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William Soto

William Soto

Nov 7, 2014

Burlington, Colorado resident William Soto passed away unexpectedly on November 7, 2014. He was 51 years old. William was born on September 28, 1963 in New York City, New York to Jose Ernesto and Gladys Bernadette (Nieves) Soto. He was one of three children. William attended school in New York and graduated high school in 1981. He moved to Burlington...

Robert Best

Robert Best

Nov 7, 2014

Robert A. Best was the youngest of 3 children, born in 1924 in Washington State. He grew up in the town of Montesano, earned his athletic letters in basketball, football, and baseball, and joined the Navy in 1941 after graduating from High School. He served on a Destroyer Escort, the USS Seid, and saw service in both the Atlantic and...

Ronald Ackley

Ronald Ackley

Nov 3, 2014

Ronald Lee Ackley was born Sept. 21, 1922 to Clara Thornburg Ackley and Roy E. Ackley in Richards, Colorado. Ronald passed away on Monday, November 3rd, 2014 in Colorado Springs. He attended country grade schools and graduated from Vilas H.S. in 1941. He loved playing basketball and baseball and was very good at both. He always enjoyed telling how he...

Kenneth Koeller

Kenneth Koeller

Nov 2, 2014

Kenneth William Koeller was born November 16, 1955 in Burlington, Colorado to William and Katherine (Steinike) Koeller. He passed away peacefully on November 2, 2014 at his home in Kermit, Texas. Kenneth was baptized as an infant at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Stratton, Colorado and confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Bethune, Colorado. He graduated from Liberty High School in...

Stanley Stewart

Stanley Stewart

Oct 31, 2014

Stanley Dean Stewart passed away quietly at his home in Burlington, Colorado on Friday, October 31st, 2014, at the age of 61. Stanley is predeceased by his parents, Howard E. Stewart and Grace Eileen (Farwell) Stewart. Stan graduated from Burlington High School in 1971 and went to North-Western Kansas Vocational Technical School and earned a degree in Carpentry. He graduated...

Francis Carter

Francis Carter

Oct 20, 2014

Life-long Burlington resident, Francis Lee Carter, passed away Monday, October 20th, 2014, after a long illness. Francis was born south of Burlington on August 5th, 1934 to Roy Asa and Viola Gladys Carter (nee King). He was the 9th of 11 children. From very early on, he was known as Mugs. He led a pretty typical young life in Eastern...

Mabel Ann Shea

Mabel Ann Shea

Oct 19, 2014

A full obituary will be posted as soon as it becomes available.

Crystal Fager

Crystal Fager

Oct 18, 2014

Crystal Agness (Hale) Fager was born on December 25, 1918, on a farm near Matheson, Colorado, the youngest of the four children of Agness (Bland) Hale and John Wesley Hale. Her mother was a school teacher and her father was a farmer. They moved to Simla, Colorado when she was in the second grade. By them her father worked on...

Gerry Dvorak

Gerry Dvorak

Oct 4, 2014

Helen Geraldine Stein Dvorak, a long time resident of Burlington, passed away at Grace Manor, Saturday, October 4th, 2014. Gerry was the second youngest of eight children, born July 6, 1923 in Spearville, KS. All of the eight children, Alma, Leona, Loretta, Florence, George (Bud), Norbert, Geraldine, and Louis were born at home. All are deceased. Her father, George Anthony...

Lori Johnson

Lori Johnson

Oct 3, 2014

Lori Kay Dewar was born on December 26, 1970, to David and Eleanor Dewar in Grafton, North Dakota. She was raised in St. Thomas, ND, and graduated from St. Thomas High School in May, 1989. She graduated from Northland Community Technical College, East Grand Forks, MN, in 1991 with a degree in business. She worked at the Regional Council in...

Billy Layton

Billy Layton

Oct 3, 2014

Billy Ray Layton, age 77, of Eagle Mountain, Utah, passed away Friday, October 3 at Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, Utah. Bill was born on September 29, 1937 in Denver, CO to Earl and Ethel (Erickson) Layton. He attended Parker High School where he was an all-state basketball player and all-state baseball player. He and his older brother, Bob, were...

Deane Penny

Deane Penny

Oct 2, 2014

Born in Prairie Home, Missouri on August 6, 1925, Deane was ninth of twelve children born to Nelle Louise Cochran Bornhauser and Frank Henry Bornhauser. She graduated from Boonville High School in Boonville, Missouri, in 1942. She met the love of her life John Curtis (J.C.) Penny when he was a cadet at Kemper Military School in Boonville. They were...

Rosalee Duncan

Rosalee Duncan

Sep 29, 2014

Rosalee (Rosie) Duncan passed away on September 29, 2014 at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Rosie was the first born to Howard and Lucille Miley Brown on April 30, 1934 in Lindon, Colorado in Washington County. The family moved 22 miles north of Genoa in Washington County, later they moved west of Genoa where Rosie attended a one-room school....

Michael Liggett

Michael Liggett

Sep 28, 2014

Michael Lance Liggett, age 58, of Limon, CO passed Sunday, September 28, 2014 in Denver, CO. Mike was born June 9, 1956 in Limon to parents Kenneth S. and Gloria (Townsend) Liggett. Mike grew up in Limon, graduating from Limon High School with the class of 1974. He then went on to attend Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas....

Gary Corbin

Gary Corbin

Sep 27, 2014

Gary Lynn Corbin, 46 of Limon, Colorado passed away on September 27, 2014 in Hugo, Colorado. Gary was born September 30, 1967 in Paris, Texas to Richard B. and Gail A. (Scott) Corbin, Jr. one of three children born to this union. He grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada attending school at Cannon Jr. High and graduating from Valley High...

Lyle Busby

Lyle Busby

Sep 20, 2014

Lyle Willard Busby passed away on September 20, 2014, where he was being cared for at Woodridge Terrace Care Center in Commerce City, Colorado. He was 88 years old. Lyle was born on the farm home in Armel, Colorado February 16, 1926, to Martha Eliza and James Merle “Tom” Busby. His family enjoyed one tale of his youth. Young Lyle...

Ezequiel Torres

Ezequiel Torres

Sep 18, 2014

Ezequiel Torrez, 89, of Burlington Colorado passed away on Thursday, September 18, 2014. He was born in La Cuestita Michoacán, Mexico on July 20, 1925. He was born to Ezequiel Torres and Maria Herlinda Cervantes. He leaves a legacy of hard work, humility, respect and unwavering faith. He married his childhood sweetheart, Juanita, at the age of 17 and they...

Wayne Parton

Wayne Parton

Sep 16, 2014

Garland “Wayne” Parton was born July 30, 1930 at his parents’ home north of Limon. He was the ninth and youngest child of T.B. Parton and Hazel Elsie Parton. He entered into eternal rest at his home with his wife Jane at his bedside on September 16, 2014. He grew up on the family farm attending one room country schools....

Mia Castillo

Mia Castillo

Sep 16, 2014

Send Flowers Mia Bella Castillo September 16, 2014 - September 16, 2014 Mia Bella (my beauty) Castillo was born a sleeping angel on September 16, 2014. Mia is the daughter of Tim and Becky (Ruhs) Castillo and sister to TJ Castillo. We were all so excited to bring our baby girl home, but two and a half days before you...

Sam Wickham

Sam Wickham

Sep 15, 2014

Samuel Paul Wickham, 69, of Hugo, Colorado passed away on September 15, 2014 at the Lincoln Community Hospital in Hugo, Colorado. Sam was born on August 18, 1945 in Denver, Colorado to William McKinley and Lorris Ida Agnes (Sloan) Wickham one of three children. He grew up in Flagler, Colorado where he graduated High School in 1963. He went on...

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