Obituaries
Obituaries
Sherrill L Brown
Apr 30, 2010
Sherrill Lynn (Dunlap) Brown, faithful and devoted wife and loving mother was born July 25, 1951. A resident of Springfield, Colorado, Sherill went into the presence of the Lord on April 30, 2010 at the Medical Center of Aurora with complications following routine surgery ending in heart failure. Sherrill was born in Lamar, Colorado to the parents of Roscoe Eugene...
Lucille Naomi Deeds Nelson
Apr 24, 2010
Lucille Naomi (Dowell) Deeds Nelson was born June 28, 1913 in Mulhall, Oklahoma to Grover and Laura Dowell. Her family moved to the Pritchett area when she was one year old. She came out in a covered wagon. She was one of 11 other brothers, 1 sister, and one set of twins who died as infants. She went to Sunnydale...
Dale Fritzler
Mar 24, 2010
Dale Fritzler was born on March 12, 1937 in Fort Collins, Colorado. He lived in Wellington and Timnath, Colorado where his parents, Fred and Loraine, farmed. Dale and his twin brother Don shared many fun times during their younger years, what one didn't think of, the other would. The family later moved to Watkins, CO where they purchased a large...
Laura Bell Babb
Mar 24, 2010
Despite the circumstances that brought us together today ... Laura Babb would love the fact that her family has gathered together, no matter the reason. For Laura, any reason that brought family and others together was good. Laura Babb loved nothing more than a house stuffed full of family and friends' joyfully sharing food and conversation punctuated with a fair...
Audie Francis Wade
Mar 13, 2010
Audie Francis Wade went to his rest on Saturday, March 13, 2010. He was born the son of James and Sadie Wade on a farm near Tecumseh, Oklahoma on June 8, 1922. He came to Colorado as a young man and joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 and served in France and England during WWII. While on assignment in...
Lida Mae Osteen
Feb 27, 2010
Lida Mae (Dunlap) Osteen 1914-2010 Lida Mae was born on June 20, 1914, on a farm near Hardy, Oklahoma, to Cora and Ira Dunlap. She was one of 10 children. The brothers were Walt, Lee and Ray (Doc), and the sisters were Gertrude, Irma, Hazel, Callie, Millie, and Thelma. She married Ira (Ike) Osteen on June 2, 1940, and had...
Earl Crane
Feb 15, 2010
Earl Crane was the youngest of four boys born to Sarah Francis (Riddle) and Edward H. Crane. He was born on the family farm southwest of Springfield, Colorado, on July 16, 1923 and passed away on February 15, 2010 at Southeast Colorado Hospital in Springfield, Colorado, at the age of 86. Earl was a student at Lone Star School for...
Billye A Hayward
Feb 1, 2010
Billye was born November 6, 1918 to Anna Parsley Abee and Walter Alexander Abee. Her dad left her mom shortly after Billye was born. Anna and Billye then moved in with her parents Grandma and Grandpa Parsley. Billye was Grandpa Parsley’s pride and joy and Billye thought he was the greatest man around and went everywhere she could with him....
Joan Ellen Ballman
Jan 31, 2010
Joan Ellen Ballman, 76, passed away January 31, at the Davis Hospice Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Joan, the youngest of 10 siblings, was born May 15, 1933 to Harvey Lane and Celia May Hall outside of Two Buttes, Colorado. Joan graduated from high school in Two Buttes in 1951. She met Kenneth Ballman in 1952 and they were united in...
Ola Mae Swan
Jan 7, 2010
Ola Mae (Miracle) Swan was born on October 7th, 1924 on Glade Park, Colorado to Dewey and Clara Miracle. She left this earth to be with Jesus on January 7th, 2010. Ola Mae was preceded in death by one son, Baby Boy Swan, one daughter Annetta Adair, one grandson, Amoriah Adair, one great-granddaughter, Kylie Rhoads, her parents, five brothers, and...
Rebecca Ann Loflin
Dec 17, 2009
Rebecca Ann Loflin was born to Gailon and Myrna Loflin on November 24, 1966. She was the youngest of three children. Her older brothers Randy and Ritchie Loflin were as excited as any brothers should be to have a baby sister in the house. Becky grew up in Springfield; attended Springfield Schools and loved to hang out with her friends,...
Clinton Hoeffner
Dec 12, 2009
Clinton Duane Hoeffner was born August 12, 1946 to Ed and Ethel Hoeffner. Clinton was diagnosed with Pulmonary Fibrosis in February 2007. He battles this incurable disease until December 12, 2009. Clinton graduated from Campo High School in 1964. On February 27, 1967 he made a lifelong commitment to love, cherish and honor Freda Wait. He lived by those vows...
Norman Don Owens
Dec 9, 2009
At Juniper Village in Lamar, Colorado, Baca County, Colorado resident, Norman Don Owens, went to be with the Lord, on December 9, 2009 with brothers, Jack and Kelly at his side. Norman was the second child born to Manuel Lee "Ted" Owens and Beulah Mae (Moore) Owens of Campo, Colorado, joining the family on November 9, 1953 in Lamar, Colorado....
Judson (Jud) Emrick
Dec 6, 2009
Judson Harry, the seventh child of Alva and Ina Williamson Emrick was born on January 19, 1932 at his dad’s homestead, near Pritchett, Colorado. He departed this life on December 6, 2009. Judson joined a household with five older brothers and one sister. It seems Jud developed his love of ranching early in life. Alva Emrick raised registered milking shorthorn...
Darrel Ray Wait
Nov 25, 2009
Native Baca County resident, Darrel Ray Wait passed from this life on Wednesday, November 25, 2009, from an automobile accident. Darrel was born on August 14, 1957 in Boise City, Oklahoma, to Charley and Frances Wait, 3 minutes after his twin sister Cheryl. Darrel started school in Campo, Colorado and spent his educational years in this same school, graduating in...
Ethel Iva Evans Ormiston
Aug 22, 2009
Ethel Iva Evans Ormiston was Born July 20, 1916 in Dewey County, Oklahoma, close to a town called Camargo; and went to school at at two room school house in Bloomfield. At the age of 8 1/2 years, she moved by covered wagon to Colorado, near Utleyville. She spent most of her school years in the Sunderland School, including 2...
Dollie Irene Walker Woolum
Aug 20, 2009
Dollie Irene Conner Walker-Woolum was born July 8, 1913 to Amanda and Elmer T. Conner, 6 miles north of Vilas Co. in Baca County. Dollie was the 4th of 5 children. She always told us her father named her Dollie because when he first looked at her he said “shes’s a perfect little doll, we will name her Dollie“. Her...
Harry Eugene Turner
Jul 28, 2009
Harry Eugene Turner died July 28, 2009, in Springfield; he was 85. He was born January 31, 1924 in Liberal, Kansas to Raymond Allen Turner and Alice Winifred Arbuthnot. When he was 5, Harry came to Baca County. He rode on a tractor driven by his uncle Virgil Arbuthnot. At night, the two boys slept under a trailer. During his...
David (Buster) Nathan Cope, Jr.
Jul 23, 2009
David Nathan Cope, Jr. was born on a farm north of Mullinville, Kiowa County, Kansas, October 18, 1912. He left us from the Long Term Care Center of Springfield, Colorado, July 23, 2009, just shy of his 97th birthday by two months and 25 days. Very early he acquired the name of Buster, which has stayed with him all of...
Marla Dene Baxter
Jul 16, 2009
Marla Was the first daughter born to Richard and Dona Baxter October 2, 1957. Marla's early years were spent in Bovina, Texas. She showed an interest in cooking at a very early age making mud pies with the help of her cat. She loved to go with her dad to change water or ride in the tractor or combine, a...
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