Edna Emmerling
Jan 8, 2015
Edna Olene Knutson Emmerling passed away peacefully on January 8, 2015 at her home in Hugo. Edna was born to Olavis and Emma Einertson Knutson on July 18, 1919 in Genoa, Colorado. Edna lived in the Genoa community all her young life. She attended school in a one room school north of Genoa. Edna was baptized and confirmed at Christ...
Alice Pridgen
Jan 8, 2015
Alice Marjorie Pridgen of Calhan, CO passed away January 8, 2015 at the age of 86. She had lived in Calhan, CO since June 1972. The last few years of her life had been spent at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Simla, CO. Alice was born October 6, 1928 in Escambia County, FL to parents Joseph Pasco Jernigan and...
Opal Klassen
Jan 3, 2015
Opal Ruth Fuhlendorf Klassen, age 85, passed away Saturday, January 3, 2015 at Cheyenne Manor Nursing Home in Cheyenne Wells, Colorado. Opal was born September 17, 1929, northeast of Vona, to Frederick and Chloe Fuhlendorf. She was the youngest of 11 children, having 5 brothers, Lloyd, Leroy, Dale, Wayne and Carl and 5 sisters, Violet, Mabel, Velma, Ada, Frances. Opal...
Edrie Oster
Dec 31, 2014
Edrie Avis Oster, 103, of Hugo, Colorado passed away at her home of 74 years on December 31, 2014, with family at her side. Edrie was born on May 19, 1911 in Elkader, Kansas to Baptist minister James Perry and Laura May (Ware) Summers, the third of six children. As a child she would ride to school on horseback, then...
Hazel Ransom
Dec 30, 2014
Hazel Thelma Ransom, age 99, passed away in Hugo, CO on December 30, 2014. Hazel was born in Greensburg, KS on January 23, 1915 to Roy and Laura Hope (Vierson) Ratliff. She had one older sister, Jessie, and a younger brother, Gerald. The family moved to Oregon when Hazel was around five years old and the girls attended school there....
Francis "Smokey" Boese
Dec 30, 2014
Francis Wayne Boese, 72 of Hugo, Colorado passed away on December 30, 2014 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Francis “Smokey” was born on January 7, 1942 in Alexander, Kansas to Elmer and Ethel (Morgan) Boese one of six children. He grew up and graduated from Alexander High School in 1960. Smokey moved to Colorado after meeting Frankie in 1962. The couple...
Donald Mckee
Dec 29, 2014
Biography Donald A. McKee, a newcomer to Burlington, passed away December 29, 2014. Donald was born to Harold A. McKee and Dorothy E. Husser in San Bernardino, California and resided in California until moving to Grand Junction, Colorado in the 1960’s. Donald served in the United States Navy during WWII, as an electronics instructor at Great Lakes, Illinois. He was...
Yvonne Gumb
Dec 26, 2014
Julia Yvonne Gumb of Cheyenne Wells, Colorado, passed away December 26, 2014 Yvonne was born October 14, 1926 in Independence, Kansas to Ervin Leo and Blanche Maria (Irwin) Kolb. She attended Mount Pearl school north of Carson and graduated from the Kit Carson High School class of 1944. Yvonne married Duane Kline May 1, 1945. To this union was born...
Audrey Wilks
Dec 24, 2014
Audrey Maxine Wilks, 94, of Simla, Colorado passed away on December 24, 2014 at the Simla Good Samaritan Care Center. Audrey was born on December 14, 1920 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Elmer and Theresa (AAmodt) Anderson one of six children. She attended and graduated from South High in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1938. Audrey married Ralph E....
Elizabeth "Liz" Jenkins
Dec 23, 2014
Longtime Bethune, Colorado resident, Elizabeth “Liz” Jean Sathmary Martin Jenkins passed away unexpectedly on December 23, 2014 at the Kit Carson County Memorial Hospital in Burlington. She was 70 years young. Liz was born on August 18, 1944 in Braddock, Pennsylvania to Ernest E. and Marjorie B. (Brown) Sathmary. She was one of five children born to this union. Liz...
Maxine Andrews
Dec 21, 2014
Maxine Pearl was the first child and only daughter of Albert & Lu Billenwillms. She was born on June 11,1922, in Burr Oak, Kansas. She departed this earthly life on December 21, 2014, after a brief illness. Maxine lived with her family in the Burr Oak community until 1926, when the family moved to Wichita, Kansas. In 1939, they again...
Helen Newcomb
Dec 20, 2014
Helen Marie (Shimek) Newcomb was born on March 7, 1929 in Bill, Wyoming to Edward and Dora (Mabin) Shimek. She was the fifth, of eleven children. Helen grew up in Niobrara County around Lusk, Wyoming. She remembers going to town to take care of an elderly lady as one of the jobs she had as a young girl. She graduated...
Kenneth Pickard
Dec 15, 2014
Kenneth Earl Pickard, 87, of Vona, Colorado passed on December 15, 2014 at Mount St. Francis Nursing Center in Colorado Springs, CO. Kenneth was born on November 8, 1927 in Hooker, Oklahoma to Jim and Marie Pickard. He was the fourth of six children. When Kenneth was two years old the family relocated to Colorado. Kenneth graduated from Vona High...
Jack Hamilton
Dec 15, 2014
Eldon Lee (Jack) Hamilton, 89, passed away on Dec. 15, 2014 at Lincoln Community Hospital in Hugo, CO. Jack was born on Sept. 1, 1925 in Knowles, OK to Dewey and Jessie (McAtee) Hamilton, one of six children born to this union. In August, 1937, the family decided to move to Windsor, CO. They made it to the Kingsbury Ranch,...
Donald "Gene" Brouwer
Dec 14, 2014
Donald Eugene Brouwer was the first born child of Jacob (Jake) and Lila (Loutzenhiser) Brouwer having entered this world on July 21, 1946 at the Flagler Hospital (?). As he grew he became affectionately known as “Donny Gene”. His parents came from large families and having lots of little cousins around, one of them evidently could not pronounce “Donny” as...
Doyle Weingardt
Dec 10, 2014
Doyle Weingardt, loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend, reached as his wife Mary Pat phrased it at the time, “that great hunting ground in the sky” in Scottsdale, Arizona on December 10, 2014. This is appropriate, as he loved hunting and is no doubt thrilled that he can finally get back to it. Although he battled his severe...
Maxine Clark
Dec 8, 2014
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Larry Pitzer
Dec 8, 2014
Frederick “Larry” Pitzer passed away on Monday, December 8, 2014 at 3:00 pm at the Medical Center of Aurora. Larry was born June 3, 1951 in Burlington, IA to Frederick W. and Thelma M. (Sinn) Pitzer. He was the oldest of three children, having a brother John and sister LeAnn. The family lived in Burlington until 1968, when they moved...
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