Ralph LaVern Hopping
Nov 11, 2025
Ralph LaVern Hopping peacefully went into the arms of Jesus on November 11th, 2025 at Colorow Care Center surrounded by family.
Ralph was born on Sunday July 5th, 1936 to Webb and Josephine (Jackson) Hopping.Ralph was the youngest of five- four brothers and one sister. Ralph’s father passed when he was three years old, his older brothers Joe and Francis gladly...
Dennis Sitton
Nov 9, 2025
Dennis Sitton, 73, passed away peacefully at his home on November 9, 2025.
A celebration of life will be held at a later date.
Dennis was born on October 26, 1952, in Louisiana, Missouri, to Myrtle Tilly and Paul Sitton. In 1974, he met the love of his life, Diane, and together they shared 51 wonderful years of marriage.
Dennis and Diane made...
Linda Sue Wisecup
Nov 7, 2025
“Wild roved an Indian maid,
Bright Alfarata,
Where flow the waters
Of the blue Juniata.
Strong and true my arrows are
In my painted quiver,
Swift goes my light canoe
Adown the rapid river.
“Bold is my warrior good,
The love of Alfarata,
Proud wave his sunny plumes
Along the Juniata.
Soft and low he speaks to me,
And then his war-cry sounding
Rings his voice in thunder loud
From height to height resounding.
“So sang...
Renee Robinson
Nov 7, 2025
Renee Robinson was called home to her Savior on November 7th, 2025. She was born Gloria Renee Imlay to Loran and Gloria Imlay on December 3rd, 1947, in Oxnard, California. If you were to call her “Gloria,” you would be scolded. Renee and her sister Claudia were initially raised in Oregon and Arizona, before finally landing in Chula Vista, California,...
Robert Wilton Chambers
Oct 31, 2025
Robert Wilton Chambers was born on May 14.1939, in Canyon City, Colorado and passed away on October 31,2025, in Delta, Colorado.
Robert spent the first 12 years of his life in in Canyon City, then moved with his parents, Harry and Elnor, to Delta, then to Montrose, where he lived until age 16. He then moved with his mother to Denver...
John Duane Cole
Oct 31, 2025
John Duane Cole passed away October 31, 2025 at Horizons Care Center, Eckert. He was 76.
John (Pappa John) was born in Delta Colorado on January 12, 1949 to Brice and Evelyn Cole. He graduated from Delta High School in 1967. He enlisted in the United States Army at 18 and spent time in Vietnam, Alaska as well as Tennessee. John...
Marvin Lee Carr
Oct 29, 2025
Marvin Lee Carr Obituary
December 15, 1946-October 29, 2025
Marvin Lee Carr was born December 15, 1946, in Grand Junction, Colorado, to James “Jamie” and Irene (Livingston) Carr. He passed on October 29, 2025, at Delta Health of multiple health challenges surrounded by his loving family. The family was blessed by the community of caregivers in Grand Junction, Delta, and Montrose and...
Glen Vestal Hockett
Oct 28, 2025
Glen V. Hockett passed away at home on October 28, 2025. He was 94 years old. He was born September 13, 1931, to Merl and Marieta Hockett in Grand Junction, CO.
He met Shirley McCoy in Grand Junction, and he cut her out of the herd. They were married February 15, 1953, and celebrated 72 anniversaries together. They made Crawford, CO...
Joseph James Stroh
Oct 28, 2025
In Memory of Joseph James Stroh
Joseph James Stroh of Hotchkiss Colorado passed away at St. Mary’s Memorial Hospital on October 28, 2025.
Joe was born on March 19, 1979, in Grand Junction, Colorado to John and Jeannie (Patterson) Stroh. He graduated from Hotchkiss High School in 1997. Upon graduation Joe attended Colorado School of Mines and later University of Northern Colorado...
Patsy Lee Huffman
Oct 27, 2025
Patricia Lee Smith was born March 30, 1945 in Craig Colorado. Surrounded by her beloved family, Patsy passed away on Monday October 27, 2025 at 80 years young.
Mom/ Gigi never wanted a traditional funeral; she did not want people standing around crying. Instead, she wanted a celebration of life. A viewing will be held on November 6, 2025 and November...
Clyde Leslie Renfrow Jr.
Oct 27, 2025
Les Renfrow of Delta entered into his eternal rest on Monday, October 27, 2025. He had been a patient at Colorow Care Center in Olathe since July and died from complications of Parkinson’s Plus Disease. Family members were at his bedside at his passing.
Les Renfrow was born Clyde Leslie Renfrow, Jr. to Clyde Leslie and Mildred Arlene (Winters) Renfrow on...
Linda Lee Driscoll
Oct 26, 2025
Linda Lee Driscoll of Hotchkiss passed away peacefully on October 26, 2025. She was 84 years old.
Linda was born on September 16, 1941, in Paonia to Clarence and Barbara (Powell) Endsley. She spent her childhood growing up on Hanson Mesa in her family home that was built by her grandfather.
She married Larry Driscoll in April of 1958. Linda spent almost...
Olinda Louise Patzer (Deines)
Oct 24, 2025
Our beloved wife, mother and grandmother, Olinda Louise Patzer (Deines), passed away peacefully at home in Cedaredge, Colorado on October 24, 2025. She was 89 years old.
Olinda was the heart of our home and family. She was married for 57 years to her soulmate, Erich Patzer. They together raised two children, Stacey (55), and Lisa Marie (52), and were instrumental...
Martha Ellen Lampton
Oct 24, 2025
Beloved mother and grandmother, Martha “Marty” Ellen Lampton, passed away peacefully at her home in Cedaredge, Colorado, on October 24, at the age of 76, surrounded by her loving family. Marty had been under the compassionate care of HopeWest Hospice since August.
Marty was born in Cortez, Colorado, to William and Helen Phipps. In 1967, she married the love of her...
Michael & Shirley Zubowicz
Oct 23, 2025
Shirley E. Zubowicz, of Delta, CO, passed away on October 23, 2025 at HopeWest Hospice in Grand Junction. She was 86 years old. She was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Michael J. Zubowicz, on May 2, 2025. He was 78 years old.
Shirley was born in Lewes, DE to F. Otto and Dorothy M. (White) Vogl. She...
Weylin Wendell Johnson
Oct 23, 2025
Weylin Wendell Johnson, age 51, of Delta, Colorado, passed away on October 23, 2025.
He was born on May 17, 1974 to Wendell and Lyndall “Joyce” Johnson. Weylin grew up in Delta, where he graduated from Delta High School in 1993. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Business from Colorado State University.
On July 17, 2010,...
Mitchel Lee Ammons
Oct 22, 2025
Mitchel Lee Ammons November 22, 1938 – October 22, 2025 Mitchel “Mitch” Lee Ammons, age 86, passed away peacefully at his home in Cedaredge, Colorado, on October 22, 2025, following a four-year decline in health. His devoted wife of 25 years, Tina Ammons, was by his side. No formal services are planned at this time. A graveside memorial will be...
Susan S. Hansen
Oct 21, 2025
Susan S. Hansen passed away on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at her home in Crawford, Colorado. She was 82 years old.
Susan was born in Portland, Maine to Eleanor and Wallace Soule. She grew up swimming and sailing on the Falmouth Foreside and attended Waynflete School in Portland. She completed her undergraduate education at Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She later...
Dolores Ann "Dee" Burns
Oct 21, 2025
Dolores Ann “Dee” Burns was born on December 20, 1935, in Gillette, Wyoming, the second of four children born to Robert E. and Velma D. (Wintermute) Wright. She was raised on the family ranch in Campbell County, where they raised cattle, horses for ranch work, and sheep.
The ranch was thirty-five miles from town, so Dee attended a rural one-room school...
Jack Wayne Hunt
Oct 20, 2025
Jack W. Hunt passed away October 20, 2025, one month past his 90th birthday, in Delta Memorial Hospital. He had lived at home in Hotchkiss Colorado, up until his hospitalization.
Jack's family was in the process of moving from Kansas, during the dustbowl days, to a better life, when he was born in Pritchett, Colorado. They settled in the North Fork...
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