Obituaries

Harry Earl Miller

Harry Earl Miller

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...

Earl Forest Nicodemus

Earl Forest Nicodemus

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...

Floyd Burnett Hume

Floyd Burnett Hume

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...

Helen Elizabeth Christiansen

Helen Elizabeth Christiansen

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...

Elma Lorene Mason

Elma Lorene Mason

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...

Stanley Allen Alberti

Stanley Allen Alberti

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...

Dorothy June Rodgers

Dorothy June Rodgers

Jan 26, 2014

Dorothy June ( Gillespie ) Rodgers was born on November 2, 1921 in Baca County at Konantz, Coloerado, to John William and Alice May (Byers) Gillespie. She lived almost her whole life in Baca County, Colorado, and was living in Springfield at the time of her death. She passed from this life to her Heavenly home on January 26, 2014,...

Matle Audrey Shepherd

Matle Audrey Shepherd

Jan 24, 2014

Matle Audrey (Adams) Shepherd 1918 – 2014 Matle Audrey Shepherd entered this life on July 8, 1918 and skipped and singing with joy into Jesus's arms January 24, 2014. Matle was the first born to William and Alice Adams. She was born in Flores, OK. This young family moved, by covered wagon to homestead in the Big Rock area northwest...

Louisa M. Copenhaver

Louisa M. Copenhaver

Nov 28, 2013

Louisa Maye Powell-Copenhaver was born in Shattuck, Oklahoma, on April 13, 1913. She slipped into the arms of her savior on November 28, 2013, at the Southeast Colorado Hospital after living a bountiful life of 100 years and 8 months. Louisa had a profound effect on hundreds of people in her lifetime and was well loved and will be missed...

Phillip Arnett Cooper

Phillip Arnett Cooper

Nov 6, 2013

Phillip Arnett Cooper was born April 6, 1943, to Wilbur and Mary Aliene Cooper in Springfield, Colorado. He passed away at his home in Springfield on November 6, 2013, at the age of 70 years. Phil is survived by his wife, Edith; sons, Robert and Kim, Marty and Kim, and Carl; daughter, Stacy; brother, Gary and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren....

Beatrice Jeanette Cogburn

Beatrice Jeanette Cogburn

Oct 28, 2013

BEATRICE JEANETTE HAMILTON CRISSMAN COGBURN Beatrice was born January 24, 1912, to Albert and Pearl Hamilton in Quapaw, Oklahoma. She departed this life on October 28, 2013, at the Long Term Care Center in Springfield, Colorado at 101 years of age. She and her parents moved to the extreme southeast part of Baca County, CO in 1917. She attended grade...

Clarice Charlene Johnson

Clarice Charlene Johnson

Oct 8, 2013

Charlene was born on December 6, 1929, at the family home near Valliant, Oklahoma, to Clarence and Essie Williams. She attended Peaceful Home country school through the eighth grade. Charlene had to walk two and half miles to school with her siblings but her brother Clarence says it probably felt more like five miles to her since he was often...

Lance Deen Loflin

Lance Deen Loflin

Oct 2, 2013

Lance Deen Loflin Lance Deen Loflin was born February 23, 1969 in Lamar, CO to Jim Loflin and Karen Von Hemel. He was little brother to Rollins and Guy Loflin. Lance was taken from this earth after a tragic farm accident at age 44. Lance's life here on earth may seem to some as being too short, but those that...

Brent Joseph Alfrey

Brent Joseph Alfrey

Sep 13, 2013

Brent Joseph Alfrey, 45 years old, of Springfield, Colorado, departed this life on September 13, 2013 in Springfield, Colorado. He was born on October 10, 1967 to Vance Lee Alfrey and Vernell (Daly) Lyddon. He attended and graduated from Vilas School and attended college in Sterling, Colorado and Dodge City, Kansas. He married Brenda Holton in 1996. He had various...

Nathan Courtney Troup

Nathan Courtney Troup

Sep 8, 2013

"The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance." Saint Augustine of Hippo, Confessions Nathan Courtney Troup lived from January 15, 1981 through September 8, 2013. For those of you who can't subtract, he was 32. (He enjoyed sarcasm.) Nathan divided his time between jail, a psych hospital, and living in an apartment...

Regina Kay Cheek

Regina Kay Cheek

Sep 5, 2013

Regina Kay Cheek was born April 30, 1954, and departed this life on the evening of September 5, 2013, surrounded by members of her family at BSA Hospice in Amarillo, Texas after a short, unexpected illness. The third child of Richard and Reva Whaley, Regina lived the first year of her life on a farm east of Campo, Colorado, with...

Carolyn Ganell Hume

Carolyn Ganell Hume

Jul 30, 2013

Carolyn Ganell Hume November 3, 1935-July 30, 2013 Age: 77 Residence: Greeley, formerly of Walsh, CO Carolyn Ganell Hume, 77, passed away peacefully at her home in Greeley on Tuesday, July 30, 2013. She was born November 3, 1935, in Elkhart, KS, to Harold Burnett and Mary Edith (Hale) Hume. She attended Konantz School and graduated from Walsh High School...

Beverly Anne Freeman

Beverly Anne Freeman

Jul 11, 2013

BEVERLY ANNE FREEMAN 1952-2013 Beverly Anne Freeman, 60, of Walsh died Thursday, July 11, 2013, in Amarillo TX. Services were held at 11 a.m. Monday, July 15th, in Walsh High School gymnasium with Dr. Burt Palmer of Polk Street United Methodist Church of Amarillo TX officiating. Burial was at the Family Cemetery in Briggsdale CO on Wednesday, July 17th. Arrangements...

Etta May Chick

Etta May Chick

Jul 10, 2013

Etta May (Isom) Chick born June 20, 1927, went to be with the Lord July 10, 2013. Etta May was the fifth child of Hampton (Hamp) and Lula Isom born in the family home in Baca County, 13 miles east of Campo, Colorado. She was preceded in death by her parents, Hamp and Lula Isom; sisters, Nina Belle Dixon, Minnie...

Shawn Ryan Cogburn

Shawn Ryan Cogburn

Jun 9, 2013

Shawn Ryan Cogburn, resident of Walsh, CO, age 25, passed away on June 9th, 2013. He was born in Elkhart, KS on April 12th, 1988, the son of Stephen and Debrah Cogburn. Shawn attended Walsh High School, graduating in 2006, and Colorado State University in Fort Collins where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 2010. Upon...