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Paul Nicholas McElrea
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Paul Nicholas McElrea
By News Staff 
July 15, 2021
Paul Nicholas McElrea was born on February 4, 1969 in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was the eldest of three sons of Richard and Rosemary McElrea. Tragically he was found deceased on July 7, 2021, at a...
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Richard B. Zortman
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Richard B. Zortman
By News Staff 
July 1, 2021
Richard was born to Horace E. and Gretta (Bethel) Zortman in Fowler, Kansas on July 26, 1938. He died suddenly and unexpectedly in Denver, Colorado on June 19, 2021. In 1986 he married his wife of thi...
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Wayne M. Nash
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Wayne M. Nash
By News Staff 
June 16, 2021
Wayne Morris Nash was born on July 1, 1925 to Walter H. and Alta (Chambers) Nash in Red Wing, Minnesota. Wayne attended public schools in Red Wing, graduating in 1943. His love of sports developed in ...
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Ralph Lowery
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Ralph Lowery
By News Staff 
June 10, 2021
Ralph Lowery, 58, of Ridgway, CO passed away unexpectedly May 28th, 2021. He was born in 1962 in Montrose, CO to Lester and Delphane Lowery. As a boy, he could be found playing in the dirt with his tr...
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Larry Fredrick Falk
By News Staff 
May 26, 2021
Larry Fredrick Falk of Ridgway died peacefully on April 27, after a brief illness. Larry was born on Feb. 8, 1949 in Dearborn, MI, the only child of Ernest Falk Jr. and Joyce Howard. He spent the firs...
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CELEBRATION OF LIFE
By News Staff 
May 19, 2021
Dec. 11, 1920-Dec. 14, 2020 Elaine Kessler went to be with the Lord on Dec. 14, 2020. We will celebrate her life on May 24 at the Ouray Christian Fellowship church at 10:00 o'clock. Following the serv...
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Thomas David Griffiths
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Thomas David Griffiths
By News Staff 
April 28, 2021
Thomas David Griffiths, 77, of Johnstown died on January 15, 2021, at the Hillcrest Assisted Living Center in Loveland. He was born in an Army hospital on September 12, 1943, in Washington D.C. to Tho...
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Jeff Norman
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Jeff Norman
By News Staff 
April 28, 2021
I remember when my dad taught me how to ski, when I was maybe four years old. My mother was a ski instructor, and so she tried to teach me using the “correct” methods, using “pizza, french fries,” etc...
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Gail Lynn Tafoya-Kuboske
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Gail Lynn Tafoya-Kuboske
By News Staff 
April 14, 2021
Gail passed away of natural causes unexpectedly. She was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Edward Tafoya & Maryjane Gann. She was the 4th child of 6 kids. She moved to Denver, Colorado, when she was 10 ye...
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Joseph A. ‘Joe’ Rogers
By News Staff 
March 25, 2021
Joseph A. ‘Joe’ Rogers, 71, died Jan. 9, 2021, at Montrose Memorial Hospital, from a cardiac event. Joe was born Mar. 18, 1949 in Pueblo, CO, to Joseph Leo Valdez and Georgia A. Valdez. He was the old...
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Janice Mayfield
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Janice Mayfield
By News Staff 
March 11, 2021
Janice Mayfield at age 91 passed away in her Montrose, Colorado home on March 5, 2021. After a long bout with COPD, she suffered a seizure a week before she finally succumbed while surrounded by her l...
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Candida Gold
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Candida Gold
By News Staff 
March 11, 2021
Our community lost a dear friend and light this past week. Candida Gold passed away peacefully surrounded by loving care at HopeWest in Grand Junction on Wednesday, March 4th. If you knew her, you lov...
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Raymond Albert Markey
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Raymond Albert Markey
By News Staff 
March 4, 2021
Raymond Albert Markey died of natural causes at his home in Ouray, Colorado on February 19, 2021. Ray was born to Arthur Markey and Inez (Kauffman) Markey on lime 14,1949 in Montrose, Colorado. He gre...
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Bruce Osenberg
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Bruce Osenberg
By News Staff 
March 4, 2021
Bruce it Osenberg, 82, peacefully made his way to heaven on Feb. 21, with loved ones at his side. His beloved dog Cassie Joy was also close by. Bruce was born on January 30, 1939 in DeKalb, IL to Erwi...
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Vernon Glenn Hughes
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Vernon Glenn Hughes
By News Staff 
February 24, 2021
Vernon Glenn Hughes, age 87, son of Allen Glenwood Hughes and Cleo Nadine Hulsey, stepson of Leroy Phares, was born June 25, 1933 in Elvins, MO. He passed away February 18, 2021, at Texas County Memor...
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Bruce Bergman
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Bruce Bergman
By News Staff 
February 24, 2021
Bruce Bergman, age 84, passed away in peace surrounded by his loved ones Friday, February 12, 2021. He was originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, but had been a resident of Ridgway, Colorado, for the past ...
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Daniel Wolf
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Daniel Wolf
By News Staff 
February 10, 2021
Most people who come to Ridgway are going somewhere else. It’s a two-valley town, an upstream town—usually, a visitor approaches on Highway 550, climbing the steady rise of the Uncompahgre Valley. On ...
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Norma J. (Westlund) Clark
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Norma J. (Westlund) Clark
By News Staff 
February 4, 2021
Norma J. (Westlund) Clark, 94, of Naperville Illinois, passed away January 28, 2021. Norma was born in Chicago, Illinois where she met and fell in love with Max L Clark. They were married on February ...
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Alfred John Rossi
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Alfred John Rossi
By News Staff 
February 4, 2021
Al Rossi was one of a kind. Born at home in Ouray, Colorado, on the morning of June 30, 1936, he was the beloved only son of Levy Lucy Zanella Rossi and John Simon Rossi. He was doted on by his two ol...
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Peter Randolph Decker
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Peter Randolph Decker
By News Staff 
December 29, 2020
Peter Randolph Decker, 86, educator, soldier, rancher, public servant, scholar, author, and patriarch, died on the morning of December 12, 2020, with his beloved wife Deedee at his side after a life w...
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Vehicle problems toss wrench at sheriff
Maintenance costs pile up as agency wrestles with delays in replacing patrol cars
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
December 10, 2025
Gio Mendoza’s coworkers thought he was missing for more than an hour. Emergency dispatchers were scrambling to get in touch with him. They had no idea the Ouray County sheriff’s investigator was stran...
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Resident: Tax money should fund ‘creatives’
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
December 10, 2025
A Ridgway woman is proposing the town give "creative" residents a monthly, unconditional cash payment to encourage them to stay living and working in town. Ridgway resident Tia Mihelarakis proposed a ...
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Commissioner opposes change to cost-savings policy
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
December 10, 2025
Ouray County Commissioner Lynn Padgett voted against a minor change to the county's new cost-savings policy, citing unclear language as the reason she canceled her attendance at a statewide conference...
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County OKs budget, will diminish savings
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
December 10, 2025
Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to accurately reflect the county's disaster fund balance heading into 2026. Ouray County commissioners approved the county's 2026 budget during their regul...
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