Obituaries
Marie H. Byrne
Sep 20, 2016
Marie H. Byrne, 76 of Fort Collins died September 20, 2016 after a one and a half year battle with cancer. She was born on March 1, 1940 to Albert and Johanna (Sutter) Byrne and raised with her brother, William and sister, Merklin. Marie lived in Bergenfield, New Jersey and Fort Collins, Colorado. She worked as the Manager of the...
Richard Wayne Douglass
Sep 15, 2016
Richard Wayne Douglass, 70 of Fort Collins, Colorado passed away September 15, 2016 after a long battle with brain cancer. Richard was born on June 23, 1946 in Greybull, Wyoming to Wilbur Houston and Marjorie Estelle (Peters) Douglass. His brothers are Jim Douglass of Berthoud, Colorado and Clyde Douglass of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Richard's elementary, junior-high and high-school education took place...
Joseph Andrew Maga
Sep 15, 2016
Joseph Andrew Natalino Maga, 75, of Fort Collins, CO passed away September 15, 2016 after a battle with frontotemporal dementia. Joe was born in New Kensington, PA on December 25, 1940 to John P. and Rose M. Maga. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Dairy Manufacturing from Pennsylvania State University. After several years in industry, he received his...
Dorothy Esther Bednarowicz
Sep 15, 2016
Dorothy E. Bednarowicz was born July 25, 1918 in Kenosha, Wisconsin to Philip A. and Esther M. (Thomey) Bleicher. She died September 15, 2016 at Good Samaritan Village, Fort Collins, Colorado. Recitation of the Holy Rosary will begin at 10:00 AM Wednesday, September 21, 2016, followed by a Memorial Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 AM, both at Saint Elizabeth...
Lois Lavonne Knobel
Sep 14, 2016
Lois LaVonne Knobel - a Life Story February 19, 1923 - September 14, 2016 Lois LaVonne Knobel's Story began on February 19th, 1923 in a snowstorm, just outside of the tiny farming town of Odessa, Nebraska as Albert Sear, Lavonne's Dad, hitched up the horses to go pull the Doctor's stranded vehicle through the snow drifts to the farmhouse so...
Patricia Ann Phillips
Sep 10, 2016
Patricia A. Phillips ("Patti") passed peacefully at home on September 10, 2016, after courageously battling cancer for 20 months. Patti is survived by her husband, Scott; son Andrew and daughter, Jaime; brother, Michael Pomfret (Virginia); nieces, Danielle Pomfret, Vanessa (Jamey) McGilbray, and Andrea (Matt) Zimmerman; and great-nieces, Elliott & Hollyn McGilbray. Patti was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on March...
James William Taylor
Sep 10, 2016
Beloved father, husband, brother, and friend, James (Jim) Taylor, 82, of Fort Collins, CO passed away Saturday, September 10th at Good Samaritan Village. He was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 18, 1933 to parents Arthur William Taylor and Georgia Ellen Brain Taylor. He graduated from Doane College and received his Masters of Divinity from Oberlin College in Ohio. Jim's...
Linda Lu Doyle
Sep 2, 2016
Linda Lu Doyle (Stumpf) formerly of Des Moines met our maker and rejoined her parents, Keith & Maxine Stumpf and her Sister Theresa in heaven on Sept. 2, 2016. Linda, affectionately known as "Lynnie" to friends and family, was born Feb. 16, 1946 in Des Moines. She was the 2nd of what would become a family of 10 children. She...
Richard Marvin Novak
Sep 1, 2016
Richard Marvin Novak, 64 of Fort Collins passed away Thursday, September 1 after a 3-month battle with cancer. He was born April 8, 1952 in Pueblo, CO to John M. Novak III and Mary Gertrude Marvin Novak. His growing up years were spent in Boulder, CO where he graduated from Fairview High School in 1970. He then attended Colorado State...
Frank Rudolf Arrington
Aug 31, 2016
Frank R. Arrington, 64, from Ft. Collins, was born in Findlay, Ohio on December 16, 1951, to Richard and Viva (Kosch) Arrington. Frank passed away on August 31, 2016. Frank grew up in Findlay, Ohio where he attended Findlay High School. He then served in the Air Force from November 1970 to April 1974. Six months of his service were...
Dr. Charles Troutman Collopy
Aug 30, 2016
Charles T. Collopy, MD, 93, of Fort Collins, Colorado, passed away on Tuesday, August 30, 2016. Dr. Collopy, known by his siblings as "Bud" and "Chuck" to his friends, was born January 1, 1923, in Fort Collins to Joseph and Lydia Collopy. Chuck grew up on the family farm -now the site of The Plaza at Foothills Mall– until he...
Hugh Michael Brevard
Aug 28, 2016
Hugh Michael Brevard, 66 of Fort Collins died August 28, 2016 at home. Cremation is planned and a memorial mass will be celebrated at a later date.
Margaret Holbrook Davis
Aug 21, 2016
Margaret Holbrook Davis, 87 of Fort Collins, Colorado died August 21, 2016. She was born in Davenport, Iowa September 8, 1928 to Celas G. Holbrook and Margaret Tinsley Holbrook. Margaret moved from Davenport to Long Beach, CA as a senior in high school, where she was the editor of her high school newspaper and graduated as class valedictorian in 1946....
Bessie Bernice Mcwilliams
Aug 21, 2016
Bessie B. McWilliams was born on June 5,1925. The Lord took her home on August 22,2016. She lived a long life, to the age of 91 and she was blessed with 8 children the survivors are: daughter, Deloris Haddock; daughter, Debbie Kluge and daughter, Darlene Meza; 17 grandchildren, 39 great grandchildren, and 12 great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death...
Joanne Berger
Aug 18, 2016
Joanne Straus Berger, died August 19, 2016 after almost 95 years. She was born in New York City on August 29, 1921 to Amy R. Straus and Joseph K. Straus. Joanne grew up in Jamaica, New York and went to Jamaica High School. From there she attended Queens College, graduating in 1943 and later on, to Columbia School of Social...
Stanley Harrison Harper
Aug 17, 2016
Stanley H. Harper What is the measure of a man? How do you sum up a life and a legacy in words that can only partially express these sentiments? I've been thinking about this some time now. Ever since two weeks ago when Dad suffered a major stroke and then this past Wednesday, the 17th of August when Dad passed...
Helena Ann Vredenburg
Aug 16, 2016
Helena Ann Vredenburg, 95 passed away August 16, 2016 in Fort Collins. She was born in Mason County Michigan May 12, 1921. She was raised on a farm near Scottville Michigan, attended high school in Ludington Michigan and Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant Michigan. She received her teaching degree in 1949 however, taught school beginning at the age of...
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