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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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Remembering Walt Rule, a society founder
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Remembering Walt Rule, a society founder
By News Staff 
June 17, 2020
The Ouray County Historical Society received word that Walter Rule, longtime OCHS Board member, died on April 18 of this year. Walt was a remarkable man who loved history and its preservation. Walt wa...
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Benjamin C. Kuehling
By News Staff 
June 11, 2020
Benjamin “Benjy” C. Kuehling III was born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 9,1938, the son of Maebelle and Benjamin C. Kuehling, Jr., and grandson of Washington DC Police Captain Benjamin C. Kuehling. B...
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Larry Leeper
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Larry Leeper
By News Staff 
June 11, 2020
Larry Leeper of Ouray, CO passed away June 7, 2020 with his wife Alice lying at his side. Larry grew up in Farmington, II, graduated from the University of Illinois and headed west with a goal of warm...
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Walter Wright Rule Jr.
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Walter Wright Rule Jr.
By News Staff 
May 14, 2020
Walt (Walter) Wright Rule, Jr. gave up his five year struggle with declining health early morning, April 18th at his home in Montrose, with wife Nancy and son Walter III by his side. Walt was born May...
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Maryeda Louise Johnson
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Maryeda Louise Johnson
By News Staff 
May 7, 2020
Maryeda passed away at home April u, zozo, at the age of 93. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends. Maryeda was born October 21,1926, in Waterloo, Iowa, to Guy and Esther (Bear) Jackson...
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Judy Fay Holton
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Judy Fay Holton
By News Staff 
April 9, 2020
Judy Fay Holton February 8, 1941 - March 27, 2020 Judy Fay Holton of Montrose died suddenly on Friday morning, March 27. She was the very picture of health and happiness right up to the end. Doctors a...
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John (Jack) B. Backlund
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John (Jack) B. Backlund
By News Staff 
March 26, 2020
John (Jack) B. Backlund, World War II veteran, died Thursday at 11:3o a.m. March 12, 2020. He was born to parents Arvid and Mary Backlund in Bismarck, N.D. There were six children in the family. Two s...
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Rodney Lee Cobb JD
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Rodney Lee Cobb JD
By News Staff 
March 11, 2020
Rodney Lee Cobb JD, age 74 of Ridgway, CO formerly of Chicago, IL, passed away on Wednesday February 26, 2020. He is survived by his beloved wife of 23 years, Susan (nee, Taggart) Cobb; brothers in la...
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Melissa Head
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Melissa Head
By News Staff 
March 5, 2020
Melissa Head was born Melissa Potter on December 26th, 1952, at Bates Hospital in Ouray, Colorado, to Willma and John Henry Potter of Potter’s Hereford Ranch. Melissa attended Ouray High School until ...
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Kenneth “Ken” Lee Charles
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Kenneth “Ken” Lee Charles
By News Staff 
February 27, 2020
Kenneth Lee Charles, 70, passed away after a 22-month long battle with Melanoma on Saturday, February 15, 2020 at the HopeWest Care Center surrounded by family. Ken was born in Montrose, Colorado on ...
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Robert Dale Baca
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Robert Dale Baca
By News Staff 
January 29, 2020
Robert Baca left his family and friends long before he wanted. He still had places to go and lots to do, but weakened health closed this life chapter early on December 17, 2019, at St. Joseph’s Hospit...
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Larry Lee Soderquist
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Larry Lee Soderquist
By News Staff 
September 18, 2019
Larry Lee Soderquist was born in Ouray, CO, to Andrew “Andy” and Marjorie “Marge” (Baumgardner) Soderquist. At the age of 72, Larry passed away at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, CO, surrounded...
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Tom Henry Hash
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Tom Henry Hash
By News Staff 
August 29, 2019
  Tom Henry Hash, former resident of Ouray, went to be with his Lord and Saviour on August 18, 2019 in the home of his daughter in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. At the bedside were his wife, Linda and da...
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Spark Ray Richardson
By News Staff 
August 29, 2019
On July 9, 2019, after battling cancer, Spark left to spend eternity with his savior, Jesus Christ. Many natives of Ouray County will remember Spark's granddad, Fred Richardson, who was a longtime res...
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Helping the helpers: The anatomy of a complex rescue
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Helping the helpers: The anatomy of a complex rescue
Volunteers saved an 11-year-old girl from the bottom of a cliff thanks largely to the skills of Mike Gibbs, who's made a career out of training rescuers
By By Nancy Lofholm Special to the Plaindealer 
February 18, 2026
It took Mike Gibbs all of five seconds on that morning in early August to figure out it was time to execute one of the world’s most complicated rope rescues. A car had tumbled 320 feet off the edge of...
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Bills to give reservoir to Ouray debut in Congress
Administrator: City can afford repair expenses, which are still unknown
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 18, 2026
U.S. House and Senate bills to transfer ownership of Crystal Reservoir from the U.S. Forest Service to the city of Ouray made it to subcommittee hearings in Washington, D.C. last week. Both bills are ...
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County spurns prairie dog control request
Commissioners say they're unwilling, unable to adopt restrictions; resident withdraws lawsuit threat
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
February 18, 2026
Ouray County leaders last week snuffed a resident’s request to require property owners to control prairie dogs, citing a legal inability and unwillingness to do so. At the start of a Feb. 11 work sess...
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Ridgway awards visitor services contract to chamber
February 18, 2026
Ridgway will hire the Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce for $33,824 per year to support town marketing efforts. “RACC expressed confidence in its ability to execute the scope of work, based on many yea...
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Town approves measures to boost housing affordability
By Deb Hurley Brobst Special to the Plaindealer 
February 18, 2026
The Ridgway Town Council approved three measures at its meeting on Feb. 11 to boost affordable housing in the town. Ridgway applying for ADU grant Ridgway is applying for a grant that will allow it to...
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