OBITUARIES

Loyal E. Smoke

Loyal E. Smoke

Dec 20, 2016

Loyal Eugene Smoke, age 90 of Pampa, Texas and formerly of Limon, Colorado passed away Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at Ussery-Roan Texas State Veterans Home in Amarillo, Texas. He was born May 7, 1926 in Leeds, North Dakota, the son of Donald Smoke and Clara Opdahl Smoke. Loyal attended various one room schools near his family farm. He was paid...

Donna Faye Clark

Donna Faye Clark

Dec 19, 2016

Donna Faye (Chase) Clark age 87 of Hugo and formerly of Limon, Colorado passed away Monday, December 19, 2016 at The Center at Cordera in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She was born on June 21, 1929 in Sioux City, Iowa the daughter of Roland and Davina (Blair) Chase. Donna had a younger sister, Betty. Donna briefly lived in Chicago in her...

Hildegarde J. Aeschlimann

Hildegarde J. Aeschlimann

Dec 16, 2016

Hildegarde Aeschlimann passed away on December 16, 2016 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where she had been living near her oldest son, William. Hildegade had recently celebrated her 94th birthday. Hildegarde Josephine Fredericka Kloeckner was born on December 1, 1922. She was the oldest of 4 children. Hildegarde married Orvel on September 20, 1944. To this union two sons, William...

Jean Kay Mudd

Jean Kay Mudd

Dec 12, 2016

Jean Kay Mudd was born on February 13, 1924, in Flagler, Colorado, to Flora Belle (Moss) and George M. Baxter. Jean was preceded in birth by her older brother, Judson. Jean attended public school in Flagler, graduating in 1942, and went on to college at Colorado Teachers College, what is now the University of Northern Colorado. She graduated from CTC...

Judith (Kramer) Hadley

Judith (Kramer) Hadley

Dec 7, 2016

Judith Yvonne Kramer-Hadley, age 60, of Fresno, Texas, passed away December 7, 2016 at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. Judy was born in Denver, Colorado on November 15, 1956 to the late Norman Kramer, and Betty Kramer now of Bethune, Colorado. Judy was valedictorian of her graduating class at Bethune High School. She attended one year at Colorado State...

Lee Gale Andersen

Lee Gale Andersen

Dec 1, 2016

Lee Gale Andersen was born at the Andersen family homestead 12 miles north of Genoa, Colorado on September 18, 1932 to Edith and Iler Andersen. He passed away at his home on December 1st, 2016. Lee attended the Union School House from 1st grade through 6th grade. His sister Jewell was a teacher in Goodland KS, so he went to...

Bernice Arlene Kasten

Bernice Arlene Kasten

Nov 30, 2016

Bernice Arlene Heussman was born on December 9, 1926, to Ida (Focke) and Herman Heussman at their farm home near Blakeman, KS. She was baptized on Dec. 16, 1926 into the Christian faith. She was confirmed in March of 1940 at Trinity Lutheran Church north of Ludell, KS. Bernice passed away peacefully on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, with her family...

Peder J. Norbye

Peder J. Norbye

Nov 27, 2016

Peder Johannes Norbye was born October 30, 1917, in Devon, Toole County, Montana, to Ingebrigt and Karen (Langli) Norbye. He passed away at Swedish Medical Center in Denver, Colorado on Sunday, November 27, 2016, at the age of 99. His parents had emigrated from Norway just four months before Peder was born, and settled on their homestead near Devon, Montana....

Gwendolyn Maxine Beuck

Gwendolyn Maxine Beuck

Nov 17, 2016

Gwendolyn Maxine Beuck, 91 of Limon, Colorado formerly of Agate, Colorado passed away on Thursday, November 17, 2016. Maxine was born on November 15, 1925 in Agate, Colorado to Thomas Jefferson and Ora Leona (Bennett) Noah one of three children. She was raised on Godfrey gulch in the Agate area, attending grade school and graduating from Agate High School. Maxine...

Terry Eugene Hasenbalg

Terry Eugene Hasenbalg

Nov 15, 2016

Terry Eugene Hasenbalg, 73, of Simla, Colorado passed away on November 15, 2016 at his home with his loving family at his side. Terry was born October 30, 1943 in Mesa, Arizona to Leroy Jerold and Martha Irene (Flanagan) Hasenbalg, one of four children. He grew up in the Simla area, graduating from Simla High School in 1961. Terry married...

Dennis Cecil Wall

Dennis Cecil Wall

Nov 14, 2016

Denny Wall was born on February 7, 1944 in Denver, Colorado. He spent his younger years on ranches near Limon, Colorado and Deer Trail, Colorado, before his family moved to Montana. Denny graduated from Custer County High School in Miles City in 1963. While gaining recognition as a bull rider, saddle bronc rider, and bareback rider, he attended Casper College...

Michel Paul Thelen

Michel Paul Thelen

Nov 13, 2016

Michel Paul Thelen age 48 of Colorado Springs, Colorado left this world on Sunday, November 13, 2016 at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was born on February 2, 1968 at Mercy Hospital in Denver Colorado. He came to live with Arthur and Jackie Thelen at age of six weeks and at the age of six months they adopted...

Irene J. Adolf

Irene J. Adolf

Nov 1, 2016

Irene Jenny Adolf, 96 of Burlington passed away on All Saints Day, November 1, 2016. Born on December 5, 1919 in the German Settlement of Bethune to Lydia and Martin Weiss. She grew up as a country girl taking care of her brothers and sisters due to the early passing of her mother. Her major responsibilities at the homestead were...

Richard M. Cirbo

Richard M. Cirbo

Oct 27, 2016

Richard Melvin Cirbo age 74 of Matheson, Colorado passed away Thursday, October 27, 2016 at his home in Matheson. He was born one of eleven children on December 7, 1941 in Ramah, Colorado the son of Andrew John and Mary Elizabeth (Roseman) Cirbo. In 1956 they moved east of Matheson and lived there until 1960 when they moved into Matheson....

Shirley Evelyn Grimes

Shirley Evelyn Grimes

Oct 25, 2016

Shirley Grimes passed away on Tuesday, October 25th, in her home in Limon at the age of 81. Shirley Evelyn Hendricks was born on April 1, 1935 in Burlington. She was the firstborn child to John and Evelyn Hendricks. Her father was a railroader for the Rock Island Line and the family moved several times from Colorado to Kansas and...

Keith Johnson

Keith Johnson

Oct 24, 2016

Keith Noble Johnson, 84, passed away Sunday October 23, 2016 in Anchorage, Alaska with his wife and family by his side. He was born in Hugo, Colorado on October 2, 1932, the fifth of ten children. After graduating high school in 1950, he enlisted in the Army in 1952 serving in the Korean War. He completed his degree in Education...

Fred E Hespen

Fred E Hespen

Oct 24, 2016

Frederick Erven Hespen of Burlington, CO passed away Monday, October 24, 2016 following a lengthy illness. Fred (as most knew him by) was born April 29, 1930 in Syracuse, Nebraska to Fred and Anna Hespen, he was one of six children. His parents and four brothers preceded him in death and one sister lives in Nebraska. Fred grew up in...

Marian A Borden

Marian A Borden

Oct 22, 2016

Marian Ann (Dischner) Borden went to be with her Lord and Savior with her family at her bed side on October 22, 2016. Marian passed 13 days prior to her 89th birthday. She was born on November, 3, 1927 to Leo and Emma Dischner in Stratton, Colorado. Marian graduated from Stratton High School in 1945. She married Dean Borden on...

Mary Elizabeth Randolph

Mary Elizabeth Randolph

Oct 21, 2016

Mary Elizabeth Randolph of Limon, Colorado passed away on October 21, 2016 in the loving care of Lincoln Community Care Center and her family by her side. She was born on August 25, 1922 to John Wesley (Wes) and Leo Nora Blazer in Ashland, Kansas. Mary was united in marriage to Otis (Ben) Randolph on September 22, 1940 in Bloom,...

Thomas L. Ellis

Thomas L. Ellis

Oct 20, 2016

Tom L. Ellis age 70 of Burlington, Colorado passed away Friday, October 20, 2016 at his home in Burlington. He was born on March 7, 1946 in Holyoke, Colorado to Melvin and Laura (Shambaugh) Ellis. He was one of seven siblings. Tom grew up on a farm north of Eckley, Colorado. He attended Buffalo Grass School until 5th grade. The...

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