Obituaries Archives – Page 9 of 20

Peter Kent Lundgren, January 13, 1956 – June 8, 2023

by James Steindler July 5, 2023November 17, 2023

Peter was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Vern and Shirley Lundgren. Pete, his mother and two siblings moved to Wheat Ridge, Colorado, in 1968, then to Glenwood Springs in 1971, with Pete graduating from Glenwood Springs High School in 1974. As a teenager and young man, Pete loved spending time in the Roaring Fork Valley […]

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Ruth Vars Barnes, October 19, 1939 – June 16, 2023

by James Steindler July 5, 2023November 17, 2023

Ruth Vars Barnes, 83, of Glenwood Springs, passed away on June 16 of heart failure, surrounded by her loving family. Ruth was born in Westerly, Rhode Island, to Mary Vars, a homemaker, accountant and investor who spent most of her life caring for others, and Raymond Vars, a pharmacist who ran Vars Brothers Pharmacies with […]

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Benjamin Bruce Sellers Oct. 4, 1946 – April 17, 2023

by James Steindler June 28, 2023November 17, 2023

Benjamin Bruce Sellers, a long-time resident of Basalt and Carbondale, died of heart failure at his home on April 17. Born and raised in Westchester County, New York, Ben attended Boston University for a couple of years and then, following Mark Twain’s advice, he “lit out for the territories,” ending up in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco […]

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Evelyn Ellsworth Condit Aug. 28, 1956 – March 20, 2023

by James Steindler May 31, 2023November 17, 2023

Evelyn (Evvie, Ev) was born in the city of Passaic, New Jersey. She passed away peacefully on March 20 after a prolonged battle with cancer. Evvie spent her childhood in New Jersey and moved to the mountains of Colorado in the late 1970s. She raised her three children in Carbondale and spent many years loving […]

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Monk J. Burkmier May 28, 1944 – April 30, 2023

by James Steindler May 31, 2023November 17, 2023

Monk J. Burkmier, “Monk” to his friends, was born in the Bay Area of California on May 28, 1944, the “year of the bad penny” as he liked to say. He grew up primarily in foster homes and an orphanage in Los Angeles called the Lark Ellen School for Boys. He learned early how to […]

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Obituary: Alan Dean Joyner

by Raleigh Burleigh May 17, 2023November 17, 2023

Alan Dean Joyner, 63, of Grand Junction, passed away May 8 at Saint Mary’s hospital with his family by his side. Alan was born on Feb. 9, 1960 in Rangely to Bill and Shirley (Nightingale) Joyner. He spent his childhood in Northglenn, and his high school years in Carbondale. He was a graduate from Roaring Fork […]

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Scott Bowie

by James Steindler May 17, 2023November 17, 2023

With full hearts, we celebrate the life of Scott Bowie. Scott was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1949. After college, he set out to conquer all of Colorado’s 14ers. Upon arriving in Aspen, he stopped and never left. It’s where he met and married Betsy Thaete and began his career with Mollica and Associates — […]

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Barbara O’Neil Ross

by James Steindler May 17, 2023November 17, 2023

Barbara O’Neil Ross was born in 1931 in New York City to Viola (née Dotterer) and Henry Eli O’Neil. From Greenwich, Connecticut, the family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Barbara attended the wonderful John Burroughs School, which nurtured her talent for art. She spent two years at Vassar College before transferring to Stanford University, […]

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Gayla Tippett September 8, 1953 – April 15, 2023

by James Steindler May 10, 2023November 17, 2023

Former Carbondale and Glenwood Springs resident — storyteller, children’s librarian, arts director, actress, zoo worker — Gayla Jo Tippett died on April 15, 2023. She was 69. Gayla was born on Sept. 8, 1953, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Olin and Lois Jeanne Tippett, the youngest of four children from that marriage. After graduating from […]

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Bill Myers – July 21, 1936 – March 24, 2023

by James Steindler April 5, 2023November 17, 2023

It is with great sorrow that we share the peaceful passing of William J. Myers on March 24 at the age of 86, with his loving wife, Jo Ellen by his side. He is lovingly remembered by his wife of 41 years, Jo Ellen, and by his four children, 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Predeceased […]