Pieter Gerrit Aukema
Jan 19, 2025
Pieter Aukema, age 88, passed away in the city he fell in love with years ago: Fort Collins, Colorado. Born on October 29, 1936, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Pieter was the only child of Minke and Harmen Aukema. When the Second World War broke out, Pieter's father was working aboard a ship. After the Nazis captured The Netherlands, all transportation...
Stephen T. Collins
Jan 17, 2025
Stephen Thomas Collins, 73, of Fort Collins, CO, passed away on January 17, 2025 at Pathways Hospice from a rare genetic disease. Stephen was born October 16, 1951, in San Francisco, CA to Thomas Francis and Annabelle Marie (Moshofsky) Collins. He was one of four children to siblings Danny, Joel and Colleen Collins. He attended Marin Catholic High School and...
Ellen (Irene) Bostich
Jan 17, 2025
Ellen Irene Bostich, 93 of Fort Collins, CO, passed away on January 17, 2025. Irene was born October 24, 1931, in a small farmhouse north of Laird, CO, to Webster Pilkington and Beulah (Garner) Pilkington. She grew up in the Laird and Wray communities. In 1949, she graduated from Laird High School as Class President. Irene married Don Devlin in...
Arlene Lucille Mccarthy
Jan 16, 2025
Arlene Lucille McCarthy of Fort Collins, Colorado passed away at the age of 96 on January 16, 2025 in Fort Collins, Colorado. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend who was loved by many and will be missed greatly. She was born to Frank and Mildred Hemauer on October 31, 1928 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After graduating...
Larry V. Connors
Jan 11, 2025
Larry Vernon Connors, age 82, passed away peacefully on January 11, 2025, at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, due to complications following cardiac arrest. Born in Ogden, Utah on December 17, 1942, to Vernon W. and Irene Connors, Larry was a dedicated family man, a passionate outdoorsman, and a tireless professional. He was preceded in death by his...
Nancee Isler Klausmeyer
Jan 11, 2025
Our mother, Nancee Klausmeyer, was a gardener. She grew souls. We remember the garden she grew from clay soil, littered with tumbleweeds blowing around the north side of our brick house in LaPorte. She composted. She rototilled. She started seeds in February. And she grew beautiful tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach, lettuces and a myriad of squashes by September. Our mother grew...
Robert D. Sendgraff
Jan 11, 2025
Robert Dean Sendgraff, born on November 21, 1943, in West Point, Nebraska. Robert passed away at age of 81, peacefully with Hospice Care. He was the beloved son of Henry and Gertrude Sendgraff. Robert graduated from Guardian Angel's High School in 1962 and went on to lead a dynamic and accomplished life. He built a successful career in construction and...
Vicky J. Stafford
Jan 9, 2025
Vicky Jean Stafford, 77, of Grand Prairie, Texas, passed away in Fort Collins, Colorado, on January 9, 2025. A devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Vicky was deeply cherished and will be greatly missed by all who knew her. Born on August 13, 1947, in Grand Prairie, Texas, to John T. McCall and Lucille Stafford, Vicky spent her formative years...
Darold C. Sprague
Jan 9, 2025
Darold Clyde Sprague was born on March 8, 1944, in San Francisco, California, the only child of Clyde Morris Sprague and Violet Whitebrook Sprague. He spent most of his life in central California near California Hot Springs. After graduating from Porterville High School in 1963, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served as a Quartermaster for the USS Clark...
Sally Ramsey
Jan 6, 2025
Sally Ramsey passed to Heaven on Monday, January 6, 2025, after four years of graciously living with challenging health obstacles. Sally was born in Jacksonville, Illinois to parents Gailerd and Charlotte (Furness) Jones. She lived her school years in Beardstown, Illinois before moving their family to Fort Collins, Colorado in 1972. In September 1957, two months after graduating high school,...
Julia Peralez
Jan 5, 2025
Julia Peralez, 84, of Fort Collins, CO, passed away peacefully on January 5, 2025, after a courageous 2-year battle with cancer. Julie was born on June 18, 1940, in Oak Park, Illinois, to John and Dorothy Webb. She graduated from Oak Park High School in 1958 before attending Colorado State University in Fort Collins, where she earned her degree in...
Judith "Judy" Ann Allison
Jan 1, 2025
Judith "Judy" Ann Allison, of Fort Collins, CO, passed away peacefully on January 1, 2025 at the age of 83, while in the care of hospice. Judy was born on September 15, 1941 in Denver, CO, to Alfred and Freda Meyer. She grew up in Fort Collins, CO, where she attended Fort Collins High School, and lived her entire life....
Wanda Beth Duff Boggs
Dec 31, 2024
Wanda Beth (Duff) Boggs passed away in her sleep on December 31, 2024 where her 4-year journey with dementia ended at age 96 in Fort Collins, Colorado. Throughout her life, and especially in her last year in memory care, she exhibited kindness, grace, compassion, appreciation of beauty, love of family and friends, and gratitude for her long life, full of...
Jerry Wayne Davis
Dec 30, 2024
Jerry W. Davis, 81, of Fort Collins, CO passed away Monday, December 30 surrounded by family. Jerry was born July 6, 1943, in Fort Collins CO to Monte A. Davis and Eliza E. Wood Davis, the youngest of 14 children. He spent his early childhood years on his family's farm in Wellington, CO, before his family moved to LaPorte, CO...
Laura J. Ussery
Dec 28, 2024
Laura Jean Ussery (65) of Fort Collins passed away on December 28, 2024, at home surrounded by her family and her community. Laura was born on July 13, 1959, in Albuquerque, New Mexico as the second oldest child and first daughter of Richard and Rosalie Hawley. She loved to sing along to the radio and played the flute in high...
Greg Ree Engler
Dec 27, 2024
Greg Ree Engler, 73, died December 27, 2024 in Fort Collins. Born January 18, 1951, in Topeka, Kansas, he had been a wildlife biologist and retired from the US Postal Service. He was the son of the late Patricia A. (Dietrich) Engler and Wayne S Engler. He graduated from Washburn Rural High School, Topeka, Ks in 1969. He was a...
Theresa F. Trueblood
Dec 27, 2024
Theresa Frances Trueblood of Fort Collins, CO, died Friday, December27, 2024, at Poudre Canyon Health and Rehabilitation Center, following a year-long battle with breast cancer. She was born June 28, 1937, in Cheyenne, WY, to R. Glen Trueblood and M. Lorraine Trueblood (nee Dearing). Theresa and family moved to Idaho in 1946, then moved to Fort Collins, CO in 1952....
Jacqueline "Jackie" M. Aesoph
Dec 25, 2024
Jacqueline (Jackie) Marie Aesoph, age 81, of Windsor, CO, passed away peacefully on December 25, 2024, while in the care of hospice. Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 2, 2025, at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Faulkton, SD, with Father John officiating. Jackie was born on May 2, 1943, in Orient, SD, to...
John T. Jamison
Dec 24, 2024
John T. Jamison, 97, passed away on Dec. 24, 2024, in Fort Collins, Colo. He had been a resident of Steamboat Springs for 25 years. John was born on Jan. 16, 1927, in Sterling, Ill., the younger of two sons of William Harrison and Mary Louise (Beckwith) Jamison. Following service in the U.S. Navy during WWII, he attended the University...
