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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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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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Town mayor re-elected in landslide
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Town mayor re-elected in landslide
Voters select incumbents Grambley, Scoville, newcomer Greenwood
By By Lia Salvatierra and Erin McIntyre lia@ouraynews.com erin@ouraynews.com 
April 8, 2026
John Clark will continue serving as Ridgway mayor, defeating his only challenger in 14 years since he was first elected, newcomer Tia Mihelarakis. Clark received 321 votes to Mihelarakis’ 51 votes. Cl...
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Does Ouray need a new pool house? Council, public split
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 8, 2026
A series of tweaks to the design of a proposed new pool house at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool has exposed a deep divide among Ouray City Council members and the public over whether the city should proce...
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Council absorbs more criticism over police
Employee pleads 'give us answers' as city OKs higher reimbursement rate for law enforcement services
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 8, 2026
The Ouray City Council on Monday agreed to pay Ouray County more for providing law enforcement services in the city, but not before absorbing another round of blistering criticism from the public and ...
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County, Forest Service to discuss Yankee Boy closure next week
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 8, 2026
Ouray County commissioners will hold a work session next week with the U.S. Forest Service to discuss their plan to close the upper portion of the road into Yankee Boy Basin to reduce environmental an...
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