Obituaries

Feb 21, 2018

WILMA DARLENE KARDOKUS Funeral services for loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Wilma Darlene Kardokus will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 3, 2018 at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Reverend Sammy Jamison will officiate. Interment will follow at Cortez Cemetery. A viewing will be held at Ertel Memorial Chapel from 4:00-6:00 p.m. on Friday, March 2, 2018. Wilma was...

Feb 21, 2018

HELEN VAN DOVER Funeral services for longtime Cortez resident Helen Van Dover will be held on Monday, February 26, 2018 at Cortez First Baptist Church. Interment will follow at Cortez Cemetery. Helen was born December 16, 1928 in Andover, S.D. the daughter of Julius F. and Lucy Rose (Zimney) Dylla. She passed away on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at Morning...

Feb 16, 2018

Carl Rolston Armstrong, born to Franklin Daniel and Bannie Mason Armstrong (both deceased), went home to be with the Lord on February 16, 2018 at the age of 90. Carl was born on September 20, 1927 in Seminole, Oklahoma, and moved to Colorado in 1936 with his parents and three sisters; Claudine Wilhite, Estelle Blaisdell (deceased), and Pearl Risenhoover (deceased)....

Feb 15, 2018

TAELAR LYNN ROWLEY Memorial services for Mancos resident Taelar Lynn Rowley will be held at noon on Friday, March 9 at the Mancos Cowboy Church. Taelar was born February 4, 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah the daughter of Shayne Lyle Rowley and Celeste Dawn Monique Murdock. She passed away on Thursday, February 15, 2018 at Childrens Hospital in Aurora,...

Feb 12, 2018

Katie Mae (Dornik) Waggoner passed away in Mancos, CO on February 12, 2018 at the age of 87. Katie was born January 1, 1931 in Bisbee, AZ to Tony S. and Musa Mae (Grosh) Dornik. She lived her early life in Miami, AZ where she graduated from Miami High School and was a member of the marching band. Katie spent...

Feb 11, 2018

Caroline Blumve Ebeid, 95, passed peacefully at Valley Inn Nursing Home on February 11, 2018. She is survived by her daughters Cathy Seibert and Christine Heimann, sons Gregory Seibert and Tremaine Ebeid, ten grandchildren and great grandchildren, sisters, and cousins. She was predeceased by her daughter, Nawal Giscard DEstaing. Caroline lived in Pasadena California, Beirut, Lebanon, and mostly, Winston-Salem, North...

Feb 10, 2018

ROBERT LAWERNCE BOB HARRAH JR. Robert Lawrence Bob Harrah Jr. was born April 29, 1948 in Ronceverte, West Virginia the son of Robert Harrah Sr. and Blanche Betty (Spitzer) Harrah. He passed away on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at his home at the age of 69. Bob was a member of the Cortez Elks Lodge #1789 an avid golfer and...

Feb 7, 2018

CHARLOTTE MAE BAXSTROM Memorial services for lifelong Cortez resident Charlotte Mae Baxstrom will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, February 13 at the Cortez Cemetery. Charlotte was born May 11, 1928 in Mancos, the daughter of Hiram Ensley Baker and Easter Hazel (Nelson) Baker. She passed away on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at the Vista Grande Inn at the...

Feb 7, 2018

Benjamin Sanchez was born January 13, 1932 in Lumberton, NM the son of Salvador and Ascencion (Valdez) Sanchez. He passed away on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at the Vista Grande Inn in Cortez, CO. Benjamin married Tony Eleanor (Romero) Sanchez, on May 15, 1961 in Aztec, NM. He worked as a heavy equipment operator for most of his life and...

Feb 7, 2018

Debby Lynn Davis Hammell, born June 11, 1960 in Denver, Colorado, passed away February 7, 2018 in Cortez, Colorado. Daughter of Orvil and Juanita (McKenzie) Davis. She graduated from Plateau Valley High School May 1978 in Collbran, Colorado. Married Russell Hammell October 2, 1982 in Mesa, Colorado. They had two children, Heather and Donald, twins born March 23, 1984. She...

Feb 6, 2018

Sande Jenell Johnson Born June 8, 1941 Died February 6, 2018 Sande lived in Vancouver, WA. She is survived by Rudy Robles of Bremmerton, WA; Shenda Robles of Vancouver, WA; three grandchildren and three great grandchildren; and her sisters Gloria Loyd, Beverly Opferbuch and Liddie Rose, all of Cortez. A celebration of life will be held on Thursday, June 14th...

Jan 31, 2018

RITA MABEL MARTINEZ Mass for lifelong area resident Rita Mabel Martinez will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 3 at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church. Inurnment will follow at Summit Ridge Cemetery. Father Pat Valdez, C.R. will officiate. Rosary service will be held at 5 p.m. on Friday at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church. Rita was born May...

Jan 31, 2018

Allie Elizabeth Baer, always called Betty, was the first child born to William (Bill) and Willie Meadows Baer. She was born in Cortez, Colorado on September 15, 1923 and passed away in Farmington, New Mexico on 31 January, 2018, at age 94. The family lived in Rico, Colorado where her father was a miner. She was especially close to her...

Jan 30, 2018

Mary was born February 1, 1925 in Texas, the daughter of George and Vernie (Gaskin) Parker. She passed away on Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at Southwest Memorial Hospital at the age of 92. Mary was survived by her children, Carolyn Newton of Dolores and Tracy E. (Kristine) Dillingham of Carbondale, CO; her grandchildren, Rebecca (Christophe) Venot of Anchorage, AK and...

Jan 25, 2018

Jeanette Diana Dean Born: February 3, 1938 St. Cloud, Minnesota Died: January 25, 2018 Cortez, Colorado Jeanette Diana Dean passed away peacefully on January 25, 2018 at Southwest Memorial Hospital. She was the 8th child total of 13 kids born to Corrina Evangeline (Doford) and Clifford Earl Dunn. She grew up in Aztec New Mexico, where as a teenager she...

Jan 25, 2018

Funeral services for lifelong Cortez resident Mary Lou Veach will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, February 3 at the Lewis Arriola Community Center. Pastor Marvin Graves will officiate. Mary was born December 28, 1931 in Toponas, CO the daughter of Roy and Irene (Hervey) Claycomb. She passed away on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at her residence at the...

Jan 22, 2018

Freddie Skidmore 1923-2018 Freddie Orville Skidmore, born February 28, 1923 in Tillman County Oklahoma to Owen Odis and Lena May Skidmore, left this Earth on January 22, 2018. On November 22, 1949 he married the love of his life Maudine Allie Skidmore; together they had 7 children, 15 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. Freddie had many adventures in his life. He...

Jan 19, 2018

Funeral Mass for longtime Mancos resident Sheila Aspromonte will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, January 26th at St. Rita Catholic Church. A Rosary has been scheduled for Thursday evening at 7 p.m. at St. Rita Catholic Church. Sheila was born on October 28, 1938 in Durango, the daughter of Richard and Regina Gallavan. She passed away on Friday,...

Jan 15, 2018

JOHN BERNARD SCHILLER ,82 DIED JAN 15TH 2018 JOHN WAS BORN IN BURLINGTON WI, TO EDGAR AND WILHELMINA (HENNINGFIELD) SCHILLER JOHN WAS A RESIDENT OF CORTEZ COLORADO FOR MANY YEARS PREVIOUSLY FROM BURLINGTON WI . HE WORKED IN THE ROOFING BUSINESS FOR MANY YEARS, HE ENJOYED CARPENTRY AND HUNTING IN THE NORTHERN WOODS AND HE ALSO ENJOYED PHOTOGRAPHY AND HIS...

Jan 15, 2018