Alice E. Murphy
Sep 21, 2012
"I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works;" Revelation 2:19. These characteristics embodied Alice Emmons Foster Murphy who passed from this life on September 21, 2012. She was born March 17, 1917, in Madison, Maine to Luther Henry Foster and Alice Hayes Foster. Alice grew up in Madison where she was raised...
Verlyn Richardson
Sep 20, 2012
Verlyn Richardson, 94, of Ft. Collins, died September 20, 2012 at a local nursing home. Verlyn was born September 7, 1918 in Phillipsburg, Norton County, Kansas to Martin and Ida Richardson. Verlyn attended Liberty Country School, walking one and a half miles each way for eight years. When he started high school he had to ride horseback, seven miles each...
Etta Marie Clingan
Sep 18, 2012
Etta Marie peacefully joined her husband, Bob, in heaven surrounded by family and loved by many on September 18, 2012. Marie was born in Ava, Missouri, February 8, 1920. She put herself through school and was a teacher for many years. Marie originated Religious Education classes in St. Joseph, Missouri which became a city wide program for public schools. She...
Hazel Loretta Maiorka
Sep 16, 2012
Hazel Loretta Maiorka, 86, passed on September 16, 2012 in Fort Collins. She was born on August 12, 1926 in Fort Collins to Clarence B. and Mattilda Fatland in Butterfield, Minnesota. Hazel grew up in Butterfield and graduated from Butterfield High School in 1944. She moved to Houston, Texas in 1948, met and married Phillip Ross Maiorka. Hazel was very...
Ronald D. Hovey
Sep 16, 2012
Ronald D. Hovey, 73, of Fort Collins, died September 16, 2012 at McKee Medical Center, Pathways Hospice Unit. Mr. Hovey was born February 17, 1939 in Decorah, Iowa to Clarence and Vera Hovey. Ron married Joan E. Vick on September 17, 1966 in Decorah, Iowa. They moved to Fort Collins, Colorado in 1970. Ron retired from Yellow Freight as a...
Susan Marie Morford
Sep 15, 2012
Susan Marie Morford passed away Saturday, September 15, 2012. She was born April 17, 1956 in Rockford, Illinois to James L. Veitch and Lois A. Johnson Veitch. She attended elementary schools in Roscoe and Loves Park, Illinois. The family moved to Fort Collins, Colorado in 1866. Susan attended schools in the Poudre R1 School District graduating from Fort Collins High...
Wayne R. Seaman
Sep 14, 2012
Wayne R. Seaman passed away September 14, 2012. Wayne was born on January 23, 1921 in Loveland. He graduated from Denver South High School and later graduated from Colorado A&M College CSU with a BS in Forestry and a Masters Degree in Fish Biology. Wayne is a decorated World War II Veteran and served as 2nd Lieutenant as a Tank...
Norma J. Drovdal
Sep 14, 2012
Norma J. Drovdal, 81, of Wiggins, Colorado, died September 14, 2012 in her daughter, Linda's care at the Tribute Homes Assisted Living facility. Mrs. Drovdal was born February 27, 1931 in Harrison, South Dakota to Ira and Sarah DeHaai. Norma married Norris A. Drovdal on February 15, 1950 in Watertown, South Dakota. Mrs. Drovdal was raised in South Dakota, lived...
Ruby Reynolds
Sep 12, 2012
Ruby DeGroot Reynolds, 79, passed away September 12, 2012. Ruby was born on February 7, 1933 to Edward Sutter and Elgean Speilman Sutter in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She attended the Pillar of Fire School. On June 16, 1950 Ruby married Marland DeGroot in Raton New Mexico. Marland was the foreman at Turkey Track Ranch where they made their home at...
Harley Duane Allbrandt
Sep 10, 2012
Harley Duane Allbrandt, 79, passed away September 7, 2012, in Fort Collins. Harley was born in Fort Collins on September 4, 1933, to Herman and Ethel Day Allbrandt, the youngest of eight children. Born into the throes of the Great Depression, he learned early the virtues of hard work and thrift. He graduated from Fort Collins High School in 1952....
Valentine A. Vigil
Sep 1, 2012
Valentine A. Vigil of Fort Collins. Born February 14, 1938. Mass of Christian Burial, Friday, 2:30 p.m., St. Joseph Catholic Church. Private Interment, Grandview Cemetery.
Cecil Francis Summers
Aug 31, 2012
Cecil Francis Summers, 92, passed away August 31, 2012, at Poudre Valley Hospital. Born in Wilson, Kansas, August 14, 1920, to James and Laura Ware Summers, Cecil spent his youth in western Kansas until the family moved to the eastern plains of Colorado in the 1930s. It was in Eads, Colorado, that he met Lola Clark, and the young couple...
Bryson Hunter Kerbs
Aug 27, 2012
Bryson Hunter Kerbs of Fort Collins died August 27, 2012 at Poudre Valley Hospital. Survivors include his mother and father, Bryon A. and Veronica M. Kerbs; sisters, Naomi Kerbs of Aurora, Faith and Madison both of Fort Collins; grandparents, Roger and Pam Kerbs, Jim Cotton of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Danny and Ciata Harris of Cheyenne, Wyoming Preceding Bryson in death...
Paula Winkler
Aug 23, 2012
Paula Winkler, 81, of Fort Collins, died August 23, 2012 at her home. Mrs. Winkler was born May 25, 1931 in Wanne-Eickel, Germany to Johann Skoda and Bronislawa Tomaszewski Skoda. Paula married Hans Richard Winkler on March 30, 1954 in Dover, New Jersey. Mrs. Winkler was a cook for Senior Chuck Wagon Meals on Wheels. She enjoyed baking, crocheting, knitting,...
Beverly I. Emanuel
Aug 23, 2012
Beverly I. Emanuel, 86, of Fort Collins, died on August 23, 2012 at a local nursing home. Mrs. Emanuel was born January 10, 1926 in Fort Collins to Carl Skold and Hallee Townsend Clark Beverly married Robert C. Emanuel on February 12, 1946 in Fort Collins. Mrs. Emanuel lived in Fort Collins most of her life graduating from Fort Collins...
Marilyn Jean Buyher
Aug 17, 2012
Marilyn Buyher passed away from this life on August 17, 2012 at Good Samaritan Loveland Village in Loveland, Colorado. Marilyn Jean Miller was born March 1, 1929 to Elma Arrington Miller and Walter Miller in Woodston, Kansas. She graduated from Woodston High School with the class of 1947. Marilyn was an open-minded, generous and loving woman. A devoted daughter, wife,...
Helena R. Buttorff
Aug 16, 2012
SERVICE HAS BEEN CANCELLED Helena Lena Buttorff passed away August 16, 2012 at the age of 92. She was born April 27, 1919 in Coal Creek, Colorado. Her parents Anna and Louie Chiaro deceased moved to Fort Collins where Lena graduated from Fort Collins High School in 1938. She worked as a typist, and was known for her great typing...
Laird S. Campbell
Aug 16, 2012
Laird Campbell died peacefully and with a characteristic lack of fuss or delay at home on August 16, after a long, rich, and rewarding life. He spent his first four years in Pullman, Washington, where his father, Robert, taught English at what was then the State College of Washington. He was born in a hospital in Spokane. When Robert died,...
Tillie Duran
Aug 12, 2012
Tillie Duran, 89, of Loveland North Shore Health and Rehabilitation, formerly of Wellington, passed away peacefully on August 12, 2012. Tillie was born May 26, 1923 in Fort Collins, Colorado to Manuel S. Pino and Juanita "Atencio" Pino. On December 31, 1945 Tillie married Ben C. Duran at Holy Family Parish in Fort Collins. They had 65 wonderful years together....
Harry O. Rennat
Aug 11, 2012
Harry O. Rennat passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 11, 2012 5 days after his 90th birthday at Sterling House of Fort Collins. He was born on August 6, 1922 in Viljandi, Estonia. He grew up on a collective farm managed by his parents, Alexander and Olga. His older sibling, Ivar, died of meningitis in 1927. In 1941 the family...
