William "Bill" Keller
Dec 12, 2022
William (Bill) Keller was born January 30, 1944, in Brooklyn, NY to Ethel and Ernest Keller. He was the youngest of 4 children. Bill attended Concordia Jr. College, Bronxville, NY; Concordia Sr. College, Ft. Wayne, IN; served his vicarage at St. Matthews Lutheran, Columbia Heights, MN, and graduated from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis in 1969. Shortly before his vicarage, Bill...
Peter Comiskey
Dec 5, 2022
Peter (Pete) Comiskey of Fort Collins, CO and formerly Kansas City, MO and Des Moines, IA lost his long battle with cancer on December 5, 2022. He was born in Des Moines on February 5, 1951, the first of four children of the late Robert Comiskey and Barbara Wilson Comiskey. He was a graduate of Lincoln High School in Des...
Shirley Krempel
Dec 3, 2022
Shirley did not want an obituary and had written and discarded more than one for herself. She asked that there be no service or memorial, saying she had outlived the need for all of that. Shirley spent her ninety-five years of life optimistically finding and expressing her own views of, and solutions to, a world that did not often meet...
Linda A. Guardado
Dec 3, 2022
Linda passed away in her home surrounded by her husband and family on December 3, 2022. She was born in Altadena, CA, and spent much of her life in Azusa, CA, where she met her high school sweetheart and husband of 49 years, Phil. Phil and Linda married in 1973, made a family, and spent the last 30+ years making...
Bud Bass
Dec 2, 2022
Bud Bass, 79, of Bellvue, Colorado, passed from this life on Friday, December 2, 2022 at his home. Bud was born November 1, 1943 to parents Norton and Dorothy Bass in Fort Collins, Colorado and he grew up on a farm in the Waverly area. In 1964, Bud's parents introduced him to Karla Chase, who was a regular at the...
Garry L. Schott
Dec 1, 2022
Garry L. Schott was born in Crawford NE. June 16, 1957, and lived in Chadron NE and Fort Collins CO, most of his life. He died from an unexpected heart condition at his home in Fort Collins, CO on December 1, 2022, at the age of 65. Garry will forever be remembered and cherished as a quiet, smart, and thoughtful...
Maritta Kley
Dec 1, 2022
While visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday, Maritta Kley, of Siegburg, Germany, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in Fort Collins, Colorado on 01 December 2022 of natural causes. Maritta was born in September of 1940 in Bernburg, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, to Elfriede Scherer (née Lindemann) and Otto Scherer. During the war and in the years immediately following, she,...
John Engelbrecht
Nov 28, 2022
Paul "John" Engelbrecht, age 69, of Fort Collins, Colorado, passed from this life on Monday, November 28, 2022. John was born December 11, 1952 to parents Lorraine and Paul John Engelbrecht Sr. in Ogallala, Nebraska, where he grew up and graduated from high school. After high school, John enlisted and served in the Unites States Coast Guard. While in the...
George J. Krausse Iii
Nov 27, 2022
On Sunday, November 27th, George J. Krausse III, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, passed away. He was seventy-seven. He was born to George and Virginia Krausse, November 19, 1945, in Memphis Tennessee and grew up in Brownsville, Texas. George joined the United States Air Force in 1965 and served for 7 years. He met Savita Muzumdar while serving in Albuquerque...
Rene Gabriel Eles
Nov 26, 2022
Rene Gabriel Eles, 88, of Fort Collins, CO, passed away November 26, 2022. A memorial service will begin at 12:00 p.m. on June 10, 2023 at 3501 Shore Road, Fort Collins, 80524. Upon arrival, please follow the signs to direct you to the common area.
Myra B. Coffman
Nov 26, 2022
Myra Belle Coffman of Fort Collins, Colorado passed away peacefully on November 26th, two days short of her 95th birthday. She had been residing at Brookdale Mariana Butte in Loveland, Colorado. Myra was the first of four siblings born to Henry Jess Hartje and Dorothy Mae LaVan Hartje in Rockford, Illinois. She and her husband, Howard W. Coffman, lived in...
Mary Barbara Ann Buhlig
Nov 25, 2022
Mary Barbara Ann Buhlig ("Barbara") passed away Friday, November 25, 2022, at 4:45pm in Fort Collins, Colorado. She was 86. In her last years Barbara was suffering from the effects of Alzheimer's disease, stroke, heart disease and other ailments, and since 2020 had resided exclusively in assisted living facilities. Barbara was born on December 4, 1935, near Pisgah, Alabama, to...
Peter James Woodley
Nov 22, 2022
Peter James Woodley was born in Philadelphia, PA on February 18,1974 to Val and Dave Woodley. With big sister Liz, the four of them spent his early years with the High Meadows and nearby Alverno Valley Farms communities. Pete's childhood years were filled with days near Linvilla Orchard, traveling great distances with his family - including England, South Africa, and...
Bernice E. Schumacher
Nov 20, 2022
Bernice E. Schumacher of Loveland, CO passed away on November 20th at the age of 101. Bernice was born in Plainview, MN to parents Louise and Walter in November 1921. She was raised along with her siblings, Ruth and Omar. She was confirmed in Immanuel Lutheran Church in Plainview and attended the Immanuel Lutheran School as a child. Bernice graduated...
Carl Rose
Nov 19, 2022
Carl Clayton Rose passed away on November 19, 2022, at the age of 96 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado at the Collier Hospice Center. He was born to Montie and Victoria Rose on October 3, 1926 in Muskegon, Michigan. He was born at the stroke of midnight of daylight savings time, his mother got to choose his date of birth and...
Stella A. Snyder
Nov 17, 2022
Stella Snyder, 88, of Fort Collins, died November 17, 2022, at Brookdale Senior Living in Fort Collins from complications attributed to COVID-19. Stella Ann Trembley was born August 29, 1934, in Grand Junction, Colorado, to Leo and Martha (Lockman) Trembley. The family moved to Fort Collins in 1949. After graduation from Fort Collins High School in 1952, Stella was married...
Roger D. Tarum
Nov 17, 2022
Roger Dale Tarum died at the age of 73 at his home in Ft Collins from what is believed to be a cardiac issue. He was born in 1949 in Watertown, SD, the oldest son of a farmer. He moved to Colorado in 1959 with his family. He is survived by three brothers and one sister. Roger attended Bear Creek...
Nancy Hein
Nov 11, 2022
Nancy Jo Hein, age 70, of Fort Collins, Colorado, passed from this life on November 11, 2022, at her home. Nancy was born in Beckley, West Virginia on December 16, 1951, to parents Donald and Aleen Rupert. The family relocated shortly after, living in Texas, New Mexico, and finally settling in Colorado in 1960. Nancy graduated from Highland High School...
Josephine "Jo" Boyd
Nov 8, 2022
Josephine Boyd ("Jo" to her friends), a long-time Fort Collins resident, passed away in her home on November 8th, 2022. She was 95. She was born Josephine Watson to Leonard and Mae Daubney in Saint Paul Minnesota on Feb 19, 1927 and earned bachelor degrees in chemical engineering and business from the University of Minnesota. She completed a doctoral program...
John D. Merriam
Nov 4, 2022
A proud Leap Year baby, John David Merriam passed away on November 4, 2022. John was born in Fullerton, California in 1952. After graduating in the early 1970s, John enrolled at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, studying botany for several years prior to pursuing his career as a builder. He wed his wife, Susan, in 1979; in 1983, they...
