Marjorie Grace Welch
Oct 13, 2010
MARJORIE GRACE WELCH A Celebration of Life gathering will be held for lifelong Dolores resident Marjorie Grace Welch from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, October 22 at the Dolores Public Library. Memorial contributions may be made in Marjorie's name to the Dolores State Bank. The fund will be used to assist the Dolores Elementary School where her great-grandsons, Ryan...
Robert Joe Leigh
Oct 10, 2010
ROBERT JOE LEIGH Funeral services for lifelong Cortez resident Robert Joe Leigh will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, October 19 at the Ute Mountain American Legion Post #75. Burial will follow at Cortez Cemetery. Visitation has been scheduled for Tuesday morning from 9 a.m. to service time at the Legion. Joe was born on November 2, 1931 in...
Clyde B. Larsen
Oct 6, 2010
CLYDE B. LARSEN Graveside services for longtime Cortez resident Clyde B. Larsen will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, October 8 at Cortez Cemetery. Clyde was born April 6, 1928 in Bicknell, Utah. He passed away at Southwest Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at the age of 82. On November 24, 1964 Clyde married Frances Irene Stoddard...
Leova Gallegos Brinkerhoff
Oct 3, 2010
LEOVA GALLEGOS BRINKERHOFF Funeral Mass for lifelong Cortez resident Leova Gallegos Brinkerhoff will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, October 7 at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Cortez. Interment will follow at Summit Ridge Cemetery. A Rosary will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, October 6 at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Dolores. Leova was...
William Henry "Bill" Head
Oct 2, 2010
WILLIAM HENRY “BILL” HEAD The family of Bill Head will be present at Ertel Funeral Home on Friday, October 8 from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. They request the presence of Bill's friends to share stories and memories of this beloved man, businessman and community member. William Henry “Bill” Head, 82, passed away at Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez on...
James Donald "Don" Kohler
Sep 30, 2010
JAMES DONALD “DON” KOHLER James Donald “Don” Kohler died Thursday, Sept.30, 2010 at The Mancos Valley Inn. He was 86. Graveside services will be held at Greenmount Cemetery in Durango, Colo. at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, October 4, 2010. Mr. Kohler was born to Henry and Ruth Kohler on Aug. 9, 1924 in Pagosa Springs, Colo.; later moving to Arboles,...
Yvonne Posey Lansing
Sep 28, 2010
YVONNE POSEY LANSING Funeral services for lifelong Towaoc resident Yvonne Posey Lansing will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, October 2 at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow at Towaoc Cemetery. Visitation has been scheduled for Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. at Ertel Chapel. Yvonne was born on December 23, 1952 in Cortez the daughter of Edgar Buffalo and...
John A. Merrill
Sep 26, 2010
JOHN A. MERRILL (August 21, 1980 - September 26, 2010) John A. Merrill, 30, of Cortez, CO died on September 26, 2010. He was born on August 21, 1980 in San Diego, CA, until the age of 7 when his family moved to the Annapolis area where he was raised. John graduated from the Broadneck Senior High School in 1998...
John Barton Decker
Sep 25, 2010
Funeral services for longtime area resident, John Barton Decker will be held at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mancos, CO on Friday, October 1, 2010 at 2pm. After a long and fruitful life, John Barton Decker, age 86, peacefully passed away at Vista Grand Inn in Cortez, Colorado, on September 25, 2010. Born August 1, 1924,...
Lois Mildred Johnson Akin
Sep 23, 2010
LOIS AKIN Lois Mildred Johnson Akin was born on April 25, l922 at McPhee, Colo. and passed away on September 23, 2010. She was the daughter of Lewis Edward and Navie Sagrillo Johnson. Lois was a fourth generation descendant of pioneer Charles (Racehorse) and Mary Johnson who homesteaded the lower Dolores Valley (McPhee), and 3rd generation descendant of John and...
Bruce Vance Hixon
Sep 22, 2010
BRUCE VANCE HIXON Funeral services for Bruce Vance Hixon a lifelong resident of Lewis will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, September 29 at the Ertel Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow at Lewis Cemetery with Military Honors being provided by Ute Mountain American Legion Post #75. Visitation has been set for Tuesday evening at Ertel Chapel beginning at 7 p.m....
Wilfred William Michaels
Sep 21, 2010
WILFRED WILLIAM MICHAELS Funeral services for longtime Mancos resident Wilfred William Michaels will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, September 23 at Mancos First Baptist Church. Interment will follow at Cedar Grove Cemetery. Pastor Jimmy Burton will officiate. Visitation has been scheduled for Thursday afternoon beginning at 1 p.m. at the church. Wilfred was born on September 30, 1919...
James Douglas Goff
Sep 18, 2010
JAMES DOUGLAS GOFF Services for Mancos resident James Douglas Goff will be held on Saturday, September 25 at 11:00 am St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Mancos followed by a potluck gathering at 1:00 pm at Seas'nings at 319 W. Montezuma, Cortez. James was born on August 15, 1931 in Cottonwood, Ala., the son of James Lewis Goff and Mattie (Livingston)...
Bobby Gene Johnson
Sep 17, 2010
BOBBY G. "BOB" JOHNSON Memorial services for lifelong Dove Creek resident, Bobby G. "Bob" Johnson will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, September 21 at St. Jude Catholic Church in Dove Creek. Bobby Gene Johnson was born April 13, 1929 to Elgan and Ruby Johnson in Ponca City, Okla. He died September 17, 2010 at his home in Dove Creek,...
Elvin Leroy Roundtree
Sep 16, 2010
ELVIN LeROY ROUNDTREE Funeral services for Elvin LeRoy Roundtree a longtime area resident will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, September 20 at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Elvin was born December 2, 1919 in Vanoss, Okla. the son of John Wiley and Clara Lula (Armstrong) Roundtree. He passed away at his Dolores home on Thursday, September 16, 2010 at the age...
Winnifred Lorene "Wendy" Hall
Sep 9, 2010
WINNIFRED LORENE "WENDY" HALL Winnifred Lorene "Wendy" Hall passed away at Vista Grande Inn on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at the age of 92. She was born the daughter of Herbert L. Rogers Sr. and Eva May (Pounds) Rogers on October 11, 1917 in Dickens County, Texas. Wendy and her family relocated to this area in the late 1920s. She...
Victor F. Polich
Sep 7, 2010
VICTOR F. POLICH Military graveside services for Victor F. Polich, currently of Cortez and formerly of Grants, N.M., will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, September 11 at Grants Cemetery. Vic was born September 5, 1919 in McGaffey, N.M. the son of Frank and Dorothy (Estra) Polich. He passed away at Vista Mesa Retirement Center in Cortez on Tuesday, September...
Robert Johnson Wheatley
Sep 6, 2010
ROBERT JOHNSON WHEATLEY Graveside inurnment services for Cortez resident Robert Johnson Wheatley will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, September 16 at Cortez Cemetery. Bob was born on February 6, 1928 in Denver, Colo. He passed away on Monday, September 6, 2010 at Southwest Memorial Hospital. Bob leaves behind his longtime friend and caregiver, Anna Hueber of Cortez.
Earl Leslie Rohrbaugh
Sep 5, 2010
EARL LESLIE ROHRBAUGH Memorial services for longtime Cortez, Colo. resident Earl Leslie Rohrbaugh will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 18 at the First United Methodist Church in Cortez. Reverend Al Strauss will officiate. The son of Roy Preston and Lillian Esther (Dahlin) Rohrbaugh, Earl was born on August 12, 1924 in Denver, Colo. He died on Sunday,...
Verna Lawan Lard
Sep 4, 2010
VERNA LaWAN LARD Funeral services for Verna LaWan Lard, 73 of Cortez, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, September 7 at Trinity Lutheran Church with Pastor Barr Chittick officiating. Interment will follow at Cortez Cemetery. Verna was born December 3, 1936 in Blue Hill, Neb. to Ernest Uhrick and Agnes Pauline (Bangert) Seeman. She passed away at her Cortez...
