OBITUARIES

May 14, 2007

Isaac DeLaRosa A Funeral Mass for Isaac DeLaRosa was held at 10:00AM, Friday, May 18, 2007 at the St. Francis de Sales/Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church with Reverend Martin Frias as celebrant. An evening Rosary Service was held at 7:00PM, Thursday, May 17, 2007 with Deacon Wertin officiating. Interment followed the Mass at Hillside Cemetery in Granada, Colorado. Isaac...

May 10, 2007

James H. “Jack” Caddick, Jr. Funeral services for James H. “Jack” Caddick, Jr., longtime Lamar resident were held at 10:00 AM, Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at the Peacock Funeral Home with Reverend Troy White of the Lamar First Church of the Nazarene officiating. Interment will be held at Fairmount Cemetery. Jack was born January 7, 1931 at Walsh, Colorado To...

Apr 25, 2007

Katherine F. Andrews A Celebration of Life was held at 1:00 PM, Monday, April 30, 2007 at the Peacock Family Chapel with Ian Blacker of the Lamar Christian Church officiating. Interment followed in the Fairmount Cemetery in Lamar. Visitation for Kathy was held from 1:00 PM until 4:00 PM, Sunday, April 29, 2007 at the Peacock Funeral Home. Katherine, or...

Apr 22, 2007

Matthew Alan Berndt A Memorial service for Matthew Alan Berndt was held at 2:00 PM, Saturday, April 28, 2007 at the Peacock Family Chapel with Ian Blacker of the Lamar Christian Church officiating. Matt, as he was known to his family and friends, was born on March 1, 1982 at Lamar, Colorado to Rebecca A. Pruett. He passed away on...

Mar 11, 2007

Jinx was born June 11, 1928 in Lamar, Colorado. she passed away on March 11, 2007 at Prowers Medical Center. Jinx was a long time Lamar resident and curator at the Lamar Big Timbers Museum. She skated professionally with "Holiday on Ice" for 15 years where she travel all over the world during the 1940's and 1950's. She is survived...

Feb 12, 2007

Larry E. Carley and Robert C. "Bob" Carley Graveside Services for brothers Larry E. Carley, 65 and Robert “Bob” C. Carley, 69 will be held at 1:00 PM, Friday, May 25, 2007 at the McClave Cemetery in McClave, Colorado with Reverend Trevor Potter of the McClave United Methodist Church officiating. Full Military Honors for Bob Carley will be under the...

Aug 17, 2006

Lou Darrel Anderson A Celebration of Life for longtime Kiowa County resident, Darrel Anderson was held at 10:00 AM, Thursday, September 15, 2011 at the Towner Methodist Church with Reverend Mark Randolph of the Tribune First Baptist Church officiating. Interment followed at the Towner Cemetery. Mr. Anderson was born on September 3, 1931 to L. Deward and Cletah Muriel (Tilford)...

Apr 27, 2006

Melanney Dawn Avara Memorial services for former Lamar and Burlington, Colorado resident, Melanney Dawn Avara was held at 11:00 AM, Thursday, March 13, 2008 at the Peacock Family Chapel with Troy Wright officiating. Melanney Dawn Avara was born February 17, 1964 in Lamar, Colorado to Richard and Lorene Thompson. Along with her parents, Richard and Lorene, she is survived by...

Marguerite Broyles   Marguerite Broyles transitioned to her next amazing journey on December 6, 2011 surrounded by her loving family at the home of her daughter Sarah (David) Nettles in Tampa, Florida.Mag was born on July 14, 1943 in Lamar CO. Immediate family includes her three children Kim Tempel, Jonas (Carrie) Tempel and Sarah (David) Nettles and her beloved grandchildren...

Martha E. Elam A Graveside Rite of Committal for Lamar resident, Martha E. Elam will be held at 11:00 AM, Saturday, February 27, 2016 at the Riverside Cemetery with Deacon Allan Medina officiating. Per Mrs. Elam’s request cremation has taken place and there will be no visitation. Martha was born on January 24, 1932 at Lamar, Colorado to William W....

Ada P. Haddock

Alice Joyce Nelson My wonderful, sweet, loving mother, Alice “Joyce” Nelson (Coleman), entered into heaven on June 16, 2015 in Lamar, CO.  She was 83 years old.   Mama has joined her father; William Cortez Coleman, her mother; Alice “Dorothea” Coleman (Seals), her son, William Charles Nelson, and her brothers; William Ronald Coleman, Richard Douglas Coleman, and Larry James Coleman, and...

Carolyn Jean Simpson Carolyn Jean Fox, a beautiful baby girl was born to Sgt Richard K Fox and Dorothy (McMichael) Fox on July 29, 1943 in Denver Colorado. “Jeanie” as she was called spent her childhood in Corning New York and Lamar Colorado. Jeanie attended Lamar schools, where she was active in the Civil Air Patrol. She was a wonderful...

Doris C. Thompson Doris Corrine (Miller) Thompson died on February 25 in Rocky Ford, CO.  She was born on April 27, 1923 in St. John, Kansas to Olive Mabel (Oxley) and Joseph Reeder Miller.  The family moved to Colorado in the mid- 1930’s during the dust bowl and lived on a farm in the McClave/Wiley area.   She married Clarence William...

Galen D. Hainer A Memorial Celebration for longtime Lamar resident, Galen D. Hainer was held at 11:00 AM, Friday, May 6, 2016 at the Peacock Funeral Home with Ian Blacker of the Lamar Christian Church officiating. A private family inurnment will follow at a later date in the Wayne Township Cemetery in Lewis, Kansas. Galen Dee Hainer was born August...

Geraldine W. Statler Geraldine Loree Weakley (known as Jerry) was born on January 25, 1920, in Ridgely, West Virginia, to Hallie Mae and Norman C. Weakley. The youngest of four children, Jerry grew up in Ridgely and Cumberland, Maryland. She graduated from Allegheny High School in Cumberland in 1938, playing several sports. Jerry attended Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee,...

Ivy Douglas Collins A graveside service for lifelong Wiley resident, Ivy Douglas Collins was held on March 4, 2016 at 10:30 AM at the Wiley Cemetery. Visitation was held on Thursday, March 3, 2016 from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM at the Peacock Funeral Home. Ivy was born on February 13, 1944 in Evansville, Arkansas to William Otis and Martha...

Wayne Mendenhall             A celebration of life for longtime Lamar resident, Wayne Mendenhall was held at 10:00 A.M. on Monday, November 24, 2014 at the Lamar Christian Church with Ian Blacker officiating. Burial was held at 3:00PM on Monday at the Walsh Cemetery in Walsh, Colorado.             Visitation for Wayne was held on Sunday, November 23, 2014 from 1:00PM until...

Opal L. Dashner Services are pending for longtime Lamar resident, Opal L. Dashner.

Rosa Dorine Aaron Funeral services were held at 11:00 AM, Thursday, April 3, 2008 at the Peacock Family Chapel for Goodland, Kansas resident Rosa Dorine Aaron. Reverend Trevor Potter of the Wiley/McClave United Methodist Church officiated. Interment followed at Fort Lyon National Cemetery in Fort Lyon, Colorado. Visitation was held on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 from 1:00 PM until 5:00...