March 21, 1950 – February 7, 2021 Lin (Linda) passed away peacefully on Sunday, Feb. 7, at her home in Carbondale after a two-year battle with neuroendocrine cancer. Lin grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota with two sisters and two brothers, helping regularly on the family farm. After graduating high school, she moved to Boulder […]
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Obituary – Margaret Manson Chain: January 24, 1942 – January 14, 2021
Margaret (Peg/Peggy) Manson Chain, longtime owner of clothing design and repair firms Made in Aspen and Mountainside Sewing, passed away at home on Jan. 14 due to complications of congestive heart failure after a long battle with rheumatic heart disease. She was 78. Born on Jan. 24, 1942 to Frederick M. And Dorothy Abbott Manson, […]
Mark Stranahan: Jan. 30, 1957 — Dec. 30, 2020
The world is more dimly lit since Mark Stranahan, the middle child of George and Betsy Stranahan, died on Dec. 30, 2020 at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a result of complications of septic necrotizing pancreatitis. He was 63. Mark’s journey began in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Jan. 30, 1957. He […]
John Robin Sutherland – Obituary
5 March 1951 – 18 December 2020 John Robin Sutherland, the pony-tailed, cultured and celebrated principal pianist for the San Francisco Symphony for more than four decades, died at his home in San Francisco, California on Dec. 18, 2020, following a brief illness. He was 69. Known for many years simply as Robin Sutherland (he […]
Obituary: Wesley Pate Horner
April 29, 1925 – Oct. 27, 2020 Wes Horner passed away in Bozeman, Montana on October 27. He was 95. Wes grew up in Roanoke in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and spent his summers on the family cotton farm in Georgia. After overcoming polio as a child, he lived by the motto, “When […]
