Obituaries

Local obituaries for the Boulder, CO

Marcella Raikes

Marcella Raikes

Feb 23, 2025

Marcella Jean Raikes passed away Sunday, February 23rd, 2025 at

the age of 94. Marcella was born May 18, 1930, in Fremont, NE the

first of six girls born to Orval and Catherine Thiessen. She is

survived by her four children: Susan Raikes Dye (Wes Dye),

grandson Michael McCain (Lexa McCain), great grandson, Kaden

McCain, Jim Raikes (Marie Raikes), grandson...

Arthur Tarr

Arthur Tarr

Feb 20, 2025

Arthur Charles Tarr died peacefully on February 20, 2025, at the age of 83 at the memory care unit at Sunrise of Boulder. Art was born in Pittsburgh, PA on June 11, 1941, the first child and only son of Oliver Franklin Tarr and Cora Helen Bass Tarr. The family was completed by births of his sisters, Marian and Nancy....

Michael Gardner

Michael Gardner

Feb 18, 2025

Michael "Mickey" Robert Gardner, 82, of Boulder, Colorado passed away peacefully on February 18, 2025 in his home surrounded by his loving Colorado family. Mickey was born on November 19, 1942 to Joseph T. Gardner and Elva Flynn Gardner. Mickey arrived while his mother was visiting family in Philadelphia during one of his father's 41 Naval Atlantic crossings amid World...

Janet Weber

Janet Weber

Feb 13, 2025

Janet M. Weber, 76, born September 4th 1948, passed away on February 13th in Boulder, Colorado.

Janet Weber, daughter of Harvey and Polly Weber, was born in Springfield, Illinois and was called to Boulder, Colorado in the early 1970s.

Janet always cared about helping others, earning her Masters in Psychology from Indiana University, and...

Susan Winchester

Susan Winchester

Feb 10, 2025

Susan Anne Winchester 80, passed away February 21, 2025 in Westminster, Colorado. Susan was born on Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming September 19, 1944. The eldest child of Norman and Elinor Winchester she was raised in Boulder, Colorado, Susan completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in1966 from the University of Colorado. She was awarded a Masters in German...

Sarah Crockett Holland

Sarah Crockett Holland

Feb 10, 2025

Ann Crockett Holland passed away peacefully on February 10, 2025, with a loving circle of family, friends and caregivers around her. Ann wants her dying to be "a time of personal growth for everyone" which reflects her abundant kindness, generous spirit, and beautiful abiding love for others in a time of grief.

Throughout her life, Ann was known for her calm...

Robert Allton

Robert Allton

Feb 8, 2025

Our beloved father, Robert N. Allton died at home on February 8, 2025.

Robert was born in Peoria IL in 1926. As a child, he was active in Boy Scouts. In high school, he played the cornet for the marching band and could operate movie projectors.

He served in the US Army Air Corps from 1944-1946. After he...

Keith Thompson

Keith Thompson

Feb 8, 2025

Keith Thompson

September 18, 1956 - February 8, 2025

Keith Eugene Thompson was born September 18, 1956 in San Diego, California and passed away on February 8, 2025 in Longmont, Colorado, at the age of 68.

He is preceded in death by his parents Janis Nielsen Thompson and Bruce Eugene Thompson. He is survived by his siblings,...

James Hill

James Hill

Feb 5, 2025

James Lowell Hill was born 27 August 1943, the first child of Thomas Tyler Hill and Lois Viola Peterson Hill, in Des Plaines, Illinois.

He died on 5 February 2025 at age 81, in Boulder, Colorado, of pancreatic cancer.

He is survived by his wife Janet Swan Hill of Boulder, Colorado; his daughter Scottie Johanna Hill and husband...

John Dempsey

John Dempsey

Feb 5, 2025

John M. Dempsey, 72, of Longmont, CO (and Isabela PR, and East Longmeadow, MA), passed away peacefully on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in University of Colorado Hospital, after a brief illness. Born in Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Portsmouth Virginia on Feb 19, 1953, he was son of the late Dorothy (Seaman) Dempsey (USN Yeoman) and the late John J. Dempsey...

Joan Linnert

Joan Linnert

Feb 2, 2025

Joan Frances Simmons Linnert, 94, of Littleton, Colorado, died on Sunday February 2, 2025, at Libby Bortz Assisted Living.

Joan Frances was born September 14, 1930, in Brooklyn, NY.

She attended Cleveland Heights High School and graduated from Carnegie Medical School.

Joan worked for several individual doctors for more than 60 years and in her 80's was...

Gwendolyn Wharton

Gwendolyn Wharton

Feb 1, 2025

Gwen Shumway Wharton passed away peacefully in her Boulder home on February 1st, surrounded by friends and family. She was born in San Francisco in 1943 to Kenneth and Viola Shumway, spending most of her childhood in California and Utah. After transferring from UC Davis to a nursing program at Stanford, she fell in love with Bill Wharton at a...

Gary Douglas

Gary Douglas

Jan 31, 2025

Gary Wayne Douglas Sr., 71, of Fort Lupton, Colorado died at home on January 31, 2025. He lost a quick six-week, unfair battle with cancer, but he never lost his smile or sense of humor. He was born on a United States Air Force base in Cambridge, England on February 18, 1953. Gary never met a stranger and made fast...

Edward Safdie

Edward Safdie

Jan 28, 2025

Edward Jack Safdie, 1938 - 2025

Edward Jack Safdie born July 18, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York passed away on January 28, 2025 in Boulder, Colorado, in the company of his beloved wife of 59 years, Carlene Light Safdie, daughter Samantha S. Miller, grandson Parker Edward Henderson Miller and son-in-law, Matthew J. Miller.

Edward grew up in San Francisco...

Scott Miyamoto

Scott Miyamoto

Jan 25, 2025

Scott Miyamoto

(April 21, 1969 - January 25, 2025)

It is with great sadness that we share the passing of our beloved brother, Scott Shunji Miyamoto. He left us on January 25, 2025 in Aurora, Colorado at the age of 55.

Scott grew up in Aurora, Colorado and attended Rangeview high school. Scott had a talent for drawing...

Albert Fettig

Albert Fettig

Jan 22, 2025

Albert G. Fettig Jr., 66, of Longmont, CO passed away on January 17, 2025. Albert was born on March 6, 1958 in Denver, CO to Albert and Barbara Fettig. He graduated from Fairview High School before attending the University of Northern Colorado. After college he worked for Harrah's Casino and worked in event management and promotions for Planned Furniture Promotions...