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Darrell Hartigan
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Darrell Hartigan
July 9, 2025
September 15, 1947 – May 12, 2025 Darrell’s waiting is done. He received the call on May 12, 2025. The time had come to be reunited with his beloved wife, Catherine, who had been waiting for him since...
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Grace Stoufer
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Grace Stoufer
July 9, 2025
August 13, 1953 – May 28, 2025 Grace Stoufer, 71, passed away the night of Wednesday, May 28, in Greenwood Village, Colorado. She had developed an infection as a complication of multiple sclerosis. Gr...
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Eva Schoonover
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Eva Schoonover
December 19, 1982 – June 19, 2025
June 23, 2025
Eva Schoonover, 42, of Montrose, Colorado died Thursday, June 19, 2025, at her home in her husband’s arms. Eva was born at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on December 19, 1982, to Mark and Lynne Stovice...
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Gene Ulrich
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Gene Ulrich
June 18, 2025
March 18, 1946 – June 12, 2025 Gene Ulrich, a member of our Ridgway community, passed away peacefully in his apartment on Thursday, June 12, due to complications from pancreatic cancer. He was a frien...
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Judith Skalla
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Judith Skalla
May 14, 2025
May 11, 1939-April 27, 2025 On May 11, 1939, in the high mountain town of Telluride, Colorado, Judith Ann Oliver took her first breath. On April 27, 2025, she took her last, leaving this world quietly...
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Richard Eugene Lyon Jr.
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Richard Eugene Lyon Jr.
May 14, 2025
Richard Eugene (Rick) Lyon Jr. (1949 – 2025) passed away peacefully at home in Ridgway on April 24, 2025. Rick was born in 1949 in Corpus Christi, Texas, to Richard Eugene (Gene) and Eva Mae Lyon. He ...
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Jeanette ‘Nettie’ Marie Pope
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Jeanette ‘Nettie’ Marie Pope
May 7, 2025
Aug. 7, 1945-April 17, 2025 Jeanette “Nettie” Marie Pope passed away peacefully at home on April 17, 2025, with her family by her side. Nettie was born August 7, 1945 in Montrose, Colorado, to Dale an...
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Burton Stern
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Burton Stern
April 30, 2025
March 27, 1933-October 15, 2024 Burt was the oldest of three boys born to Bernard (Ben) Stern, who immigrated to the U.S. from Poland through Ellis Island at the age of 18, and Rose Turner Stern, who ...
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Julia Mae Johnson
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Julia Mae Johnson
April 30, 2025
May 4, 1928-April 5, 2025 Julia was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to Thomas W. Meiklejohn and Ella Mae Markow. Julia was an amazing woman, not because she was my mother, but because of how she lived...
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Wallace Wade Anderson Jr.
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Wallace Wade Anderson Jr.
April 30, 2025
July 14, 1942-February 23, 2025 Wallace Wade Anderson Jr., my father, known as Wally by his classmates of Ouray, died February 23, 2025, at the age of 82 from complications of cancer. He fought harder...
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Suzanne Lonergan Fries
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Suzanne Lonergan Fries
April 30, 2025
March 23, 1958-April 23, 2025 Suzanne (Sue) Lonergan Fries passed away peacefully at home on April 23, 2025. Sue was born on March 23, 1958, in North Syracuse, New York, to Francis and Genevieve Loner...
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Ross Owen Williams
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Ross Owen Williams
April 23, 2025
September 19, 1979-April 10, 2025 Ross Owen Williams, 45, died in his sleep on April 10, 2025. Ross was a proud son of the San Juan mountains, growing up in Ouray, Colorado, where he cultivated a love...
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Kenneth James Orvis
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Kenneth James Orvis
April 23, 2025
October 27, 1960-April 15, 2025 Ken Orvis, a beloved fixture of the Ridgway valley and an unforgettable character to all who knew him, passed away peacefully, Tuesday April 15, in his home. He was wit...
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Lee Anna Dowden Duckett
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Lee Anna Dowden Duckett
April 23, 2025
June 14, 1938-April 16, 2025 Lee Anna Dowden Duckett was born on June 14, 1938, to Leland and Margret Duckett. She grew up in the beautiful town of Ouray, Colorado, alongside her parents and her belov...
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Jean Ann Starbuck Bosworth
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Jean Ann Starbuck Bosworth
March 26, 2025
April 20, 1925-February 11, 2025 Jean passed on peacefully at her home with her eldest son Ned and partner Gale by her side. She was 99 years old. Jean was one of three children born to Gladys Matthew...
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Karin Leigh Jones
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Karin Leigh Jones
March 12, 2025
January 18, 1954-March 4, 2025 Karin was born on January 18, 1954, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Raymond Rose & Edith Broadbent. She was raised in Media, Pennsylvania, and attended P...
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David Louis Jensen
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David Louis Jensen
February 26, 2025
October 5, 1955 - February 9, 2025 But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a ...
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Caroline Stevens
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Caroline Stevens
February 5, 2025
July 12, 1947-January 25, 2025 “Peaceful death is really an essential right… There is no greater gift of charity you can give than helping a person to die well.” — Soygal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of...
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Rose Ellena Widegren
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Rose Ellena Widegren
January 22, 2025
January 25, 1946-January 19, 2025 Rose Widegren was born in the doctor's office in Hotchkiss, Colorado, on Jan. 25, 1946. She was the third of five children born to her mother, Agnes Egger Welch, and ...
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Donald L. Moden Jr.
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Donald L. Moden Jr.
January 15, 2025
April 15, 1967-January 7, 2025 On January 7, 2025, Don’s intrepid spirit forever joined the San Juan Mountains he cherished. Don was born in Salina, Kansas, and began his sports endeavors at an early ...
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Smoke blankets Ouray County as wildfires burn in region
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Smoke blankets Ouray County as wildfires burn in region
By Mike Wiggins 
July 11, 2025
Heavy smoke and haze choked Ouray County for a second straight day Friday as a series of wildfires churned through tinder-dry trees and brush in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah. The Colora...
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Signs of trouble in Ouray
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Signs of trouble in Ouray
City halts production after public backlash over size, appearance of wayfinding signs
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
July 9, 2025
Ouray business owners and residents threw up a symbolic stop sign in front of the city council on Monday, urging city leaders to pause or altogether abandon plans to install dozens of new wayfinding s...
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Go Fourth and celebrate
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Go Fourth and celebrate
July 9, 2025
The crowd cheers as a fire department tanker truck sprays the wet side of the street during the July 4 parade in Ouray. Ouray Tourism and Destination Marketing Director Kailey Rhoten said cellular dat...
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County scrambles to pay for road repairs from rockfall
Leaders pull from multiple sources to cover $300,000 tab, look to replenish emergency fund
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
July 9, 2025
Ouray County is scraping together money to pay for emergency repairs on County Road 361 while looking for ways to replenish its emergency fund in anticipation of other disasters. During a work session...
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Hot Springs moves forward with upgrades
Council OKs bathhouse design contract; pipeline replacement, heat exchange system on tap this fall
By By Lia Salvatierra and Mike Wiggins lia@ouraynews.com mike@ouraynews.com 
July 9, 2025
A series of much-anticipated upgrades to the Ouray Hot Springs Pool is coming together, with the city beginning infrastructure replacements this fall and searching for ways to pay for building a new b...
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