Loretta Ruth Bohlander
Mar 26, 2015
LORETTA RUTH BOHLANDER Loretta Ruth Blundell Bohlander passed away March 26, 2015 at the age of 75. She was residing in the Springfield Long Term Care Center at the time of her death. She was born August 23, 1939 in Las Animas, Colorado. She was the fourth of seven children born to James Marion Blundell and Mamie Laura Smart Blundell....
Fay Maurine Brooks
Mar 8, 2015
Fay Brooks, of Vilas, passed away March 8, 2015, at the Walsh Healthcare Center. Funeral services were held Wednesday, March 12, at the Vilas School Gym. Interment was in the Springfield Cemetery. Mrs. Brooks is survived by her children, Bill (Patty) Brooks of Vilas, LeEtta (J.D.) Wilson of Vilas and Idella (Roger) Mashino of Guymon, Oklahoma. She is also survived...
Fern Frankie Jenkins
Feb 27, 2015
Fern Frankie "Ownbey" Jenkins Fern Frankie was the 3rd of 4 children born to Frank Canada Ownbey & Ethel Myrtle Johnston Ownbey on April 21, 1925 and she departed this life on February 27, 2015. Fern was born on a farm about 13 miles northeast of Campo. She started school at Star School. She only attended the first semester as...
Mark Earl Konkel
Feb 26, 2015
Mark Konkel was born on September 15, 1949, to Joyce and Earl Konkel in Springfield, Colorado. He grew up in Baca County, Colorado; where he attended the Butcher School through fifth grade. He attended middle school in Elkhart, Kansas, before going to high school in Hugoton, Kansas, where he graduated in 1967. He lettered in both football and wrestling during...
Jake Thompson
Jan 29, 2015
Delmer Ray, "Jake" Thompson was born April 21, 1919, at the family homestead south and east of Vilas, Colorado. Jake was one of five children born to Gideon Ray Thompson and Effie Yowell Thompson. His siblings were; Lee, Opal, Jack and Ruth. Jake attended Vilas School until the death of both his parents. He enlisted in the United States Army...
Leah Mae Mort
Jan 24, 2015
Leah Mae (Carter) Mort was born on April 25, 1925 in Lamar, Colorado, to Ernest Leroy Carter and Modena Mary (Cline) Carter. Leah departed this life on Saturday, January 24, 2015, at Southeast Colorado Hospital in Springfield, Colorado. She was 89 years and nine months of age. Leah grew up in the McClave, Colorado area. The Carter family lived in...
D. Wayne Harper
Jan 19, 2015
Darrell Wayne Harper was the 3rd son of Richard and Ylene Harper. Wayne, as he was known to all, was born August 11, 1950 in Springfield, Colorado, and departed this life on January 19, 2015. He is now walking pain free with Mom Ylene, Dad, Richard & brother Dale, who all preceded him in death. Wayne grew up and graduated...
Myrl A. Greenlee
Jan 14, 2015
Myrl Allen Greenlee was born north of Vilas just as the sun was coming up on January 9, 1921. He departed this life on January 14, 2015, at the age of 94. Myrl was the oldest of five children born to Herbert and Oma Alfrey-Greenlee. He attended school at Big Flat, Mountain View and the Vilas School until the 7th...
John Morris Mundell
Jan 5, 2015
John Morris Mundell, was born on the 31st of January, in 1933, near the country store in Blaine, Colorado. He and his brother, Grover William Mundell were the sons of Grover Cleveland Mundell and Alma Jane Herbert Mundell. When John was 6, in the summer of 1939, the family moved to Springfield so that his mother could be near her...
Dorothy Mahala Forinash
Jan 1, 2015
Dorothy Mahala Mahan was born October 3, 1928, in Neosho, Missouri, to Lawrence Franklin Mahan and Lulu Belle Mahan. Dorothy grew up in southwest Missouri, graduating from Seneca High School. She worked as a telephone operator and was active in her women's group at Seneca Baptist Church. In the late 1940's, Dorothy's aunt Pearl Ball, who was in Baca County...
Gay Larue Coulter
Dec 16, 2014
Gay LaRue Coulter (August 19, 1937 – December 16, 2014) Gay LaRue Mathena was born on August 19, 1937 to Robert Ernest and Carlyn Gay Mathena (Conner) in Bluefield, West Virginia. Gay was one of eleven children. They grew up on a mountaintop in McComas, West Virginia where her dad was a coalminer. They were very poor. The children each...
Gene Raymond Gruber
Dec 11, 2014
Gene Raymond Gruber passed away on December 11, 2014, at the age of 71 at the Littleton Adventist Hospital in Littleton, Colorado, surrounded by those who loved him. Gene was born on February 2, 1943, in Liberal, Kansas, and moved to Baca County as a young child with his family. Gene graduated from Walsh High School in 1961 and married...
Kay Francis Konkel
Dec 10, 2014
Kay Francis Hey Konkel was born on June 17, 1938, to Ed and Helen Hey in Monte Vista, Colorado. She was the sixth of eight children. Helen and Ed moved the family northwest of Walsh, Colorado, to farm broomcorn when Kay was five years old. They moved into a small house at what is called the Silver Dollar. Kay started...
Rene Salcido Santoyo
Oct 6, 2014
Rene Salcido Santoyo was born July 24, 1995, in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, to Rene Salcido and Lidia Santoyo. Rene attended and graduated from Walsh High School in May of 2014. He passed away October 6, 2014, at his home in Walsh. He was 19. Rene is survived by his parents and sister, Ana, all of Walsh. He is also survived...
Robert Victor Forinash
Oct 3, 2014
Robert Victor Forinash was born February 24, 1925, in Bolair, West Virginia. He came as a two year old with his mother, Pearl Forinash, to Baca County, Colorado in 1927, joining two uncles, Thornt and Curt Villers who had come from West Virginia to Baca County some time earlier. Bob grew up in Baca County during the Great Depression, going...
Ruth Elizabeth Fowler
Sep 23, 2014
Ruth Elizabeth (Wray) Fowler, 99, of Walsh passed away September 23, 2014. Services will be Thursday, September 25th, 10:00 am at the Church of Christ Building in Walsh. Burial will be in the Dunkard Cemetery, Midway CO. Ruth was born September 3, 1915, in Lamport, CO to Mary Elizabeth and Johnny Daniel Wray. The oldest of 5, she helped take...
Marguerite Freeman
Aug 11, 2014
Marguerite "Margie" Freeman, age 103, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and life-long teacher, passed away August 11, 2014 at Walsh Healthcare Center in Walsh, Colo. Margie was born Oct. 7, 1910 in Saxton, Mo. to John and Grace Adams. She was the middle of three girls, with Vinita being the oldest and Virginia the youngest. She received her elementary and high...
Melvin Harold Bohlander
Aug 10, 2014
Melvin (Mickey) as we all knew him was born and raised pretty much in Baca County. He lived most of his entire life in Baca County and he commented once that it wasn't such a bad place to live and raise a family. Mickey was a simple down-to-earth man with simple needs. He had two very strong convictions in life...
Donald Eugene Moller
Aug 6, 2014
Donald E. Moller was born on December 5, 1923 in Ashland, Nebraska to Edward and Lavona Moller. He departed this life on the evening of August 6, 2014 at the Walsh Healthcare Center in Walsh, Colorado at the age of 90. He was preceded in death by his parents Edward and Lavona; and his daughter, Janice Humphrey. Donald is survived...
Sonja Renee (Hefley) Bliss
Aug 2, 2014
Sonja Reneé Hefley Bliss Born November 7, 1955, Died August 2, 2014 Sonja is survived by her only child, Brandon Bliss and daughter-in-law Erin both of Dallas, Texas, her eldest brother, Freddie and sister-in-law Kay Lynn Hefley of Walsh, Colorado, brother-in-law David Barclay of Amarillo, Texas, sister-in-law, Debbie Tuckness Hefley of Yukon, Oklahoma, and step-sister Anne Mills Harrison of Abernathy,...