Nola Mangus
Apr 15, 2015
I was born March 6, 1925 to Arthur and Nellie Brooks and they named me Nola Faye Brooks. I am the second child of three and had an older brother named Elmer and a younger sister, Helen. We went to grade school in a country school in Yuma County 2 miles north from home. We walked to and from school...
Orva Briggs
Apr 14, 2015
Longtime Lincoln County resident, Orva Briggs, 59, of Hugo, Colorado passed away on April 14, 2015 at her home in Hugo. She was born to Orval Eugene and Zylpha U. (Snavley) Brown in Greeley, Colorado. Orva was in the middle of six girls, Orva’s nomadic family eventually settled in Kansas shortly after her birth, where she grew up until striking...
John Swarm
Apr 9, 2015
A Memorial Graveside service will be held at a later date. John Delbert Swarm, age 80, of Ramah, Colorado passed away April 9, 2015 in Colorado Springs, CO. John was born March 2, 1935 in Colorado Springs to Vernie Lester and Louisia Mae (Rutledge) Swarm the second of four children. John attended school in Fountain, CO. John married Norma Christine...
Viola Benson
Apr 1, 2015
Viola was born Sept. 25, 1921 in Cidar Glades Arkansas, to Daniel Monroe Caldwell and Ethel (Pitts) Caldwell. She was the third child born of six. Viola was seven the family moved to Colorado. They settled in the farming community of Byers. Viola went to a country school north of Byers where she went thru the 8th grade. She never...
Etta Ashcraft
Mar 30, 2015
Etta Fern Ashcraft, age 83, passed away on Monday, March 30, 2015 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. Etta-Fern was the born on July 15, 1931 in Copeland, Kansas, the daughter of Spencer and Jessie Shuman Glover. She was the fifth of nine children. A lifetime resident of the Simla - Matheson – Limon area of...
Balyn Brent
Mar 28, 2015
Balyn Keen Brent, 65, of Arriba, Colo., passed away of cancer complications on March 28, 2015 in Denver with his devoted family by his side. He was the first of four sons born to Kimel and Wanda (Crom) Brent on September 1, 1949. When Balyn was young, his parents moved north of Arriba to begin farming. Balyn gave his life...
Glen Lane
Mar 26, 2015
Glen Alden Lane, 90, of Hugo, Colorado passed away on March 26, 2015 at the Lincoln Community Care Center, with family at his side. Glen was born to Glen Irwin and Lila (Smith) Lane on June 12, 1924 in Phillipsburg, Kansas one of five children. He grew up graduating from Phillipsburg High School in 1942. Glen went on to Detroit...
Rose Gibson
Mar 25, 2015
Burlington, Colorado and former Portales, New Mexico resident, Rose A. Gibson passed away on March 25, 2015 at the Grace Manor Care Center in Burlington. She was 80 years old. Rose was born on October 12, 1934 in Grady, New Mexico to William L. Box and Mary Catherine Kos. She was one of six children born to this union. She...
Mary Simon
Mar 23, 2015
Mary Lynne (Miley) Simon was born in Jackson, Mississippi on September 4, 1932 to Houston George Miley and Mary Elizabeth (Bess Hays) Miley. She left us heading for heaven peacefully in her sleep March 23, 2015. Mary met the love of her life, Doug, at the age of 14 in 1946 in San Angelo, Texas. Mary graduated from Limon High...
Harry Hansen
Mar 22, 2015
Harry John Hansen was a first generation Dane, the youngest of three children born to John Hansen, who immigrated to the US from Denmark in 1907 and Ella Petersen, the daughter of Danish immigrants. To this union were three children, Mary, Vera, and Harry. Harry was born on the family homestead north of Genoa April 24,1922. Harry and Daleen had...
Mabel Smith
Mar 17, 2015
Mabel Elizabeth Smith was born on March 2, 1918, to August and Katie Feyh . She married Milton H. Smith on June 7, 1939, in Alma, Kansas, and they moved to Cheyenne Wells, Colorado in 1948. To this marriage, seven children were born: Larry (Sylvia) Smith of Cheyenne Wells, Colorado; Ray (Tricia) Smith of Denver, Colorado; Barb Kernan of Cheyenne...
Billie Clapper
Mar 15, 2015
Lucy, also known as Billie Clapper, was born in Wright, Kansas on March 11, 1924 to Oscar and Gertrude Vogel Wolf. She had eight sisters and one brother. Billie was a busy little gal all her life. When she was 12 yrs old, she helped take care of her Mother who had cancer and passed away when Billie was 14....
Milton Lamm
Mar 12, 2015
Milton Charles Lamm, age 96, of Ramah, Colorado passed away March 12, 2015 at his home. He was born on October 26, 1918 to Jay Denny and Louisa Melinda (Hofer) Lamm. He joined four older half brothers, Walter, John, Gideon Carner, and Grover Sheldon Lamm. A year and a half later he was join by a fifth brother, Virgil. After...
Eileen Weis
Mar 5, 2015
Eileen Weis, 74, from Griswold, Iowa, passed away peacefully after living with a chronic illness for several years. Eileen was the second of four children born to Clyde & Emma (McCormick) Mullis, on August 29, 1940. She enjoyed growing up in Burlington with her brothers & sister, turning cartwheels down the street, fishing with her dad, beating up boys and...
Della Lange
Mar 5, 2015
Della was born June 3rd, 1933, in Haddam, Kansas. Her parents, Walter Lee (Jigg) Simon and Edna Shirley had pitched their tent under the cottonwoods in anticipation of making the local rodeo. Christened Effie Burdella, she was the younger sister of Earl and Francis and eight years later an older sister to Ruby. The family continued their nomadic existence, traveling...
Dalton Montgomery
Mar 4, 2015
D.J. Montgomery, age 82 , of Rush, Colorado, died March 4, 2015 at his home. He was born on August 15, 1932 in Cross Plains, TX to the late Lula Price Montgomery and Lee Roy Montgomery. D.J. was the owner/operator of ABC Trim in Colorado Springs for over 35 years and a cattle rancher. Prior to that he was an...
Twila Gorton
Mar 4, 2015
Twila Arleene Gorton was born to Coleman Elmer and Mattie Belle Murphy on December 28, 1923 on the Homestead south of Seibert, Colorado. She passed away on March 4, 2015 at the home of Randy & Charlene Gorton south of Vona, Colorado. Twila was the eighth child of ten children. She grew up on the farm riding horses, herding cattle,...
Bernice Higgins
Feb 24, 2015
Bernice Eads Higgins was born February 12, 1923 in Corlena, TX to Benjamin Franklin Eads and Lottie Leona Muse. She was born a twin with Bernard Eads, her siblings were; B.F., Mae, Ione, Bernice & Bernard, and Bill. She grew up on a farm in the panhandle of Texas and her father and B.F. ran the elevator in Texline. As...
Barbara Weatherspoon
Feb 24, 2015
Barbara Marie Weatherspoon, 90, Junction City, KS, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 at Valley View Senior Life. Barbara was born May 5, 1924 at Collyer, KS, the daughter of Gottlieb and Eva (Keller) Heinrich. She was united in marriage to Claude Williams in Goodland, KS, and 3 children were born to this union; Albert, Cecil, and Julia. They...
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