Alan Lamar Rowe
Jan 17, 2020
Memorial services for Dolores resident Alan Lamar Rowe will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, January 31, 2020 at the Lewis Arriola Community Center. Pastor Marvin Graves will officiate. Alan was born February 23, 1948 in Fruita, CO the son of Herman Lamar and Lucile L. (Bratton) Rowe. He passed away peacefully on Friday, January 17, 2020 at Vista...
Lora Ella Remer
Jan 15, 2020
Lora Ella Barnett Remer, April 9, 1933 – January 15, 2020 Lora Ella was born to Dorothy and John Barnett on April 9, 1933 in Oklahoma. Her family moved to Colorado when she was a young girl where she attended school in Cortez, CO. She married John Remer and they made their home in Pleasant View, CO where they started...
Lavon F. Millard
Jan 14, 2020
Graveside services for Cortez resident LaVon F. Millard will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at the Old Dolores Cemetery. LaVon was born November 9, 1935 in Oklahoma the daughter of Cleo Jackson and Maude (Alexander) Hicks. She passed away on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at her residence at the age of 84. Surviving LaVon are her...
Melvin Ray Houx
Jan 10, 2020
Melvin Ray Houx was born April 25, 1931 in Sayer, OK the son of Earl Ollie and Lily (Summers) Houx. He passed away on Friday, January 10, 2020 at his residence in Dolores, CO at the age of 88. Surviving Melvin are his children, Donn Leigh Turner of Round Rock, TX, Samuel Earl Houx of Tacoma, WA, and Gina Rachel...
Dona Mae Aja
Jan 9, 2020
It is with heavy hearts we announce the passing of Dona Mae Lovitt Aja. She was born December 8, 1932 in Great Bend, Kansas, the daughter of Willard and Viola Lovitt. Dona went to meet her Lord peacefully on January 9, 2020 at the Madison House with family by her side. She was laid to rest in the Cahone cemetery,...
Barbara Jean Turman
Jan 8, 2020
Barbara Jean Turman was born June 26, 1941 in Tupelo, OK the daughter of Albert and Olga (Hogue) Perry. She passed away on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, CO at the age of 78. Surviving Barbara are her children, Bobby Gene Turman, and Barbara Ellen Carnes; and her siblings, Alma Comer, and Albert Perry. Barbara...
Frances Louise 'Fran' Buck
Jan 6, 2020
A Celebration of Life will be held for Cortez resident Frances Louise ‘Fran’ Buck from 3 – 5 p.m. Saturday, January 11, 2020 at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Fran was born April 28, 1941 in Newark, NJ the daughter of Andrew Arthur and Mary Elizabeth (Gardner) Zacher. She passed away on Monday, January 6, 2020 at Vista Mesa Assisted Living at...
Della Mae Dietz
Jan 5, 2020
Della Mae Dietz (Shupe) was born on August 29, 1929 in San Angelo, Texas. Della passed away at the age of 90 in the presence of her loving family of 5 generations on Sunday, January 5, 2020 at her home. Della is survived by her husband, William J. Dietz (Bill); children, Janet Robinson, James Dietz and Allen Dietz; grandchildren, John...
Mary Ellen Ekstrom
Jan 3, 2020
Mary Ellen Rapp Ekstrom passed away on Friday, January 3, 2020 after a courageous 18 month battle with Bulbar Onset ALS. She was born December 15, 1950 in McKees Rocks, PA the daughter of Earl Ralph and Mary Elizabeth (Recka) Rapp. Mary Ellen was a kind and sweet person who was adored by all who knew her. She spent her...
Wayne Lee Gustafson
Jan 2, 2020
A Celebration of Life and Potluck for Cortez resident Wayne Lee Gustafson will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, January 10, 2020 at the Lewis Arriola Community Center. Mr. Sheldon Zwicker will officiate. Wayne was born January 30, 1973 in Durango, CO the son of Charles Wayne and Carla Jo (Weaver) Gustafson. He passed away on Thursday, January 2, 2020...
Madelyn Grace Daly
Jan 2, 2020
Madelyn Grace Murray was born July 18, 1926 in Globe, Ariz. to Raymond R. Murray and Tina Blanche (Putnam) Murray. She passed away peacefully January 2, 2020 in her sleep at her home in Cortez, Colo. Madelyn grew up in southwest Colorado and northwest New Mexico with her baby sister, Opal (b. 1928). Their parents worked ranching, mining, farming and...
Wilma Ellen Robinson
Jan 1, 2020
Wilma Ellen Robinson, 80, of Dolores, CO passed away January 1, 2020, in Grand Junction, CO. While swimming laps, an activity she loved, she experienced an unexpected, spontaneous brain hemorrhage. Wilma was born June 18, 1939, to Milton Russell and May Zoe (Huntamer) Notter in Tacoma, WA. Wilma grew up in Washington state (putting in her time in the rain)...
James Owen 'Jim' Thayn
Dec 28, 2019
Jim Thayn, a long time resident of Cortez, CO, passed away unexpectedly on December 28th, 2019, at the age of 66 while at home in Cortez. He was born on November 22nd in 1953 to Margie Ruth Colby Thayn and James Owen Thayn. In his younger days, Jim first started his career in mining, working mines across Eastern Utah and...
Paul Simon Bates
Dec 28, 2019
Paul Simon Bates, of Cortez, CO., was born July 21, 1951 in Buffalo, NY the son of Anthony and Wanda Rose (Smith) Bates. He passed away on Saturday, December 28, 2019 at Southwest Memorial Hospital at the age of 68. Paul’s parents Anthony and Wanda Rose (Smith) Bates raised Paul along with 10 other children in New York. Paul spent...
Herman Ray Mccabe
Dec 26, 2019
Herman Ray McCabe Jr. “Ray” was born on March 8, 1949 to Pauline and Herman Ray McCabe Sr. in Cortez, CO. He entered Heaven’s gate on December 26, 2019 in Cahone, CO with family at his side. Ray was one tough hombre, a Navy Vietnam Era Veteran, an entrepreneur, a great husband, a special dad and granddad, just a special...
Wendy Lin Campbell
Dec 24, 2019
A Celebration of Life will be held for Cortez resident Wendy Lin Campbell from 2 – 4 p.m. Friday, January 3, 2020 at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Wendy was born November 23, 1976 in Colorado Springs, CO. She passed away on Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at her residence at the age of 43. Surviving Wendy are her spouse, Eric Campbell of...
Paula Sue Graves
Dec 24, 2019
Paula Sue Graves beloved wife, mother, grandmother, (Granny Graves), sister, aunt and friend went home to be with the Lord last Tuesday, December 24, 2019, at the age of 78, at her home in Cortez, Co. with her husband, Marvin, by her side. Memorial service for Paula will be held Saturday, January 4, 2020 at First Baptist Church, 100 N....
Stella Rose Neeley
Dec 22, 2019
Stella Rose Neeley of Globe, AZ passed away December 22, 2019 at the age of 77 at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, TX. After living most of her life with her family in the Cortez, Durango, Mancos Colorado area she and her surviving husband, Bryon C. Neeley, moved to Globe, AZ and then spent most summers at their mountain property...
Phyllis Maurine Hall
Dec 21, 2019
Phyllis Maurine Rice Hall passed away on December 21, 2019. Phyllis was born in Quinter, Grove County, KS on June 10, 1934 to Levi Leon Rice and Vera Loree Chestnut Rice. Phyllis was the great granddaughter of Thomas J. Chestnut, an Irish immigrant, and granddaughter of Maggie Wah-Pe-Ko-Niah, a Native American of the Sauk and Fox Nation, and granddaughter of...
Chief Roy Charles Lane
Dec 20, 2019
CHIEF ROY CHARLES LANE Services for longtime Cortez resident Chief Roy Charles Lane will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, December 28 at the Cortez Recreation Center located at 425 Roger Smith Ave. in Cortez. A reception will follow at the recreation center. Roy was born September 26, 1944 in Muleshoe, Tex. the son of Charles Welch and Clara...
