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  • Alan Dick

    Mar 28, 2024

    Alan Richard Dick (Schultz), a devoted husband, loving father and cherished grandfather, passed away peacefully on March 7, 2024 at the hospital in Provo, Utah. Alan was born on Nov. 16, 1947 in Gresham, Ore., to proud parents Clarence and Christine Dick. He was the eldest child and grew up alongside his brother Gary and sisters Kathy and Vicki. In 1954, athe family moved to Colorado eventually settling in Haxtun, where Alan spent his formative years. A proud graduate in 1967 of Haxtun High School, where he played football alongside his...

  • Dorris Scott

    Mar 13, 2024

    Doris Jean (Schaefer) Scott passed away in Haxtun on March 3, 2024 at the age of 86. Doris was born on Aug. 27, 1937 in Sterling to Ben and Martha (Brekel) Schaefer. Doris graduated from Fleming High School in 1955. She received her nursing degree and became an RN in 1956. She married Wayne Scott on Aug. 24, 1957 in St. Peters. After working as a nurse for a few years, Doris began her career in the Post Office in 1969. She was the Post Master of Holyoke when she retired in 1992. In 1994 Doris...

  • Ray Gerk

    Mar 13, 2024

    Raymond Pete Gerk passed peacefully on March 5, 2024, just 22 days shy of his 88th birthday. Ray was born in Ovid on March 27, 1936. He was the second child and oldest son of Pete and Lena (Shank) Gerk. Ray was an avid producer and businessman. As a young farmer, he started his operation growing sugar beets and became knowledgeable on how to produce a valuable crop. He was asked by Holly Sugar to move to Hereford, Texas with his brothers, Robert and Jim, and Don Reuter to raise sugar beets and...

  • Barbara Brasby

    Mar 13, 2024

    Barbara Ruth Smith Brasby graduated from this Earth and entered her heavenly home on March 6, 2024. She passed away peacefully in Fort Morgan at Valley View Villa Care Center with family. She was a resident of Haxtun for 22 years. Barb was born Sept. 2,1932 on Nantucket Island, Mass., to Irene May Beamish and Albert Walter Judd Smith. Within weeks, Albert left the family. When Barb was seven, Irene remarried Willard Edson Nickerson, who fully became Barb's loving dad. Barb met her sweetheart...

  • Marianne Skold

    Feb 29, 2024

    Marianne Skold passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023 at the age of 89. On May 7, 1934, Marianne started life on a family farm near Haxtun. From stories she told, it was clear she happily had many adventures with her sister and two brothers. These were many good memories she retained until end of life. She graduated Sterling High School and her diligence resulted in a music scholarship to University of Colorado Boulder. Barely a month after graduation, she married her high school sweetheart...

  • Christina Gerk

    Feb 29, 2024

    Christina Lynn (Teter) Gerk went home to be with Jesus on Feb. 23, 2024. Chris was born in Brush on July 26, 1963 to Leroy and Bonnie Teter. She grew up in Brush and graduated from Brush High School. Chris was a good worker. She worked at the Brush Locker while in school. She helped out in the office at the family owned business, Teter Oilfield Construction. She earned her cosmetology degree from Northeastern Junior College and started her own barber shop at Livestock Exchange, Inc. in Brush....

  • James Ivan Carper

    Feb 22, 2024

    James Ivan Carper passed away on Feb. 7, 2024 at the Regent Park Nursing Facility in Holyoke at the age of 93. Jim was born on Jan. 15, 1931 in Silver Lake, Neb. to George Benjamin Carper and Martha Anne Stauffer. He was born after his brother, Lavelle, and sister, Eileen, and had two younger sisters, Rachel and Carole. In 1940, the family moved from Ayr, Neb. to Colorado to the homestead of Jim's grandparents outside of Haxtun. Jim attended elementary school in the country at Glenwood School...

  • Harold Hadeen

    Feb 22, 2024

    Harold Hadeen went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Feb. 1, 2024, just 13 days before his 88th birthday. Harold was born on Feb. 14, 1936 to Herman Joshua Hadeen and Hazel Dickinson Hadeen on his grandfather's homestead during a blizzard. He was the second of four children: Ruby Frances, Harold Herman, Ronald Eugene and Doyle Dale. Harold's grandfather Gustaf A. Hadeen and his brother Sven immigrated from Sweden in 1878 to their sister (Kristina) home in Illinois. Later settled in Sumner,...

  • Quentin "Bud" Biesemeier

    Feb 8, 2024

    Quentin Walter "Bud" Biesemeier passed on peacefully Friday, Feb. 2, 2024 at the Haxtun Hospital Extended Care Unit at the age of 93. Bud was born Nov. 11, 1930 to Walter and Emma (Finkner) Biesemeier at the then-family home in Paoli. Bud and his sisters, Edith and JoAnn, and their parents moved several times during his early years, until Walt purchased the farm site southwest of Paoli in 1942. This would become Bud's permanent home for the next 60 years. Bud attended school at the Broadway Scho...

  • Virgil Harms

    Feb 1, 2024

    Virgil John Harms passed away Jan. 22, 2024 at the Regent Park Nursing Home in Holyoke at the age of 96. Virgil was born into his family home in rural Paoli on May 4, 1927. He was the first child of John and Irene Harms. He grew up on a small farm north of Paoli and attended Country Elementary School. He graduated from Haxtun High School in 1945. It was there that he met his forever sweetheart Eloise Lundburg. After graduation, Virgil joined the Army and began his basic training in Fort Lewis,...

  • Iona Bartlett

    Feb 1, 2024

    Iona (Lueking) Bartlett, formerly of Yuma County, passed away on Jan. 18, 2024 and will be laid to rest on Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. at Olinger Crown Hill Mortuary & Cemetery in Wheat Ridge. Services will be held in the Pavilion....

  • Glenn Huwa

    Jan 25, 2024

    Glenn Dean Huwa Glenn tragically lost his life in a car accident on Dec. 28, 2023. Glenn was born on Nov. 1, 1952 to Alexander and Ella Mae Huwa of rural Weld County north of Windsor. His younger brother, Richard (Dick), joined the family a couple of years later. Glenn grew up on his parents' dairy farm, where he learned farming expertise while helping support their family farm. Glenn attended elementary and junior high schools in Severance, Gilcrest and LaSalle until his family moved to a farm...

  • Patrick Wagner

    Jan 25, 2024

    Patrick Craig Wagner was ushered into heaven on the morning of Jan. 9, 2024 with his wife by his side and his daughter nearby after spending precious time the previous day with his loving family. Patrick was born March 28, 1955 to Arthur William and Georgia Grace (Thompson) Wagner. He grew up on the south side of Sterling in the house that his parents built after WWII. Patrick had an interesting childhood, cutting meat at the age of seven with his dad at the family-owned grocery store, Town and...

  • Eula Witmore Frantz

    Jan 11, 2024

    Eula was born Jan. 13, 1930, in Rich Hill, Mo., and died peacefully on Dec. 14, 2023 in Lincoln, Neb. Her elementary years were spent as part of the Happy Hill, Mo., community where her parents, Nora and Merle Witmore, farmed. She had an only sister, Ann (Witmore) Burger, who was five years her senior. Both sisters became well-versed in vocal and keyboard music. Most of Eula’s professional life was spent as a pianist, accompanist and organist. Eula met Byron Frantz at McPherson, Kan. where their respective families had moved in the mid-40s. T...

  • Larry Schaefer

    Jan 11, 2024

    Larry Schaefer passed away at home on Friday, Dec. 29, 2023 at the age of 87 surrounded by his family and his beloved wife Joyce. Larry was born at home on May 19, 1936 in Boulder to Lawrence (LJ) and Ella (Lousberg) Schaefer. Larry attended 12 different elementary schools in several states, as the family followed his father's construction work during World War II. They settled at the family farm three miles south of St. Peter's Church, where Larry completed fifth through eighth grade at the...

  • Astrid Hadeen

    Jan 11, 2024

    Astrid "Vickie" Hadeen was born Jan. 10, 1938 and went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Dec. 30, 2023. She was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Sterling into a Swedish heritage. Vickie's father Bernard Franson made the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean aboard the ship Oceania and into Ellis Island at 19 years old settling in the Fairfield Community in Haxtun. He married Mable "Linnea" Sandquist in 1936. Linnea passed away when she was just two years old. Her father adoringly raised her...

  • Harry Heaston

    Jan 11, 2024

    Harry Leroy Heaston passed away on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023 at the age of 80. Harry was born to Fred and Ruby (Riley) Heaston on Aug. 9, 1943 in Sterling. Harry attended Haxtun Elementary and Haxtun High School and then attended Northeastern Junior Colelge for two years. Harry was manager for Ceres Fertilizer Plant in Crook. Then he and Doug Kinzie started Kinton Agri in Haxtun. After that he owned Round up Music Company. Harry married the love of his life Sandra Kay Marty on Sep. 3, 1971. They...

  • Samuel Wolever

    Jan 11, 2024

    Samuel Dean Wolever, Sr. passed away Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024 in Haxtun. Samuel was born July 14, 1956 in Sterling to Wesley and Lois (Dillon) Wolever. Sam spent his childhood in Merino on the family farm. He attended high school in Merino and graduated in 1976 from Merino High School. Sam met Melisa Dodd and they were married on Aug. 24, 1978, in Fleming. They made their home in Fleming where they had five children together. He worked at Sterling Brick Company, The Sugar Factory in Sterling,...

  • Tommy Thompson

    Dec 21, 2023

    Tommy Glenn Thompson, the son of Maurice Glenn Thompson and Effie Bernice (Colglazier) Thompson, passed away in Haxtun on Dec. 14, 2023 at the age of 87. He was born June 11, 1936 on the George Heginbotham ranch his father had leased six and a half miles south and a half mile west of Holyoke. He attended grade school at Prairie Gem for four years until it closed and then he went to Holyoke for one year. His parents moved southeast of Holyoke after they purchased the Stickle farm and he attended...

  • Lola Jean Booth

    Nov 23, 2023

    Lola Jean Booth passed away peacefully at home on Nov. 11, 2023 at the age of 99. Lola was born March 22, 1924 in Chamberlain, S.D. She grew up in hard times from sturdy and strict immigrant stock. Her father, William E. (Bill) Holbach was of German descent. Her mother, Inga "Vera" Goff Holback was of German/Norwegian descent. Lola was a tom-boy and spent her days in the fields with her dad on a small farm along the Crow Creek; stacking hay or rounding up the milk cows, Whitey and Roannie. On...

  • Steven Salvador

    Nov 16, 2023

    Steven Dennis Salvador passed away on Tuesday Nov. 7, 2023 in Sterling at the age of 72. Steve was born on May 31, 1951 to Harry and Mary (Reynolds) Salvador in Holyoke. Steve attended the Haxtun Schools. Steve married Pamela Ruth Hadeen on Feb. 14,1971 from this union Kevin Salvador and Robin Fugate were born. On June 2, 1995 he married Pamela Eugin Wilkerson and brought Tony Thomas and Meridith Bredemeier to the family. Steve held various jobs over his life span, but his all-time favorite was being a cowboy. Steve is survived by son Kevin...

  • Judy Gramowski

    Oct 26, 2023

    Judy Lucile Gramowski entered into her eternal life on Sept. 17, 2023 in Allenspark. Judy was born Sept. 1, 1944 in Beloit, Wisc. to Arthur and Lucile Winger. She was welcomed home by two older brothers, Gene and David. She graduated from Beloit Memorial in 1962. After high school, she attended the School of Nursing at Swedish American Hospital, where she received her degree as a Registered Nurse in 1966. Judy met the love of her life, Thomas Walter Gramowski, MD in 1967. They were later married...

  • Alma Wright

    Oct 19, 2023

    Alma Wright Alma "Billie" Wright went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023 at the age of 79. Billie was born in Dillon, S.C. on Sept. 28, 1944 to Elise Hubbard. After high school she worked as a manager at South of The Border in South Carolina. In 1981 she moved to Greeley where she worked in housekeeping at North Colorado Medical Center and later managed the Hospitality House at North Colorado Medical Center. On Sept. 25, 2000 she married Larry Wright in Tallahassee, Fla....

  • Maury Kramer

    Oct 19, 2023

    Maury Sterling Kramer was accepted into the arms of the Lord on Oct. 2, 2023 due to complications following a quadruple bypass surgery. He was born on Feb. 22, 1964 and welcomed into the family of Norman and Betty (Kissler) Kramer. Maury was born in Idaho and adopted shortly after birth. Norman and Betty brought him home to Minatare, Neb. where Norman farmed and Betty stayed home to raise their children. They later adopted Matt and Carrie and in 1969 the Kramer family moved to Holyoke so Norman...

  • Gage Ferguson

    Oct 12, 2023

    Gage Ferguson went home to be with the Lord in the early morning of Sept. 28, 2023 after just moving back home to Haxtun the day prior. Gage was born to Lonnie Ferguson and BreAnn Reed on April 27, 2004 in Denver. Gage attended Haxtun High School and was planning to start his training with a local airplane mechanic on Monday. From birth Gage's life was filled with way too many medical procedures, needles and hospital stays that anyone should have to endure, always handling it with much patience,...

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