Juanita Loree Brooks
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...
Arely Ximena Rodriguez
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...
Maxine E. Moser
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...
Vina Jewell Burhenn
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...