Alice "Earldeen" Jones
Mar 10, 2023
Alice Earldeen Jones (“Earldeen”) was a loving, caring wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother and friend. She left us peacefully the evening of March 10, 2023, with her three girls by her side after a bout with terminal cancer. She was 84 years old. She was born to Homer and June Webber on April 30, 1938. After graduating from Arvada High...
Naomi Corene Shuss
Mar 9, 2023
Naomi “Corene” Shuss, 89, formally of Olathe, CO, passed away peacefully on March 9, 2023 at Willow Tree Care Center in Delta, CO. Corene was born on Sept 7, 1933, as the only daughter of Harriet and Andrew McClintock. Corene, and her brothers Melvin and Norman, grew up on the family farm in Vilas, Colorado. She attended schools there and...
Edward Ray "Eddie" Tyler
Mar 8, 2023
Edward Ray "Eddie" Tyler age 79 of Olathe Colorado stepped one foot out of his truck and the other foot into heaven on March 8, 2023. He is survived by the love of his life, Christine Tyler, three sons, two daughters and ten grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two sons. Eddie enjoyed farming, hunting, fishing, working in his...
Douglas Jay Mattice
Mar 8, 2023
Douglas Jay Mattice of Hotchkiss, Colorado passed away on March 8, 2023, at the age of 70. Doug was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 31, 1952, to Sylvia and Donald Mattice. Doug was raised in West Allis, Wisconsin. In 1983 Doug visited his uncle on Rodgers Mesa and fell in love with Hotchkiss and the North Fork Valley. Doug...
Carol Ann Sears
Mar 7, 2023
We are sad to announce the passing of Carol Ann Sears (nee Clark) of Delta, CO. She died at age 72 on March7th, 2023. Carol passed away with her husband David by her side after a long courageous battle with cancer. She was preceded in death by her parents Catherine and Dean Hanes. Carol is survived by a family who...
Forrest Dean Plotner
Mar 6, 2023
Forrest Dean Plotner March 25, 1943 ~ March 6, 2023 Forrest Dean Plotner passed away at Horizon’s Care Center March 6th, 2023. He was 79 years old. Forrest was born on March 25th, 1943, to Juanita Ilene (Baker) and Ira Raymond Plotter in Las Vegas New Mexico. He grew up and graduated in the Cedaredge area and from Cedaredge High...
Michael "Mick" E. Baxter
Mar 5, 2023
Michael (Mick) Baxter was born in Denver, Colorado to Cecil D. Baxter (Iowa) and Katie L. Pomplun (Colorado). Mick was raised by his Grandparents in Morrison, Colorado where he and his buddy spent their every free moment in the mountains on horseback hunting, fishing, and exploring. Mick spent his youth with is self-adopted second family, the Woods, at the Jefferson...
William "Bill" Cary Porter
Mar 3, 2023
William Cary "Bill" Porter
May 8, 1953 ~ March 3, 2023
William Cary "Bill" Porter passed away at his residence on Friday, March 3rd, 2023, at the age of 69 years old.
Services will be graveside at, 10:00 a.m. Saturday, June 3 2023, at the Olathe, Colorado Cemetery.
Bill was born on May 8th, 1953, in Houston, Texas to Dorothy...
Grace Lynne Steele
Mar 1, 2023
After many years of fighting MS Grace Lynne Steele passed on to be with Jesus Wednesday, March 1st, at the Delta Health Hospital at the age of 72. Grace was born in Pueblo, Colorado the first of three kids to Joane (Warner) Smith and Charles Arthur Smith on June 14th, 1950. After a few years in Las Cruses, NM; they...
Mitcheal Duane Arndt
Feb 27, 2023
Mitcheal Duane Arndt December 27, 1956 ~ February 27, 2023 Mitcheal Duane Arndt passed away Monday, February 27th, 2023, at his residence in Delta, CO. He was 66 years old. Mitcheal was born to Alvis and Velma Arndt in Fruita Colorado on December 27th, 1956. He grew up and graduated from Thornton, Colorado High School in 1975. He went on...
Margo Phyllis Takacs
Feb 27, 2023
Margo Phyllis Takacs passed away peacefully on February 27, 2023 at her children’s home. She was 84 years old. Born Margo Mehas on February 14, 1939 to Constantine and Phyllis Mehas in Cincinnati Ohio, Margo moved to Hotchkiss in 1997 from Fairfax County Virginia with her husband Nick Takacs. She is survived by her daughter Diane Perry, son-in-law Jim Firor,...
Jackie Marolf
Feb 26, 2023
Jackie Marolf went to meet her Savior on February 26, 2023, and then what a joyful reunion with Harry, and her son Pat, her parents, three sisters, two brothers and a host of other family members and dear friends. She was born September 23, 1924, on a ranch outside of Maxwell, New Mexico. After graduating 8th grade from Red River...
Marilyn Ann Pipkin
Feb 25, 2023
Marilyn Ann (Heinen) Pipkin was called to her eternal home on Saturday, February 25, after relishing seventy-eight years of life and valiantly living with lung cancer for a year and a half. She was born on January 18, 1945 to Esther Alba (Baxter) Heinen and Eugene Anthony Heinen at Maxwell Field Army Air Base in Montgomery, Alabama, and was accompanied...
Shirls M Kaiser
Feb 24, 2023
Shirls M. Kaiser, 74, passed away peacefully on February 24th at St Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado surrounded by her family. She was born on November 30th, 1948 in Kremmling, Colorado to Earl and Estella (Bell) Kaiser. She graduated from Olathe High School and spent most of her life in Delta, Colorado where she worked in the medical field....
Jack Albert Skees
Feb 23, 2023
Jack Albert Skees passed away in Farmington, New Mexico on Thursday, February 23rd, 2023. He was 96 years old. Graveside funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, March 23, 2023 at the Nucla Cemetery, Nucla, CO. Jack was born on January 14, 1927 in Nucla, Colorado to Harriet “Hattie” Sadelia (Ross) and Martin Lorraine Skees. He would spend...
John Malcolm Loring Jr.
Feb 23, 2023
John Malcolm Loring Jr.
June 19, 1934 ~ February 23, 2023
John Malcolm Loring Jr. passed away at his home on the morning of February 23rd, 2023. He was 88 years old.
Services will be held 10:00 am Monday May 15th, 2023, at the Veterans Cemetery of Western Colorado, 2830 Riverside Parkway Grand Junction, Colorado.
John was...
Merlene Mae Bailey
Feb 22, 2023
Merlene Mae Bailey passed away at her residence in Austin, Colorado, on February 22nd, 2023. She was 84 years old. Services will be held on Monday, February 27th, 2023, at 10:00 am at the Taylor Funeral Service Chapel: 682 1725 Road, Delta, Colorado. Merlene was born on October 12th, 1938, to Ann Mae (Duffy) and Raymond Case in Grand Junction,...
Thomas Abeyta
Feb 21, 2023
Thomas Abeyta passed away unexpectedly at his residence in Grand Junction, Colorado, at the age of 62. Thomas was born October 27, 1960 in Delta, Colorado to Leo Abeyta and Toni (Sena) Abeyta. He was one of eight children. He was born and raised in Delta, Colorado and graduated from Delta High School in 1979. He then entered the Army...
Wanda Joanne Nichols
Feb 20, 2023
Wanda Joanne Nichols December 23, 1935 ~ February 20, 2023 W. Joanne Nichols passed away unexpectedly at Delta Health Hospital surrounded by her family on February 20th 2023. She was 87 years old. Joanne was born December 23, 1935 in Lincoln, Nebraska to Ora Jans and James Jensen. She was the youngest of seven children. W. Joanne married the love...
Robert Berg
Feb 18, 2023
Robert Berg June 28, 1947 ~ February 18, 2023 Robert Berg passed away Saturday, February 18th, 2023, at his residence in Delta, Colorado. He was 75 years old. Tribute visitation will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 2nd, 2023, at Taylor Funeral Service in Delta. Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, March 3rd, 2023, at St. Michael’s...
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