Homer Robert Mundell
Apr 2, 2011
Homer Robert Mundell of Walsh, the eldest son of Robert Felix and Helen Clada (Dunlap) Mundell, was born February 8, 1947 in Lamar. His life ended tragically April 2, 2011 after an accident at his ranch northeast of Walsh. He was 64. Homer attended elementary schools at Bartlett, three miles from his home, and at Walsh. He graduated from Walsh...
Norma Lee Picha
Mar 29, 2011
Norma Robbins Picha (Pee-ka) was born on May 8, 1940 to Lewis Ahi Robbins and Bessie Fay Greathouse Robbins. She was the second child of five children in the family. Norma attended Walsh Methodist Church as a youth and was a member of the Lamar Methodist Church. Norma was known to say she "just wanted to believe the same way...
Charlene Gayle Cook
Mar 25, 2011
Charlene Gayle (Harlan) Cook was the second daughter born to Leon Vernon and Virgil Maude (McKinnis) Harlan. Her place of birth was Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado and she was born on April 14, 1945. There was only eighteen months of age between Gayle and older sister Shirley and they were often thought to be twins in their early years. Five...
Veta Fay Lock
Mar 21, 2011
Veta Fay Lock was born October 21, 1931, in Pritchett, Colorado, to Elden and Fay Konkel and departed this life on March 21, 2011, at the age of 79 years. Veta Fay was raised on the Thompson ranch south of Vilas until 1941, when Elden and Fay purchased their family farm 10 miles south of Vilas. She attended school in...
Ruth Leatrice Hamilton
Mar 21, 2011
Ruth "Toots" Leatrice Brown Hamilton was born to Flossie and Burt Brown on October 16, 1922, north and west of Two Buttes, Colorado. Her siblings were Maxine Brown Hutches and Kenneth "Jap" Brown. Ruth departed this life on March 21, at Southeast Colorado Hospital at the age of 88. Ruth attended grade school in the old grade school at Vilas...
Lillian Iona Dillinger
Mar 17, 2011
Lillian Iona Dillinger, lifelong resident of Baca County, passed into history and eternity on March 17, 2011, after a two month series of illnesses. She was 91. She was preceded in death by her husband Arden; two stillborn daughters, Shirley Ann and Patty Lynn; son Billy, son Jim and daughter Janie. Also preceding her were brothers Clifford and Gene "Red"...
Ina Marguerite Wright-Partain
Mar 7, 2011
Marguerite Wright-Partain, age 95, left this life on March 7, 2011, in the company of her loving family in Garden City, Kansas. She was born in Trenton, Missouri, July 1, 1915, to David Ross and Alta Victoria Field, the second child in a family of four children. Marguerite spent her early years in Missouri until the family moved to Oklahoma....
Laramie Lane Burson
Jan 16, 2011
Laramie Lane Burson was born April 29, 1932 in Walsh, Colorado and departed this world January 16, 2011 at the age of 78. Laramie was the oldest of two sons born to Earl Roy and Clover Juanita (Packard) Burson. Laramie and his brother Zolin grew up on a farm 12 miles southwest of Walsh. He had many great memories of...
Lorraine Nadine Doke
Jan 5, 2011
1918-2011 Lorraine Doke was born November 18, 1918, and departed this life at Morton County Care Center in Elkhart, Kansas, on January 4, 2011, at the age of 92. Lorraine, the daughter of W.K. and Helen Burchfield, was born in Iowa and lived there and in Kansas and Oklahoma before moving to Walsh, Colorado, in December 1928, from Hooker, Oklahoma....
Earl James O'Maley
Dec 29, 2010
Earl James O'Maley , known to most of his family and friends as simply, "James," was born on January 14, 1919 to Theodore Earl and Anna Mae O'Maley on the family homestead three miles east and two miles south of Campo, Colorado, in the middle of a bad blizzard. He lived east of Campo from birth until his health failed...
Patricia Ann Holmes
Dec 22, 2010
Patricia "Patsy" Ann (Schlager) Holmes was born September 15, 1936, in Walsh, Colorado, to Claude and Jo (McComas) Schlager. She departed this life December 22, 2010, in Wichita, Kansas, at the age of seventy-four. Patsy attended Walsh schools and graduated from Walsh High School in 1954. She married her high school sweetheart, Delmar Holmes, September 18, 1954. They moved to...
Samuel Lynn Ellis
Dec 20, 2010
Samuel Lynn Ellis was born to James and Zelpha Ellis on October 12, 1961, at Elkhart, Kansas. He was the baby of the family of nine children. He was preceded in death by his parents, James and Zelpha Ellis; two brothers, Norman Dale Ellis and Vernon Jay Ellis and his wife, Violet Mae (Wade) Ellis; one sister, Christina Carol Ellis;...
Dorothy Jane Utt
Dec 18, 2010
Dorothy Jane Utt was born on April 30, 1922 in Elkhart, KS to John and Virgie George. Dorothy was one of ten children – 7 boys and 3 girls. She received her education in a one-room schoolhouse in Richards, CO. She moved to Walsh, CO for her senior year, graduating in 1940. Dorothy married the love of her life, Darrel...
Billie Beth Hetrick
Dec 15, 2010
Billie Beth (Rutherford) Trahern Hetrick of Walsh, Colorado, passed away December 15, 2010 at the age of 83. The oldest of four daughters of James and Goldie (Icenogle) Rutherford, she was born December 9th, 1927 in Prairie Grove, Arkansas. At age fourteen, her family moved to Baca County Colorado. Except for a short time in Fresno, California as a teenager,...
Frank L. James
Dec 2, 2010
Frank L. James was born November 19th 1943 to Sherman and Clara James. He and his siblings, Mary Frances and Jesse were raised on their family farm south of Walsh. He graduated Walsh High School and chose to remain in the area as a farmer. In October of 1963, he married Lynda Carol Brown of Boise City; in that union...
Alberta Lucille Dunivan
Nov 18, 2010
Alberta Lucille Dunivan 1936-2010 On November 29, 1936 Albert and Alice Luschen were blessed with their second daughter, Alberta Lucille. The family lived in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Bert lost her dad in 1939. She was blessed with a wonderful new dad, Bill Lookabaugh. In 1946 Bill, Alice, Louellen and Bert moved to Pritchett Colorado. Bert's parents had a café in Pritchett....
Harold Herbert Stoddard
Nov 15, 2010
Harold Herbert Stoddard was born November 1, 1923 at Grenville, New Mexico to Harry and Nora Stoddard. He was number nine of ten children. Harold Stoddard passed away on November 10, 2010. He was preceded in death by his parents Harry and Nora Stoddard; sisters-Nina, Opal and Lavon; brothers-Russell, Ted and Pete. Also preceding him death was his wife Goldie...
Edward Junior Christiansen
Nov 11, 2010
Edward Junior Christiansen was born May 15, 1925, in Barton County, Kansas to Amelia and Edward Christiansen. He was the youngest of 10 children. Before he started school, the family moved to Colorado and lived southwest of Buckeye on what is now known as the Manning place. Later they moved to Manter, where Junior met his wife Helen O'Brate. They...
Rosalie Esther Silvey
Nov 4, 2010
Rosalie Silvey passed from this life to her eternal home on November 4, 2010, from the Walsh Healthcare Center in Walsh, Colorado. Mrs. Silvey is survived by her three sons: Howard Silvey and wife Joyce of Kingman, Kansas, James (Jim) Silvey, Travis Silvey and wife Judy, and son-in-law Rick Sharpe, all of Walsh, Colorado; fourteen grandchildren: Jolinda Goetz, Tressa Anderson,...
Huldah Jane Thompson
Oct 30, 2010
Huldah Jane Thompson was born in Holly, Colorado, on January 27, 1929, to David and Grace (Oakes) Bruce. Jane was the fourth child of one brother and three sisters. She departed this life on Saturday, October 30, 2010, at the age of 81 years. At the time of her passing, Jane was a resident of Walsh Healthcare Center. She attended...