OBITUARIES

Orvel Aeschlimann

Orvel Aeschlimann

May 25, 2010

Lifelong Kit Carson County resident Orvel Arthur Aeschlimann passed away on May 25, 2010 at the Grace Manor Care Center in Burlington. He was 89 years old. Orvel was born on November 17, 1920 in Diller, Nebraska to Rudolph and Martha (Schnuelle) Aeschlimann. He was one of three sons born to this union. In 1930, the family moved from Nebraska...

Mary Emmerling-Overland

Mary Emmerling-Overland

May 18, 2010

Mary Emmerling-Overland passed away on May 18, 2010 in Colorado Springs, CO. Mary Overland was born on January 6, 1914 to Hugo Sr. and Leopoldine Emmerling in Pierce, NE. She had seven brothers and one sister. Mary married Ernest Overland in 1966. She was a dedicated employee at the National Biscuit Company for 32 years. Mary loved sewing and crocheting...

Dorothy Petersen

Dorothy Petersen

May 17, 2010

Dorothy Denise (Winslow) Peterson was born August 21, 1910 and passed away on May 17, 2010 in La Junta, Colorado. Her parents were Dan and Maggie Winslow homesteaders at Hay Springs, NE. She had an elder sister Dora and a younger sister Babe all preceding her in death. Some of her early years of schooling were in Boise Idaho where...

Leonard Johnson, Sr

Leonard Johnson, Sr

May 9, 2010

Lifelong Burlington, Colorado resident Leonard Willis Johnson, Sr. passed away on May 9, 2010 at Penrose Main Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was 79 years old. Leonard was born on May 25, 1930 in Idalia, Colorado to Frank R. and Olive E. (Walters) Johnson. He was one of six children. He grew up and attended school in the Burlington...

Elaine Rueb

Elaine Rueb

May 7, 2010

Biography Elaine Catherine Rueb, 59, passed away peacefully at her home on May 7, 2010 with her family and loved ones by her side. Elaine fought a courageous 4 ½ year battle with ovarian cancer and did much to advance the research of this disease by participating in many clinical trials. Elaine was born June 27, 1950, in Burlington, Colorado,...

Rita Feddern

Rita Feddern

May 7, 2010

Rita M. Feddern, 91, of Limon, Colorado, passed away May 7, 2010 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She was born September 4, 1918 in Simla, CO, daughter of Angus Mac Lennan and Maud T. Roach. She grew up in the Simla area graduating in 1936 from Simla High School. Rita married Mike Feddern on July 2, 1942 in Calhan, Colorado. To...

Edmund Gramm

Edmund Gramm

May 5, 2010

Edmund Gramm was born October 1, 1920 at the home of his parents, Gottlieb and Lydia (Stutz) Gramm north of Bethune, Colorado. He joined two older brothers, Loyd; born February 15, 1918 and Lawrence: born June 14, 1919. Two sisters were to be added to the family, Elma Gramm Schaal; born May 16, 1923 and Esther Gramm Corliss; born September...

Sarah Waitman

Sarah Waitman

May 1, 2010

Surrounded by friends and family, longtime Burlington, Colorado resident Sarah Jane Waitman, 101 years young, went to be with her heavenly Father on Saturday May 1, 2010, at the Kit Carson County Memorial Hospital in Burlington. Sarah Jane Clair was born on July 30, 1908 in Alton, Kansas. She was the fourth of nine children born to William Warrington “Warrney”...

Esther Laverenz

Esther Laverenz

Apr 28, 2010

Longtime Burlington, Colorado resident Esther Laverenz, age 70, died Wednesday April 28, 2010 at the Kit Carson County Memorial Hospital in Burlington. Esther was born May 28, 1939, on the family farmstead, in Gove County Kansas. She was one of twelve children born to Frank A. and Applonia (Schaffer) Weber. She attended and graduated from Oakley High School in Oakley,...

Mary Leoffler

Mary Leoffler

Apr 26, 2010

Longtime Burlington resident, Mary Ellen Leoffler passed away on Monday, April 26, 2010 at the Little Adventist Hospital in Littleton, Colorado at the age af 67. Mary was born on October 20, 1943 to John Richard and Vera Fern (Kennedy) Dallas in Goodland, Kansas. She was one of five daughters born to this union. She attended Goodland School and graduated...

Thelma Weaver

Thelma Weaver

Apr 25, 2010

Thelma M Weaver, wife of the late Lawrence E Weaver, passed away Sunday, April 25, at The Good Samaritan Center in Simla, Colorado. Thelma was born July 5, 1921 to Vance and Vivian Blackwood in the sod house on the family farm about seven miles south of Simla. She grew up on the farm where she came to love working...

Darryl Stout

Darryl Stout

Apr 23, 2010

Visitation Wednesday April 28, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 PM at Love Funeral Home Click for Map and Directions

Rodney Kleweno

Rodney Kleweno

Apr 22, 2010

Longtime Burlington-area resident Rodney Lee Kleweno passed away suddenly from heart failure on Thursday, April 22, 2010 at the age of 61. Rod was born August 5, 1948 to Ralph and Luella (Gross) Kleweno in Goodland, Kansas. He was the second of three children born to this union, with Sherry Kleweno (Wiedman) as his older sister and Roger Kleweno as...

Dennis Johnston

Dennis Johnston

Apr 22, 2010

Dennis Johnston, age 58, of Simla, CO passed away April 22, 2010 at his home outside of Simla, CO. Dennis was born December 24, 1951 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Philadelphia, PA to parents Thomas and Susan (McGowan) Johnston. The family resided in New Jersey where Dennis attended school at St. Patrick’s School in Woodbury, NJ and then at Deptford...

Slyvester Glos

Slyvester Glos

Apr 17, 2010

Visitation Wednesday April 21, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 PM at St. Charles Catholic Church Click for Map and Directions

Carolyn Pharr

Carolyn Pharr

Apr 17, 2010

Former Hugo resident Carolyn Herrell Pharr passed away Saturday April 17, 2010 in Kersey, Colorado at the age of 85 with her family by her side. Known as the “Frog Lady” Carolyn was a loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She will be dearly missed by all who knew her.

Theodore "Ted" Schaal

Theodore "Ted" Schaal

Apr 16, 2010

Theodore Berthold (Ted) Schaal a lifelong Burlington, Colorado resident passed away on Friday, April 16, Aurora Medical Center South in Aurora, Colorado after injuries he sustained in an automobile accident April 2 which also took the life of his wife Elma. They celebrated their 63 anniversary and his 88th birthday March 21, 2010 with all of his family present. Ted...

Bonnie Pizel

Bonnie Pizel

Apr 16, 2010

Bonnie Dell Barber was born on March 10, 1935 --- the first-born child of Madge and Wayne Barber. She was born in the family home south of Laird, CO. In December of 1937, she helped welcome her baby brother, Charles Dewayne. He became her life long buddy and dance partner. The family moved 8 miles south of Burlington in 1942...

Bernard Cain

Bernard Cain

Apr 15, 2010

Bernard L Cain passed away April 15, 2010, one day short of his 94th birthday. Myrtle Laurene (Hanner), his wife of 67 years was nearby. With him, too, were his close family, son, Bernie, and daughter, Brenda, daughter-in-law, Barbara, and son-in-law, Michael Knue. Cody Rae Knue, his only granddaughter, spent meaningful time with him just a few days before he...

Baby Vann Hobson

Baby Vann Hobson

Apr 12, 2010

Send Flowers Baby Vann Brice Hobson November 23, 2009 - April 12, 2010 Vann Brice Hobson passed away at the age of 4 months 19 days on April 12, 2010. he is survived by his parents Corey and Victoria Penry-Hobson of Limon,Colorado. He is also survived by his grand parents Terry and Janet Hobson of Flagler, Colorado and Susan Bell...

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