Owen Michael Gore
Dec 19, 2019
Memorial services for Dove Creek resident Owen Michael Gore will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, January 2, 2020 the Dove Creek First Baptist Church. Mr. Travis Randolph will officiate. Owen was born April 3, 2011 in Redmond, OR the son of Shane LeRoy Gore and Velvet Ranae Lee LaFon. He passed away on Thursday, December 19, 2019 at Southwest...
Ruthanna Marie Dougherty
Dec 18, 2019
Ruthanna Marie Dougherty was born January 9, 1958 in Watseka, IL the daughter of Bernard Ray and Jennie Marie (Johnson) Torbet. She passed away on Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, CO at the age of 61. Surviving Ruthanna are her spouse, John Dougherty of Cortez, CO; her daughters, Christina Saunders (Matt) of Auburn, MI, and...
James Rooney "Jim" Henry
Dec 15, 2019
JAMES ROONEY “JIM” HENRY Graveside inurnment services for Cortez resident James Rooney “Jim” Henry will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, December 23 at Cortez Cemetery Jim was born July 11, 1962 in Denver, Colo. the son of James Downing and Linda Louise (Rooney) Henry. He passed away on Sunday, December 15, 2019 at Southwest Memorial Hospital at the...
Emma Johniece Dunnam
Dec 15, 2019
Funeral services for Cortez resident Emma Johniece Dunnam will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, December 20, 2019 at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow at Arriola Cemetery. Johniece was born March 29, 1952 in Cortez, CO the daughter of John Davis and Sarah Elizabeth (Morgan) Sutherland. She passed away on Sunday, December 15, 2019 at her residence at the...
Joe Martin Lard
Dec 12, 2019
Joe Martin Lard was born June 29, 1940 in Arroyo Blanco, NM the son of James Martin and Zelphla Ruby (Fishgrab) Lard. He passed away on Thursday, December 12, 2019 at his residence at the age of 79. Joe worked as a Detention Officer for the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office for 17 years. He loved hunting, fishing, and playing games...
Donetta Sue Rankin Jones
Dec 11, 2019
Memorial services for Cortez resident Donetta Sue Rankin Jones will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, December 21, 2019 at the Montezuma Cortez Middle School Auditorium. Donetta was born January 10, 1961 in Colorado Springs Co the daughter of Donald Lee and Deloris Jane (Dake) Rankin. Growing up in Cripple Creek, CO, the family moved to Cortez, Colorado when she...
Philip Seaver 'Phil' Abel
Dec 11, 2019
Philip Seaver “Phil” Abel, 80, of Dolores, died December 11, 2019 at his home surrounded by immediate family. He was born to Philip “Ray” and Jeanne (Seaver) Asel on June 5, 1939 in Denver, CO. Phil is survived by his wife of 59 years, Cecily Derrel Abel of Dolores, CO; his sister, Roberta Hess Park of Alamo, NV; his sons,...
Mildred Louise 'Milly' Shew
Dec 10, 2019
Milly Shew of Lewis, Colorado, entered her Eternal Home December 10, 2019, at the age of 99. She was the last one of her generation in her family to be called Home to Glory. She was born March 24, 1920, in Sidney, Nebraska, to Louis and Lottie Holmes. There were three children in the family, a son, Burton, and two...
Roger Charles Hausen
Dec 9, 2019
Roger Charles Hausen was born June 3, 1927 to Clarence and Viona (Dahlquist) Hausen in Stanton, Iowa and passed away December 9, 2019 at the Beehive Homestead in Cortez, Colorado surrounded, for many days, by his family. After graduating from the University of Iowa, Roger met Carolyn Lea Shepherd, who worked at his stepfather’s drugstore. They married on September 8,...
Stanley Russel Crapo
Dec 8, 2019
Stanley Russel Crapo was born November 11, 1919 at the family home near Lockerby in San Juan County, Utah; the second son of Clarence Ezra (Ez) and Lola Morris Crapo. Stanley’s mother died when he was four days old and he was taken to live with his aunt and uncle, Harriet (Hat) and George Snyder. Even after Ez remarried, Stanley...
Dean Arthur Kirk
Dec 5, 2019
The world and southwest Colorado lost a pillar of integrity, influence, volunteerism when Dean Arthur Kirk passed away peacefully at age 84 on Thursday, December 5, 2019 in Orem, UT. All these years of teaching, coaching, and volunteering started in a tiny, South Dakota farm house on July 28, 1935. New parents-to-be Glenn and Teresa Kirk loaded up in their...
Vickie Lynn Mata
Nov 30, 2019
Memorial services for Cortez resident Vickie Lynn Mata will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, December 6, 2019 at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Mr. Fred Calloway will officiate. Vickie was born September 22, 1946 in Durango, CO the daughter of Perry Glen and Elsie Marie (Dosher) Sheets. She passed away on Saturday, November 30, 2019 at Hospice House in Durango, CO...
Frankie Louis 'Bill' Melton
Nov 29, 2019
Frankie Louis ‘Bill’ Melton was born December 7, 1939 in Sacramento, NM the son of Robert Tassel and Velma Louise (Bishop) Melton. He passed away on Friday, November 29, 2019 at his residence in Cortez, CO at the age of 79. Surviving Bill are his spouse, Carol Melton of Cortez, CO; his children, Jeffery Lee Melton (Michelle) of Humble, TX,...
James Joseph 'Jim' Davenport
Nov 29, 2019
James Joseph ‘Jim’ Davenport was born April 26, 1936 in Merced, CA the son of Amos and Josephine (Whelan) Davenport. He passed away on Friday, November 29, 2019 at his residence in Cortez, CO at the age of 83. Surviving Jim are his son, Kevin O’Dell of IL; his step-son, Shawn Powell of College Station, TX; his step-daughter, Rhonda Powell...
Senovio T. "Sonnie" Gustamantes
Nov 25, 2019
Memorial Mass for Cortez resident Senovio T. “Sonnie” Gustamantes will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, November 30, 2019 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Durango, CO. Father Douglas Hunt will officiate. A Rosary will be held at the church at 6 p.m. Friday, November 29, 2019. Sonnie was born June 18, 1939 in Tunnie, NM the son of...
Jaque Lynn Eddy
Nov 25, 2019
Jaque Lynn Eddy was born June 27, 1937 in Pond Creek, OK the daughter of Guy O. and Mary Edna (Smith) Ream. She passed away on Monday, November 25, 2019 at Vista Grande Inn at the age of 82. Jaque married Jim Ray Eddy on April 12, 1957 in Aztec, NM, and was a devoted wife. She was a homemaker...
Romando Dion Mccook
Nov 21, 2019
Funeral services for Towaoc resident Romando Dion McCook will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at the Towaoc Community Center. Interment will follow at Cortez Cemetery. A wake will take place at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at the Presbyterian Church in Towaoc. Romando was born December 18, 1969 in Cortez, CO the son of...
Opal Marie Gran
Nov 19, 2019
Opal Marie Gran was born March 7, 1920 in Hudson, SD the daughter of John and Helen (Syllestad) Lundstrom. She passed away on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at Vista Grande Inn at the age of 99. Surviving Opal is her daughter, Jo Ann Green of Cortez, CO. Opal was preceded in death by her parents; and her spouse, Lawrence Gran.
Joseph Lee 'Joe' Hatch
Nov 17, 2019
Graveside services will be held for lifelong Towaoc resident Joseph Lee ‘Joe’ Hatch at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at Towaoc Cemetery. Visitation will take place from 9 – 11 a.m. on Friday, November 22, 2019 at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Joe was born August 7, 1943 in Cortez, CO the son of Daniel Hatch and Pearl Alice Mills....
Rena Jo Todd
Nov 15, 2019
RENA JO TODD On Friday, November 15, 2019, Rena Jo Hatfield Todd, loving mother and grandmother, passed away peacefully at home at the age of 96. Rena was born June 3, 1923 in Dove Creek, Colorado to Charles Orlando Hatfield and Inez Martin Hatfield in the family’s dugout cellar on their farm. She had a little box for her crib,...
