Obituaries
Shelly Rae Duran
Aug 26, 2024
Shelly Duran passed away on Monday August 26, 2024, she was 58 years old. She was the youngest daughter of Rudy and Sheila Duran. Shelly was born and raised in Grand Junction and she graduated from grand Junction High School and Colorado Mesa University. She worked for Sodexo food services for 40 years which allowed her to travel and live...
Kevin Eugene Thompson
Aug 23, 2024
Kevin passed away unexpectedly this August. He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Donald and Velta Thompson. Kevin and his brothers Donnie, Ronnie, Randy and Dustin grew up in the Grand Valley and Kevin graduated from DeBequeHigh School in 1978. After High School Kevin served in the United States Marines and later enlisted in the Army. After serving Kevin...
George Oliver Small
Aug 22, 2024
George Small
Born March 3, 1938 to August 22, 2024 He was 86
My father, George, was born and raised in Paonia, Colorado. His family had a fruit orchard as their livelihood. His grandfather settled in the Paonia area in 1879.
George left home for the first time at 14 and worked for a traveling carnival. He returned home at 15 and at...
Charles Eugene Roberts
Aug 20, 2024
Charles Eugene Roberts passed away on August 20th at the age of 81. A legendary farmer, collector, hunter, and hiker, Chuck was born to Taylor and Ruby Roberts on March 25, 1943, in St. Louis, Missouri. His father briefly met him before being sent off to war and didn’t see him again for three years. In 1946, Chuck’s dad and...
Ronald D Kuhn
Aug 20, 2024
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Ronald D. Kuhn, a beloved father, grandfather, and friend, who left us on August 20, 2024, in Grand Junction, CO. Born on June 3, 1951, in Atwood, Kansas, Ronald lived a life full of love, laughter, and dedication.
Ronald was the cherished son of Darrel Kuhn and Janice Kuhn, who...
Emery Thomas Atchison
Aug 19, 2024
Emery Thomas Atchison, born January 23 1941, to Charley Lee Atchison and Meckie Faye Chrisco in Grand Junction, Co.
He was the youngest of 5 siblings and was 7 years from the closest one. He spent his younger years doing farm work for his dad and the neighbors. But as he grew older, cars became his love interest, and racing them...
Marcy Lynn Jamison
Aug 18, 2024
Marcy Lynn Jamison (Garcia), age 58, of Grand Junction, CO, entered into eternal rest on August 18, 2024. Born to Amador Garcia and Betty Glover on February 5, 1966, in Albuquerque, NM. Marcy was a woman of exuberant spirit, known for her laughter and generosity of heart.
Marcy graduated from Farmington High School in 1984 and soon after served honorably in...
Richard Wayne Minor
Aug 18, 2024
Richard (Rick) W. Minor
Rick Minor, age 78, died August 18, 2024 following a long illness from the lasting effects of Agent Orange
Rick was born April 13, 1946 in Baltimore, MD. He was the son of Bernard Reams Minor and Sally Paige Carter Minor.
Rick was a veteran of the US Coast Guard and served in Vietnam in 1966-1967. He received...
Gordon Brooks Carlton
Aug 15, 2024
Gordon Brooks Carlton, known to his family as ‘Joe’, died on August 15, 2024 at the age of 84 following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on January 22, 1940 to Paul and Rose Carlton. He graduated from Humboldt High School in St. Paul in 1958 and received a full scholarship to the...
Trudy E Yaklich
Aug 12, 2024
After two weeks in Intensive Care in Grand Junction, CO, our beloved sister, Trudy Yaklich, joined the other beautiful stars in the sky on August 12, 2024. She was a beautiful 79-year-old.
Trudy Ellen Yaklich was born to Fred and Leola Yaklich in August 1944 while Fred served in the Navy in California during World War II. Shortly after her brother...
Peggy Jane Ekrem
Aug 11, 2024
Peggy Jane Ekrem was born to Collins and Vera Pickett on December 6, 1930, in Beloit, Kansas.
Peggy always said she was fortunate growing up in the 1930’s because her father had a stable job as a pharmacist at the Rexall Drug Store in Manhattan, KS. There, amid drought and depression, her beloved brother, Dwight, was born on May 18, 1935
They...
Trudy Maxine French
Aug 11, 2024
Trudy Maxine Pedersen-French age 76 passed away August 11, 2024 following a brief illness surrounded by her three daughters.
Born March 26, 1948 in Durango Colorado. She was the daughter of the late Jens August Pedersen and Marianne Olive Taylor-Pedersen.
Trudy attended and graduated Thomas Carr Howe High School in Indianapolis Indiana, and received her bachelor’s degree at Mesa State College in...
Michael William Spradlin
Aug 8, 2024
Mike loved to crack a dirty joke, bribe a house band to back him on Mustang Sally, and cook for the ones he loved.
Michael W. Spradlin was born August 24, 1960 to Joseph and Jean Spradlin on the United States Air Force base in Goose Bay, Labrador, where Mike’s father served. After serving in the US Coast Guard, Mike moved...
Joyce Gillooly
Aug 7, 2024
Joyce Gillooly of Fruita passed away on August 7, 2024 after complications from surgery in Denver Colorado. She was 88. She was born in Binghamton, New York to Michael and Elizabeth Kostick.
She spent many years in the upstate New York area and including working as an administrative assistant at Cornell University in Ithaca. Later, Joyce married James Gillooly on October...
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