Maria Delgado
Oct 21, 2008
Maria Dolores Reyes Delgado was born on April 3, 1940, in Alamillo Rodeo, Durango, Mexico, to Jose Reyes and Leogarda Sarmiento Baldivia. Maria came to the United States when she was 16 years of age. She then became an official citizen of the United States on Nov. 7, 1975. Maria resided in Fort Lupton, Wellington and Fort Collins. Maria Dolores...
Catherine Nelson
Oct 20, 2008
Catherine "Cathy" Nelson died peacefully Oct. 20, 2008. She was born, Jan. 29, 1913, to William and Martha Stringham at a coal mining camp in Boulder County. She married Lee Nelson at Georgetown in 1930. They lived in Denver until 1942, when they moved with their family to Fort Collins. She provided loving care to many children. She also volunteered...
Burl Young
Oct 19, 2008
Burl Ray Young, 83, of Laporte, died Oct. 19, 2008. Mr. Young was born Aug. 2, 1925 in Fort Lupton, to George E. Young and Cleona L. Ryan Young. Burl served in the United States Army during World War II. He spent his life in Northern Colorado since 1966. He married Velma Lee Hodgson on February 13, 1943 in Bushnell,...
Fern Chinburg
Oct 17, 2008
Frances Fern Chinburg, 95, of Fort Collins, died Oct. 17, 2008, at Lane County Long Term Care in Dighton, Kan. Mrs. Chinburg was born April 19, 1913, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Abraham Kinnison and Sall Ann "Goldie" McCoun Kinnison. Fern's family moved to Greeley in the mid 1920's where Fern finished grade school. She graduated from Campion Adademy,...
Hazel Hense
Oct 17, 2008
Mrs. Hense was born Feb. 21st, 1923, in Redfield, Arkansas to Edward Johnson and Rosa Lee Hardin. Her four brothers preceded her in death, Basil, Albert, Ed, and Leroy. Her mother died shortly after Leroy's birth, her father two years later. After her father's death, Hazel and Ed were taken in by her mother's brother, Felix Hardin and his wife,...
Pat Corrigan
Oct 12, 2008
Pat Corrigan passed away on Sunday, Oct. 12th, 2008 at her home in Fort Collins. Attended by her children, she was surrounded by family throughout her rapid decline. Pat was born in Mitchell, S.D., on Jan. 9, 1925 to Dr. Karl E. Stair and Isabel Neoma Craven Stair. She attended schools in Mitchell, Kadoka, Pine Ridge, and graduated from Brookings...
Mary "Jane" Homolka
Oct 9, 2008
Mary "Jane" Homolka, 62, of Fort Collins, died Oct. 9, 2008 at a local nursing home. Jane was born Oct. 31, 1945 in Armarillo, Texas to Henry Miller and Edna Ruth Garrison Miller. Her family moved to Delta from Dawn, Texas, in 1954. They then moved to Fort Collins from Delta in 1964. Jane married Glenn Homolka on March 22,...
Gene Kirby
Oct 9, 2008
M/SGT Gene R. Kirby went home to be with the Lord Oct. 9, 2008. Gene was born on Sept. 24, 1929, in Syracuse, N.Y., to Helen and Herman Kirby. Gene enlisted in the Army in 1945, spending time in Germany, Austria, Greenland, and Korea. After retirement from the Army in 1969, he then gave 20 years to Colorado State University...
Elva Basden
Oct 6, 2008
Elva L. Basden, born, Sept 1, 1919, in Wisconsin to parents, Bill and Maude Adams. Elva died after a year of illness and strong will, she was received by her family and the Lord on Oct 6th. She was a homemaker and a gardener. In her early years she always worked very hard in the family business, the first being...
Ella Louise Welty
Oct 5, 2008
Ella Louise Welty died at 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 5. She was 93. Born on March 3, 1915 to James and Pearle Lee, she grew up in Arcadia, Neb., a small farming community in the heart of the Heartland of America with her sister and four brothers all of whom are deceased. She married Max E. Welty on July...
Lillian Sloan
Oct 4, 2008
Lillian P. Sloan, beloved mother and grandmother went home to Heaven, Oct. 4, 2008. She was born July 22, 1918, to Ernest and Ella "Synder" Tonniges of Gresham, Neb. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Paul's Lutheran Church northeast of Gresham. She attended the parochial school at St. Paul's and later attending Gresham High School. She married her childhood...
James "Jim" Nelson
Oct 4, 2008
On Oct. 4, 2008, James Jim Furlong Nelson went home to be with Jesus. Jim was born on Oct. 23, 1922, in Stoneham to Lina Haworth Nelson and Louis Nelson. Jim was very proud of being a native Colora-doan and had lived in the Fort Collins area since he was two years old. He was known by many of his...
Patricia Johnson
Oct 4, 2008
Memorial services for Patricia Johnson, 77, at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 502 Pitkin. Survivors include son, Ivan; daughter-in-law, Kim, and two grandchildren, Yuri and Sara. Preceding in death are her sons, Steven and Duane.
William "Bill" Kirby
Oct 3, 2008
Bill Kirby, 58, finished his race on Earth and began his eternal life in heaven on Oct. 3, 2008 after a sudden heart attack. Bill was born in Marion, Ohio on Nov. 25, 1949, to William Richard Kirby and Ruth Marlene Messenger. He graduated from Marion Catholic High School in 1968 and from San Diego State University in 1973. He...
Robert Kiester
Oct 2, 2008
Robert M. Kiester, 45, of Fort Collins, died Oct. 2, 2008 at the Medical Center of the Rockies. Survivors include his friend, Jeremy Buchanan of Fort Collins. A private service will be held.
Vesta Foster
Oct 1, 2008
Vesta R. Foster died Oct. 1, 2008, in Fort Collins. She was born Vesta Rowene Wood to Walter and Nannie Wood in Greensburg, Kan., on July 3, 1917. Her father was a superin-tendent of schools in Pratt and Junction City, Kan., and her mother a secondary teacher. Vesta lived through the Dust Bowl in Kansas, the Great Depression, World War...
Ellaine Whitcomb
Sep 25, 2008
Ellaine Whitcomb, 82, of Cheyenne, Wyo., died Sept. 25, 2008, at Cheyenne Hospice. Mrs. Whitcomb was born on July 13, 1926 in National City, Calif., to Curtis L. Oliver and Evelyn Berry Oliver. She married F.L. "Lee" Whitcomb on Oct. 12, 1947, in Berrien Springs, MI. Ellaine lived in Fort Collins, Loveland, Morrill, Neb., and Cheyenne. She was a homemaker...
Cesar Garza, Iii
Sep 24, 2008
Our beloved father, husband, brother, and son, Cesar Alfonzo Garza, the III, was called home to be with our Lord on the 24th of Sept., 2008. He was surpassed in death by his biological father, Cesar Garza II. Cesar is survived by his wife, Samantha; and five children, Alfonzo, Sonia, Katie, Nicole, Jericha Garza. He was also survived by many...
Harold Fisher
Sep 24, 2008
Harold S. Fisher of Fort Collins, died Sept. 24, 2008, at Lemay Avenue Health. Harold was born near Timnath on May 16, 1923, to Clifford O. and Alice S. Fisher. After graduating from Fort Collins High School, he served in the U.S. Army as a radar operator in the South Pacific during World War II. He married Catherine I. Spurgeon...
Diane Leslie Moore
Sep 22, 2008
Diane Leslie Moore moved on to less painful climes on Sept. 22, 2008. She was a powerhouse of humor, labor and simple enjoyment in being alive. She had a way of popping back up after being knocked down, time and again. She had a way of turning the general roughness of her life into hilarity and drama, telling personal stories...
