Obituaries
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...
Kenneth Eugene Seeley Jr
Aug 6, 2024
Kenneth Eugene Seeley Jr., “Kenny”, August 25, 1959 – August 6, 2024.
Kenneth E. Seeley, Jr. of Grand Junction, CO passed away August 6th, 2024, at the age of 64 in the comforts of his home. Kenny was born August 25, 1959, to Thelma and “Gene” Seeley. Kenny was a lifelong resident of Mesa County.
After attending Central High School, class of...
Kenneth Wayne Hill
Aug 5, 2024
Kenneth “Kenny” Wayne Hill, born on December 4th, 1951 in LaGrande, Oregon to Wayne and Lucille Hill, returned home to Jesus Christ to begin his Eternal life on August 5th, while resting peacefully at his home surrounded by family.
He moved to Grand Junction, Colorado shortly after birth and graduated from Central High School before attending Utah State University where he...
Sandra Lynn Howells Pettley Doporto
Aug 5, 2024
Sandra Howells Pettley Doporto, age 66, passed away Aug. 5th 2024 following multiple long illnesses.
Born June 11th 1958 in SLC, Utah she was the daughter of the late Robert Howells and Barbara Shakespear.
Sandy attended Tooele high school in Tooele, Utah until her senior year just shy of graduation. She went back to school years later and graduated from Kearns High...
Dorothy Alverna Cowen
Aug 4, 2024
Dorothy Alverna Goff Cowen, age 90, passed away August 4, 2024, at Mantey Heights Care Center in Grand Junction CO. Born October 19,1933 in Auburn, Nebraska; she was the daughter of the late Kelly and Goldie Edmonds. Dorothy graduated from Nebraska City High School and attended Peru State University in Peru, Nebraska. In her younger years, she taught at a...
Timothy Jay Patty
Aug 4, 2024
Tim Patty
1956 –2024
Tim passed away at his home on August 4 after a courageous battle with Cancer.
Tim was born to James and Thelma Patty on August 16, 1956. He graduated from Fruita Monument High school in 1974 and he met Cindy in Grand Junction, CO. They married in 1987 and welcomed their treasured son, Bud on September 3, 1987.
Tim embarked on...
Clyde Allen Brown
Aug 2, 2024
Clyde Allen Brown entered this world on November 23rd, 1954 in Gellenhauser Germany, and passed away August 2nd, 2024 at St. Mary's Hospital from liver cancer. He was the second child and oldest son of Alvin W. Brown and Margaret (Rinderle) Brown.
Clyde traveled to and worked in several places in the US and lived in Holland for a few years....
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