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Jeannette Callender Hepp
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Jeannette Callender Hepp
By News Staff 
December 17, 2020
Jeannette Callender Hepp passed away on December 7, 2020 after a life exceptionally well-lived for 94 years. She was born and grew up in Oak Park, Illinois with an outgoing spirit and intrepid sense o...
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Elaine Kessler
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Elaine Kessler
By News Staff 
December 17, 2020
Lydia “Elaine” Lair Kessler died peacefully in her sleep Dec. 14, 2020 after celebrating ioo years of life. Elaine was born Dec. u, 1920 to Ed and Mamie (Steward) Lair in Durango, Colo. She married Ja...
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Louis Von Schlosser
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Louis Von Schlosser
By News Staff 
December 10, 2020
Louis Von Schlosser passed away on November 29th, 2020 while surrounded by his loved ones after a fiercely fought battle with cancer On February16, 1936, Louis was born to Clarence and Florence (Engla...
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Joan Ruth Johnson
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Joan Ruth Johnson
By News Staff 
November 19, 2020
Joan Ruth Johnson, 78, of Montrose, Colorado passed away on November 8, 2020 in her home with her family by her side. Joan was born in Montrose, Colorado on September 16, 1942 to Howard & Edith (Hanlo...
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Vernon Pleasant Jr.
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Vernon Pleasant Jr.
By News Staff 
November 12, 2020
Vernon Sessions Pleasant, Jr., age 66, passed away Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at Merit Health River Oaks in Flowood, MS. A memorial service will be planned at a later date. Vernon was born on June 22,1...
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James “Jim” Dee Noble
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James “Jim” Dee Noble
By News Staff 
November 12, 2020
James “Jim” Dee Noble, 8o, of Evergreen, passed away October 24, 2020. Jim was born to Edith (Hanlon) and Howard Noble in Montrose, CO. Jim grew up shepherding and ranching on the western slope. He mo...
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Ferris Elwood “Rocky” River
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Ferris Elwood “Rocky” River
By News Staff 
November 5, 2020
Ouray native son and diehard baseball fan Ferris Elwood “Rocky” River rounded the bases and closed out the final inning of his life in Ventura County Calif. on Oct. 27, 2020 - the very day his beloved...
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Kathleen May Peck
By News Staff 
August 27, 2020
Kathleen May "Kay" PECK (Lair), age 97, formerly of Ouray passed away on Saturday, July 18, 2020 in Las Vegas, NV. Kay was born in Durango, Colorado on September 2nd, 1922 and lived there for most of ...
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Darrel Rogers Cox
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Darrel Rogers Cox
By News Staff 
August 20, 2020
Darrel Rogers Cox passed away on August 3, 2020, with his wife Cindy by his side, just as she had always been. Darrel was an extraordinary man who was appreciated by a broad spectrum of society for hi...
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Vincent Lawrence Kontny
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Vincent Lawrence Kontny
By News Staff 
August 12, 2020
Vince Kontny passed away peacefully in his sleep August 9, 2020, at his home on the Centennial Ranch in Ouray County, Colorado, at age 83. Vince, or Larry as he was known until he joined the U.S. Navy...
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CELEBRATION OF LIFE
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CELEBRATION OF LIFE
By News Staff 
August 5, 2020
A “celebration of life” service will be held on Saturday, August 22 at i p.m. at Grace Community Church, 16731 Woodgate Road, in Montrose. Use the South Gymnasium entrance and park in the west side Gy...
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Nancy L. Price
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Nancy L. Price
By News Staff 
July 15, 2020
Nancy L. Price, 89, died on Sunday, July 5 in Grand Junction after a brief illness. Nancy was born in 1931 in Los Angeles, CA to the late Roland and Margaret Riess. Nancy grew up in California and Iow...
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Daniel Shane Hudson
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Daniel Shane Hudson
By News Staff 
July 15, 2020
On the morning of July 5, 2020, our beloved father, brother, husband and caretaker left his earthly home. Daniel was born to Lynn and Michael Hudson in Montrose, Colorado and spent his childhood in Ou...
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Edmund Kenneth von Delden
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Edmund Kenneth von Delden
By News Staff 
July 8, 2020
Edmund Kenneth von Delden went home to be with his Lord and Savior on July 3, 2010, at age 87, at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. Edmund K. von Delden was born to the proud pa...
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Marcy Grace MacKintosh Snelling Hallstrand
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Marcy Grace MacKintosh Snelling Hallstrand
By News Staff 
July 8, 2020
Marcy Grace MacKintosh was born Dec. 14, 1922 in Jacksonville, Fla. and passed June 13, 2020 in Ridgway, Colorado. Her parents were John MacKintosh and Margaret Higgens. Marcy was aware and fully awar...
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Richard Louis Spirek Jr.
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Richard Louis Spirek Jr.
By News Staff 
July 2, 2020
Richard Louis Spirek Jr. (Dick) was born on July 10, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois to Richard Louis Spirek Sr. and Ruth E. (nee Schirmer) Spirek. He passed away peacefully on Monday, June 15, 2020. Dick i...
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Mary Ellen (M-E) Spirek
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Mary Ellen (M-E) Spirek
By News Staff 
July 2, 2020
Mary Ellen (M-E) (nee Ratajik) Spirek was born on February 19, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois to Walter A. Ratajik and Eleanor E. (nee Kestler) Ratajik. She passed away peacefully on Sunday, June 21, six d...
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Lynnda Rene Hess Watts
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Lynnda Rene Hess Watts
By News Staff 
July 2, 2020
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our beloved family member, Lynnda Rene Hess Watts, who lost her hard-fought battle with cancer on June I5, 2020 and made her journey to be with her fami...
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Marcy Grace MacKintosh Snelling
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Marcy Grace MacKintosh Snelling
By News Staff 
June 25, 2020
She was married to and survived husbands William Snelling and David Hallstrand. Her parents were John MacKintosh and Margaret Higgens. She passed peacefully at home on Saturday, June 13, 2020. She was...
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Serafina Fellin
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Serafina Fellin
By News Staff 
June 25, 2020
Serafina Fellin passed away on Sunday June 7, 2020, at the Hope West Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction, CO after a brief battle with Pancreatic Cancer. Born March 9, 1932, at the Fellin family hom...
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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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