obituaries


Taniah Elizabeth Cheatham

Taniah Elizabeth Cheatham

Sep 6, 2022

Taniah Elizabeth Cheatham was born November 25, 2015, and was called home to Heaven on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. Taniah was born at Presbyterian/St. Luke Hospital for Children, with many health problems. This never kept her from being a very happy little girl, with a beautiful smile on her face most of the time. Taniah had just started 1...

Leroy Wesley Crawford

Leroy Wesley Crawford

Sep 6, 2022

Lee Crawford, my husband of 44 years, passed peacefully from Earth on Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at the age of 79.

Lee's requests were cremation, no somber obituary, and no formal services. I am honoring those wishes.

Lee lived his life enthusiastically and was always in search of his next adventure. His career in the...

Mary Lynn Mcbride

Mary Lynn Mcbride

Sep 4, 2022

Mary Lynn McBride, 73, of Log Lane Village passed away unexpectedly September 4 th , 2022, in Fort Morgan, CO. The funeral services will be held at 1:00 pm on September 22 nd at Life Fellowship in Fort Morgan, Co. The address of the church is:

Life Fellowship

17723 County Road 20

Fort...

Anna Marie Griggs

Anna Marie Griggs

Aug 30, 2022

Anna Marie was born September 20, 1939 to Jacob and Pauline Bickert in the old Eben-Ezer hospital in Brush, CO.  She grew up on a farm south of Brush and attended grade school in the country at the Gary School.  She attended high school in Brush, graduating on May 30, 1957.  Ann passed away on August 30 th ,...

Melba Farnik

Melba Farnik

Aug 28, 2022

Melba Irene Farnik, 89, passed away at Valley View Villa on Sunday, August 28 th .

She was born December 24 th , 1932, in Brush to Lloyd E. Pollock and Florence L. (Hancock) Pollock. The family also lived in Nevada and California before returning to Fort Morgan in the mid-1940s. As a teenager, Melba worked the...

Amber Marie Seward

Amber Marie Seward

Aug 27, 2022

Amber Seward, 45, passed away early Saturday morning August 27 th , 2022, after a battle with Cancer. Amber was born in Brush on November 15 th , 1976, and recently moved back to Brush to be with her family.

Although Amber never had any children of her own, she was happiest when she was around them....

Joyce Ann Smedes

Joyce Ann Smedes

Aug 26, 2022

Joyce "Ann" Smedes passed away August 26, 2022. She was born Jan 1, 1939 in Bellville, Illinois to Melvin and Juanita Carter. She lived in Brush, Colorado after moving 4 years ago from Arvada, Colorado, and before that resided in Jefferson County and Boulder County.

Ann Met her husband Randy while they both lived in the mountains....

John Robert Kress Ii

John Robert Kress Ii

Aug 25, 2022

John Robert Kress II, 75, of Rockport TX / Wiggins CO, passed away peacefully at his home in Rockport TX August 25th, 2022. John was born April 26, 1947, in Fort Morgan CO to John Robert Kress Sr and Donna Darlene (Turpin) Kress.

John is preceded in death by his parents, sister's Linda (Kress) Richardson and Sharon...

Donald Jon Schutter

Donald Jon Schutter

Aug 20, 2022

Donald Jon Schutter, 70, passed away Saturday, August 20, 2022 at his home in Weldona. He was born November 14, 1951 in Muskegon, MI to John Eugene and Harriet Lou Schutter.

Don married his high school sweetheart, Deborah, and they had twin sons, Donnie and John Ray. Don was a carpenter for the majority of his life,...

James Arthur Ruhl

James Arthur Ruhl

Aug 19, 2022

James Arthur Ruhl, 77, of Wiggins, Colorado passed away on Friday, August 19 th in Longmont, Colorado.

Jim was born to Fred and Helen Ruhl on July 21, 1945 in Fort Morgan, Colorado. He attended schools in both Wiggins and Prospect Valley. In 1963, he married Janice Baumgartner and moved to Hoyt, Colorado where they lived and...

Robert Rasmussen

Robert Rasmussen

Aug 15, 2022

Doc / Bobby / Papa / Robert / Santa , The Man, The Myth, The Legend, was an amazing husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, and friend.

Bobby was born to Robert D. and Dorothy L. Rasmussen on October 4, 1950, in Denver, Colorado.

Bob married the ...

Mary Ann Lozoya

Mary Ann Lozoya

Aug 13, 2022

Mary Anne Lozoya passed away Saturday, August 13, 2022 in Fort Morgan. She was born August, 18, 1941 in Fort Morgan.

Mary Ann loved the Denver Broncos, and the Colorado Rockies. She enjoyed traveling all around, and especially loved Dead Wood SD, and Black Hawk. Mary Ann and her friend Eddie Torres would go wherever the road...

Samuel Lee Dembitsky

Samuel Lee Dembitsky

Aug 9, 2022

Samuel Lee Dembitsky passed away at his home Tuesday August 9, 2022. He was born March 14, 1956 in Yuma, CO.

Sam had many jobs throughout his life; he worked as a dispatcher in Yuma, CO, drove semi-trucks, worked for the Port of Entry in Fort Morgan and drove a school bus for the Yuma School District....

Ernest Hamann

Ernest Hamann

Aug 3, 2022

Long time concrete foreman, rockhound, father, Papa and great grandfather, Ernest Hamann, 91 of Fort Morgan, passed away, with his daughter and son in law at his side, Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Fort Morgan.  Ernest was born February 24, 1931 in Yuma, Arizona to Alma (Flemming) Hamann and William Hamann.  The family made their...

Sylvia Doris Weller

Sylvia Doris Weller

Aug 1, 2022

Sylvia Doris Weller, 93, died Monday, August 1, 2022, at MeadowView Assisted Living and Memory Care in Greeley, Colo. She lived nearly her entire life about 5 miles south of Wiggins. She was born June 26, 1929, at her maternal grandparent's home in Denver to Henry Frederick and Altaha Mildred (Whitmore) Busch. Her paternal grandparents, John and Christina Busch,...

Mildred Atwood

Mildred Atwood

Jul 30, 2022

Mildred "Millie" M. Atwood, 87, passed away Saturday, July 30, 2022, at the Valley View Villa Nursing Home in Fort Morgan. She was born September 27, 1934, in Thurman, to Soren & Leah "Bessie" Grotteland.

Much of Millie's professional life was centered on the hospitality industry, but she found her solitude in her flower filled yard. Millie...

Jose A Carrillo Martinez

Jose A Carrillo Martinez

Jul 28, 2022

On July 28,2022, Jose Ascencion Carrillo Martinez, "Don Chonito," a loving son, brother, uncle, grandfather, and great-grandfather passed away at the age of 86. Jose passed away in the comfort of his home surrounded by his loving family.

Jose was born May 27, 1936 to Tomasa Martinez and Jose Maria Carrillo in Guanacevi, Durango, Mexico. He then...

Terry Grant Reddick

Terry Grant Reddick

Jul 27, 2022

On July 27th, 2022, after using up all the excuses he could think of for getting skunked at Pruitt and Johnson Lake, Terry Grant Reddick decided to give fishing in the afterlife a try.

He leaves behind the best wife any man has a right to have, Bonnie Reddick.

Left to hold the tackle boxes...

Karen Jean Lindell

Karen Jean Lindell

Jul 26, 2022

On Tuesday morning of July 26th, Karen Jean White Lindell, age 77, passed away at her home in Brush, CO. She was born on June 13, 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska to Lillie and Herman White. She grew up on the family farm in Kansas, and was the youngest of 4 siblings.

Karen was a dedicated mother and...

Samantha Renee Glenn

Samantha Renee Glenn

Jul 26, 2022

She came into this world with a hole in her heart.  Samantha was born in Fort Morgan, Colorado on June 20th, 1990; It was a Wednesday.  The doctors said she had atrial septal defect, and they only gave her a 5% chance of survival.  Faced with difficult surgeries, and little hope that premium baby defied all the odds and...