Graydon (Jack) Durham, Jr.
Oct 16, 2022
Graydon “Jack” Durham, Jr.
How do you encapsulate the life of a beloved family hero in the sterile environment of an obituary? How do you let people know that someone who was so loved and admired is no longer present in your lives and how deeply that cuts? We called him Jack, Dad, Granddad; but to the rest of the...
Paul T. Sarnstrom
Oct 15, 2022
Paul T. Sarnstrom
December 3, 1951 ~ October 15, 2022
Paul T. Sarnstrom was born in Wisconsin on December 3, 1951, to Howard and Doris (Wamsley) Sarnstrom.
A longtime resident of Montrose, Paul passed away on Saturday, October 15, 2022, at Montrose Memorial Hospital, he was 70 years old.
He was an accomplished botanist, silversmith, an expert in applications of...
Molly Bess Johns (Atchison)
Oct 12, 2022
Molly Johns
December 31, 1939 – October 12, 2022
Molly Bess Johns, age 82, passed away October 12, 2022. Molly was born December 31, 1939, in Oregon City, Oregon to Joseph and Ruby Atchison. Molly grew up in Canby, Oregon and graduated from Canby Union High School. She attended and graduated from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. There, she...
Donna Jeanne Wade
Oct 9, 2022
Donna Jeanne Wade
January 21, 1949 – October 9, 2022
Beloved Mother and Nana
The lord has called our beloved Mother, Sister and Nana to Heaven and she will be greatly missed. We can rest knowing, that she will no longer be in pain, but in peace inside the golden gates. Happy again, as she meets the ones she loved...
Bernadette Marie Box
Oct 7, 2022
Bernadette Marie Box
August 24, 1949 -October 7, 2022
Bernadette was born in Durango, Colorado the third child of Joseph and Evelyn Caranta, deceased. She graduated from Durango High School in 1967 and attended Barnes Business College in Denver, Colorado. There she lived in a co-ed dorm where she met Lionel Box, her future husband. They were married in January...
Jon David Rardin
Oct 4, 2022
Jon David Rardin
Jon David Rardin passed away to his heavenly home on October 4, 2022. Jon was surrounded by his loving family in his Montrose home of 41 years after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.
Jon was born on November 15, 1942, at the family farm near Parkston, SD to parents Wesley Rardin and Mabel Taylor Rardin. He...
Pattie Lou Simons (Philebaum)
Sep 29, 2022
Pattie Lou Simons beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother was called home to heaven September 29, 2022 at her home in Montrose, CO. Born to Delmer and Rachel Philebaum on September 14, 1938 in Kokomo, IN. Pattie graduated from Portland HS class of “57” and married her HS sweetheart, Dwight Simons, on April 20,1957 before he enlisted in the army....
Wanda Jean Larue (Wright)
Sep 29, 2022
Wanda Jean LaRue was born February 5, 1939 in the family home belonging to her parents O. A. and Fanny Wright of Paris, Arkansas. She was welcomed into the family by two older brothers, Lindell and Bobby. Together they all later welcomed three additional siblings into the family–Lou Ann, Jim and Anna. The family moved around quite a bit by...
Frances Louise Belair-Hamacher
Sep 27, 2022
FRANCES LOUISE BELAIR-HAMACHER
April 2, 1945 – September 27, 2022
Frances Louise was born to Dorothy Louise (Barnes) and Howard Miles April 2nd 1945 in Dodge City Kansas. Fran passed away from complications due to cancer at Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center September 27,2022 with family by her side.
She was the oldest child of 10. During her young years,...
William (Bill) Joseph Koch
Sep 27, 2022
William (Bill) Joseph Koch joined his wife in Heaven on September 27, 2022. He was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 23, 1937 to Joseph and Erma Koch (Haas) and grew up in Haskins, Ohio.
Bill served as an Air Force radio operator in Germany. Upon his return, he attended BGSU and married his high school sweetheart, Nancy Browne....
John Joseph Deltondo
Sep 23, 2022
John Joseph Deltondo, age 88, of Montrose, entered into eternal rest on September 23, 2022, at Mantey Heights Care Center in Grand Junction, Colorado where he had been residing since July of 2022 under Hospice care. Sadly, John had battled dementia for the last several years of his life.
John was a native resident of Colorado, born on December 27,...
Eleanor Mae Hoffman (White)
Sep 23, 2022
Our cherished Mother, Grandmother & Great Grandmother, Eleanor Mae Hoffman, passed away on September 23, 2022, at St. Mary’s Medical Center from complications of a fall. Her children and grandchildren surrounded her. She has been reunited with the love of her life, who left this earth only a few months ago.
Eleanor was born in St. Anthony, Idaho, on Oct...
Elizabeth (Betty) Van Liere
Sep 23, 2022
Ninety-eight-year-old Elizabeth (Betty) Van Liere was born in Holland, Michigan on 11/15/1923 and passed away 09/23/2022 in Montrose, Colorado following a brief illness. She was surrounded by family, deeply loved, and left a tremendous void.
Betty was excited to go home to the loving arms of her Christ Jesus and be rewarded by His embrace!
Betty was preceded in death...
Lorraine (Marti) Hahn (Martinson)
Sep 21, 2022
Lorraine “Marti” Hahn passed away on September 21, 2022 in Montrose, CO surrounded by her family. Lorraine was born in Queens, NY on February 27, 1946.
Lorraine was preceded in death by her parents Martin Martinson and Lorraine Martinson and her beloved husband Bernard Hahn. She is finally rejoining the love of her life, Bernard Hahn, who passed in 2000....
Suzanne (Suzie) Shelley (Gardner)
Sep 20, 2022
Suzanne Shelley
With unbearable sadness, but what comes with that is great relief, Mother, Mom, Ma left us Tuesday morning and was quickly reunited with our earthly Father, having been separated due to his untimely death March 6, 1999. She will also be with our beloved Grandma, her mother and above all, Mom, is now with our Lord and Savior,...
Nancy Ann Crawford (Mclain)
Sep 18, 2022
Nancy Ann Crawford
6/14/1945-9/18/2022
Nancy Ann Crawford, age 77, passed away peacefully in her home on Sunday September 18th, 2022. She was surrounded by loved ones and her beloved animals. She was born June 14th, 1945, in Canon City, CO to Jack and Louise McLain. She was raised on a cattle ranch in Parlin, CO with her brothers Carl and...
August (Augie) George Nicolas
Sep 17, 2022
August George “Augie” Nicolas, 88, of Montrose, a prominent rancher in Montrose and Gunnison Counties, died Sept. 17, 2022, in Grand Junction from complications following surgery.
Visitation will be from 10:30 a.m. until noon on Friday, Sept. 23, at Crippin Funeral Home, Montrose. There will be a graveside service at 1 p.m. on Friday at Grand View Cemetery with Pastor...
John Merritt King
Sep 17, 2022
John Merritt King of Montrose, CO passed away on September 17, 2022, in Montrose, CO. John was born in Montrose to Dwain and Marilyn King on May 7, 1960. He graduated from Olathe High School in 1978 and completed a course at the Delta-Montrose Voc-Tech in Diesel Mechanics. He grew up and enjoyed working on the family farm until it...
Catherine (Kitty) Louise Geesing (Tripler)
Sep 16, 2022
Catherine Louise “Kitty” Geesing of Montrose died peacefully at Valley Manor Care Center on September 16, 2022; she was 84.
Kitty was born July 28, 1938, in Montrose to Bernard and Lucile (Morris) Tripler. She spent her childhood in Montrose and Grand Junction, CO, graduating from Grand Junction High School with the class of 1956.
Kitty met the love of...
Betty J Ellis (Ives (Marah))
Sep 15, 2022
Betty J. Ellis (Ives)(Marah), age 87 passed away September 15, 2022 at her home comfortably in Montrose, Colorado. Betty was born at her grandparent’s home (Fred and Arta Cole-Deceased), on Smith Street in Fort Collins, Colorado on October 13, 1934. Her parents (Maryann Cole and Allen lves Deceased) were from Sundance, Wyoming. The family later relocated to Eckert Colorado where...
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