Warren Wood Brinkley

Funeral Service for long time Baca County resident Warren Brinkley will be held Friday January 9, 2015- 2:00 PM at Maltbie Funeral Services-265 West 8th Ave. Springfield, CO. Burial will follow in the Springfield Cemetery. Warren Wood Brinkley was born January 9, 1921 in Lamar, CO to Martin Brooks Brinkley and Neoma Ross Corbett Brinkley. Warren was the third of five children. The Brinkley family moved to Pritchett, CO when Warren was a toddler, and he and his two brothers and two sisters attended the Pritchett schools. He graduated from Pritchett High School in 1938 and in the fall of 1939 enrolled as a student at Colorado State University where he continued as a student until February, 1943, when he entered cadet training in the Army Air corps to become a pilot. He received his commission as a second lieutenant in July of 1944 and served in India as a bombardier. Before leaving for India he married Gladys Marie Ogden on December, 29, 1944. He and Gladys celebrated seventy years of joyful marriage in 2014. After World War ll, Warren returned to Pritchett with Gladys to make their home. He farmed and ranched with his father, brother Roy, and brother-in-law, Clark Davis for over 40 years. Warren was called back to active duty during the Korean Conflict and served as a radar officer on the P-94 Fighter jet. Warren and Gladys had two children, Jeri and Stan. They made sure that their children had a wonderful home life. After Jeri and Stan graduated from Pritchett High School, Warren and Gladys made sure they each had an opportunity to attend college and supported each as they both obtained Law Degrees. Warren loved to have his family around him. He genuinely loved little children and would always take time to get to know them. He was especially fond of his three grandchildren, Krista and Jason Brinkley and Tia Davis and was always ready to listen to them and to celebrate the good times and help them through the rough. ln addition to his farming and ranching enterprises, he retired from the United States Air Force as Colonel; served the citizens of North-west Baca county as a Rural Mail carrier and in 1972 obtained his real estate salesman's license and later a broker's license. He ran his own business, Brinkley Realty, before selling the same to his good friends Joe and Mark Rosengrants. Warren finally retired from full time work at the age of 89. His family remembers him as gentle, loving and kind to each. His friends remember him as honest, hardworking and as someone who could always be counted on to help when a job needed to be done. As one of his friends aptly put, “Warren was a warrior who was not content unless he was on the battlefield. He was the epitome of the 'Greatest Generation'." He will be missed because he was loved but will not be forgotten. Today, he is sitting at the feet of Jesus. Warren was preceded in death by: his parents, his sister Ruby and her husband Clark Davis, his brother, Jay and his wife Bea, and his sister Nell Rose Fourtner. He will be so missed by his wife Gladys and his surviving brother, Roy, and his wife, Marjorie, and Brother-in-law Darrell Fourtner. He is also survived, and deeply missed, by: his children, Stan Brinkley and his wife Ramona and Jeri Brinkley Davis and her husband, Dwight, his grandchildren Krista Brinkley MacDonald and her husband Jeff, Jason Brinkley and his wife, Sara, and Tia Davis Stebulis and her husband, Michael, and six great grandchildren, Katie and Meredith MacDonald, Joshua and Jacob Brinkley and Madison and Preston Stebulis. Donations in lieu of flowers may be sent in Warren's memory to "Help Hospitalized Veterans," via the website at www.hhv.org.