Marcia Ann Mcclure Boggs
May 11, 2010
Marcia Ann McClure Boggs, born to L.E. ?Mac? and Helen McClure on February 23, 1944, in Lincoln, Nebraska, died at home of natural causes in Fort Collins, Colorado, on May 11, 2010. Marcia spent her early childhood in Lincoln, Nebraska, until the family moved to Fort Collins in 1948. Together with her parents and sister, Marcia enjoyed hiking, camping, exploring...
Mary H. Farias
May 10, 2010
Mary H. Farias, 61, of Fort Collins, died May 9, 2010 at Poudre Valley Hospital. Mrs. Farias was born April 22, 1949 in Brady, Texas to Eginio and Soila "Medrano" Laureles. Mary was married to Samuel Farias. Mrs. Farias has lived in the area since 1972. She raised 10 brothers and sisters as well as five of her own children....
Bethany Gleason Kallgren Marshall
May 9, 2010
Her passing was astonishingly graceful; two gentle, delayed breaths, sunlit, with family and Mozart on Mother's Day. Parkinson's had in the end been kind. Dementia had ways of being kind as well. She frequently saw children in sun suits walking beside her. Her slide into confusion became a refuge from knowledge of what wasn't anymore, and contentment settled in. A...
Virginia J. Hollingshead
May 9, 2010
Virginia J. Hollingshead, 85, of Fort Collins went home to be with the Lord on Mother's Day May 9, 2010 at a local nursing home. Mrs. Hollingshead was born February 7, 1925 in Pomona, California to Robert and Myrta Altwegg West. Mrs. Hollingshead went to Perry Iowa Community Schools and Drake University. Virginia married Albert E. Hollingshead, Jr. on April...
Ernest Carl Demlow
May 8, 2010
Ernest Carl Demlow, 96, passed away on May 8, 2010. Preceded in death by wives, Evelyn and Margaret; and son, John. He is survived by wife, Ruby; and children, James Delsa Demlow, and Thomas Lynda Demlow. Also, he is survived by 4 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. He was born July 3, 1913 in Polar, Wisconsin. He was raised on...
Jack R. Holliday
May 7, 2010
Jack R. Holliday, loved by many, died peacefully at home on May 6, 2010 at the age of 91. He passed away with his family by his side after a courageous battle with Parkinson's disease, arthritis, and macular degeneration. He was born on June 11, 1918 in Meade, Kansas to Ella Maphet and Lymon Pearl LP Holliday because there was...
Chester C. Wahl
May 4, 2010
Chester "Chet" Wahl, 93, was born near the Laramie River in Wyoming on July 8, 1916, to Dora Dawsen Wahl and William Wahl. He passed away quietly on May 3, 2010 in his home. Having retired at the age of 90, Chet had operated a ranch in Owl Canyon since 1976. Before that he was foreman of the Brackenbury Ranch...
Patricia Ann Thoen
May 1, 2010
Patricia Ann Thoen, 76, of Fort Collins, died May 1, 2010 in Fort Collins. Pat was born January 7, 1934 in Fort Collins to Charlie and Gertrude ?Wyatt? Ahrens. Patricia married her best friend and love of her life, Orlo A. Thoen on August 16, 1953 in Fort Collins. Pat and Orlo were high school sweethearts at Laporte High School...
William Thomas Carter
Apr 29, 2010
William Thomas Carter of Bellvue, Colorado died April 29, 2010 at Poudre Valley Hospital. He was born April 8, 1979 to Richard and Lynda Kay Brower Carter. William spent much of his early life at University Hospital. This is also where he received his first kidney transplant at the young age of 5 years. Sadly in 2004 William needed another...
Bonnie Dean Bloom
Apr 29, 2010
Bonnie Dean Bloom, 74, of Colorado Springs formerly of Fort Collins, died April 29, 2010 at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs. Bonnie was born August 19, 1935 in Fort Collins to Fred and Opal Newberry Whicker. Ms. Bloom lived most of her life in Colorado. She was a foster mother, and everyone called her ?mom?. Bonnie loved her kids and...
Jean Elizabeth Snyder
Apr 28, 2010
Jean Elizabeth Snyder, 84, of Fort Collins, Colorado, passed away on April 28, 2010 at her home in Collinwood Assisted Living. Jeanie was born October 10, 1925 in Takoma Park, Maryland to Delbert Douglas and Florence Sterritt Graham. After graduating from college, Jean moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to work as Director of Religious Education at the First Christian Church. In...
Walter Royal Jones, Jr.
Apr 28, 2010
Reverend Walter Royal Roy Jones, Jr., D.D. died April 30, 2010 peacefully at home. He was born in Brooklyn, New York to Walter R. Jones and Anita Dunker Jones in 1920. Walter Royal Jones Jr. received his B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1941. Reverend Jones then began his career in the ministry, serving Unitarian and Universalist congregations in Barnstable and...
Raymond "Ray" E. Gowing
Apr 26, 2010
Raymond "Ray" E. Gowing, 75, of Fort Collins, went home to be with the Lord April 26, 2010 at the Medical Center of the Rockies. Mr. Gowing was born February 6, 1935 in Linn County, Kansas to Arthur and Anna "Barkley" Gowing. Ray married Leahrose on March 23, 1958 in Winfield, Iowa. They had two children, Steve and Melody. Mr....
Olive E. Whitehead
Apr 25, 2010
Olive E. Whitehead of Fort Collins passed away April 25, 2010 at Poudre Valley Hospital. She was born February 14, 1922 in Fort Collins to Dorence G. and Mona Fern Morris. Olive lived in Fort Collins her entire life, and graduated from Fort Collins High School in 1940 and attended Colorado A & M for one year prior to marrying...
Joanne L. Scholl
Apr 25, 2010
Joanne L. Scholl, 79, of Fort Collins, Colorado, formerly of LaGrange, Illinois, passed away Sunday, April 25, 2010 at MacKenzie Place Memory Care after a long battle with Alzheimer?s. Joanne was born on May 7, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois to Isabel Baker Hoagland and George Baker both deceased. Joanne married John Scholl on May 8, 1954 in Chicago. They lived...
Catherine I. Fisher
Apr 24, 2010
Catherine I. Fisher of Fort Collins passed away April 24, 2010, at Columbine West Health and Rehab Center. Catherine was born January 28, 1924, in Mercer County, Illinois to Merle Spurgeon and Mary Titterington Spurgeon. After graduating from high school she attended Bradley University and lived in Chicago, for a time. She was visiting her parents in Colorado when she...
Barbara Bailey
Apr 23, 2010
Barbara A. Bailey passed away peacefully in her sleep, at the age of 96 on Friday, April 23, 2010 at the Sterling House Extended Care Center in Fort Collins, Colorado. She was born on March 30, 1914 in Cornelius, Oregon, the only daughter of Carrie and Seth Anthony. Her childhood was spent in Canon City, Colorado until she left to...
Rose Schwindt
Apr 22, 2010
Rose Schwindt, 87, of Fort Collins, died April 22, 2010 at Life Care Center, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Mrs. Schwindt was born December 6, 1922 in Windsor, Colorado to William and Mary Krouse Gomer. Rose married Conrad "Coonie" Schwindt on February 5, 1939 in Fort Collins. Coonie passed away March 7, 1999. Mrs. Schwindt lived in the Windsor, Fort Collins area all...
Rex Lee Pomeroy
Apr 18, 2010
Rex Lee Pomeroy, 71, of Fort Collins, passed away in his home on Sunday, April 18, 2010, after a courageous battle with cancer. Rex was born in Los Angeles, California on April 17, 1939 to Vera Roach and Kenneth W. Pomeroy. He graduated from George Washington High School, and spent time as a camp counselor, when he decided to dedicate...
Sandra Sue Sanchez
Apr 17, 2010
Sandra Sue Sanchez, 66, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, formerly of Fort Collins and Greeley passed away Saturday, April 17, 2010 at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center after a brief and courageous battle with acute myeloid leukemia. Sandy was born on October 1, 1943 in Lancaster, California to Goldie Duggins Cunningham and Loy Duggins both deceased. She is survived by her three children,...
