Nell "Dotty" Green, formerly of Hotchkiss, died Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016, at Good Samaritan Society in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She was 85.
Longtime Delta resident Stephen R. Jurca died Dec. 18, 2016, at his home. He was 86.
Longtime Nucla resident Leora May Skees died Dec. 19, 2016, at her home in Farmington, N.M. She was 88.
It's October, and normally I would be in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone Park with my spotting scope probing the mountainsides for a glimpse of wolves and grizzlies -- a road trip I've looked forward to each April and October.
Wayne George Sr. died Dec. 9, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 85.
Virginia Ann Shaw-Taylor died suddenly Nov. 15, 2016, in Sun City West, Ariz. She was 81.
Dorthey L. Schneider died Dec. 4, 2016, at Paonia Care Center, where she had lived for four years. She was 88.
Timothy Lee Kuretich Jr. of Wasilla, Alaska, died Nov. 29, 2016. He was 32.
Gary Barcus died Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016, in Crawford. He was born July 10, 1952, and was 64.
Longtime Colorado resident Emma Lou Bruner died Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, at Highland Manor in Mesquite, Nev. She was 90.
Tom Onis Carroll of Delta died Dec. 7, 2016, at Crossroads Assisted Living Center in Delta. He was 92.
Darrin Scott Fredlund of Delta died Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in Grand Junction. He was 21.
Longtime Delta resident Maxine Marie Schull died Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, at HopeWest in Grand Junction. She was 83.
Alfonso "Al" Estrada died Nov. 21, 2016, at his home in Hotchkiss. He was 79.
Ray Allen Boyden, a lifelong resident of Delta, died Nov. 13, 2016, at his home. He was 68.
John Franklin Barcus died Nov. 25, 2016, at the home of his daughter in Grand Junction. He was 92.
Ken died Nov. 26, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital of complications from colon cancer. He was 59.
Robert Eric Lund went home to be with his Maker the afternoon of Nov. 26, 2016, after having lived a full and accomplished life. Robert was born July 20, 1922, in Paonia to Laura and Christian Lund.
Hartland H. Clubb was called to Heaven by his Lord Jesus on Dec. 3, 2016 while residing at his home in Montrose.
Services will begin at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1000 Pioneer Road, Delta. You are invited to stay for refreshments and conversation.
Virginia Ann Shaw-Taylor died suddenly Nov. 15, 2016, in Sun City West, Ariz. She was 81.
Lawrence L. Goody died Nov. 22, 2016, at Palisade Living Center. He was 89.
William "Webb" Callicutt died Dec. 1, 2016, at his home in Hotchkiss from complications of scleroderma. He was 66.
Della Aravella Rubalcaba died Nov. 21, 2016, at her home in Delta. She was 86.
Margie C. Keep died Nov. 20, 2016 at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 89.
John Franklin Barcus died Nov. 25, 2016, at the home of his daughter. He was 92.
Gary Beres died Oct. 29, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 55.
Kenneth "Ken" Ray Miller died Nov. 26, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 59.
Longtime Delta County resident Hazel G. Vollmert died Nov. 22, 2016, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 89.
Edith Alaine Davis died Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016, at her home in Delta. She was 89.
Alfonso "Al" Estrada died Nov. 21, 2016, at his home in Hotchkiss. He was 79.
Agnes Helena Richardson Griffis was born to Sam and Jennie Richardson in Sturgis, Mississippi. She grew up in the deep South during the Depression era and learned to work hard picking cotton in the cotton fields and working a mule team by the age of eight.
Harold "Gordon" Kehmeier passed peacefully asleep at home with family on Nov. 21, 2016.
He grew up youngest of five on the Kehmeier farm in Eckert, Colo.
Lola LaTourette went with the angels on Nov. 4, 2016, a week and a half after her 99th birthday celebration.
Lola Teresa Camaches was born in San Francisco, Calif., on Oct. 28, 1917 to Ethel and Peter Camaches.
Philip Morton died Nov. 4, 2016, at the Veterans Administration Memorial Hospital in Grand Junction.
He was born May 4, 1935, and raised in western New York near the town of Woodhull to Eulalie and Homer Morton.
Jose H. Abeyta died Nov. 14, 2016.
He was born in La Puente, N.M., May 28, 1949, to Jose and Manuelita Abeyta.
Graveside services for Jeanette Marie Habenicht are planned at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, at Riverside Cemetery in Hotchkiss.
Louise Marie McCleary died Nov. 16, 2016, at Horizon Care Center. She was 86.
Orville Schneider died Nov. 13, 2016, at Crossroads Assisted Living Center in Delta. He was 91.
Longtime Cedaredge resident James "Jim" Davis died Nov. 14, 2016, at home. He was 65.
Kenneth Bjork of Austin died Nov. 19, 2016, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Grand Junction. He was 73.
Delta resident Gordon W. Griswold died Nov. 19, 2016, at Paonia Care Center. He was 76.
Margery Roby Millsaps Miller of Cedaredge died Nov. 15, 2016, at Paonia Care Center. She was 94.
On the morning of Nov. 12, 2016, a remarkable woman passed from this world to be with her Lord and Savior. She wasn't rich or famous -- she wasn't even five feet tall, but her generosity and concern for others made her a giant.
Paonia resident Orville H. Schneider died Nov. 13, 2016, at Crossroads Assisted Living in Delta.
Delta resident Ruth L. Anderson died Nov. 12, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 90.
Delta resident Dennis H. Howell died Friday, Oct. 28, 2016 at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 76.
Longtime Delta resident Eva MacKendrick died Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016, at The Fountains of Hilltop in Grand Junction. She was 98.
Terri Wyley, a longtime Delta resident, died Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, at her home in Greeley. She was 63.
Hotchkiss resident Ronald B. Shiflet died Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, at Paonia Care Center. He was 80.
Virginia F. Ballard died Oct. 20, 2016, at HopeWest Hospice Center in Grand Junction. She was 92.
Longtime Delta County resident John W. "Jack" Hibbert died Oct. 29, 2016, at Horizons Care Center. He was 94.
William "Bill" Dean Chriestenson died Oct. 28, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 72.
Janice Koepsell died of pancreatic cancer Oct. 25, 2016, in Eckert. She was 84.
Billie Marguerite Combs Engberg of Delta departed life to be with her God and dearly departed loved ones on Oct. 28, 2016. Billie was loved by all and a woman with great strength, love and kindness.
Truman Veach Yowell of Delta died in Steamboat Springs Oct. 20, 2016. He was 98.
Bernard E. "Bernie" Nutt died at his home in Cedaredge on Oct. 18, 2016. He was 91.
Raymond Lee Current died Oct. 18, 2016, at the VA Center in Grand Junction. He was 84.
Charlie Roscoe Hawkins died at his home in Cedaredge Oct. 18, 2016. He was 99.
On Sept. 22, 2016, Mary Ruth Gunderson died of natural causes at the age of 89 in Clarkston, Wash.
Mary Ruth McClung was born on March 16, 1927, in Elkhart, Kan., to John Ewell and Flora Lamkin McClung.
Kay Arlene Stewart died unexpectedly Oct. 10, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. She was 67.
Helen M. Garcia died Oct. 3, 2016, in Eckert.
Mary Helen Mable Vigil was born in Wheatland, Wyo., Dec. 28, 1922, to Alfonso and Cora Vigil.
Mike E. Salazar died in a car accident on Oct. 7, 2016, in Delta. He was 65.
James Charles Beecham passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, at his home in Cory with his wife, son and daughter-in-law by his side. He was 70 years old.
Charles Beauchamp died Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016, at his home in Hotchkiss. He was 76.
Crawford resident Robert C. Croft died Sunday, Oct. 9, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 95.
Rita Ann "Tish" Benson died Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 82.
Delta resident Richard A. Smith died Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, at the Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 72.
Larry "Daddy" Dicamillo passed away peacefully at his home in Delta on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, after a long and inspirational battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 68 years old.
Eckert resident Connie Chism died Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, at the HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 67.
Longtime Delta County resident Maria Estela Yzquierdo died Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, at her home in Hotchkiss. She was 64.
Barbara Mae Troudt of Broomfield, formerly of Paonia, died Sept. 28, 2016. She was 81.
Walter Boyd died Sept. 30, 2016, at his home in Cherry Acres Mobile Home Park in Austin. He was 82.
Cedaredge resident R.E. Norton died Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 82.
Verity Jean Martin died Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016, at her home in Cedaredge, Colo. She was surrounded by the love of her family to complete her circle of life.
Douglas Clayton Mathews died Sept. 12, 2016.
He was born Jan. 21, 1970, to William Mathews and Katherine Gregory.
Patsy Connor Speer died July 23, 2016, at Aspen Care Center in Aurora.
She was born in Olathe March 28, 1938, to Beezer Conner and Pauline Hallock.
Verity Jean Martin of Cedaredge died at her home Sept. 25, 2016.
A celebration of life will be held Oct. 8 at 2 p.m. at the Stolte Shed in Cedaredge.
Thomas White died Friday, Sept. 23, 2016, at his home in Cedaredge. He was 73.
God's angels called for him much sooner than we planned.
Gregory Lee Rule was born to David and Danita (Lemon) Rule in their Chevy Nova in the winter of 1981 between Baggs, Wyo and Craig, Colo.
Lifetime North Fork resident Marlin Littlefield died Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Grand Junction. He was 69.
Cedaredge resident Vera Terry died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 95.
Lily L. Dupper of Grand Junction died Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, at her residence. She was 89.
Wilfred "Bud" Glammeyer died Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, at his home in Delta. He was 68.
Paonia resident Walter Lloyd Wright went home to glory Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, at his residence in Paonia. He was 99 years of age.
Betty J. Sharp, beloved wife, mom, and grandmother, passed away on Sept. 14, 2016, in Colorado Springs. She was 79 years old.
Steve Leitzsey passed away on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, in Grand Junction, Colo.
William "Bill" Redden of Hotchkiss died Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 69.
Herbert Vincent Hanley died Aug. 21, 2016, at his home in Aguilar. He was 73.
Lucas Scott Oeltjenbruns died Sept. 11, 2016, at the HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 27.
Friends and family of Wanda Collins are invited to a memorial service at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17
Louise McMillan, formerly of Cedaredge, died Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, at her home in Grand Junction.
Memorial services will be held Thursday, Sept. 15, at 10 a.m., at All Saints Lutheran Church in Cory.
James W. Windhorst died Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, at his home in Paonia. He was 81.
Longtime Delta County resident Bobby J. Ogden died Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, at Paonia Care Center. He was 77.
Gaylon D. Guadarrama died Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. She was 62 and worked in marketing.
Jeremy James Bryant died Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016, at his home in Eckert. He was 27.
Julia Mae Hendricks died Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, at her home in Delta. She was 90.
John "Bud" Dekleva, Jr. was born on Nov. 19, 1933 at Somerset, Colo., to John and Mary Dekleva, and passed away on Aug. 29, 2016, at Hope West Hospice after a brief illness.
John attended school at Somerset through the eighth grade and graduated from Paonia High School with the class of 1951.
Jackie J. Schoonover quietly passed away at home early Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016 at the age of 88. Born Sept. 30, 1927 to Daisy (Redmond) and Alvia P. Schoonover, Jack graduated early from Delta High School in 1944 to join the war effort as an Army Aviator.
Teresa Ann Knight of Whitewater died at her home Aug. 24, 2016. She was 54.
Shannon "Country" Davidson died Aug. 7, 2016. He was born on Nov. 2, 1968.
Daniel Garrett Williamson died of natural causes July 28, 2016, at the VA Hospital in Seattle, Wash. He was 66.
Patricia R. Douglass of Lucas, Iowa, formerly of Eckert, died Aug. 3, 2016.
She was born in North Bend, Ore., to Adolph and Ruth Berger
Angela Marie Neff Price died unexpectedly at her home in Cedaredge Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016.
She is survived by three children, Tyler, 15, Gia, 14, and Aiden, 11.
Delta, Colo., resident, Merle Nobles, passed away at her residence at Crossroad Assisted Living Center in Delta on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. She was 84 years of age.
Alan L. Hill of Crawford died Aug. 21, 2016, at Horizons Care Center. He was 92.
Susan Keenan Altstatt died July 25, 2016, in Seattle, Wash.
She was born in Delta June 25, 1950, to Thomas and Marie Keenan.
Longtime Delta resident Paul Cook died Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at HopeWest in Grand Junction. He was 10 days shy of his 90th birthday.
Shirley Rae Dixon McDaniel died Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, at her home in Cortez.
She was born in Delta Sept. 2, 1935, to Charles and Vernice (Pratt) Dixon.
Shirley Ann Koenig died Aug. 6, 2016, in Huntsville, Ala.
She was born Sept.16, 1918, in East Liverpool, Ohio, and was raised in Chester, W.Va. and East Liverpool, Ohio.
Bradley D. Scott of Delta died Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, at the Hope West Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 62.
A celebration of life service will be held at 2 p.m., Monday, Aug. 29, at Taylor Funeral Service Chapel in Delta. Inurnment will take place at a later date.
Fransecita Duran died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016, at the HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 63.
Thomas "Dick" Norvell died Aug. 5, 2016, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. He was 85.
Hotchkiss resident Margaret E. Fournier died Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, at her home. She was 99.
Wayne George Berto died of ALS Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, at his home in Delta. He was 63.
David Wayne Canaday died Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016, at his home in Delta. He was 50.
James "Jamie" Bryson died of Parkinson's disease Aug. 8, 2016, at home in Paonia. He was 81.
Larry Earl Davis of Delta died Aug. 5, 2016.
He was born in Denver May 12, 1947, to Jack and Bonnie (Slugger) Davis.
Stanley E. Dove, 87, of Castle Rock died at the Belleview Heights Memory Care Center in Aurora Aug. 6, 2016.
He was born in Crawford June 27, 1929.
Montrose resident Doyle Fergeson died Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, at Valley Manor in Montrose. She was 90.
Charles David McKean of Eckert died of natural causes Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016.
James W. Vincent of Cedaredge died Aug. 7, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 69.
Kathryn Fay Flinn died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, at her home in Cedaredge. She was 77.
Bill Kissner died at his home in Cedaredge Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, after a long battle with ALS. He was 79.
Mary Majnik of Grand Junction died Aug. 6, 2016, at Larchwood Inns in Grand Junction. She was 102.
Geraldine J. Wallace passed away on July 29, 2016, at Liberty Heights Nursing Home. She was 74 years old.
George Wood died July 7, 2016, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 61.
Leanne Dee Martin of Cedaredge died of a heart attack at her residence Monday, Aug. 1, 2016. She was 65.
Delta resident Betty Louise Vincent died at Colorow Care Center Aug. 8, 2016. She was 83.
George Ward Lindley of Cedaredge died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016, at Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 82.
Thomas "Dick" Norvell died Aug. 5, 2016, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. He was 85.
Fransecita Duran died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016, at the HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 63.
Margaret Marina Armendariz died July 26, 2016, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 83.
Joye R. Nichols died Tuesday, July 26, 2016, at her home in Cedaredge. She was 88.
Eugene David Lorig Sr. died at his home in Paonia July 23, 2016. He was 89.
Gladys Brandt died Saturday, July 30, 2016, at her home in Delta. She was 83.
June Patricia DeVries died July 27, 2016, at her residence in Delta. She was 75.
James F. Loving, age 75, of Salt Lake City, Utah went to be home with his Lord on Dec. 15, 2015, at Regional West Medical Center, Scottsbluff, Neb.
Memorial services will be held Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Esther P. Cruz passed away on Monday July 11, 2016, at Montrose Memorial Hospital with her daughters by her side.
Esther was born June 7, 1955 in Delta, Colo., to Jose and Maria Lopez.
Lifetime Delta County resident Jerry D. Boyd died Monday, July 18, 2016, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Grand Junction. He was 76.
Joyce Elizabeth Clay died Thursday, July 21, 2016, at her home in Paonia. She was 104.
Cole Michael Sukle, 14, of Denver died July 14, 2016, after being struck by a car.
He is survived by his father, Mike Sukle, a Delta native and a DHS graduate;
Marlene Rhodes of Paonia died Tuesday, July 19, 2016, at her daughter's home in Delta. She was 81.
Longtime Delta County resident Charlotte "Betty" TeGrotenhuis died Wednesday, July 20, 2016, at Crossroads Assisted Living Center in Delta. She was 94.
Susan Delia Keenan Altstatt died July 25, 2016, in Seattle, Wash.
She was born in Delta June 25, 1950, to Thomas and Marie Keenan.
Lifetime Delta resident Patsy Dean Cairns died July 19, 2016, at her home. She was 80.
Ronald R. Richard passed away on Saturday, July 23, 2016 at the Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 79 years old.
Donald Ivan Justice died quietly at the age of 80 at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction June 5, 2016, after a long battle with kidney disease and heart issues which he tackled bravely and with a positive attitude.
Don was born in Clyde, N.C., Aug. 21, 1935.
Joy Elliott-Bailey died July 24, 2016, at Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 80.
Patsy Lovato died July 23, 2016, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 74.
James Wren Jr. died Saturday, July 23, 2016, at his home in Cedaredge. He was 72.
Joseph Hobbs died Sunday, July 10, 2016, at his home in Montrose.
He was born in Rolla, Kan., June 28, 1923, to Alvin and Blenn Hobbs.
Delta resident Margaret Marina Armendariz died July 26, 2016, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 83.
James Loving of Salt Lake City, Utah, died Dec. 14, 2015, at Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, Neb. He was 75.
Col. Delbert "Del" Franklin Miller died July 14, 2016, in Austin, Texas.
He was born in Delta and was a graduate of the Air Force Academy and served in the U.S. Air Force for 21 years.
Alfred M. George of Clifton died Monday, July 18, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 77.
Former North Fork area resident Elma Wiening died Sunday, July 17, 2016, at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. She was 94.
Marlene Rhodes died Tuesday, July 19, 2016, at her home in Delta. She was 81.
Frances Louise Dalton died April 19, 2016, at her home in Austin. She was 72.
Joan Caroline Queen died Wednesday, June 29, 2016, at her home in Hotchkiss. She was 84.
Rosa Lee Coonts died July 7, 2016, at home with her husband at her side. She was 78.
Dorothy Blankenagel Kehmeier died at her home in Eckert Wednesday, July 6, 2016. She was 87 years of age.
Arlene Angeletti died Sunday, July 3, 2016, at her home in Delta. She was 75.
Verla Mae Doyle died July 8, 2016, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta, CO. She was 83.
Cedaredge resident Dale W. Marah died Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 86.
Gene Arnold Magill died June 30, 2016.
He was born in Sterling April 18, 1939.
Phyllis I. Knorr died July 3, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital in Delta. She was 85.
Michael W. Neden died Monday, July 4, 2016, at his home in Carthage, Mo. He was 63.
Longtime Delta resident, Francisco Saenz, Sr., died July 10, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital & Regional Medical Center. He was 74.
Paonia resident Darrell Glen Kendall died Monday, June 27, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 84.
Hotchkiss resident Judy Johns-Hoskins died Thursday, June 23, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 64.
Robert Randall "Randy" Martin died June 30, 2016, at his home in Orchard City. He was 57.
Joan Caroline Queen died Wednesday, June 29, 2016, at her home in Hotchkiss. She was 84.
Phillis I. Knorr died Sunday, July 3, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 85.
Memorial services for Shirley Mae Brandt are scheduled for Saturday, July 9, at 11 a.m., at the First Baptist Church, Cedaredge. Following several years of failing health, Shirley died at Horizon Care Center, Eckert, on June 13, 2016, at age 92.
Hotchkiss resident Judy Johns-Hoskins died Thursday, June 23, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 64.
Alvin L. Cerise died Friday, June 24, 2016, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 84.
Tammy Lynn Cormier of Delta died Sunday, May 29, 2016, in Delta. She was 53.
Rose M. Loring died at her home in Cedaredge Sunday, May 1, 2016. She was 85.
Delta resident Reigh Stoddard died Thursday, June 23, 2016, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 80.
Delta resident, Dale Kimber, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at his home in Delta, Colo. He was 72 years old.
Jerry VanderVelde of Cedaredge, Colo., died on June 21 at his home with his wife and two daughters at his side. He was 82 years old and lived a rich and full life.
A celebration of life service for Dorothy "Dot" Clay will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 25,
Cedaredge resident Ernest "Ernie" James Koehler died Friday, June 10, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 74.
Lifetime North Fork area resident Wanda Collins died Saturday, June 18, 2016, at Paonia Care Center in Paonia. She was 84.
Warren was born almost 89 years ago on his grandparents' cherry farm near Loveland, Colo., to Herman Otto and Dorothea (Reifschneider) Vollmert. He and younger brother Bernard grew up in Fort Morgan, where their family had little money during the Depression.
Delta resident Alice Thompson died Saturday, June 4, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. She was 75.
Funeral services were held Thursday, June 9, at Taylor Funeral Service Chapel in Delta.
Alice Faye Thompson was born in Grand Junction May 16, 1941, to Cecil Locke and Minerva Morford. She spent her childhood in Grand Junction and graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1959.
Garry Michael Breckenridge of Crawford died at his home June 7, 2016. He was 52.
At his request, no service will be held.
Former Delta resident Maria Hatton died Nov. 28, 2015, in Pottstown, Pa., at the home of her daughter and son-in-law Robin and Steven Smith. She was 81.
She was born in Friedburg, Germany (now Czech Republic), to Ludwig and Maria Wagner.
Shirley Mae Brandt of Cedaredge died June 13, 2016, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 92.
She was a teacher.
Services will be held at a later date.
Lois Hileman of Irving, Texas, died unexpectedly Tuesday, May 31, 2016, in Flower Mound, Texas. She was 75.
She was born in Cedaredge Jan. 21, 1941, to Alfred and Etta Mae (Hawkins) Lloyd. The family moved to California when she was a child.
Wayne Earnest Curry of Cedaredge died Thursday, June 9, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 85.
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, June 16, at First Baptist Church in Cedaredge with Pastor Dik Abbott officiating.
Betty Lu Waggoner died Sunday, June 12, 2016, at her home in Eckert. She was 81.
She was born in Denver Nov. 18, 1934, to Tommy and Lola Marie (Grosbeck) Thompson. Her biological father Tommy died before she was born and she was raised by Gordon and Lola Clayson. She spent her childhood and attended school in Denver, graduating from East High School in 1953.
Harold Eugene Haining died Wednesday, June 1, 2016, at his home in Delta. He was 92.
Bobbie Jo Ellen Hammer died Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at her home in Delta. She was 44.
Crawford resident Christopher M. Young died at his home Sunday, May 29, 2016. He was 56.
James Everett Cooley died June 2, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 81.
Jerry Lewy Cobb died April 11, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, due to complications from a massive heart attack suffered on Feb. 22, 2016. He was 73.
Paonia resident Kenneth Hilton died Monday, May 30, 2016, at Paonia Care Center. He was 91.
Shari L. Sampson died June 1, 2016, at the home of longtime friend Jane Poulos in Paonia. She was 85.
Delta resident Lillian M. Shreeves died Monday, May 30, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 86.
Delta resident Alice Faye Thompson died Saturday, June 4, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. She was 75.
A celebration of life for Eleanor M. Orme will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, June 4, at Crippin Funeral Home in Montrose. Mrs. Orme died Dec. 21, 2015.
Lifetime Delta resident Charlie Dixon died Monday, May 23, 2016, at his home. He was 85.
Delta County resident Audrey Lurleen DeBusk died Sunday, May 22, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 85.
James "Jim" Drew died Wednesday, May 25, 2016, at his home in Paonia. He was 80.
Cedaredge resident Lois Baker died May 26, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. She was 95.
Darold L. Kearns died Thursday, May 26, 2016, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 87.
Olathe resident Christie Dawn Carter died May 30, 2016, at her home. She was 48.
Conner Milton of Cedaredge died Monday, May 16, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 26.
Delta resident William "Bill" Joseph Haberberger died Tuesday, May 17, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 59.
Lifetime Delta resident Charlie Ernest Dixon died Monday, May 23, 2016, at his home. He was 85.
Roger D. Brown died Saturday, May 21, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 80.
Delta County resident Audrey Lurleen DeBusk died Sunday, May 22, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 85.
Steven Dale Lynch, 58, passed away Tuesday, May 10, 2016, at Littleton Adventist Hospital surrounded by his two loving daughters and son-in-law after a long battle with emphysema.
Steve was known for his extraordinary advice that he gave freely, his love for the outdoors and reading.
Lawrence B. "Dollar" MacKendrick of Hotchkiss died Thursday, May 12, 2016, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 97.
LaVerne Miller died May 14, 2016, at Mantey Heights Care Center. She was 96.
Vernon Lee Moore died Saturday, May 7, 2016, at the age of 65.
He was born in Ogden, Utah, Oct. 31, 1950, and graduated from Cedaredge High School in 1969.
Richard "Dick" B. Wellington died May 14, 2016, at his home in Cedaredge. He was 92.
Hotchkiss resident Milton Dale Maxwell died Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at Paonia Care Center. He was 82.
Delta resident James Leonard Stroud died from cancer Saturday, April 30, 2016, at his home. He was 75.
Bernard Marvin Coverly died Saturday, May 7, 2016, at a Delta care facility. He was 90.
A celebration of life for Edwin Paul Minion will be held Saturday, May 14, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Delta Elks Lodge. Friends and family are invited to attend.
David "Dave" Lee Spickert of Cedaredge died Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at his home. He was 60.
Austin resident Bambie Lynn Ware died April 26, 2016, at her home. She was 58.
Austin resident Max DeBusk died Monday, May 2, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 90.
John Sidney Vanderpool died May 4, 2016, at his home in Delta. He was 85.
Carl Mazzella died Wednesday, May 4, 2016, at his home in Delta. He was 84.
Betty Wolverton, age 77 of Hotchkiss, Colo., died Wednesday morning, May 4, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital.
Betty was born Oct. 24, 1938, in Greeley, Colo., to Cecil G. and Ruth (Bull) Staver, the second of three children.
Lila June Murray, 90, passed away peacefully on April 4, 2016, with family by her side. Lila lived in Eckert since 1999.
Sandra Lee McGee of Ken Caryl died Sunday, April 24, 2016, after a five-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 61.
Maria Erepina "Edith" Ann Madril Lopez died April 27, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 91.
Delta resident James Leonard Stroud died Saturday, April 30, 2016, at his home. He was 75.
Paonia resident Kathleen Winnie Reich died Monday, April 25, 2016, at Paonia Care Center. She was 73.
Delta County resident Max DeBusk died Monday, May 2, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 90.
Inverness Kathryn Stewart died at her home in Delta April 13, 2016. She was 92.
George E. Dickerson died Thursday, April 21, 2016, at Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. He was 72.
Janice Violett died April 15, 2016, at HopeWest Care Center in Grand Junction. She was 77.
Carol Ann Broughton died Monday, April 18, 2016, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 81.
June Dickerson died Saturday, April 23, 2016, at her home in Delta. She was 93.
Dee Ann Kropp of Paonia, Colo., exchanged her earthly home for her heavenly home on April 23, 2016.
Dee Ann was born Oct. 23, 1937, in Washington, D.C., to George and Doris Pickrel.
Inverness Kathryn Stewart died at her home in Delta April 1, 2016. She was 92.
David A. Boronda of Delta, Colo., was born Aug. 7, 1949, and passed away April 13, 2016.
Harry William Brauneis died Sunday, April 10, 2016, at his home in Eckert. He was 92.
Carol Ann Broughton died Monday, April 18, 2016, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 81.
Doris V. Doudy of Grand Junction died Saturday, April 16, 2016, at Courtyard Care Center. She was 102.
Former Buena Vista resident Constance "Connie" L. Roberts died Thursday, April 14, 2016, at Mesa Manor Center in Grand Junction. She was 76.
Patricia K. Allen of Grand Junction died Thursday, April 14, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. She was 85.
Jimmy Eugene Armour, age 68, passed away at his home on Feb. 3, 2016.
Steven Ray Grier died of pneumonia April 3, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 67.
Delta County resident Jane Dora Dunkle died Sunday, April 3, 2016, at San Juan Living Center. She was 78.
Jerry Lewy Cobb died April 11, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, due to complications from a massive heart attack suffered on Feb. 22. He was 73.
Rebecca A. Waterman died Tuesday, April 13, 2016, at San Juan Living Center in Montrose. She was 69.
Lifetime Pea Green resident Kenneth L. Brew died Monday, April 11, 2016, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 88.
Delta resident Edwin L. Dittmer died Saturday, April 9, 2016, at his home. He was 82.
Rose Smith of Delta died of congestive heart failure April 7, 2016, in Montrose. She was 95.
Aubrey Dale Pierce of Delta died Jan. 15, 2016, at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center. He was 85.
Longtime Delta resident Lois Stephens died at her home Tuesday, April 5, 2016. She was 82.
Donald Dennis Tunget died March 18, 2016, at his home in Olathe. He was 68.
Lifetime Somerset resident Thelma Bailey died Thursday, April 7, 2016, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 88.
Lifetime Pea Green resident Kenneth L. Brew died Monday, April 11, 2016, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 88.
Longtime Gunnison resident Thelma Prosser died April 4, 2016, at Senior Care Center in Gunnison. She was 83.
Mary Lou Snell passed away April 6, 2016, at Paonia Care and Rehabilitation Center. She was 90.
Longtime Delta resident Donna Ames died Saturday, April 2, 2016, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 74.
Longtime Delta resident Ruth Wethington died Tuesday, March 29, 2016, at Willow Tree Care Center. She was 85.
John E. Tingler of Cedaredge died March 28, 2016, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. He was 89.
Lifetime North Fork Valley resident Ruth L. Smith died Saturday, April 2, 2016, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. She was 90.
A celebration of life for Dale W. Suckow will be held Saturday, April 23, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Riley Pavilion in Cleland Park. A potluck lunch will begin at noon.
Julia passed away peacefully in her Hotchkiss, Colo., home April 1, 2016, among family.
Julia was born in Boston, Mass., to James and Natalie Ferry.
Joseph "Jo Joe" V. Gonzales of Grand Junction died Feb. 25, 2016, in Boulder City, Nev. He was 59.
A memorial service for Lauren Mann will be held at noon Saturday, April 2, at the Paonia United Methodist Church, 307 Onarga Avenue. A reception will follow.
Delta resident Lovina B. Dawson died Friday, March 25, 2016, in Delta. She was 65.
Shirley Ann Gardner Holgate died at her home March 2, 2016, after a long bout with Alzheimer's disease. She was 79.
Delta resident Mark Vannest died Thursday, March 17, 2016, at his home. He was 54.
Longtime Eckert resident Charles William Darnall died at his home Wednesday, March 16, 2016. He was 70.
Neal "Scott" Mills died in a motorcycle accident Monday, March 14, 2016. He was 51.
Mary Ellen Threewit died March 17, 2016, at her home in Paonia. She was 91.
Longtime Powderhorn resident Flynn Mangum died Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at his home in Delta. He was 67.
Kathleen Hawkins died March 16, 2016, at Horizons Care Center. She was 95.
Longtime Delta resident Ione "Jo" Hendrickson died Wednesday, March 16, 2016, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 72.
Selena S. Pedersen died Jan. 2, 2016.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, March 26, at the Chapel of the Cross in Cedaredge.
Milton W. Trumble died Jan. 24, 2016, at Montrose Memorial Hospital. He was 76.
Joseph "Joey" Edward Schmidt died after a car accident March 16, 2016. He was 42.
Pearl Florence Basher died March 2, 2016, at Mesa Manor in Grand Junction. She was 91.
Patricia Shoemaker Batchelor was born in Laramie, Wyo., Aug. 6, 1942, to Norman B. Shoemaker and Martha (Casey) Shoemaker. She died Feb. 21, 2016. She was 73.
Mervin "Sonny" Dale Gettman died at his home in Cedaredge Wednesday, March 9, 2016. He was 84.
Delta resident Virginia Liston died Monday, March 7, 2016, at Willow Tree Care Center. She was 85.
Franklin Wayne Carlyle died in his sleep at his home in Delta March 4, 2016. He was 35.
Nellie Clare Mellott died at her home in Paonia Thursday, March 10, 2016. She was 90.
Uleta Fisk Hopkins of Olathe died Feb. 22, 2016, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. She was 79.
Longtime Delta resident Nellie Clark died Friday, March 11, 2016, at her home. She was 99.
Truman G. Esau, M.D., of Whitewater died Friday, March 4, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. He was 89.
Longtime Powderhorn resident Flynn Mangum died Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at his home in Delta. He was 67.
Heaven has gained another "HERO."
George was born Jan. 8, 1924, in Hotchkiss, Colo., to George and Florine Roop; he passed away peacefully at Ashley Gardens in Mount Vernon, Wash., on March 1, 2016, after a long battle with Alzheimer's.
Delta resident Shirley Annette "Ann" Perkins died Sunday, March 6, 2016, in Delta. She was 76.
Brian Smith of Montrose died Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, at Montrose Memorial Hospital. He was 42.
David Michael "Mike" Price died of pancreatic cancer Thursday, March 3, 2016, at his home in Eckert. He was 68.
Longtime Crawford resident Robert Anton Pobirk died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, at his home. He was 77.
Crawford resident Horst Wolfgang Kalin died Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016. He was 81.
Dallas Buffum died from heart disease Friday, March 4, 2016, in Grand Junction. He had survived a stroke in 2011. He was 76.
Olathe resident William "Bill" Fletcher died Thursday, March 3, 2016, at Colorow Care Center in Olathe. He was 85.
Melville "Calvin" Kelly died Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, at San Juan Living Center in Montrose. He was 91.
Longtime Paonia resident Lotis Smith died at her home Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. She was 91.
William T. "Bill" Rule died unexpectedly Feb. 26, 2016, of natural causes at his home in Paonia. He was 75.
Hotchkiss resident Frances Varner died Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta. She was 82.
