Obituaries

Obituaries

Lora Faye Barton

Lora Faye Barton

Dec 17, 2008

Lora Faye Barton, age 77, died Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at Southeast Colorado Hospital in Springfield, Colorado. She was born February 28, 1931 at Boone, Colorado. Her parents were Elsie and Willie Lance. She attended school in Springfield, Colorado. Lora Faye married Obie Barton July 13, 1946 in Clayton, New Mexico. She worked for many years for Ray’s pharmacy in...

Cleon Hunter

Cleon Hunter

Dec 7, 2008

Cleon, also known as Doanie and Dan, was born June 22, 1918 and left us to be with the Lord December 7, 2008. Cleon was born in Spearville, Kansas to Jess and Florence Gabbert. They moved to the farm at Albert, Kansas. There a brother Jimmie came along; Cleon was happy to have a baby brother. She liked helping her...

Jazz Michael Saldana

Jazz Michael Saldana

Nov 21, 2008

Jazz Michael Saldana, 17, sunrise March 22, 1991, sunset November 21, 2008; left this earth together with his parents, Rocky and Pamela. Preceded in death by grandparents; Fernie Hunter and Carmen Reyes; brother-in-law; Adam Velez; uncles, Andrew Reyes, Greg Bechtle, and Mike Hunter; aunt, Linda Saldana; great-niece, Larissa Saldana. Survived by sister, Celeste Currington and Dana Velez; grand-parents, Sharon Jones,...

Rocky Michael Saldana

Rocky Michael Saldana

Nov 21, 2008

Rocky “Rogue” Michael Saldana, 56, sunrise on September 10, 1952, sunset November 21, 2008; left this earth together with his wife, Pamela and son, Jazz. Preceded in death by mother, Carmen Reyes; brother, Andrew Reyes; sister, Linda Saldana; son-in-law, Adam Velez; great-granddaughter, Larissa Saldana. Survived by daughters, Celeste Currington and Dana Velez; grandchildren, Vanessa, Lisa, Nathan and Zachary Saldana, Devyn...

Pamela Denise Saldana

Pamela Denise Saldana

Nov 21, 2008

Pamela Denise Saldana, 47, sunrise January 22, 1961, and sunset November 21, 2008; left this earth together with husband, Rocky and son, Jazz. Preceded in death by grandparents, Ralph and Levina Bechtle, and Fernie Hunter; brother, Greg Bechtle; uncle, Mike Hunter. Survived by parents, Sharon Jones, Jim and Judy Bechtle; sister, Staci (Mike) Goodbar; brother, Steve (Nicole) Bechtle; stepdaughters, Celeste...

Mabel Eikleberry

Mabel Eikleberry

Nov 2, 2008

Mabel Morse Eikleberry was born May 10, 1909, in Phillipsburg, Kansas. She was the youngest child of Sarah Ann Goddard Morse and Josiah Sherman Morse. She had four siblings: Austin and Orietta, who died in childhood, Bernice (George) Kimball, and Laurene (Loyal) Swope, all of whom have preceded her in death. Mabel moved to Greeley, Colorado with her family as...

Donald Dale Gibson

Donald Dale Gibson

Oct 30, 2008

Donald Dale Gibson was born July 9th, 1935 in Walsh Colorado to Milton Leslie Gibson and Iva Hurst Gibson. He went home to be with The Father on October 30th 2008. Dad went to Konantz School east of Walsh Colorado and graduated high school in Springfield Colorado in 1953. He accepted Yeshua as his savior when he was 16 years...

Yvonne Allison Parker

Yvonne Allison Parker

Oct 29, 2008

Yvonne Allison Backus was welcomed into this world on September 9, 1919 by her parents Ward and Leona and her older brother, Jerome. She was born in Sterling, Colorado, but moved with her family to Baca County when she was just one year old. While on the Backus homestead 3 miles north of Two Buttes Mountain, a younger sister Donna...

Alice Georgia Ice

Alice Georgia Ice

Oct 13, 2008

Alice Georgia (Haddox) Ice passed away October 13, 2008 at Southeast Colorado Long Term Care Center in Springfield, CO; at the age of 89, where she spent the last months of her life. Alice was born to Jesse Adams and Ellen Grace (Chase) Haddox on April 4, 1919 in Plains, Kansas. She was raised in the canyons and cedars in...

Deverle Gold

Deverle Gold

Sep 29, 2008

In Syracuse, Kansas, on Novemeber 29, 1949, Gene Deverle Gold came to bless the lives of his parents Gene & Marvina Gold. The family moved to California when Deverle was 5 months old. They spent 12 years there where Deverle attended Christian school for 8 years. It was in this school where he was introduced the basic threads of his...

Melva Loraine Goff

Melva Loraine Goff

Sep 18, 2008

Melva Loraine Goff went to be with the Lord September 18, 2008. She is survived by her loving son Willard E. Goff, Jr. one granddaughter, Shanon, of Springfield, three granddaughters, Taci, Allison, and Bryleigh of Hutchinson, Kansas and one great grandson, Gage, of Hutchinson, Kansas; two sisters, Florence Mason, Springfield, CO; Dollie Pickerel of Pueblo, CO.; two brothers, Wesley (Colleen)...

James Orville Rider

James Orville Rider

Sep 13, 2008

James Orville Rider was born August 4, 1916 at Tecumseh, Oklahoma to Clyde and Cora Rider.  He went to be with his Lord and Savior on September 13, 2008.  Orville (as what most people called him) had very little formal education as he had to work to help support his family. In November 1942, Orville enlisted in the United States...

Hazel Dunlap Neill

Hazel Dunlap Neill

Sep 13, 2008

Hazel Dunlap, eighth child of Ira and Cora Dunlap, was born on the family farm near Hardy, Oklahoma on March 7, 1912. She passed away at Southeast Colorado Hospital in Springfield, Colorado on September 13, 2008. When she was five years old, she moved with her family to the ranch on Carrizo Creek in southwest Baca County. She grew up...