Funeral services for lifelong Towaoc resident Roy Beecher Jr. x201cBunkyx201d will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow at Cortez Cemetery.Roy was born to Roy Beecher Sr. and Joan Posey Beecher on May 19, 1961, in Cortez. He passed away at his Towaoc home on April 26, 2013, at…
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Armand Alfred Desruisseaux was born on August 10, 1929, in Manchester, N.H., the son of Alfred and Alphonsine Carrier Desruisseaux. He passed away in Mancos on Monday, April 22, 2013, at the age of 83.Armand was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, serving during the Korean Conflict. He married Lorraine Galli Desruisseaux on April 13,…
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Randall Gene Durrett was born on December 10, 1958, in Minden, La., the son of Alva E. and Loretta Young Durrett. He passed away in Farmington, N.M., on Thursday, April 18, 2013, at the age of 54.Randy was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving during the 1970s. He married Sarah J. Phillips on March 6, 1996, in Cortez. Randy has…
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Funeral services for longtime area resident Dorothy Susan Carson will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 25, at the Dolores Community Center. Interment will follow at Lebanon Cemetery. Pastor Don Phillips will officiate.Visitation has been scheduled for Wednesday afternoon from 4 to 6 p.m. at Ertel Memorial Chapel.Dorothy…
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Arrangements for Dolores resident Eva Mary Jones are pending with Ertel Funeral Home.Eva Mary was born Jan. 5, 1919, in Marvel, Colo., the daughter of Bill and Lucy Pryor. She passed away at Southwest Memorial Hospital on Saturday, April 20, 2013, at the age of 94. For further information please call Ertel Funeral Home at 565-3468 or log…
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Donita Swenson was born in Tecumseh, Neb., on May 13, 1941, and passed away on Sunday, April 14, 2013, in Cortez, at the age of 71. She grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska. In 1963, Donita married Len Swenson and moved to San Diego. After a year of teaching math to middle school students, she decided that teaching was…
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Alfred Lewis Spotts was born on May 8, 1919, in Milford, Mich., to George and Lena Schaefer Spotts. Lena died in childbirth. George married Kate Carmichael, and they raised Al and his twin brother, Frank. Al passed away at Vista Grande Inn in Cortez, Colo. on Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at age 93.After growing up mainly in Pontiac, Mich.,…
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Funeral services for longtime Cortez resident Toney Bert x201cSonnyx201d Beaver Jr. will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 23, at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow at Cortez Cemetery.Visitation has been scheduled for Monday, April 22 from 4 to 6 p.m. at Ertel Chapel.Sonny was born April 27, 1939, in…
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Maurice Bill Nittler, age 78, a resident of Belen, passed away on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. He was born December 24, 1934, in Shickley, Neb., to Rose and Frank Nittler. He was a member of Our Lady of Belen and of the Knights of Columbus. Bill and Sally moved to Belen, N.M., in 2004 after his retirement from the first National Bank in Cortez.
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Funeral services for Cortez resident Kenneth Eugene Ken Gates will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, April 15, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Empire Street Chapel. Interment will follow at Cortez Cemetery.
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Arrangements are pending for longtime Cortez resident John Dean Gap.Jack, as he is known to family and friends, was born Dec. 22, 1935, in Sioux City, Iowa the son of Willard Lenard and Ruth Engel Gapp. He passed away at Southwest Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at the age 77.
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Gerald Barton G.B. Evans was born Oct. 24, 1918, in Dewey, Okla. the son of Estel J. and Zora Offett Evans. He passed away on Monday, April 8, 2013, at Vista Grande Inn, at the age of 94.
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