All Obituaries / Tributes

Daniel “Danny” L. Brunnert, age 57 of Loose Creek, passed away Friday, October 11, 2019, at the Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Arrangements are pending and will be announced by Morton Chapel in Linn. Mo. (897-2214)

Orville Bruce Jones, of Fruita Colorado, passed in his sleep on September 29th, 2019. He was born on May 9, 1927 in the Hugoton Kansas Jail, as his father was the Sheriff. He grew up in the dust bowl and was severely burned in an accident, spending over a year at Crippled Children’s hospital in Kansas City. In 1945 he volunteered for the US Navy and underwent Stevedore training as a Seabee. At the end of the war he was stationed in Guam. He returned to Western Kansas and attending...

Karl A. Schneider, 38, of Manchester, passed away September 29, 2019 at Grand River Medical Center in Rifle, CO after an unexpected illness. He was born in Webster, TX on August 15, 1981 to Henry E. and Sylvia A. (Beaver) Schneider III. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 2004 and lived his life in Houston, TX, New York, NY and Manchester. Karl worked for 15 years in oil and gas drilling operations on land and deep water. As such, he was the...

Mark Douglas Groff, 55, died the 28th of September, 2019 in a fatal car accident, a little outside his home, in Grand Junction, Colorado. Mark was born on the 9th of October, 1963, in Columbus, Ohio to Diane and Gene Groff. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada when he was around 4 years old. He lived in Vegas until January 1st, 2018 when he moved to Grand Junction, Colorado to be near his ex-wife and youngest daughter. His family paid this tribute to him, ‘Mark was a very caring person who had...

Joshua Gilbert Archibeque Bloomfield - Joshua Gilbert Archibeque, age 25, went to be with our Lord on September 26, 2019 in Denver, CO. He was born on January 16, 1994 in Farmington, NM to Mike Archibeque and Chastity Crabb Garcia. He graduated from Bloomfield High School in 2013 where he participated in football, wresting, and baseball. He was an all-star athlete with a big spirit and a bigger personality. After high school he pursued a career as an electrician and eventually moved to...

Tom Cecil grew up in Pennsylvania in a family of musicians.   Moving to Southern California he worked as an electrician and made memories in the hippie scene on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.  Writing poetry, music, and caring for cats were lifelong hobbies.  The last fifteen years of his life were spent in Rangely Colorado where he made friends and cared for many feral cats.  HopeWest hospice made his last days pleasant.  

Janice Lorene Langum, 90 of Fruita, CO formerly of Brookings, SD passed away Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at Hope West Care Center, Grand Junction, CO.  Funeral Services will be 11:00am Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at Sinai Lutheran Church, Sinai, SD.  Visitation will be from 10:00am until the time of services Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at Sinai Lutheran Church, Sinai, SD.  Rude’s Funeral home is assisting the family with the arrangements.  The family wishes memorials be...

Christopher was born on December 10, 1975 and passed away on Friday, September 20, 2019. He attended Notre Dame Regional School, Mont Harmon Junior High, and graduated from Carbon High School in 1994.

Bernie made the most of his life, he was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in New Jersey. After high school he wet into the Navy where he was stationed in Vietnam for 4 years. After getting out due to a injury, he went on to surveying, machinist and even found himself being a ranch hand. He loved photography, shooting, hunting, fishing and teaching his children and grand children (even the ones that adopted him as a grandpa) about outdoor skills. He loved to teach his kids how to drive and...

Thomas Harrison Thoele entered this world as a force of nature on December 1, 1964. Tom was born the youngest of 9 children to Aubrey (dec.) and Mary (dec.) Thoele. They had a full house already, but with Tom, they were complete. Tom had a sometimes shocking and always electric personality. He lived to make you laugh. He was Devilishly & Deviously funny! When he wasn’t shocking you with some ridiculous thing he was planning to do, he was an incredible and accomplished carpenter,...

Viewing  Monday September 9, 2019 12:30pm Funeral Service Monday September 9, 2019 1:00 PM Messiah Lutheran Church 840 N 11th Street Grand Junction, CO 81501   Graveside Service Tuesday Cortez Cemetery September 10,2019 3:00pm Cortez Co  

Paul Ralph Dillon was born Feb. 6, 1931 in Franklin, PA to Oscar and Maude (Gilmore) Dillon. He passed peacefully at HopeWest Hospice Care Center on Friday, September 30, 2019 with his wife and children by his side. Paul was raised in Titusville, PA the 3rd of 4 sons. He led a typical childhood, his father ran a grocery store and his Mom stayed home and tried to corral 4 boys. Paul loved being outside and as a five year old decided he wanted to be a cowboy, and at 16 his Dad decided he...

Susann “Su” Winey Dodge Su Dodge, 83, went home to be with the Lord on August 29, 2019, at HopeWest, Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction, Colorado, of complication from lung disease. Born on April 27, 1936, in Denver, CO., to Mathias “Matt” Roth and Natalie Lapham Roth, Su was the sixth of seven siblings. Su attended grade school, 1st to 8th grade, at Wagner School, a one room school house, in Broomfield, CO. Her family had a Dairy Farm in Broomfield,...

Charles L. Green August 20, 1923 - August 17, 2019 Charles L. Green was a man of almost endless talents. His parents, Lawrence and Adina Green (nee Jantz), moved to the Grand Valley during the Great Depression, having been displaced from their large, prosperous farm, which was absorbed by the Dust Bowl. Charlie had been born in Hesston, Kansas August 20, 1923, the fourth of 11 children. He "fired the boiler" at Kuner Empson tomato processing plant while he went to school and...

Pearl LaVonne Boxwell, 83, passed away at the Palisade Nursing Home August 13, 2019.  She was born on September 17, 1935 in Boulder, Colorado to Mark and Grace Cruthers, graduating from Boulder Schools in 1943. She married Gene Campbell and later divorced, then married Donald Boxwell. Her main occupations were as a mother, homemaker, Realtor, and making flower arrangements for weddings in her husbands flower and gift shop.  She was very talented and also invented an assortment...

Melvin N. Bennett January 8, 1946 —July 30, 2019 Melvin N. Bennett was born in Valentine, Nebraska and lived the rancher life until he signed up for the US Navy at age 18 in 1968. Mel died suddenly at the VA Medical Center at the age of 73. He was proud of his service in the Navy during the Vietnam conflict. He was part of the River Assault Flotilla One, "Brown Water Navy", as a E3 engine mechanic. He received the National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal and...

Michael D. Casselberry: Born: March 9, 1946, passed away, July 15,2019. No services are planned at this time.