Harlan F Boden
May 31, 2013
Harlan Fred Boden entered the presence of the Lord on Thursday, May 30th, 2013. He was born to Fred and Rose (Pfeiler) Boden on March 23rd, 1926 and lived on the home farm in Idalia, Colorado all his life. He was 87 years old. Harlan married Shirley Keeler on June 22nd, 1952. They enjoyed over 60 years of life together. ...
Irma A Deselms - Sloniker
May 21, 2013
Irma Ailene Deselms – Sloniker was born June 30, 1934 on the family farm in Yuma county to Jesse C. and Mary (Saville) Speicher. She was the youngest of six children. Irma passed away May 19, 2013 at the Hillcrest Towers in Wray, Colorado. Irma embraced life and spent her lifetime in the Wray area working in various occupations having...
Rhea K Benedetti
May 21, 2013
Rhea Kathleen was born in the family home at Wray, CO, on February 20, 1929, the fourth of five children, to Clyde Grant and Dorthea (Hopkins) Pittenger. Hiqhly intelligent and quietly shy, she developed an early and ongoing love of books and learning. Rhea graduated from Wray High School as Valedictorian in 1947, and wanted more than anything else to...
Lethia Lavonne Jones
May 13, 2013
Lethia Lavonne entered into life August 5th 1937 to John Henry and Lois Cloud in Magdalina, New Mexico. She entered into eternity January 8th 2013 in Wray, Colorado. After a long battle with COPD. Lavonne and her brother John, grew up and went to school in Socorro and Lovington, New Mexico where their family lived on a ranch at Green’s...
Eunice L (Ming) Wisdom
May 7, 2013
Eunice Lulu Ming Wisdom was born on January 26, 1927 on the Rosenkrantz Ranch south of Laird, CO. Her parents were Andrew Jestarus and Lulu Lucinda Ming, and she was the oldest of 5 children, Bob, Sam, Wanda, and Russell. Eunice spent her early years on the ranch until the family moved to Wray, CO. She graduated from Wray High...
Raymond Leroy Mann
May 6, 2013
Raymond “Ray” Leroy Mann was born on January 8, 1931 in rural Eckley near Old Baldy to Curtis Theodore “Ted” and Jessie Marie (Dull) Mann. He passed away on March 1, 2013 at Laurel Manor Care Center in Colorado Springs. After graduating from Kirk High School in 1949, he married his high school sweetheart , Ruby Coriene Yelek, on March...
Kenneth Lee Kock
May 6, 2013
Kenneth “Kenny” Lee Kock was born April 29, 1941 in Marshalltown, Iowa to Ernest and Thelma Kock. He lived in the Lincoln and Gladbrook area and graduated from Gladbrook High School in 1960. He married his high school sweetheart, Bonnie Ladehoff, on August 18, 1962.Ken enlisted in the Army in 1963 and trained as a helicopter mechanic and was last...
Virginia P Renzelman
May 6, 2013
Virginia Pauline (Gleason) Renzelman born February 23, 1930 to Lloyd and Mary Gleason in Beecher Island, Colorado and was the 2nd of six children. Ginger married her true love, Clarence Renzelman on January 7, 1946 and to this union were born six children, Rodney, Terry, Debby, Jimmy, Wendy and Stacy. Her family was the greatest love of her life. In...
Mary Earlene Whyte
May 6, 2013
Wray will miss a 95-year icon in Mary Earlene Whyte. Born August 20, 1917, to Earle and Mary Drommond in Sanborn, NE. The family moved to Wray when Earlene was 7 months old. She graduated from Wray High School in 1935. Earlene then graduated from beauty school and brought her talents back to Wray. On March 20, 1938, she married...
Eldridge Dwayne Andrews
Apr 26, 2013
Eldridge Dwayne “Deak” Andrews was born on December 11, 1927, in Wray, Colorado, to Eldridge Edward Andrews and Inez Lucille Davidson Andrews. Deak was the oldest of five children. He passed away on April 25, at Wray Community District Hospital. He grew up in the Vernon area and attended area schools and then graduated from Vernon High School in 1945. ...
Alberta V King
Apr 26, 2013
Alberta Virginia King passed away at the Wray Community Hospital in Wray, Colorado on April 15, 2013, at the age of 97. Alberta was born to Albert John Wessel and Bessie Jamima (Kellar) Wessel on January 8, 1916 in her grandfather Kellar’s home at 827 Blake St, Wray, Colorado. The first of two children, Alberta had one sister, Ilene (Wessel)...
Karen Lynn Workman
Apr 26, 2013
Karen Lynn Workman, beloved mother, passed away Sunday, April 21, 2013 in her home. She was born November 12, 1968 in Oakland, California and graduated from De Anza High School in El Sobrante, California in 1986. Preceding her in death were her mother, Patricia Workman, grandparents, Leona and Ned Thompson and Permelia and Roy Workman. She is survived by her...
Jodi Rae (Barker) Archer
Apr 24, 2013
Jodi Rae Archer went to heaven on April 23. 2013. She was born on August 12, 1972 in Wray, Colorado to Freddie and Sharlene Barker. Jodi attended school in Wray, Colorado and then attended Aims Community College in Greeley, Colorado where she received an Associate of Applied Science Degree Office Occupation/Administrative Support in 1992. After living in Greeley several years...
Carmen Lea (Blankenship) Smith
Apr 11, 2013
CARMEN LEA (BLANKENSHIP) SMITH, 40 born December 18, 1972 in Newton, Kansas to Charles and Marie (Ramsey) Blankenship, joining her sister, Sheila Marie. Carmen attended school in the Burlington and Idalia school district and graduated from Idalia in 1992. Carmen married Jason Smith September 5, 2000 and together they raised three boys. Carmen grew up in the country and raised...
Nettie May (Gorbet) Welton
Apr 11, 2013
Nettie May Welton, beloved Mom and Grandma passed away March 25, 2013 at the Wray Community Hospital.
David Lee Brophy
Mar 27, 2013
David Lee Brophy was born on the family homestead on Valentine’s Day in 1930. His Mother, Precious, said he was the best Valentine’s present ever. Dave Brophy was all boy – active, daring, quick. What would it have been like to raise him with six siblings in a tiny shack in the Sandhills? David and his siblings walked about a...
Gayle Harouff
Mar 11, 2013
Gayle Joyce (Brown) Harouff was born August 4,1948. Gayle was the third child of Elmer R. and Evelyne J. (Hicks) Brown. She passed away February 21, 2013 in Wray. During her childhood she lived in a number of places with her family. She went to Fairview country school where her own Grandmother Hicks waas her teacher. She attended Laird School...
Bernice Marie Crews
Mar 11, 2013
Bernice Marie Crews was born on February 19, 1929 to Otto “Jack” and Ruth Finn at the Kitzmiller Ranch north ofWray, Colorado. She passed away February 7, 2013 at the age of 83 at Perkins Pavilion Good Samaritan Society of Hastings, in Hastings , Nebraska. She was the seventh of eight children born to Jack and Ruth. Bernice was always...
Wayne Richard Wiley
Feb 4, 2013
Wayne R. Wiley was born in Norton, Kansas , September 6, 1921, the only child of Ethel (Antrobus) and Paul Wiley. He moved to Colorado with his parents at the age of five. He was very proud of his service to his country. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1942. He served in both the Pacific and...
Rose Marie Endsley
Feb 4, 2013
Rose Marie Endsley, born 09/22/1940 to Donovan and Frances Boardman in Shelby County, Iowa and passed away on Sunday February 3, 2013 in Greely, Colorado at the age of 72, with her family by her side. Rose grew up working in restaurants along side of her Mother Frances Boardman and later in life drove a harvest truck and worked at...
