Judith Stange
Nov 3, 2008
Judith Diane Chavez Stange, 71, of Fort Collins, died Nov.3, 2008 at McKee Medical Center in Loveland. Mrs. Stange was born June 23, 1937 in Fort Collins to Keith Chavez and Bessie Aragon Chavez. She lived most of her life in Fort Collins. Judith married Dale W. Stange on June 19, 1965 in Boulder. She was a book binder for...
Donald Wunsch
Nov 3, 2008
Fort Collins native, Donald Lee Wunsch, 72, passed away on Monday, Nov. 3, 2008, following a 14 year battle with COPD. Don was born in Fort Collins on Feb. 4, 1936, to Alex and Hilda Wunsch. He attended country grade schools and was graduated in 1955 from Fort Collins High School. It was in the 50's that Don earned the...
Jose Gonzalez
Oct 31, 2008
Jose Gonzalez, 62, of Fort Collins, died Oct. 31, 2008 at his residence. Mr. Gonzalez was born May 8, 1946 in Mexico, to Jose Gonzales and Luisa Cruces Gonzalez, in the town of Dolores, Hidalgo Guanojato. He immigrated to the United States as a young teenager and lived out the rest of his life in the U.S. Jose became a...
R.W. Dellenbach
Oct 31, 2008
R. W. "Dick" Dellenbach was born in Beardsley Kan., on July 22, 1918, and died in Windsor, surrounded by his family on Oct. 31, 2008. He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Mildred Dellenbach; and his brother, Gene. Dick served his country as a Navy Pilot from 1942-1946. His business career started at an early age with...
Leroy Dietz
Oct 29, 2008
LeRoy Walter Dietz, 78, of Florence, Ariz., Native of Fort Collins and recent Snowbird passed away Sept. 29, 2008, at home from Leukemia, following a 10 year battle with a Blood Disorder. He was born May 26, 1930, in Fort Collins, the ninth child of Fredrick Jacob Dietz and Anna Boxberger Dietz. Lee married the late Lillie Mae Ollis in...
Carmelita Hinds
Oct 28, 2008
Carmelita June Hinds, 75, of Fort Collins, died Oct. 28, 2008 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Mrs. Hinds was born April 17, 1933, in Osage County, Kan., to Carl V. Benander and Daisy Cahill Benander. She moved to Fort Collins in 1957. Carmelita married Thomas E. Hinds on July 13, 1957, in Fort Collins. Carmelita was a homemaker, a member of...
Thelma Baker
Oct 28, 2008
Thelma Hazel Sear Baker of Fort Collins, passed away on Oct. 28, 2008 at the Sterling House. She was born Dec. 15, 1919, in Odessa, Neb., to George William Sear and Alma Hazel Hanley Sear. She married Francis James Baker on Dec. 27, 1941 in Kearney, Neb. before Francis left for service in World War II. They spent many years...
Theda Betz
Oct 23, 2008
Theda Betz, 77, died Oct. 23. Survivors include her daughter, Janet Betz and sister, Charlene Bradley Harmes. Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bohlender Funeral Chapel. Interment Grandview Cemetery. Contributions can be made to Theda Betz Memorial Fund.
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...
