Obituaries

Jan 2, 2013

Terrance Kent Carr passed away Jan. 2, 2013 at Montrose Memorial Hospital after a short illness.  Born in Telluride on July 30, 1934 to Ralph and Marguerite Carr, He came to Montrose in 1938 from Norwood .  Terry was a real native of Western Colorado as all four of his grandparents were here before 1900.

Terry attended local schools graduating...

Dec 30, 2012

E. Ray Coffey passed away peacefully after battling complications from Alzheimer’s Disease on Dec. 30, 2012.  He was 87.  Eugene Ray Coffey was born on Oct. 12, 1925 in Austin, Colorado to Mary E. (Neff) and Oscar K. Coffey.  He graduated from Delta High School.  Ray served his country in the U.S. Navy as an electrician’s mate during World War...

Dec 14, 2012

Rosalie May Corey Haines, born October 10, 1906 to parents Gilbert L. (Dick) and Lulu M. Corey in Olathe, Colorado, passed away on December 14, 2012 in San Antonio, Texas.  She had just recently celebrated her 106th birthday.  Rosalie was the oldest girl in a family of eleven children.  She attended Olathe grade school and graduated from Olathe High School...

Feb 5, 1939

Marlys E. Mills peacefully passed on July 27, 2020. Marlys was born on February 5, 1939, to Elbert and Lillian (Sanders) Mills in Ada Minnesota.  She was the youngest of three children.

She moved to Colorado in 1968 with her children and second husband Gary Iverson. Through the years she worked as a bartender, in the accounting department of Montrose...

Feb 10, 1921

Born – July 27, 1921 in Olathe, Colorado.

Parents – Mittie and Lester Stevens.

Had one sister Mildred (deceased) 15 years older.

Attended schools in Olathe, Colorado, graduating in 1939 and Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, graduating in 1944. Teaching career began in 1941 at a two room rural school named Highland located 5 miles NW of Olathe (salary...

Mary Kauffman

 

I am Basque.  I was born on July 11, 1924, in the beautiful small village, of Nachitua in the Basque province of Vizcaya in Northern Spain, adjacent to the Bay of Biscay, not far from the Pyrenees Mountains.  My birth name was Mary Begonia Gorrono. My father John Gorrono was a shepherd, who immigrated to the United...

Alfred Bailey Collins, son of Everett and Stella Collins, has passed into God’s hands.  Bailey, as he preferred to be called, enjoyed the outdoors and raising Romagnola cattle and American Quarter horses.  Bailey is predeceased by his wife, Terri; and his two sisters, Lila and Darlene.  Bailey is survived by his two sons, Andrew and Bobby; his twin sister, Bernice;...

Roy White Jr. was born in Houston, Texas on September 28, 1936, to Roy and Evelyn White. He was an only child. His family moved to Chama, New Mexico in 1946 because of his father’s failing health. Roy went to school in Chama as his family was building a summer home on the Brazos River.

During this time, Roy had...

(Helen) Jean Davis passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on September 13, 2022.  Born in Greeley, CO in 1923 she enjoyed sharing her family legacy starting with her grandfather Bent Fine who started the Greeley Coca Cola Bottling works, and her other grandfather while Greeley Parks Commissioner oversaw Island Grove and other city parks.  Her father Arval Berry started...

Alex Paul Sokolik author of “One With Nature” passed away September 2023 at the age of 75 at his residence in Norwood CO. He is preceded in death by his parents Paul A. & Julia A. Sokolik and survived by his brother Paul A. (Anne) Sokolik.

Born in Essington PA and raised in Broomall PA. Also resided in New Zealand,...

On December 24th Jeffrey Alan Salazar passed away in his sleep in Ridgway Colorado. Jeff is survived by his mother, two brothers, three sons, two daughters, and his grandchildren. Jeff was 58 years old. Jeff, a Colorado native, had a passion for the mountains and loved being in “God’s Country.” During his youth Jeff often went into the mountains for...

RALPH EARL (LUTHER) WILLIAMS

Ralph Williams was born on New years Eve, December 31, 1932 to Ralph Bert Williams and Ruth Elizabeth (Fisher) Williams on a farm east of Delta, CO.  He was the 3rd of of 7 siblings. Ralph became the family gardener and loved to cook. He attended schools in Delta and graduated from Delta High School in...

Montrose Colorado resident Tom Doherty died on March 4th, 2021.  He was 86.

Tom was born in 1934 and grew up in Hoehne Colorado.  Tom met the love of his life in college in Fort Collins, and married Dorothy Prieskorn on June 11, 1955.

Tom and Dorothy loved square dancing, a hobby they first started in college. They were founding...

Montrose Colorado resident Tom Doherty died on March 4th, 2021.  He was 86.

Tom was born in 1934 and grew up in Hoehne Colorado.  Tom met the love of his life in college in Fort Collins, and married Dorothy Prieskorn on June 11, 1955.

Tom and Dorothy loved square dancing, a hobby they first started in college. They were founding...

CECIL W. REESE

A celebration of life will be held this Saturday, May 10th at 11:00 am. at the Brown Ranch Sales Office, Montrose, Colorado.  Signs will direct you from Townsend to Mahogany Drive.  Cecil and Dianne’s residence address is 3403 Mahogany Drive and only 2 lots west of the Sales Office.  The service will be followed with a catered...

Raonna Dolan Spradling

 

A Celebration of life will be Saturday, Aug 23rd at (time pending) at Crippin Funeral Home Chapel with a short graveside inurnment to follow the service at Grand View Cemetery, west of Montrose.

We were given a bright spirit to love us always. Now in heaven, Vern’s spirit and soul will always watch over us. Dad was a loving husband, father, grandpa, great grandpa, and friend. We will always love, miss, remember, and respect dad forever. Vern and Annie were married 60 years. Though they are parted, they will someday be together forever...

Ronald Allen Kirby

Ronald Allen Kirby was born October 10, 1946 at Fort Knox, Kentucky to Louis Ellis Kirby and Nellie Eleanor nee Casto Kirby.  Ronald is survived by three brothers: Richard of Elizabethtown, Kentucky; John of Lyman, Maine and James of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Ronald lived most of his early life at Fort Knox.  He graduated from Vine...