Obituaries
Jan M. Keith
Sep 6, 2019
Jan Mary Keith, 67, of Loveland, CO, was welcomed into eternal life while in Hospice Care at Sierra Vista Health Care Center on Friday, September 6, 2019. Her body succumbed to multi-system organ failure, following a grueling attempt to recover from hip replacement surgery. Jan was born in Storm Lake, IA, to Arnold and Marian Kjolhede. Her childhood was spent...
Ruth M. Ciraula
Sep 2, 2019
Ruth M. Ciraula, 85, of Fort Collins, CO formerly of Pittsburgh, PA, died September 2, 2019.
Barbara B. Murphy
Sep 2, 2019
Barbara Murphy died peacefully in her sleep on September 2, 2019 at the age of 94 in Loveland, CO. Barbara was preceded in death by her husband, Robert J. Murphy; her parents, Walter and Lois Barton; sister, Dorothy Barton (Glen) Schaaf; sister, Joan Barton (Quentin) Tenney; and brother, John "Mike" (Patty) Barton. She is survived by her son, David (Victoria)...
Amy Lynn Voorhies
Aug 31, 2019
Amy L. Voorhies, 32, passed away unexpectedly on August 31, 2019 at her home in Fort Collins. Amy was born on July 31, 1987 in Denver to Mark and Diana Voorhies. Later that same year, the family moved to Fort Collins and Amy had found her dream hometown. She spent the remainder of her life in Fort Collins, graduating from...
Eugene Lavar Barbezat
Aug 29, 2019
Lt. Colonel Eugene LaVar Barbezat of Fort Collins, Colorado passed away on Thursday, August 29, 2019. Gene was born to Fred Barbezat and Madge Gibbons in St. Johns, Arizona. He spent his early childhood there and on Red Hill in Oahu, Hawaii, where he witnessed the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Soon after the war, his family moved to Meridian, Idaho....
Patricia "Patty" Williams
Aug 28, 2019
Patricia Arleen Williams (Patty) was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico on April 23, 1937 to Ralph and Lucille Mugrage. She was born the second of four children and has an older sister Kay and younger siblings Sharon and Michael. She lived in Puerto Rico for her first 10 years, fluently learning and using Spanish as her second language in the...
Michael Del Duca
Aug 28, 2019
Michael Del Duca passed away August 28, 2019 from cancer, at his home in Fort Collins, Colorado. Mike grew up in Warren, Ohio where he worked in the auto industry until the downturn in the early 1980's. Mike moved his family to Fort Collins, where his parents moved in 1970. Mike began working at the University Park Holiday Inn (Hilton...
Bradley Murray Ruffell
Aug 27, 2019
Bradley "Brad" Ruffell entered into his eternal resting place on August 27, 2019 in Fort Collins, Colorado. On November 17, 1975, Murray and Elizabeth "Bets" Ruffell celebrated Bradley's birth. He was born in Annapolis, Maryland – a beautiful baby. Brad's humor was infectious. There was always laughter and tomfoolery when Brad was around. Brad liked to live life to the...
Mary Ann Springer
Aug 27, 2019
Mary Ann Kidd Springer, 89, resident of Fort Collins, Colorado, former resident of Appleton City, Missouri, passed away August 27th. Mary was born September 11th, 1929 to Dana Kidd and Hilda Ziesenis Kidd of Lawrence, Kansas. Mary graduated from Fort Collins High School in 1947. She was united in marriage to Robert Sheppard Springer , "Shep", of Fort Collins, Colorado...
David Clone Rutt
Aug 23, 2019
David Clone Rutt passed quietly to the Lord August 23rd, 2019 at the age of 57. Son of Carmelina and Gary, brother of Matthew, and predeceased by brother, Paul. David was a man of many talents. He will be missed by all who knew him! A compassionate man.
Stephen Joseph Dunn
Aug 23, 2019
On August 23rd, 2019, Stephen Joseph Dunn – husband, son, father, brother, "Papa," uncle and friend – passed on after a two-month journey with cancer. The old phrase, "he has never met a stranger in his life" was likely based on somebody identical to Steve Dunn, because every person lucky enough to meet him felt immediately known and seen and...
Robert James Theodoratus
Aug 22, 2019
Robert James Theodoratus, son of Harry James Theodoratus and Ethel Irene House, died 22 August, 2019. He is survived by his wife, Kay Uribe-Theodoratus, his daughters, Sarah and Mia, and his son, Demetri, plus his siblings Alice, George, Dorothea and several nieces. Bob came to Fort Collins in 1966 to teach anthropology at Colorado State University and became the founder...
Madeline Cruz
Aug 22, 2019
Madeline Cruz, 68, of Fort Collins, passed August 22, 2019. She was surrounded by her loving family until her passing. Maddy came to the United States in 1979 to pursue her masters degree and to be with the love of her life, Frank, where they started and raised a family in Fort Collins. Through her life, she touched the lives...
Ben Mcdonald Howarth
Aug 20, 2019
Bernard (Ben) McDonald Howarth, age 59 passed away unexpectedly in his sleep on Tuesday, August 20th, 2019 in his Fort Collins residence. Ben was born January 4, 1960 in Subic Bay U.S. Naval Base, Philippines to Elizabeth and Darrell Howarth. He was a 1977 graduate of Pomona High School Arvada, CO, earned a bachelor's degree in History from the University...
Lorraine Catherine Mckay
Aug 17, 2019
Lorraine Catherine McKay, 86, of Fort Collins, died August 17, 2019. Rosary will be held at 6:00 pm, Wednesday, August 28th at Goes Funeral Care, 3665 Canal Dr, Suite E, Fort Collins; Mass at 9:30 am, Thursday, August 29th at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 300 W. Mountain Ave, Fort Collins. Light luncheon to follow. In lieu of flowers, donations in...
Rosel Josephine Sersante
Aug 16, 2019
Rosel "Ro" Sersante, 61, of Fort Collins, Colorado, passed away on August 16, 2019. Rosel was born in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of Donald and Betty Sersante. She graduated from North High School in Denver. She is survived by her husband, Dave Thomas; her sister, Laura Sersante, and brother-in-law, Doug Metcalfe; her sister-by-choice and best friend, Jill O'Brian; her cousin-in-law...
Karen M. Nystrom
Aug 13, 2019
Karen M. Nystrom - 1948-2019, passed away from complications of acute myeloid leukemia on August 13, 2019. A native Detroiter, Karen resided in several places in her young adulthood including: Madison, WI, Toronto, Canada, and Burlington, VT, before moving to the open skies of New Mexico in 1983, finally making a home in Fort Collins, CO in the summer of...
Michael John Patrick Lynch
Aug 12, 2019
Michael John Patrick Lynch, 76, loyal and loving husband, generous father, "naughty grandpa" and papa to many passed away Monday, August 12, 2019. He lived his life to the fullest with a generous and caring attitude and a love of fun and adventure with a tinge of mischief. Michael was born in Los Angeles on January 15, 1943 to Corinne...
Freda Mae Greenebaum
Jul 31, 2019
Freda Mae Greenebaum, 84, of Fort Collins, died July 31, 2019. Freda was born to parents Lacie and Marvin Seldon in Winchester, Virginia, where she and her brother Wendell were raised by Lacie Brill, and where she graduated from Handley High School. Growing up, the Apple Blossom Festival was always a very big deal and one year while in high...
Leona Agnes Schneider
Jul 31, 2019
Leona A. (Wilmes) Schneider died Wednesday July 31, 2019, in Loveland, CO. Visitation at 9 am and Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 am, August 5th, 2019, at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, Fort Collins, CO. Interment will be at Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, CO, at 9 am Friday, August 9th. Leona was born September...
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