All Obituaries

Joan Maude (Wheeler) Knapton was born on May 16, 1935 to James Homer and Maude (Burrell) Wheeler in Mildred, Colorado.  She graduated to be with her Lord on March 23, 2020 in Wray, Colorado.    Joan eloped with Norman Knapton on August 26, 1954.  Norman and Joan spent sixty-three years together before Norman graduated to heaven on September 26, 2017.  To this union one son was born, William Randall Knapton, on May 30, 1958 and he passed away on April 15,...

Dexter Lewis Robertson died at the age of 91 in a Phoenix, Arizona, medical facility on March 18, 2020, as a result of complications from injuries suffered in a car accident in February. Dexter was born on September 30, 1928, in Yuma, Colorado to Glen W. Robertson and Olive I. (Yingling) Robertson. He graduated from Yuma High School and started a career in education with a job as the teacher and bus driver in a one-room school in Hyde, Colorado. After attending Colorado State College in...

On September 2, 1948 Mary Alene Perlenfein arrived at the Wray Hospital to bless the home of Alvin and Darlene (Hadley) Perlenfein.  She had the usual childhood of attending Sunday School at the Methodist Church and getting awards for perfect attendance.  When Mary was almost four she was joined by a baby sister, Jill Susan. She started first grade at North School, then proceeded to West School for third grade.  By then she was old enough to start trumpet lessons and join 4-H...

Erika Miller was born June 20, 1939, in Illeschesti, Romania in what was once part of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire.  She was the third of four children of Else and Franz Huber.  Her forefathers came to the area in 1782 from the Rhineland area in Southwest Germany.  She was baptized in the local Evangelical Lutheran Church.   Her parents moved to the family farm in 1933. In addition to farming, they purchased the area’s first mechanical threshing machine to...

Dodge City, KS – Ida Mae Murry, 89, died March 2, 2020 at The Manor of the Plains, Dodge City. She was born February 25th, 1931, to Guy Leslie and Ida Idella (Thompson) Watkins of Brewster, KS.  Ida was the youngest of 9 children, and probably the most ornery.  She was closest in age and heart to Lucille and Glen growing up on the farm, but truly loved all of her family.  She would continue to cherish her family throughout her life, making time with them...

Beverly Ann Sharpe     Beverly A. Sharpe (84) passed away at Melissa Memorial Hospital in Holyoke on March 5, 2020, surrounded by her family.  She was born in Crested Butte, Colorado on October 2, 1935. As a child, Beverly took advantage of all that Crested Butte had to offer, frequently going ice skating, sledding, skiing, fishing and hiking.  Beverly graduated from high school in 1953 and went to work for the Equitable Life Insurance Company in Denver, Colorado....