Charles "Charlie" Forrest Maupin
Sep 6, 2018
Charles Forrest Maupin was born June 4, 1943 to William and Eleanor (Bunning) Maupin in Denver. He passed away Thursday, September 6, 2018 at Sunset Manor in Brush at the age of 75. He graduated from Brush High School in 1961. After high school he served in the United States Navy where he was stationed at Yakuza, Japan. Following his...
Elizabeth Amanda (Southards) Welp
Aug 20, 2018
Elizabeth Welp passed away August 20, 2018 at Hillcrest Care Center. She was born January 18, 1919, sixth of eleven children, born to Louis and Anna (Grunder) Southards. She was born 3 miles north of Kirk, Colorado. She attended Kirk School. After leaving high school, she went to Denver and worked for Mr. and Mrs. Brown as a...
Judith Ann (Workman) Minton
Aug 18, 2018
Longtime Sandhill Resident
Judith (Judy) Ann (Workman) Minton was born January 22, 1937 in Haigler, NE in her Grandmother Holt’s home to Roy Henry and Permelia Jane (Holt) Workman. She passed away August 18, 2018 at the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, CO, due to complications after surgery.
Judy was the third child...
Anna (Deterts) Engel
Aug 9, 2018
Anna (Deterts) Engel was born on October 20, 1920 to Ed and “Geeske” Grace (Stekker) Deterts, at the family home west of Vernon, Colorado. Anna was one of seven children and attended early schooling at the Vernon Lutheran School.
She married John Henry Engel on January 17, 1946 in St. Francis, KS. They lived on a farm...
Evelyn F. (Jones) Goodman
Aug 4, 2018
Evelyn Frances (Jones) Goodman was born February 16, 1925 to Robert L and Beatrice (Anderson) Jones at the home near St. Francis, Kansas. She was the fourth of eight children born to this family.
She attended Clough Valley and Rosencrans country schools and Laird High School where she graduated in 1943. Evelyn and Junior Goodman were married...
Frances Ann Workman
Jul 24, 2018
Frances Ann (Finley) Workman was born May 19, 1936 a mile and a half from Kirk, Colorado. She was the youngest of three daughters born to Jacob Snyder Finley and Tiny Pearl (Campbell) Finley. She Passed away at the Wray Community District Hospital at the age of 82 on July 24, 2018.
Frances attended the Pioneer School...
Edith "Edie" R. (Severn) Mcginnis Services Pending
Jul 17, 2018
Edith R. (Severn) McGinnis, known by her family and friends as “Edie” passed away July 17, 2018 at the age of 63. She was born May 14, 1955 to Harman Isaac and Bernita June (Eastin) Severn in Denver, Colorado.
Memorial Services are pending.
Cremation was requested.
Memorials may be given to Hospice of...
S. Joanne (Taylor) Southards
Jul 15, 2018
Wesley and Frances (nee Ingram) Taylor and daughters Margaret “Marge” and Betty welcomed a new baby on June 26, 1931. Joanne joined the family of four in Goodland, Kansas. Eventually, the family would grow with the addition of Doris, Mary, and Sharon. Wesley and Frances farmed in the Goodland area until they moved to Burlington, Colorado where they owned...
Sara "Peggy" (Ratzlaff) Kissel (Mother Of Pat Page)
Jul 8, 2018
Sara “Peggy” Ratzlaff Kissel was born August 25, 1916, and departed this life July 8, 2018. Sara was one of 8 children born into the Henry Ratzlaff family home north of Minneola, KS.
Her grade school years were spent walking with three of her siblings to the country school...
Debra Jean (Myers) Leighton
Jul 6, 2018
Debra Jean Leighton passed away on July 6, 2018 in Greeley. Debi was born in Wray, Colorado July 5, 1954 to Hugo “Wheat” and Hazel (Phillips) Myers. She graduated from Wray High School in 1972. On July 10, 1971 Debi eloped with the love of her life, Terry Leighton. Debi and Terry remained happily married until her passing. Debi...
Belva E. (Shappell) Olson
Jun 8, 2018
Belva Eileen (Shappell) Olson was born April 1st, 1932 in Haxtun, Colorado to Clarence (Whitey) M. and Elizabeth Ruth (Enyeart) Shappell. She entered into the presence of the Lord on Friday, June 8th, 2018 at Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman, NE at the age of 86 years of age.
Belva had schooling in her younger years in...
Pauline Ellen (Brown) Guinn
May 21, 2018
Pauline Ellen (Brown) Guinn, 88, of Wray passed away peacefully on May 21, 2018 at her home. She was born March 23, 1930 in Vernon Co, the youngest of 9 children born to Orba and Ruth Brown. Pauline grew up in Beecher Island and married Maurice "Punk" Guinn at the Methodist Church in St. Francis, Ks on March 23,...
Violet Virginia (Trembly) Smith/Relph
May 8, 2018
Violet Virginia Trembly was born on a Kansas Farm Southwest of Haigler in Cheyenne County Kansas on May 1, 1930 to Floyd Benjamin and Mattie Estella (Douglass) Trembly. She passed away on May 8, 2018.
Violet attended Grandview Country School. She graduated in 1947 from Haigler High School just after her folks had bought...
Lyle Edwin Lukas
Apr 25, 2018
Excerpts from memories written by Lyle Lukas
I was born about twelve miles north of St. Francis, Kansas, on November 26, 1926. My father was Philip Lukas, who migrated to this country in the early 1880’s from Nordorf, So. Russia and my mother was Magdalena (Raile) Lukas, who also migrated to this country in the early 1880’s...
Ruth Virginia (Gurss) Brethauer Andrews
Apr 11, 2018
Ruth Virginia (Gurss) Brethauer Andrews passed away April 11, 2018 at the age of 97 in the Wray Community District Hospital in Wray, Colorado. Ruth was born on July 12, 1920 to Ernest and Hettie Belle (Gifford) Gurss at the family home south of Laird, Colorado a few rods from the Kansas border. Ruth was the youngest of five...
Lyle Linn Linman
Apr 7, 2018
Lyle Linn Liman, age 60, passed away peacefully after a hard-fought battle with brain cancer at his home in Wray, Colorado on April 7, 2018.
He was born September 20, 1957 in Delta, Colorado. He was the second of four sons born to William “Bill” and Lila Linman. He spent his childhood on the family ranch in...
Myron Herbert Weed, Jr.
Apr 3, 2018
Myron Herbert Weed, Jr. was born May 2, 1934 in Haigler, Nebraska to Myron Herbert Weed, Sr. and Edna (Wheaton) Weed. Herb was one of five children: Darla “May” (Weed) Rose, Lunettie “Sister” (Weed) Juranek, Eileen Weed, and Walter Weed.
He grew up near Laird, Colorado where he attended school. Throughout his school years, Herb played basketball...
Ruth C. ( Delcamp) Evans
Apr 2, 2018
RUTH C. EVANS, 80 was born March 13, 1938 to Jon and Mary (Byrtus) Delcamp in Osage, Wyoming. She passed away April 2, 2018 in Wray, Colorado.
A Celebration of Life will be held at the Wray Elks Lodge BPOE #2409, 36355 U.S. Hwy. 385, Wray, Colorado 80758 on Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 3:00...
Cleta M. (Speicher) Sloan
Mar 24, 2018
Cleta Marie (Speicher) Sloan was born to Harold Vernon Speicher & Velma Norene (Day) Speicher
on June 15, 1937 in rural Yuma County, CO and she entered her heavenly home, peacefully, at AltaVita
Assisted Living in Longmont, CO on March 24, 2018, of Polycystic Kidney Disease. She was the 2nd of 5...
Frank B. Engel
Mar 23, 2018
Frank Berton Engel, 75, of Wray, Colorado lost his 10 year battle to terminal cancer at 1:41 AM on Friday March 23, 2018. He passed away at Anschutz University of Colorado Health in Aurora, Colorado with many loved ones at his side.
Frank was born September 27, 1942 in Denver, Colorado to Henry and Clarice Engel. He...
