Obituaries
Bronislava Roberts
Sep 16, 2017
Brone was born in the small agrarian town of Mazeikiai, Lithuania. She grew up picking berries and mushrooms in the forests and selling them to help her widowed mother.On the day of her high school graduation in 1940 her country was invaded by the Russian army. On that day and days to come she saw things that no person should...
Craig Miller Granzow
Sep 8, 2017
Craig Granzow of Cenntennial, Colorado, passed away on September 8, 2017, at his home, with family at his side.Craig was born in Hampton, Iowa, on February 19, 1947, and grew up on the family farm northwest of Iowa Falls. He graduated from Iowa Falls High School in 1965 and Ellsworth Community College in 1967. He began his lifelong career as...
Jennifer Sue Montgomery
Sep 7, 2017
Jennifer Sue (White) Montgomery went to be with God on September 7th, 2017, in the presence of loving family. She was 51.Jen was born May 19th, 1966, in Boulder Colorado. She graduated from Centaurus High School in 1984, where she earned varsity letters in tennis and cheerleading. Some of her most fond early memories were of adventures with her sister...
Richard J. Lorenzen
Sep 7, 2017
Richard J. Lorenzen, 69, of Boulder, CO passed away Thursday, September 7, 2017 at Boulder Community Foothills Hospital.Richard was born April 24, 1948 in San Mateo, CA. Growing up in San Francisco, CA and Denver, CO, he had been a resident of Boulder since the early 1970's.Richard enjoyed a lifelong love of mathematics, physics and engineering, graduating from Colorado School...
David Gambee
Sep 2, 2017
David Gambee, 67, passed away from kidney failure on September 2, 2017 at his residence in Louisville, CO.Born on December 16th, 1949 in Detroit, MI to parents John Wheeler Gambee and Gladys Mac Yoder Gambee, Dave married Alice Loeffler-Gambee in Farmington, MI in 1968. The two spent most of their lives in Michigan before moving to Colorado in 2014.After marriage,...
Willard Sutter Rutledge
Aug 30, 2017
Will Rutledge was a warm, generous family man of deep and active Christian faith. He had a way of not just connecting with people, but staying connected for years, decades, even lifetimes. He loved playing music, was a huge fan of CU Buffs athletics and had a distinguished career in Boulder real estate for more than 40 years.Willard Sutter Rutledge...
Lois Jean Nemecek
Aug 16, 2017
Lois Jean Nemecek, 87, of Boulder, passed away at her residence on Wednesday, August 16, 2017.Lois was born on April 4, 1930, to Henry and Olive C. (Prasil) Barton and grew up in Berwyn, IL. She attended Morton High School in Cicero, IL, and went on to college at Iowa State University in Ames, obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Home...
Mary Bess Johnson
Aug 15, 2017
Mary Bess Johnson passed away on August 15, 2017, after suffering a heart attack in her sleep the night of August 13, from which she never awakened. Mary was a beloved teacher, friend, co-parent, honorary grandmother, and partner. Born on May 5, 1943, to Lewis and Betty (Clark) Johnson, she obtained her Master’s Degree and worked as a teacher throughout...
Joan Milgrim
Aug 7, 2017
Joan Milgrim, 86, of Aurora, formerly of New York City and Westchester County, NY, died on Monday, August 7th, at Shalom Care.A Memorial Service will be held Wednesday, August 9th, at 2:00 PM at Shalom Park, 14800 E. Belleview Dr., Aurora, CO 80015.Joan is survived by daughters Jill (Woody) Adler, Barbara (Dick) Peterson, Jeri (Jerry) Edelbrach; grandchildren Jourdan Adler, Ruthie...
Beverly Ann Seeds
Aug 6, 2017
Bev Seeds was sweet, thoughtful, loving and caring. She also was brave, independent and determined, a strong woman who knew what she wanted in life — and death — and never shied from wrestling with life’s most challenging questions.On August 6, 2017, Beverly Ann Seeds passed away as she had always lived, on her own terms, eyes wide open, with...
John Edward Mock
Jul 15, 2017
John Edward "Ed" Mock, 94, died on Sat., July 15 at TRU Hospice Care Center in Boulder.Ed was born and raised in the small wheat farming town of Geneseo, Kansas. He graduated Geneseo High School in a class of 17 and was enrolled at Fort Hays State College when America entered WWII and he enlisted in the US Army Air...
Mary Jo Benton
Jul 13, 2017
Mary Jo (MJ) Bouchard Johnson Benton, 79, died peacefully in Boulder, CO, on Thursday, July 13th, after a struggle with cancer. Born in St. Louis, MO, to Essie and Willard Bouchard on August 10th, 1937, MJ was the eldest of three children. The family moved to her grandfather's farm before moving to Flat River, MO, where she grew up and...
Lorna Agnes Schreiner Bernthal
Jun 15, 2017
Longtime Boulder resident Lorna Bernthal, age 94, died peacefully at Frasier Meadows Retirement Community in Boulder, CO on Thursday, June 15, 2017.Lorna Bernthal was born on December 28, 1922, in Frankenmuth, MI, to John and Florence Schreiner. She graduated from Arthur Hill High School in Saginaw, MI, in 1941, and then was employed doing office work in Frankenmuth. In July...
Annette Parrish
Jun 11, 2017
Annette Parrish, 64, of Boulder, CO, died peacefully at home on Sunday morning, June 11, 2017 with her husband, daughter, and sister by her side. She had waged a courageous battle against glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) brain cancer for two and a half years, with the amazing attitude “whynotme?”She and her twin sister Anita were born at Boulder Sanitarium (Fourth and...
Stephen Judson Smith
Jun 10, 2017
On Saturday evening, June 10, Stephen Judson (Steve) Smith passed away peacefully at his family home in Boulder, CO, at the age of 92. Steve is survived by his wife of 66 years, Joyce; three sons: Douglas of Arlington, Virginia; Gordon of Boulder, CO; and Philip - also of Boulder, CO; and four grandchildren - Benjamin, Bonnie and Amy of...
Donald Homer Tormohlen
Jun 8, 2017
Donald Homer Tormohlen, 81, passed away from natural causes on June 8th, 2017 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette, CO.Born on January 13th, 1936 in Fort Morgan, CO to parents Homer Mauntel Tormohlen and Ruby Ione Mummert Tormohlen, Donald went on to earn a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO). A resident of Westminster, CO...
Alice Power Pruett
May 30, 2017
Alice Power Pruett, 96, passed away in Boulder, Colorado on May 30, 2017 with family by her side.Alice was born in Nampa, Idaho on March 28, 1921 to George and Etta Power, one of five children. She enjoyed summer trips with her family to their cabin near Grandjean, Idaho.After graduating from high school she attended Boise Junior College where she...
Helen Jensen Aumiller
May 28, 2017
Faith and courage served as the foundations of Helen Aumiller’s life and of those around her. She lived life with grace, great joy and tenderness; as she would always say when asked for advice, “Everyone does the best they can!”Helen passed away peacefully in her sleep on May 28, 2017 at Frasier Meadows Health Care Center in Boulder, Colorado. She...
Nancy Elizabeth Israelson
May 19, 2017
Nancy Elizabeth Israelson, of Louisville, died May 19, 2017 at Balfour Senior Living. She was 97.Nancy was born March 21, 1920 to Willis and Ruth Newman in Ft. Logan, Colorado. Her father was the Assistant Band Leader for the U.S. Army 6th Cavalry Band, and following his assignment in Colorado they moved back to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia (a cavalry post...
Dr. Jeanne Dahlen Lewis
May 17, 2017
Dr. Jeanne Dahlen Lewis (née Jeanne Victoria Dahlen), 77, passed away in Broomfield, CO on May 17th, 2017, her loving son by her side, after battling complications from Parkinson’s disease.Born August 29th, 1939 in Thief River Falls, MN to parents Stanton R. Dahlen and Victoria E. Edberg Dahlen, Jeanne married Dr. Brian Arthur Lewis in Thief River Falls on August...