Obituaries
Recent Obituaries in Denver, CO
Marciana Mcduffee
Apr 22, 2021
Marciana T. McDuffee, 79, of Westminster passed away on April 22, 2021 at her home surrounded by her loving family. Born on December 5, 1941 in Denver, Colorado she was the daughter of Patrick T. and Louise M. (Shirley) Busto. Marciana married Larry McDuffee on December 4, 1971 and together they shared 49 years of marriage.
Marciana...
Susan Chu
Apr 21, 2021
Susan Mary Chu, beloved mother of Charlene Chu and treasured aunt of 12 nieces and nephews, died on April 21, 2021 of metastatic colon cancer at The Denver Hospice at the age of 88. Susan was born in Montreal, Canada and served as a Catholic nun on the east coast for 17 years. During that time, she took the...
Cyril Ball
Apr 21, 2021
Cyril Francis Ball was born May 7, 1947 in Lebanon, Kentucky to Cyril Francis Ball and Louise Walker Ball. He grew up in the small town of New Haven, Kentucky and became the oldest of a family of twelve children. Upon graduation from St. Catherine High School, he became a student at the University of Dayton where he earned...
Kayla Driscoll Landon
Apr 21, 2021
Kayla Driscoll Landon, age 28, passed away in Denver, Colorado on April 21, 2021. She was born in Ithaca, New York on September 12, 1992 to Daniel and Jennifer Driscoll.
Kayla was a graduate of Ithaca High School and then furthered her education at Penn State University, where she was a part of the competitive ski team...
Judith "Judy" Wrede
Apr 21, 2021
Judith "Judy" Wrede, 76, of Littleton, passed away Wednesday, April 21, 2021. She is preceded in death by her husband, Stephen Wrede.
Judy was born and raised in Pueblo Colorado to Jose and Rebecca Maes. She was 1 of 5 siblings (Martha, Theresa, Loretta, and Richard). She spent her early adult years living in Indiana, Kentucky and...
Dr. Martin Shure
Apr 21, 2021
Dr. Martin Shure of Lone Tree, Colorado, passed away on April 21, 2021 at the age of 73. He was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 13, 1947. Martin attended South Shore High School in Chicago, earned his bachelor's degree, majoring in Geology, at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of...
Eva Hickman
Apr 21, 2021
Eva Hickman passed away in peace on April 21, 2021 at the age of 103. Born January 5th 1918 in Proctor, Colorado, she saw the devastations of the Great Depression and World War II, the advent of modern day cars, air travel, television, computers and the internet, in her many years as a wife, mother and a working professional...
Bethany Waldo
Apr 20, 2021
Bethany Lynn Waldo, age 43, beloved daughter, sister, and friend, passed away on April 20, 2021, in Denver, Colorado. She was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Robert Edward McKnight and Martha Louise Sterne McKnight, her paternal grandparents, Ernest Valachovic and Lela Elizabeth Lovett Valachovic, and her beloved basset hound, fondly known to everyone as “Nuggz”.
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Timothy Michael Runyon
Apr 20, 2021
Timothy Michael Runyon, 40, of Golden, Colorado, passed away unexpectedly April 20, 2021. Tim was born in Aurora, Colorado on June 8, 1980 to Bonnie Biddulph and David Runyon. He was the youngest of their four boys.
Tim grew up in Aurora, attending Smoky Hill High School and as a member of the National Honor Society, graduated...
Loretta Ann Blodgett
Apr 20, 2021
Loretta Ann Blodgett, age 88, passed peacefully at the Lakeview Independent Living Residence on April 20, 2021 of gastrointestinal complications.
Born in North Denver on January 18, 1933 to Recco and Mary Berardi, she lived in Colorado her entire life. Loretta graduated from Saint Joseph’s School of Nursing in 1953 and worked as a registered nurse for...
Clarold Morgan Ii
Apr 20, 2021
Clarold Forrest Morgan II of Highlands Ranch, Colorado died on April 20, 2021 in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. He was the son of Clair and Bina Morgan. Born in McPherson, Kansas on December 31, 1936, he spent his early childhood in Iola, Kansas until the family's move to Colorado Springs, CO in 1951.
He attended Colorado Springs High...
Gumba Garcia
Apr 19, 2021
Gumba, 33, of Denver, passed away on April 19, 2021.
(Your angel wings were ready, but our hearts were not...)
A Visitation will be held on Sunday, April 25th from 4PM to 7PM at Horan & McConaty Family Chapel, 3020 Federal Blvd. Denver, CO.
A Rosary will take place on Monday, April 26th...
Kathryn Currier
Apr 19, 2021
Kathryn Ann Willts Currier passed away on April 19, 2021, at age 92. Kathy was born in Osceola County, Iowa, to Jerry & Malvina Willts on January 14, 1929, and was the oldest of five children. Growing up in Northwest Iowa in the small, rural community of Sibley, Kathy enjoyed many activities as a child including ice-skating, softball, apple...
Michael Wall
Apr 19, 2021
Michael Allen Wall, age 63, died in Denver, Colorado on Monday, April 19th, 2021.
Born October 20th, 1957 in Denver, Colorado, he lived in Colorado Springs and Denver most of his life. Mike’s greatest love was traveling. Throughout his life he traveled the world! His most treasured experience was the Peace Corp, where...
William Stearns
Apr 19, 2021
Born April 10th, 1930 to Carrie (Best) Stearns & Harold Stearns. Passed away April 19th, 2021 at the age of 91.
William was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, but grew up in Windsor, Vermont where he graduated from Windsor High School in 1948. He then enlisted in the US Air Force as part of the 61st Troop...
Roger Giellis
Apr 19, 2021
Roger Giellis, of Denver, Colorado passed away on April 19, 2021.
Funeral Mass is on Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 11:30am at St. Vincent de Paul, 2375 E Arizona Ave, Denver, CO 80210.
A Celebration of Life for Roger will follow the services from 1-4 PM at the Giellis Home (642 S. Corona Street, Denver, CO,...
Robert Tortora
Apr 18, 2021
Robert Dominic Tortora, 31 years old, born July 20th 1989 and passed, April 18th 2021. Robby was born and raised in Golden, Colorado. He attended Golden High School and graduated in 2007 and continued his education at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. He graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Political Science. He was an avid...
Phillip Wilcox
Apr 18, 2021
Phillip John Wilcox was born on Thursday, January 10, 1957 in Hammond, IN. Phillip and his family didn’t stay long in Indiana. They temporarily moved to Tucson, Arizona, and then eventually settled down in Los Angeles, CA. Phil spent his younger years growing up with his parents and six siblings. As a child he had a magnetic...
Richard Loy
Apr 18, 2021
Richard F. Loy, age 89, of Evergreen, Colorado, and formerly of Detroit, passed away peacefully on April 18, 2021. Richard was born on March 22, 1932 in Detroit and graduated from St. Joseph High School in Detroit. He proudly served his country during the Korean War with the U.S. Army. He owned and operated Denver National Electrical Contracting and...
Ellen Gartland
Apr 18, 2021
Ellen, a lifelong Denver resident, passed gently into the arms of God on April 18, 2021.
She was preceded in death by her parents Ed and Barbara Gartland and her sister, Mary Jane Moon.
She is survived by seven brothers. Patrick, Michael, Kevin, Tim, Dennis, and Matt of Denver, and Jim, of Abilene, Kansas. She...
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