Betty Dene Simcoe
Jul 23, 2018
Betty Dene Collins Simcoe passed peacefully from this world on July 23, 2018, with her son, Stephen, by her side. She was 91. Betty was born in Bloomington, Illinois and spent much of her youth, alongside siblings on her grandparent's farm or at her father's "four corners" gas station. She loved the country and was a Midwest girl through and...
Santos Jaime Gutierrez
Jul 23, 2018
Grief, after the initial shock of loss, comes on in waves. When you're driving alone in your car, while you're doing the dishes, while you're getting ready for work...and all of the sudden it hits you - how so very much you miss someone; and your breath catches, and your tears flow, and the sadness is so great that it...
Robert "Bob" Dean Griffin
Jul 21, 2018
Robert Dean Griffin, (Bob, Griff) died peacefully in his home on July 21, 2018 at 79 years old. He was surrounded by his loving family after battling with stage IV lung cancer. Bob was a proud native of Fort Collins who was an auto body man until 1978 when he went to work at Sterling Companies driving a loader. He...
Gilbert Arthur Naranjo
Jul 15, 2018
Gilbert Arthur Naranjo, 91, of Windsor, died July 15, 2018. Gil was born in Manassa, Colorado in 1926. He and siblings Dan Lucero, Joe Curby and Julia Herrera, grew up in Colorado. In 1972, Gil was married to Mary and the two enjoyed many years together. Gilbert enjoyed life! He loved to fish, hunt, play board games, visit casinos and...
Mike Swartz
Jul 13, 2018
Richard Michael (Mike) Swartz died of complications of lupus on July 13, 2018 after seventeen weeks at Anschutz Medical Center in Denver. Mike was born on November 30, 1947 in Hamilton, Ohio. He moved to Fort Collins with his parents in 1956, when he was nine years old, and attended Washington grade school, Lincoln Middle School, and Fort Collins High...
Cari Elizabeth Streeter
Jul 13, 2018
Cari Elizabeth Haseltine was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1974, the daughter of John and Nancy Haseltine. Cari attended St. Ann's in Prairie Village, Kansas and graduated from Shawnee Mission East in Overland Park, Kansas. Following graduation, Cari discovered that she enjoyed working with the elderly, caring for their needs and listening to their stories. It was during that...
Jane Gauger Graham
Jul 13, 2018
Mary Jane ('Jane') Graham passed away on July 13, 2018, after years of wondering why it was taking so long. Jane was born in California and spent part of her childhood in North Dakota before moving to State College, PA. As a teenager, after her friends bailed on a planned trip, she traveled alone to Atlantic City, NJ, where she...
Jeanette Marie Strain
Jul 10, 2018
Jeanette Marie Strain, 87, passed away July 10, 2018 in Fort Collins, Colorado. Born February 26, 1931 in Oklahoma City she was the daughter of Frederick H Scoggin and Letha M Scoggin. She married Joseph A Strain and moved to Denver in 1952 where she resided until 2016. She was a great cook, an avid sports fan and the biggest...
Margaret Louise Schleiger
Jul 9, 2018
Margaret Louise Schleiger, of Loveland, passed away Monday July 9th in the care of Pathway's Hospice. Margaret is survived by daughters Pamela Lewis, Janette (Jim) Sisler, and Carol (Randy) Kettenhofen; six grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; a brother Robert and wife Mary Bliss; sister-in-law Shirley Bliss; numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband Marvin (Bud) Schleiger;...
Dale Leroy Rasmussen
Jul 9, 2018
Dale Leroy Rasmussen, 80, of Fort Collins, died Monday July 9th at his home. Dale was born in April of 1938 to parents Harold and Clara Rasmussen. Most recently, he lived in Fort Collins, and had a vast community of friends and neighbors who loved him. Dale, or "Mr. D", to many of us, had many hobbies. He loved to...
Montie M. Orgill
Jul 8, 2018
Montie M. Orgill, age 89, passed away on July 8, 2018, in Fort Collins, Colorado. He was born on February 25, 1929, to Wilford Orgill and Frances Swasey, and grew up in Utah and eastern Nevada. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.S. in Physics and Education and later completed a M.S. in Meteorology from the University of...
James Bernard Kearney
Jul 2, 2018
James Bernard "Barney" Kearney Jr. passed away suddenly on July 2, 2018 in Fort Collins, Colorado. He was born July 6, 1953 in Cadillac, MI to James Bernard and Patricia Kearney Sr. He graduated from Cadillac High School and completed his education with a Master's degree in International Political Science at Central Michigan University. On June 17, 1972 he married...
Herbert August Schroeder
Jul 2, 2018
Herbert A Schroeder passed away July 2, 2018 in his Fort Collins home at the age of 88. Herb was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Adele and August Schroeder. He received his BS in Wood Utilization in 1952 and MS in Organic Chemistry in 1954 at the University of Idaho. He served in the Airforce from 1954-1956, as Chief Chemist...
Kimberly Ann Larsen
Jun 28, 2018
Kimberly Ann Larsen, age 40, passed away peacefully on Thursday, June 28th, 2018 at her home with loved ones at her side after battling breast cancer with amazing courage, grace and dignity. She was born June 1st, 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia to Lawrence and Carol Langteau (nee Cosgrove). As a child she lived a short time in Smyrna, Georgia and...
Charles "Chuck" Pharris
Jun 28, 2018
Charles "Chuck" P. Pharris, passed away on June 28, 2018 after a short, second battle with cancer. He was 63. Chuck was born in Washington, DC and graduated from Miami University of Ohio before settling in Longmont, CO and then Fort Collins, CO. Chuck worked in the real estate and mortgage industries, working at Cornerstone Home Lending, Pinnacle Mortgage, First...
Dr. James Donald Hites
Jun 28, 2018
Dr James D Hites, 87, passed away peacefully June 28th, 2018 at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado. Son of Gladys and Nester Hites of Ohio, he graduated from The Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1956. He married his high school sweetheart, Sylvia, in 1952. They honeymooned at Grand Lake. She earned her nursing degree from Ohio...
Loraine Glass
Jun 27, 2018
Loraine Geilenkirchen Glass, 82, of Edmonds, Washington, formerly of Fort Collins, was called home to be with our Lord on June 27, 2018. Loraine was born in Lindsay, Nebraska on January 8, 1936 and moved to Fort Collins with her family in 1938. She attended St. Joseph School and graduated from Fort Collins High School in 1953, after which she...
Bernice Sophie Schultz
Jun 27, 2018
Bernice Schultz, a 1925 classic, was called from earth by our Heavenly Father on June 27, 2018, following a 2-month battle with heart & kidney failure. Bernice was born to Polish immigrants, Stanley & Mary Magdziak, in Illinois. She attended St. Andrew the Apostle Elementary School. She graduated in the midst of WWII in 1943 from Thornton Fractional North High...
Andy Paul Kosakewich
Jun 21, 2018
On November 10th, 1958 Andy Paul Kosakewich was born to Paul and Wanell Kosakewich in Cheyenne Wyoming. The Kosakewich family later moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, where he attended High School, and Vocational School concentrating In Masonry. As his brother Steven says "There is hardly a building in Fort Collins that Andy doesn't have a brick in." On the 21st...
Devin Patrick Gillen
Jun 14, 2018
Memorial Service will be held at 7:00 pm, Wednesday 6/20/2018, at the family's home.
