Priscilla Joann Crook-Lopez
Sep 15, 2017
PRISCILLA JOANN CROOK-LOPEZ Funeral Mass for lifelong Cortez resident Priscilla JoAnn Crook-Lopez will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, September 21 at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church. Cremation will follow. Visitation has been scheduled for Wednesday evening from 4 to 6 p.m. at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Rosary service will begin at 6 p.m. at the funeral home. Priscilla was...
Mary J. Gallegos
Sep 9, 2017
Mary J. Gallegos Funeral services for longtime Cortez resident Mary J. Gallegos will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 16 at Evangel Assembly of God Church. Cremation will follow. Visitation has been scheduled for Friday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Mary was born September 26, 1940 in Pagosa Springs, Colo. and she passed...
Judith Anne Walter
Sep 8, 2017
Judith Anne Walter passed away on September 8, 2017 at the age of 78. She is joining the love of her life of 61 years, Richard Emery Walter. Born and raised in Dearborn Michigan, daughter of Howard and Blanche Gass. Judy made her home Colorado in 1956 as a newlywed, first living in Hesperus, then Durango, and settling in Dolores...
John W. Bond
Sep 5, 2017
JOHN WAYMUND BOND Celebration of life for longtime Cortez resident John Waymund Bond will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 9 at Rock Springs Community Church. John was born April 26, 1943 in Carnegie, Okla. the son of Julius Waymund and Minnie Gertrude (Sample) Bond. He passed away on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at Mercy Regional Medical Center...
Helen Charlieen Patton
Sep 4, 2017
HELEN CHARLIEEN PATTON Funeral services for lifelong Cortez resident Helen Charlieen Patton will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 9 at Montezuma Valley Presbyterian Church. Charlieen was born November 6, 1931 in Cortez the daughter of Stephen Charlie and Myrtle Irene (Wright) Griffith. She passed away on Monday, September 4, 2017 at Vista Grande Inn Nursing Home at...
Nancy Ann Wiltgen
Sep 2, 2017
Nancy Ann Wiltgen was born on August 11, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois to Benjamin and Charlotte Michna. She passed away peacefully at home on Saturday September 2, 2017 at the age of 78. While living in Mundelein, Illinois she met her future husband Jerry and they were married September 9, 1961 and started their family by welcoming daughters Kathleen and...
Helen Dolores Knight
Sep 2, 2017
Dolores worked as a ranch wife and loved animals from childhood. She raised horses, cattle, sheep and chickens, loved her garden and flowers and raised many orphan animals. She also opened her hand and heart to anyone in need of a place to stay or advice. In her home, there was never a shortage of food at the table, whether...
Shirley Jean Fairbanks
Sep 2, 2017
SHIRLEY JEAN FAIRBANKS A memorial service for longtime Cortez resident, Shirley Jean Fairbanks will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, September 8 at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Reverend Bud Rousset will officiate. Shirley was born April 23, 1935 in Tuskegee, Okla. the daughter of Elen and Opal Marcella (Gower) Cullum. She passed away on Saturday, September 2, 2017 at her...
Orland Gene Hatch
Sep 1, 2017
ORLAND GENE HATCH Funeral services for lifelong Towaoc resident, Orland Gene Hatch will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, September 6 at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow at Towaoc Cemetery. Visitation has been scheduled for Tuesday evening from 5-7 p.m. at Ertel Chapel. Orland was born December 3, 1959 in Cortez the son of Lewis Truman Hatch and...
Lindy Max Dicken
Aug 26, 2017
Lindy Max Dicken was born December 6, 1929 in Oklahoma, the son of Clara (Bill) and John Paul Dicken. He passed away on August 26, 2017 at his residence in Dove Creek, Colorado at the age of 87. Surviving Max are his children Linda Tope (Jerry) of Dove Creek and Janelle Conklin (Ed) of Greeley, Colorado; and his granddaughter Selene...
Roberta Caroleen Whatley
Aug 26, 2017
Funeral services for Roberta Caroleen Whatley will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, September 1 at First Assembly of God Church. Pastor David M. Compton will officiate. Roberta was born September 28, 1940 in Lawrence, Utah the daughter of Vernon Bryan Nichols and Ocie Alma (Maurer) Nichols. She passed away on Saturday, August 26, 2017 at Mercy Medical Center...
Richard Emery Walter
Aug 18, 2017
Richard Emery Walter passed away at his home in Dolores on Friday August 18, 2017 at the age of 80. He leaves behind his beloved wife and soul mate of 61 years, Judith Anne (Gass) Walter. Born June 21, 1937 in Durango Colorado to Charles Walter and Carrie (Hunt) Walter. Richard was a lifelong resident in Southwestern Colorado living in...
Byron Kent Lively
Aug 15, 2017
Byron Kent Lively was born April 11, 1956 in Oregon the son of Dwaine and Marie (Witaker) Lively. He passed away on August 15, 2017 at his residence in Dolores, CO at the age of 61. Cremation has taken place and a service is pending. For further information please call Ertel Funeral Home at 565-3468 or log on to www.ertelfuneralhome.com...
Robert Dean Green
Aug 14, 2017
Robert Dean Green was born on March 16, 1933 in Dolores, Co. to John Thurman and Roberta Green. He passed away at Southwest Memorial Hospital on Monday August 14, 2017 at the age of 84. Robert graduated from MCHS as secretary of his class & a member of National Honor Society. Upon graduation he met and fell in love with...
William Bruce White
Aug 13, 2017
William Bill Bruce White passed away peacefully at the Vista Grande Care facility in Cortez on August 13, 2017. Bill was born September 26, 1951, in Casper, Wyoming to Eli Clinton White and Louise Ann (Ort) White. After moving to Durango as a child, Bill completed all of his primary education in Durango graduating from Durango High School. After completing...
Athena (Renee) Opal Rose (Annette) Sevon (Gallion)
Aug 12, 2017
Athena Opal Rose Sevon (Renee Annette Gallion), 56, of Dove Creek Colorado passed away on Saturday August 12, 2017. She is survived by her husband of 26 years, Jeffrey Sevon, two children, Zarah and Zakotah Sevon, her parents Lloyd and Bonnie Gallion, sister Barbara Burdick and brother Gary Gallion. A celebration of her life will be held on August 26th...
Jennie Hight Kuebler
Aug 12, 2017
Jennie Hight Kuebler was born August 29, 1947 in Cortez, CO the daughter of Melissa (Leauders) and Jack Hight. She passed away on Saturday, August 12, 2017 at St. Marys Hospital in Grand Junction, CO at the age of 69. Jennie is survived by her daughter, Norine Kuebler of Towaoc; grandchildren, Basil Silas Jr., Gabriel Silas, Ashley Silas, Judith Silas,...
Richard Leo Gallavan Jr.
Aug 7, 2017
Richard Leo Gallavan passed away at his home in Egnar on Monday August 7, 2017 at the age of 83. He leaves behind his beloved wife of 47 years, Hazel (Davis) Gallavan. Born and raised in Durango Colorado, the son of Richard and Regina Gallavan. Richard was a lifelong resident in Southwestern Colorado living in Durango, Pagosa, Cortez and Egnar....
Genevieve Genny Wells
Jul 31, 2017
Our mother, Genevieve Ardis Wells left us on July 31, 2017 to rejoin our dad, her parents, brothers and sisters and many others she loved during her long life. She was born in Shawano, WI on October 3rd 1927 to John and Elba Hafferman. She spent her early childhood in Shawano but later moved to a dairy farm near Bowler,...
Anthony Lee Martinez
Jul 25, 2017
ANTHONY LEE MARTINEZ (TONY) Anthony Lee Martinez was born October 17, 1972 in Benton, AR, the son of Richard and Ann (Haile) Martinez. He passed away on Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at Southwest Memorial Hospital at the age of 44. Surviving Tony are his father, Richard Martinez and step-mother, Merrilyn Martinez of Cortez; and his two sisters, Leann (Tom) Curtis...
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