Obituaries

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Jul 20, 2014

Obituary of Juanita Brooks Juanita Loree Huckaby Brooks was born June 26, 1929 in Springfield Colorado, the youngest daughter of Luther & Susie Huckaby. Her sister Jane Savage said Dr. D.D. Hamilton pulled her out of his black doctor's bag. She grew up in Springfield during the 1930's Dust Bowl. She was married to Charles Brooks on August 20, 1948...

Jul 13, 2014

Arely Ximena Rodriguez was born on November 14, 2006, to Jose Juan and Aracely Rodriguez. From early on you could tell this was a very special little girl. Little did she know that she would be such an example of love to those in her community, family, and to her beloved friends. A well-known verse. "Love is patient, love is...

May 17, 2014

Maxine E. Moser was born May 19, 1928, in Byers, Kansas, to Melvin Starkey and Jenny Pearl (Rose) Hays. The family lived in Satanta, Kansas, and Maxine graduated from high school there in May of 1948. Maxine married Jack Moser on February 16, 1950, in Clayton, New Mexico. They celebrated 64 years of marriage this year. She moved to a...

Mar 27, 2014

On August 29, 1924, Vina Jewell became the second daughter of Rinaldo Eppler and Margaret Edna Olinger Webster. She was born in the home, which at that time was located two miles north and seven miles west of Elkhart, Kansas.

Growing up in a time when the work ethic...

Mar 9, 2014

Harry Miller passed away March 9, 2014, at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado. Harry was born October 14, 1941, in Robstown, Texas, to Harry and Opal Miller. He was the first of eight children: George, Jean, David, Jerry Don, Linda, Kenneth and Ronald Dean followed. They came from a very meager way of life. They relocated several times...

Mar 1, 2014

Earl Forest Nicodemus, otherwise known as "Pritchett America", passed away March 1, 2014, at the Walsh Healthcare Center. Earl had requested that he be cremated and that no service be held. Earl was born on November 29, 1941, to Dale and Agnes Nicodemus in Cheyenne, Wyoming. His survivors include; daughters, Sarah, Jenny and Anna Jean; brothers, David, Doug and Jimmie...

Feb 17, 2014

Floyd Burnett Hume, 84, of Walsh, Colorado, passed away Monday, February 17, 2014. He was born at home in Morton County, Kansas, on August 28, 1929, to Harold and Edith (Hale) Hume. In the 1930s, Floyd and his family moved to the mountains of Colorado to find work. After living there for a while, they came back to Walsh where...

Feb 15, 2014

This morning I would like to share a beautiful piece of writing my grandmother wrote and dedicated to my beloved grandfather, just over ten years ago. It is entitled, "I Have Lived". ************************************************************************************* I Have Lived Many times I have said to myself… "If I were to die tomorrow, I could say, I have truly lived!" How any one person...

Feb 4, 2014

Elma Lorene "Reenie" Biles was born to Roy Wesley and Bessie May Biles on October 28, 1927 in Sulphur, Oklahoma. Brothers Gene, Ed and Hobert and sisters, Goldie and Ruth completed the Biles family of eight. Lorene was twelve years old when she lost her mother. She quit school to stay home to take care of her youngest sister who...

Jan 29, 2014

On November 2, 1932, in east Las Animas County, Arthur and Nola Alberti welcomed a baby boy, Stanley Allen Alberti. Stanley was the last child of four children. He spent his childhood in Springfield where he attended school. Among many of his childhood friends, one particularly stood out…Bobby Dean Gibson. Stan and Bobby played, fought and worked together. They remained...