Obituaries
Recent Obituaries in Denver, CO
Jerome (Jerry) Joseph Panfil
Apr 7, 2024
Jerry loved life and was always determined to do his best!
Born into this world with physical challenges, Jerry began his drumming career at age 4 to help develop his coordination. Jerry gained his love of music from our Dad, a professional musician, who introduced our family to many different styles of music and musical instruments. In Jerry's early and teen...
Patrick Sean Dea
Apr 7, 2024
Patrick Sean Dea was born on February 6, 1984, in Denver, Colorado. He is the eldest of three sons born to Mary and Pat Dea. Patrick is survived by his parents, brother Conor, sister-in-law Eliza, niece Laura, and nephews Henry and Conor Jr.
Patrick attended Blessed Sacrament Grammar School in the Park Hill community of Denver. He graduated from Regis...
Joseph Bower Smith
Apr 7, 2024
Joseph Bower Smith, age 92, died April 7, 2024 of natural causes. He was a graduaute from the University of Illinois, Champaign, Ill.. He also served in the Navy and was in a early warning squadron based in Jacksonville Fl.. He continued working in the aviation industry and worked for 40+ years for United Air Lines from which he retired.
Joseph...
Alvie J. Willis
Apr 7, 2024
Alvie J. Willis, 91 of Denver, passed away Sunday, April 7, 2024.
He is preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Kathleen P. Willis and his parents, Ruell J. Willis and Elizabeth L. Willis. He is survived by daughter Mary Ocampo; sons Mike (Terry) Willis, Alan (Sandy Burr) Willis; grandchildren Bryant Willis, Tyler Willis, Ryan Ocampo, Aiden Ocampo...
Gregory Kevin Conwicke
Apr 7, 2024
Kevin Conwick passed away in Denver April 7, 2024 at the age of 89. He was born in Gowanda, NY to school teachers Theodore and Hazel Conwicke. After high school in Endicott, NY Kevin attended Colgate University where he played varsity football and lacrosse and earned a Phi Beta Kappa key.
In 1957 he joined the Marine Corps and with...
John Alfred Kintzele, Sr.
Apr 7, 2024
John Alfred Kintzele Sr. (“Jack”) of Denver, Colorado, passed away peacefully in his sleep on April 7, 2024, after days of being surrounded by his family.
Jack was born in Denver on August 16, 1936, to Louis Richard “Bud” Kintzele and Adele Catherine Kintzele. He was the second of four children, following his older brother Louis Richard Kintzele, Jr., and followed...
James Richard Broyles
Apr 6, 2024
James Richard Broyles, husband of Judith (Vik Read), son of Harry Elbert and Bertha (Hopp) Broyles, brother of Wayne and Lynn Broyles, stepfather to Wayne Read (Cathleen Ashliman Read), Tim Read (Cheryl Corbin Read), and Stephanie Read Ahlberg (Brian Ahlberg); Grandpa to Jordan Read; Abigail and Bethany Read; Brandon and Kelley Ahlberg, and Kristina Ahlberg Douglas; and Gavin Ahlberg; and...
Mark Pautler
Apr 6, 2024
Mark Christopher Pautler, age 82, passed away unexpectedly on April 6, 2024.
Born on April 6, 1942, Mark was raised in St. Louis, Missouri where he attended St. Louis University High School and then completed 6 years at St. Stanilaus Jesuit Seminary. While contemplating whether or not he would continue his future in the Jesuit priesthood, he asked to be...
Margaret "Peggy" DeBiase
Apr 5, 2024
On Friday, April 5, Margaret (Peggy) DeBiase, beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, passed away at the age of 91. She was born in Princeton, New Jersey on January 15, 1933, the daughter of Italian immigrants. Her parents, Michele and Lucia Carnevale, came to the United States from the province of Campobasso in southern Italy. She grew up in an environment...
Myrna Lou Pettit
Apr 5, 2024
Myrna Lou Pettit (Schmidt), died in her sleep on April 5, 2024, at the age of 93. She was in long term memory care for Alzheimers disease in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Myrna was born to Dorothea and L.G. Schmidt in Pomeroy, Iowa on October 3, 1930. She has been interred in Crown Hill Cemetery in Lakewood, Colorado, next to her...
Ruth Arlene Huebner
Apr 5, 2024
Ruth Arlene Huebner was born March 9, 1933, in Grafton North Dakota, the only child of Lawrence and Blanche Thompson. Ruth grew up on a farm near Park River, 30 miles from Canada, and 30 miles from Minnesota, where she learned to work hard, love animals, raise a garden, and care for 200 turkey pullets each summer, which provided her...
Barbara Jeanne Venezia
Apr 5, 2024
Barbara Jeanne Venezia entered our world as the first of two daughters of Kenneth & Josephine McLean of Seattle, Washington. An exceptional student throughout her education, skipping four full grades in her youth making her taller than all the boys. She loved to learn, all subjects, but it was in mathematics which allowed her acceptance, as well as achieving expertise,...
Joneita Rae Neal
Apr 4, 2024
Lifelong Colorado resident Joneita (Joni) Neal passed away peacefully on April 4, 2024, at the age of 71, in Littleton, CO. She was born in Wray, CO on January 12, 1953. Joni married the love of her life on August 21, 1970. They resided in Littleton. She loved to spend time with her family and friends and enjoyed traveling.
She is...
Thomas William Severtson
Apr 3, 2024
Thomas William Severtson entered God’s kingdom on April 3rd 2024. Thomas better know to all of us as “Sev” was unable to recover from his third bout of pneumonia in the last year, yet he fought to the end.
Sev left an incredible legacy of giving during his time here on earth. The focus of his life was teaching and coaching...
Lewis R "Rusty" Murray
Apr 3, 2024
Rusty Murray (Lewis Rutledge Murray, Jr) was born in Birmingham, Alabama on March 12, 1947. When he was young he enjoyed summers working at Camp Winnataska, youth group at Woodlawn Methodist Church, and running track at Woodlawn High School, where he graduated in the class of 1965.
He attended college at Auburn University, and was the Grand Master of his Fraternity,...
Robert Thomas Pristera
Apr 3, 2024
Robert Thomas Pristera 91, of Highlands Ranch, CO, Braddock and Penn Hills, PA and Poland, OH, died April 3, 2024, peacefully in his home with his wife by his side. Bob was born on February 8, 1933, to Francesco and Mary (Cortese) Pristera. After graduating from Braddock High School in 1950, he went to work for Westinghouse Research Labs....
Lawrence Jacob Gatton
Apr 2, 2024
Lawrence “Larry” J. Gatton, age 81, passed peacefully surrounded by his family on April 2nd, 2024. He was a graduate of Owensboro Catholic High School in Owensboro, Kentucky, and moved to Colorado at the age of 18. He retired from the Wholesale Liquor distribution business in the early 2000s.
Larry loved four wheeling and spending time in the mountains. Over the...
Phillip Ray Houck
Apr 2, 2024
Phillip Ray Houck , age 86, died at home on April 2, 2024.
Phil was born May 18, 1937 in Oklahoma City to Eston Houck and Mildred Boswell. His family moved to Arkansas when he was ten years old and he attended middle and high school in Alpena, Arkansas. After graduation in 1955, Phil went to Chicago where he started an...
Jo Ann Langfield
Apr 2, 2024
Jo Ann Langfield passed away peacefully surrounded by the love of her family on April 2, 2024 at the age of 92.
She was born in Denver, Colorado on May 3, 1931 to George and Louise Koelbert and was raised with her precious sisters, Jane (Wilkins) and Georgie (Long). While still in high school, Jo Ann met the love of her...
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