Obituaries
Flora Wittwer
Oct 26, 2011
Obituary for Flora A. Wittwer Flora Adeline Wittwer was born on April 29, 1928, to Thomas and Ruth Roberts on the homestead in Meeker, Colo. Flora passed away October 26, 2011, surrounded by her family. She married the love of her life, Chester Ely Wittwer, June 8, 1947 in Glenwood Springs, Colo. Flora had a love of fishing and hiking...
Mary Perez
Oct 26, 2011
Obituary for Mary Helen Perez Mary Helen Perez, 46, died Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at Penrose-St. Francis Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A Funeral Service will be Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 10:00 A.M. at St. Peter - St. Rosa Catholic Church in Arboles. Father Douglas Hunt of St. Ignatius Catholic Church will be officiating. Burial will occur at Rosa...
Rodney Baulig
Oct 25, 2011
Obituary for Rodney H. Baulig Rodney Harold Baulig was born in Salem, Ore., Sept. 11, 1929, to Harold A. & Honor J. (Zell) Baulig. He graduated from Longview (Wash.)High School and served in the US Navy for nine years. He attended Oregon State University and graduated as an electrical engineer. While in the Navy, he married Jeannie Harris July 4,...
Richard Carleno
Oct 25, 2011
Obituary for Richard Q. Carleno Richard Quentin Carleno died on October 25, 2011. Richard died of metastatic disease peacefully at home in his own bed with his beloved cats Concho, Pixie, Angelo and Jazz with family and friends at his side. Richard was born September 1, 1945, to Yvonne and Benjamin Carleno, who preceded him in death. In 1952 the...
Delbert Cuthair SR.
Oct 24, 2011
Obituary for Delbert W. Cuthair Sr. Delbert W. Cuthair, Sr., passed on to the spirit world October 24, 2011. He passed on from natural causes, surrounded by his family at his home in Ignacio, Colo. Delbert was born April 15, 1951, in Ignacio. In 1970 he graduated from Ignacio High School, where he played basketball, football, and baseball. His friends...
Kevin Relaford
Oct 23, 2011
Obituary for Kevin L. Relaford Kevin Lester Relaford died Sunday, October 23, 2011, at his home in Durango. He was 59. Kevin was born October 14, 1952, in Oakland, Calif., the son of Howard and Barbara Relaford. He graduated from Peoria High School in Phoenix. He became a machinist, and he worked as an aerospace machinist for various companies. Kevin...
Mark Gallegos
Oct 23, 2011
Obituary for Mark Gallegos Durango native Mark Gallegos passed away in his sleep Sunday, October 23, 2011, of heart failure at his home in Durango. He was 61. Mr. Gallegos was born June 5, 1950, in Durango, the son of John and Matilda Gallegos. He graduated from Durango High School in 1969. He served in the U.S. Army and was...
Marjorie Jackson
Oct 19, 2011
Obituary for Marjorie A. Jackson Marjorie Ann Jackson died of ovarian cancer Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, at her home in Durango. She was 74. Marjorie was born July 5, 1937, in Bridgeport, Ill., the daughter of Thomas and Helen Doss. She had lived in Durango since 1965. She worked as a nurse's aide at Mercy Medical, Four Corners Health Care...
Mark Johnson
Oct 18, 2011
Obituary for Mark D. Johnson Ignacio resident Mark David Johnson died from complications of hypertension Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, at his home. He was 59. Mr. Johnson was born to Olen and Camille Johnson on July 8, 1952, in West Palm Beach, Fla. He graduated from Chaminade High School in Hollywood, Fla., where he was a first-team center for the...
Claudia Turner
Oct 17, 2011
Obituary for Claudia F. Turner Claudia Francis Turner, a long-time resident of Durango, age 91, passed away on October 17, 2011, in Durango, Colo. Claudia Francis Tucker was born to Charles Carson Tucker and Dura Anne (Campbell) Tucker on April 17, 1920, in Kansas City, Missouri, and moved to Atchison, Kansas, at two years of age. She was raised in...
Judith Whitlock
Oct 17, 2011
Obituary for Judith A. Whitlock Mrs. Judith Anne Whitlock, born Judith Anne Mitchell May 4, 1943, in Hillsboro, Ore., died October 17, 2011, in Durango, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She had lived in Durango for the past 13 years. She finished 11th grade in high school, and had an IQ of 155, and a keen interest in the sciences,...
Earl Strobel
Oct 16, 2011
Obituary for Earl W. Strobel Earl Strobel, born on January 22, 1917, passed away peacefully on October 16, 2011, at the age of 94, at his home in Bayfield, Colo. He was the seventh of twelve children born to John and Johanna Strobel on the family homestead in Alberta, Canada. The family later moved to a farm, where Earl grew...
Gerald Wilson
Oct 16, 2011
Obituary for Gerald R. Wilson Bayfield resident Gerald Russell Wilson died Sunday, October 16, 2011, at home. He was 60. Mr. Wilson was born Feb. 10, 1951, in Vancouver, Wash., son of Lloyd and Frances Wilson. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, and later became a carpenter. He and Cindy Cowger were married September 26, 2000....
Richard Macahan
Oct 16, 2011
Obituary for Richard C. Macahan Richard C. Macahan, born June 13, 1945, passed away on October 16, 2011, in Ignacio, at the age of 66. He died at home of complications from small cell lung cancer while recovering from prostate cancer. Richard served seven years in the Army during the Viet Nam war. He was a helicopter pilot and warrant...
Margie Lueth
Oct 16, 2011
Obituary for Margie E. Lueth Margie Elizabeth Lueth died Sunday, October 16, 2011, at Four Corners Health Care Center in Durango. She was 86. Margie was born May 15, 1925, in St. Cloud, Minn., daughter of Floyd and Margaret Bookey. She grew up in St. Cloud, and lived in Minneapolis for many years. In May 1998, she moved to Bayfield...
Arthur Albrecht
Oct 16, 2011
Obituary for Arthur A. Albrecht Arthur Albrecht died Sunday, October 16, 2011, in Durango, Colo. He was 89. Mr. Albrecht was born August 2, 1922, in Osborne County, Kansas, son of Henry and Emma Sophia (Pottberg) Albrecht. The family moved to the Animas Valley in Durango April 15, 1924. He enlisted in the military in September 3, 1942, and served...
Judith Sheffield
Oct 15, 2011
Obituary for Judith L. Sheffield Bayfield resident, Judith Sheffield, died of Alzheimer's disease and other complications on October 15, 2011, at Four Corners Health Care Center in Durango. Ms. Sheffield was born in Long Beach, Calif., on March 1, 1941, to Walter A. and Barbara D. Tebbetts, and was their first of two daughters. The family lived in the Los...
Harold McCoy
Oct 15, 2011
Obituary for Harold W. McCoy Harold Wallace McCoy died Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, at his home in Durango. He was 90. Mr. McCoy was born March 18, 1921, to Fred and Amee Zadell (Brown) McCoy at the family ranch on the south fork of Texas Creek outside Bayfield. He was one of seven siblings. Mr. McCoy attended the old Columbus...
Patricia Valencia
Oct 14, 2011
Obituary for Patricia F. Valencia Patricia Faye Valencia died Friday, October 14, 2011, in Colorado Springs, Colo. She was 71. Patricia was born March 17, 1940, in Telluride, Colo., daughter of Lafayette and Minnie Porterfield. She grew up in Telluride and came to Durango in 1958. She married Lloyd Valencia in 1956 in Aztec, N.M. She was employed by Durango...
Donna Wilber
Oct 12, 2011
Obituary for Donna L. Wilber Donna Louise Wilber, born November 16, 1946, in Vallejo, Calif., to Louise Reinhardt and Rudolph Gerald Sellers, passed away October 12, 2011, in Durango. She was raised in Durango, and graduated from Durango High School in 1964. She attended cosmetology school in Salt Lake City, Utah, and worked as a beautician for many years. She...
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