Helga Eda Thrailkill
Feb 17, 2006
HELGA E. THRAILKILL A visitation for longtime Cortez resident, Helga E. Thrailkill will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 25 at the Ertel Memorial Chapel. Interment will take place later this summer at Riverview Cemetery in Washburn, N.D. No other local services will be held. The daughter of Christ and Agatha (Bjort) Christensen, Helga was born on May...
Robert Alfred Roessel Jr.
Feb 16, 2006
ROBERT ALFRED ROESSEL JR. Memorial services for Mancos resident, Robert Alfred Roessel Jr. will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, February 19 at Round Rock Elementary School Gymnasium. Bob was born the son of Robert Alfred and Marguerite (Monteath) Roessel on August 26, 1926 at Saint Louis, Mo. He passed away at Southwest Memorial Hospital on Thursday, February 16,...
Janet Caryl Brown Mccabe
Feb 12, 2006
JANET CARYL BROWN McCABE Funeral services for Janet Caryl Brown McCabe, a lifelong resident of this area will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, February 15 at Cortez First United Methodist Church. Reverend Lynn Evans will officiate. Interment will follow at the Cortez Cemetery. Janet was born the daughter of Byron Douglas and Mary Teresa (Belmear) Brown on February...
Carol J. Ireton
Feb 11, 2006
CAROL JEAN IRETON Graveside inurnment services for longtime Cortez, Colo. resident, Carol Jean Ireton will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at the Douglas Park Cemetery. Carol was born on April 17, 1940 in Great Falls, Mont. the daughter of Gene G. and Ollive Helen (Carroll) Armstrong. She passed away on Saturday, February 11, 2006 at...
Milton John "Jack" Morrill
Feb 11, 2006
MILTON JOHN “JACK” MORRILL Milton John “Jack” Morrill passed away on Saturday, February 11, 2006 at his home in Cortez surrounded by the family that loved him. Funeral services, officiated by Pastor Larry Chappell will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 18, at Lighthouse Baptist Church. A private family interment will follow the service. Milton John “Jack” Morrill...
Rita Vivine Barnes
Feb 9, 2006
RITA VIVINE BARNES Memorial services for longtime Cortez resident, Rita Vivine Barnes will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, February 13 at the Arriola Bible Church. Reverend Kent Slyter will be officiating. Rita was born on October 1, 1922 in Seattle, Wash. the daughter of Harry W. and Luella (Weckerly) Casson. She passed away on Thursday, February 9, 2006...
Sybil Bernice Douglas Decker
Feb 8, 2006
SYBIL BERNICE DOUGLAS DECKER Graveside services for lifelong Mancos resident, Sybil Bernice Douglas Decker will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, February 13 at the Webber Cemetery approximately six miles south of Mancos on Highway 41. A visitation has been scheduled for Sunday afternoon from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Ertel Memorial Chapel. The daughter of Hulon and...
Lorna Mable Gafford
Feb 8, 2006
LORNA MABLE GAFFORD Lorna Mable Gafford passed away on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 at the Vista Grande Nursing Home at the age of 83. Lorna was born on July 5, 1922 in Cortez, Colo., one of the first babies born on record in the Johnson Hospital. In her younger years Lorna played the piano wonderfully. She remembered living in a...
Catherine Mary "Katie" Willbanks Hill
Feb 7, 2006
CATHERINE MARY “KATIE” WILLBANKS HILL Funeral services for lifelong Cortez resident, Catherine Mary “Katie” Willbanks Hill will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, February 11 at Arriola Bible Church. Interment will follow at Summit Ridge Cemetery. Pastor Kent Slyter will be officiating. A dinner will be held at Arriola Community Center following the interment services. Family and friends are...
Philip Charles Olbert
Feb 6, 2006
PHILIP CHARLES OLBERT Philip Charles Olbert was born on November 28, 1942 in Durango, Colo., the son of Alfred Elmer and Geneva (Freeman) Olbert. He passed away on Monday, February 6, 2006 at the Valley Inn Nursing Home at the age of 63. Philip attended school in Ignacio, Colo. He spent a majority of his life in Ignacio where he...
Esther A. Madsen
Feb 6, 2006
ESTHER A. MADSEN Private graveside services for Esther A. Madsen, a Cortez resident, were held on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at the Summit Ridge Cemetery. The daughter of Clinton M. and Ruth I. (Bradford) Pearson, Esther was born on August 28, 1919. She passed away on Monday, February 6, 2006 at Vista Mesa Retirement Center at the age of 86....
Michael J. Mclain
Feb 1, 2006
MICHAEL J. MCLAIN Graveside services for Cortez resident, Michael J. McLain were held on Thursday, February 2, 2006 at the Cortez Cemetery. Michael was born on October 14, 1941 in Napa, Calif., the son of Roy and Dorris B. (Cullen) McLain. He passed away on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 at the Vista Grande Nursing Home at the age of 64....
Alice Isabell Haydon
Jan 28, 2006
ALICE ISABELL HAYDON Funeral services for longtime Cortez resident, Alice Isabell Haydon will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, February 1 at the Ertel Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow at the Lebanon Cemetery. A visitation has been scheduled Tuesday afternoon from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Ertel Chapel. Alice was born on April 2, 1914 the daughter of...
Marian Louise Tanner
Jan 28, 2006
MARIAN LOUISE SMITH TANNER Funeral services for longtime Cahone resident Marian Louise Smith Tanner will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Empire Street Chapel. Interment will follow at the Cahone Cemetery, where Marian will be laid to rest at the side of her husband, Harold Donald Tanner. A viewing...
Hubert "Herb" Karn
Jan 26, 2006
HUBERT “HERB” KARN Funeral services for longtime Cortez resident, Hubert “Herb” Karn will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, January 31 at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church. Reverend Erika Meyer will officiate. Cremation will follow the services with entombment to be at St. Barnabas Episcopal Columbarium. Herb was born September 11, 1922 the son of Worthington and Florence Karn in...
Ruby Abbott
Jan 26, 2006
RUBY ABBOTT Services for Ruby Abbott are pending with the Ertel Funeral Home. Ruby was born on January 11, 1922 and passed away on Thursday, January 26, 2006 at Madison House. She was 84 years old.
Russell L. Bennett
Jan 25, 2006
RUSSELL L. BENNETT Funeral services for longtime Cortez resident, Russell L. Bennett will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, January 28, 2006 at the Cortez Church of Christ. Interment will follow at the Cortez Cemetery. Mr. Jeff Foster will be officiating. A visitation has been scheduled for Friday afternoon from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Ertel Memorial Chapel....
Wyndham Robert "Bob" Redford Ii
Jan 23, 2006
WYNDHAM ROBERT REDFORD II Memorial services for Dove Creek resident, Wyndham Robert Redford II will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, January 25 at the Ertel Memorial Chapel. “Bob” also known as “Shorty” by his caregivers and the people close to him; was born on August 28, 1918 in Electra, Tex. the son of Wyndham Robert and Gertrude Belle...
Edward Paul Trojanowski
Jan 22, 2006
EDWARD PAUL TROJANOWSKI Funeral services for Mancos resident, Edward Paul Trojanowski will be held at 9 a.m. on Friday, January 27 at the Saint Mary of Ostrabrama Roman Catholic Church. Interment will follow at the Saint Mary’s Cemetery in East Brunswick, N.J. Edward was born on August 13, 1926 in New Brunswick, N.J. the son of Polikarp and Stephanie (Gut)...
Lorrena Jones
Jan 20, 2006
LORRENA JONES Funeral services for longtime Cortez resident, Lorrena Jones will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, January 21 at the Cortez Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Empire Chapel. Interment will follow at the Cortez Cemetery. A visitation has been scheduled Saturday morning from 9 a.m. until service time at the LDS church. Lorrena was born on...