Obituaries

Dec 27, 2018

Charlotte (Ritchie) Lynn, age 80, a resident of Springfield, Colorado went to be with her Lord on Thursday, December 27, 2018, at Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center. Charlotte was born August 2, 1938, to Beatrice and Glen Ritchie in Abilene, KS. She was the second oldest of the nine siblings.  As a child, she moved from KS...

Dec 11, 2018

On the morning of December 11, 2018, while surrounded by her loving daughters, Edwina and Marilyn, and, her loving son, Jack, angels came to lead Beulah Mae (Moore) Owens Home to sing in God’s Heavenly choir.

Beulah was born to Grover C. and Ota Mae (Lambert) Moore, on August 26, 1929, in Bald Hill, Oklahoma.  She and...

Nov 24, 2018

Betty (Brandenburg) Hendrix passed away November 24, 2018, at Sharmar Village Assisted Living in Pueblo, Colorado. Dementia and other recent health complications contributed to her death.

Betty was born January 21, 1930, in Vilas, Colorado to John and Cleo (Martin) Fugate.  She graduated from Pritchett High School in 1947 and married Harold Brandenburg one year later in...

Nov 12, 2018

Donna Ruby McKinney was born to Donald and Louise Dillon on March 18, 1937, in Peoria Illinois. Donna passed away on November 12, 2018, at Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo, CO at the age of 81. Donna is survived by her Husband Richard McKinney of Bloomington CA, Daughter Diane (Ronald) Rosenbaum of Campo CO, Step-daughter Linda Pond of OR,...

Oct 27, 2018

Springfield resident JAMES HANSON JR. passed away Saturday, October 27, 2018, at the Southeast Colorado Hospital District. James had requested cremation and the family will be holding a memorial service and burial in Winnfield, Louisiana.

Oct 12, 2018

Laurence "Larry" Fankhauser passed away Friday, October 12, 2018, in Springfield Colorado at the Southeast Colorado Hospital Longterm Care Center at the age of 92.

Oct 1, 2018

Jack Quinton Smith, 88, of Springfield, Colorado, passed October 1, 2018, at Southeast Colorado Hospital after a brief illness. Jack was born to Judeah Grover Smith and Mamie Virgil (Gordon) Smith, November 20, 1929, in Dodge City, Kansas. The family moved to Baca County when Jack was very young, where he resided until leaving for Army Service at the...

Sep 21, 2018

Dorothy Hickey Hansell was born near Pretty Prairie, Kansas on December 3, 1911 to parents, John and Mary Hickey and married George E. Hansell in 1935. George and Dorothy had four children: Curtis, Kathryn, Lois and Leta.

Dorothy graduated from Plains, Kansas High School in 1929 and taught in a country school near Plains for one year...

Sep 8, 2018

Marjorie Laverne Ewing Jett Westphal was born November 20, 1933, in a dugout near Stonington, Colorado. Her parents were Irv and Helen Forsythe Ewing. Laverne was the oldest of six children; including Ruth, Emma, Gerald, Robert, and Margaret.

While in high school, Laverne met and married Jim Jett on July 23, 1951. To this union were born...

Aug 24, 2018

Barbara Jane Grant was born August 3, 1925, in Liberal, Kansas to Raymond and Alice (Arbuthnot) Turner. At an early age, she moved to Baca County where she attended public school and graduated from Springfield High School in 1943. She married Lawrence H. Grant November 26, 1943, in Boise City, Oklahoma.  During WW II, she followed Lawrence through his...

Aug 23, 2018

Genevieve Arline Ely was the third and youngest child born to Raymond Ely and Millie McEndree Ely on June 24, 1929, near Deora, Colorado, and departed her earthly life on August 23, 2018, at the age of 89.

She was born in the Mallory house located at S24-T27-R49W across the county road north of her dad’s homestead...

Aug 15, 2018

NADINE BADGLEY-FULBRIGHT OBITUARY

On August 15th, 2018 we lost our beloved Nadine Badgley-Fulbright (Mammaw) to a short illness. However at 94, and having never lived far from Cimarron County Oklahoma, we can hardly call her ours. She was a beloved member of so many families that would gladly call her their own - not by...

Aug 8, 2018

Treva Jo Pearce of Pritchett Colorado passed away Wednesday, August 8, 2018. She was born at home on November 1, 1936, in Pritchett Colorado to Loren and Eula Pearce. Treva is survived by sisters: Nadeen Hornor of Providence Forge Virginia and Jackie Schlager (Bill Porterfield) of Garden City Kansas and brother Jack (Frankie Dee) Pearce of Kim, Colorado.

Jul 28, 2018

UPDATED SERVICE TIME: previously the service time read 10:00 a.m. The memorial service is at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, October 6th. Edith Hope Locke was born on October 3, 1925, in Pritchett, Colorado to Ward and Mamie Brown.  She was their third child, preceded by two boys, Raymond and Eugene, and followed by twin sisters, Elsie Brown Hargis, and Edna...

Jul 19, 2018

DeLynn Turner was born September 22, 1950, to Uel and Lelea Turner in Springfield, CO.  He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Jesse Ray Turner. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Georgia Turner, son, Uel Turner of Walsh, daughters, D’Ann (Geston) Hebberd of Campo, and Jamie (Stuart) Hutchison of Wheeless, Ok, 13...

Jun 27, 2018

James Robert Dennis (Jim), age 78, died Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 at Southeast Colorado Hospital in Springfield, CO. Jim was born in Carrollton, Ohio, on February 9, 1940, to parents George and Jane Dennis. Most of his young life he spent in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, with his mom and dad and younger brother, Tom. Jim’s father—nicknamed “Doc” --did a...

Jun 21, 2018

The family has chosen cremation and no services have been planned yet.

Jun 21, 2018

John Richard "Bud" Rezen, age 74, died June 21, 2018, in Denver, Colorado following a sudden illness. Born August 14, 1943 he was the son of the late John G. Rezen and Ida F. (Flo) Rezen. Bud worked many years in the construction industry, in the engineer dept. for the  phone company, as a Colorado State Patrol officer and...

Jun 14, 2018

Freddy Shawn Day, 55, of Walsh, Colorado, unexpectedly departed this life on June 14 th , 2018. Fred was born to Twila Jean (Spencer) Sanders and Donnie Sanders on November 2 nd , 1962, in Wichita, Kansas. He was later adopted by his maternal grandparents, Mildred Lorraine (Kerr) Day and Harold James Day. In his early years, he attended...

Jun 12, 2018

Rebecca Maxine Machlan came into the world as a spitfire; born in Mesquite, Texas on April 1, 1979, to Vickie and Paul Machlan. Not only was Becki a beautiful baby, she was something no one expected…A GIRL!!

Becki with an “I” as she was most commonly known by all, made her journey home on June 12, 2018,...