Obituaries

Donna "Dee" Louise Brown Kenimer

Donna "Dee" Louise Brown Kenimer

Sep 7, 2024

Donna (Dee) Louise Brown Kenimer, of Montrose, CO, age 77, passed away in the comforts of her own home on September 7, 2024, with her family around her after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. 

Dee was born on October 18, 1946, to Rex and Mildred (Hansen) Brown in Denver, CO. Dee graduated in 1964 from Pattonville High School in Missouri. She...

Ronald Joseph Luttrell

Ronald Joseph Luttrell

Sep 7, 2024

Ronald (Ron) Joseph Luttrell, age 86 passed away on Saturday September 7, 2024. Ron was born in Melrose Iowa on October 27th 1937, the middle of nine children born to Vincent and Ann Luttrell. The family lived in Albia and Melrose IW, Pilot Grove MO before moving to Montrose CO the summer of 1955. Ron attended Montrose High School where...

Bryce Walker Deines

Bryce Walker Deines

Sep 3, 2024

Bryce Walker Deines, 23, died on September 3rd, 2024

In a tragic dirt bike accident, doing what he loved most, braap-ing it up. 

Bryce was born on February 17, 2001 to Shane Leroy Deines and Amie Lynn Middleton in Montrose, CO. Bryce graduated high school in 2019, then went to college at Lincoln tech in Denver where he graduated for welding. 

Bryce is...

Irene Phyllis Snyder

Irene Phyllis Snyder

Sep 1, 2024

Irene Phyllis Snyder, 91, of Norwood Colorado, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on September 1, 2024.



Irene Phyllis Skelton Snyder, known by most as Phyllis and affectionately nicknamed Squirt by her husband Raymond, was born on August 22, 1933 in Norwood, Colorado to Lothan and Louise Skelton. During Phyllis’ childhood, the family moved to Uravan and Nucla after her...

Donna Marie Smith Marolf

Donna Marie Smith Marolf

Sep 1, 2024

Donna Marie Smith Marolf 

June 28, 1935 – Sept. 1, 2024

Donna passed away at her ranch home in Montrose, CO on Sept 1, 2024, surrounded by her loving family. Donna was born June 28, 1935, to Jack and Mae Smith in Pea Green (Delta) Colorado. She was second of seven children. She married her childhood friend Edwin Marolf on Sept 4,...

Talon James Barrier

Talon James Barrier

Aug 31, 2024

Talon James Barrier (ZIP)

Talon J Barrier was born on Nov 5, 1998, and sadly passed away, at the young age of 25, on Aug 31, 2024.

Born in Grand Junction, Co to Robert Barrier and Shyla Adamson, Talon was a stubborn kid who loved to smile and turned into a young man that could make anyone around him smile. Talon was...

Robert "Bob" Eugene Murphy

Robert "Bob" Eugene Murphy

Aug 30, 2024

Robert (Bob) Eugene Murphy – June 17, 1946 – August 30, 2024

Robert (Bob) Eugene Murphy was born on June 17, 1946, in Chicago Heights Illinois, to George and Dorothy Murphy. Bob died peacefully at home, in Redvale, Colorado, surrounded by his loving family. Bob is proceeded in death, by both of his parents, his wife Mary, some siblings, his grandson...

Leona F. Scarbrough Davis

Leona F. Scarbrough Davis

Aug 28, 2024

Leona Scarbrough Davis, born August 31, 1938, and fondly known for her love of saying she was born on the last day of the August, passed away on August 28, 2024, just shy of her 86th birthday. Leona was born in Redvale, CO, to Vernon and Marian Houser and attended school in Norwood. On July 11, 1956, she married the...

Richard L. Hayes

Richard L. Hayes

Aug 27, 2024

Richard L. Hayes – December 26, 1938 – August 27, 2024

Richard L. Hayes, 85, of Montrose, CO passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, at his home with his family by his side. Richard was born in Washington, Iowa.

Richard was employed as an Aggregate Superintendent by Granite Construction to build the Ridgway Dam.

Richard is survived by his Wife, Phyllis Hayes;...

Joseph Verald Mooney

Joseph Verald Mooney

Aug 25, 2024

Joseph Verald Mooney, age 77, of Montrose, Colorado, passed away on Sunday, August 25, 2024 at his home. Joe was born in Lincoln, Illinois on May 29, 1947 and graduated from Farmington High School, Illinois. He was the son of Verald and Wanda Mooney. Joe is survived by his wife, LaDonna, son and daughter, Darrin and Amanda, his two sisters,...

Bernice M. Ruby (Mulik)

Bernice M. Ruby (Mulik)

Aug 23, 2024

Bernice M. (Mulik) Ruby, 83, died peacefully on August 23, 2024 in Montrose, CO, after suffering a stroke. Originally from McAdoo, PA, Bernice was born on July 30, 1941 to John and Mary (Malega) Mulik and graduated from McAdoo High School as valedictorian of her class in 1959. She obtained a degree in Medical Technology in 1961 and worked for...

Billie Rae Whitfield

Billie Rae Whitfield

Aug 22, 2024

 

Billie Rae Whitfield of Montrose Colorado, 95, took the hand of Jesus on August 22, 2024, while residing at Colorow Care Center in Olathe, Colorado.

 

Born December 30, 1928, at Blackwell, Oklahoma. Billie Rae Whitfield was daughter to Ray and Leona (Million) Weaver. She spent her childhood and attended school in Boise City, Oklahoma, graduating in a class of 12 in...

Sally Lu Senger

Sally Lu Senger

Aug 22, 2024

Sally Lu Senger, was born March 23rd 1938 in Winonna Minnesota to Chalmer and Pearl Johnson. She passed away on August 22,2024 at Colorow Care Center.

Sally grew up and went to high school in Cheyenne, WY. She later earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Arizona State University. She loved the heat in Arizona and made many friends there. Sally...

David "Dave" Parker

David "Dave" Parker

Aug 19, 2024

David "Dave" Parker was born June 7, 1933, in Ansley Nebraska to Lemuel and Alma Parker. Dave was the third of seven children.

He was raised on a small family farm near Broken Bow Nebraska. As a young adult he traveled around Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Kansas working several jobs, including a bakery where he met Marcella Urban. This was the beginning...

Smiles C. Dunn

Smiles C. Dunn

Aug 18, 2024

Smiles C. Dunn was born in 1928 in Vernon, Texas. Her parents talked so much about how pretty her smiles were that the nurses thought that was her name and that is what ended up on her birth certificate. Her family moved to Dallas where she spent her teenage years and graduated from Crozier Tech High school. She fell in...

Edward Lee Trollinger

Edward Lee Trollinger

Aug 16, 2024

Edward Lee Trollinger of Montrose, Colorado, passed away on August 16, 2024. He was born April 28, 1958 in Aurora, Colorado to Don and Edith Trollinger and had one brother, Heinz (Sandy) Janke. Ed spent his early childhood throughout the world due to his father’s Air Force deployments, but later settled in Cheyenne, Wyoming where he graduated from Cheyenne Central...

Donald Lee Jackson

Donald Lee Jackson

Aug 16, 2024

Col. Donald L. Jackson

Don Jackson died Friday, August 16th, 2024, in Montrose Memorial Hospital. Born on May 12th, 1941, in Olathe, Colorado, to Raymond Jackson and Savannah Robertson Jackson. In the spring of 1943, the family purchased the small farm just east of Olathe where Don grew up. He attended Olathe Grade School and graduated from Olathe High School.

After initially...

Claudia Alix Magnuson

Claudia Alix Magnuson

Aug 13, 2024

June 22, 1946 – August 13, 2024

Claudia Alix Magnuson passed away peacefully at the age of 78 on August 13, 2024, at her beloved home in Montrose, Colorado.

She was preceded in death by her parents Clarence (Claus) Magnuson and Lillian (Krohn) Magnuson, her sister Karen Johnson, and her granddaughter Bridget Cable. She leaves her sister Greta Trott and husband Kenneth,...

Allen Paul Johannessen

Allen Paul Johannessen

Aug 12, 2024

Allen Paul Johannessen completed his earthly journey on August 12, 2024, and has gone to a much-deserved rest in the arms of Jesus. It was a long and often difficult journey, but thanks to Touch of Care for all their love, care and support. 

 Allen was born on May 26, 1938, in Clear Lake, Iowa to Paul and Mandella Amundson Johannessen....

Joanne (Joann) Valencia

Joanne (Joann) Valencia

Aug 11, 2024

Joanne (Joann) Valencia, 69, of Montrose, Colorado, passed away unexpectedly but quietly in her sleep on August 11th, 2024. She was born on December 23, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois.

Joanne is survived by her husband Henry Valencia, her son John (April) Rachel of Myrtle Beach, SC, daughter Pauline (Brian) Taylor of Demotte, IN, sisters Penny Schuette of Largo, FL, Patricia Luka...