obituaries

May 25, 2020

Elida Dominguez (Meraz) 61, passed away May 25, 2020 in Wray CO. Services will be held via Zoom on June 13, 2020 at 3:00 pm. Meeting ID: 862 5669 6958 Password: 955052 Cremation was requested.

Elida was born in Teporachi, Chihuahua, Mexico on May 17, 1959.  She attended high school at Secundaria Tecnica Agropecuaria in Nicolas Bravo,...

May 21, 2020

Billy Frank Chapman, 81 passed away May 21, 2020. He was born July 21, 1938 to William E. and Beulah Anna (Wells) Chapman in Wray, Colorado and was the sixth of eight children.

He attended grade school at Wildcat School south of Eckley and graduated from the 8 th grade from Champion Valley. He attended Snyder High...

Apr 30, 2020

Helen Maxine Brumley Woods, age 95, of Wray, passed away on Thursday, April 30, 2020 at Hillcrest Care Center in Wray.

Due to the Covid 19 crisis, private family funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, May 8 at Schmidt-Jones Funeral Home in Wray. Reverend Ben Wentworth will officiate. Interment will be in Haigler...

Apr 26, 2020

RICHARD DEAN “DICK” MULLER, 89 born August 24, 1930 to Clair Loneal and Virginia Osceola (Orndorff) Muller in Wray, Colorado and was the oldest of four children. He passed away April 26, 2020 from congestive heart failure at his home in Greeley, Colorado.

Dick grew up in Wray, graduating from Wray High School in 1948....

Apr 7, 2020

Gary Brooks Earl, a Colorado farmer and rancher, died in Porter Hospital on April 7, 2020.  He died of kidney failure, after a few weeks in the hospital.

Gary was born in Lamar, CO on April 12, 1939, to Thelma Lee Miller Earl and Kenneth Brooks.  Gary’s father past away when he was six months old.  When...

Apr 3, 2020

Daniel Lasserre passed away on April 3, 2020 at the age of 59. He passed away peacefully at home with his wife Tina Lewis and his son Drake Lasserre by his side. Dan went through a year long struggle with cancer. His sisters Pamela, Andrea, and brother Brian rallied around him with total love, support and care through it...

Mar 31, 2020

Margaret L. (Marty) Evans was born August 30 th 1934 the fourth of eight children to Benjamin M. Trembly and Leola V. (Fisher) Trembly in their family farm house near Wray, Colorado. Marty entered her eternal rest with Christ her Lord and Savior March 31 st 2020 while a patient with COVID-19 virus at UC Health in Greeley, Colorado....

Mar 26, 2020

Longtime banker & philanthropist, Robert Uhl Hansen was born on November 18, 1927 in Brush, Colorado and passed away at 92 on March 26, 2020 in Greeley, Colorado.

Robert, or Rob as he was known by his sisters, was the youngest boy of 6 children born to Floyd A. and Irma L. (Feddersen) Hansen. In 1933, the...

Mar 22, 2020

Lawrence Roderick Klie was born April 6, 1949 to George Roderick Klie and Wanda June (Bullard) Hunter. He passed away at the age of 70 in the Wray Community District Hospital in Wray, Colorado from complications of COPD on March 22, 2020.

He was proceeded in death by his father, George Roderick Klie.

He is...

Mar 11, 2020

Carol Jean (Starnes) Shafer was born on January 26 th , 1933 to Ina G. and Ernest R. Starnes at their home 6 miles southeast of Wray, Colorado. She attended the Glendale school near Vernon, Colorado through the 5 th grade, the 6 th -12 th grades were in the Wray School System. She graduated from Wray High School...

Feb 4, 2020

Jim passed away on Tuesday, February 4 th , 2020 in the Wray Community Hospital at the age of 87. He was born in 1932 in Wray, on May 30 th , which at the time was the old traditional Memorial Day.   His parents were William Henry and Effie Marie (Maxwell) Courtney, with Jim being the fifth born of...

Jan 23, 2020

Ian Hermann McBeth was born November 24, 1975 in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany to William and Anneliese McBeth where his father was stationed with the US Army. The McBeths moved to the United States in 1976, with Ian splitting his early years between his father’s hometown of Gordon, Nebraska and Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas before the family settled...

Jan 19, 2020

Rosemary Margaret Callahan was born April 24, 1948 in Wray, CO to Joseph and Jeanne Callahan. She died January, 19, 2020 in Ft. Collins, CO.

Rosemary grew up in Wray, and graduated from Wray High School in 1966. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Colorado and then taught school in Niwot, CO before returning...

Jan 10, 2020

Helen Marie (Deterts) Brown was born on January 21, 1924 to Eert and Geskee (Stekker) Deterts in Vernon, Colorado. Helen attended school at the Vernon Lutheran School and graduated in 1942.

She married Robert E. Brown in December of 1946 in Denver, Co and together had two daughters, Sharon Kay and Jolene Grace.

Helen drove...

Jan 4, 2020

Frank Buchanan Smith was born September 6, 1934 in Garnett, Kansas to Jasper Martin and Laura Belle (Miller) Smith. He passed away peacefully at his home in Wray, Colorado on January 4, 2020 after battling a long illness.

Frank attended schools in Independence, Kansas and at West Brown school which was close to Dearing, Kansas where his...

Jan 3, 2020

Judith “Judy” Anne Reed was born February 25, 1941 to Floyd and Alberta (Coryell) Rowe in Phoenix, Arizona.

The Rowe family moved to Flagler, CO when Judy was a young girl. She attended Flagler Schools, graduating from Flagler High School in 1959.

Judy was baptized into the Christian faith on May 25, 1948, and was...

Jan 2, 2020

Roger Lee White was born May 28, 1954 in Corona, California to Dorothy Mae Brown and Rodney R. White. He peacefully passed away at home January 2, 2020 after a valiant battle with cancer.

Roger lived most of his life in the Laird and Wray communities except a short period of time in Arizona and Minnesota. He...

Dec 29, 2019

Howard Lee Myers was born May 24, 1931 in Yuma, Colorado to Fred Austin and Josie Olive (Davis) Myers. He passed away December 29,2019 in Greeley, Colorado. Howard was the 6 th child of the family. At a mere 3 ½ pounds, Howard’s crib was the dresser drawer. His mom bathed him in front of the cook stove with...

Dec 26, 2019

Harry Blecha was born to Joseph Frank and Mary (Dezort) Blecha on March 6, 1922 near Burchard, Nebraska. He was one of nine children, having three brothers and five sisters. He rode the train with his family to Platner, Colorado at age 3. The family moved to a ranch north of Haigler, Nebraska when he was 6. He attended...

Dec 24, 2019

Loreen Rogers Harshman was born November 2 nd , 1926 at Elsie Nebraska to Jesse Rogers and Frieda (Smith) Rogers. She is the 2 nd of 4 daughters born to the couple.

Loreen attended Grade School in a one room school near her parent’s farm. She lived and work for a family in Grant, Nebraska to attend...