Radine Virginia Hargrove (91) went to be with her Heavenly Father and Savior on Wednesday, July 13, 2022.  She was surrounded by family as she left this life behind.

Radine was born on October 20, 1930, in Stonington, Colorado to Ernest and Laura (Dollie) Cogburn.  Radine's mother passed away when Radine was 10 months old. Her sister and 5 brothers stepped up and helped her father take care of her along with help from their neighbors. Later Ernest married Alice West Pruitt. She became the grandmother that the next generations loved.

During the Dust Bowl, times were hard in this part of the county.  Their house burned in 1937 leaving them with very little, but they survived and continued to live in that area.  Radine stayed with her brother JB, and his wife Bertha and started high school in Walsh.  The rest of the family moved to Walsh in 1946. Radine graduated from Walsh High in 1948 as valedictorian of her class.

She married Roscoe Hargrove on Dec. 12, 1948.  The ceremony was performed in a Baptist preacher's home on a Sunday afternoon in Colorado Springs.  They were accompanied by their good friends Oran Poff and Verna Lee Marion Alfrey.  They honeymooned in California while visiting relatives along the way. After returning, they made their home in Walsh. Roscoe and Radine were blessed with 4 children, Laurel, Gayla, Richard, and Tim.

Radine began her career as the elementary school secretary in 1965 and eventually moved to the High School in 1970 until she retired in 1995.  She loved being around people so much that after her retirement, she worked as a substitute teller at the bank in Walsh until December 2010.

Radine was saved and baptized at the First Baptist Church when she was 14. Her family lived in the country and went to a very small Sunday School that met in a one room schoolhouse. They often visited the church in Walsh.  She began teaching Sunday School to little ones and continued to do so including VBS for the next 65+ years.  She touched the lives of many as she shared her love for her Lord and Savior.

Radine was a perfect example of humility and grace in the way she lived her life.  She always had kind words for everyone.  She had a true servant's heart and was always willing to help anyone in need.  She never wanted to burden anyone or wanted attention for her efforts.  She was a great example of a loving wife, Mom, Grandma, and Granny.

She loved to play Chicken Foot with her family and always enjoyed a rambunctious game of Nertz. The older grandchildren loved playing Red Rover and Lemonade-(show me something if you're not afraid! She developed very close friendships at the Walsh Senior Center where they played games and enjoyed fellowshipping together.

The grandkids will always remember what Grandma was famous for: hand mixed milk shakes, homemade Milky Way ice cream, a freezer full of ice cream treats especially pudding pops, tea parties, monkey bread and her body powder on the bathroom counter with the huge poof! They loved her little boxes in the kitchen with endless treasures, her pancakes, and those delicious fried eggs with plenty of bacon grease.   They will always remember the toaster by the kitchen table, bread at every meal for the kids to fold in half, bite a hole in the middle. and look through the hole at each other!  The grandchildren who weren't accustomed to our miller problem around here, still laugh at her vacuum with the sock stuffed in it so the millers wouldn't escape.  Grandma was notorious for remembering everyone's birthday but forgetting her own!  Most of all, they remember her humility and patience, the fact that she never required anything from us, knowing that we were all busy, and that she would be there if we needed her.

Radine was preceded in death by her husband, Roscoe, her parents, siblings (Roy, Chesla, Harley, JB, Ogle & Winona) along with their spouses, plus several nieces and nephews.

She is survived by her sons Richard and wife Brenda, Tim and wife Stephanie, daughters Laurel Woolley and husband Craig, and Gayla Hargrove. She also has 8 grandchildren—Monica and husband Alan Sower, Kyla and husband Cory Lynch, Kory Woolley and wife Stephanie, Chelsea and husband Blake Gourley, Jason Hargrove and wife Katie, Tanner Hargrove and wife Jet, Logan Hargrove and wife Maggie, and Molly and husband Drew Rodgers.  She has 18 great-grandchildren—Shelby and Jackson Harbison, Kaden and Colter Lynch, Cooper, Rylyn, and Deacon Woolley, Maddox, Hudson, Mayz, Ireland, and Tirzah Gourley, Peyton Hargrove, Trafton and Matilda Hargrove, Elliot and Jack Hargrove, and Olivia Rodgers. For those who weren't counting that's 41 family members that brought joy to her life!  We will all miss her greatly!