Obituaries
By News Staff 
March 1, 2023
July 11, 1944-Feb. 19, 2023 Sandra Sue Smith, was born in Aurora, Colorado on July 11th, 1944. She graduated from Granby, Colorado, then married Thomas Tucker in September 29, 1962. She had her 1st bo...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
March 1, 2023
Nov. 6, 1930-Feb. 26, 2023 Ricky was born in Rockford, IL, delivered by her physician father. She was predeceased by her parents, Dr. A. Howard Erickson and Marie (Richardson) Erickson, brother A. How...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
March 1, 2023
June 6, 1925-Feb. 21, 2023 Rebecca Trujillo, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed away in the early morning of February 21, 2023. She was 97 years of age. Rebecca was born on June 6,...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
February 23, 2023
Dec. 20, 1936-Feb. 18, 2023 Carl Schwenk, age 86, of Ridgway, was born in West Reading, PA on Dec. 20, 1936. He was the second son of the late Wayland G. and Elva B. (Gerhart) Schwenk, and was pre-dec...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
February 15, 2023
Frances Lorene (Fournier) Talbert was born on the family ranch in Pleasant Valley in 1924 to Eugene and Gladys (Rudd) Fournier. Frances passed away Feb. 7, 2023, at the age of 98. She graduated from R...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
January 25, 2023
Sept. 2, 1944-Jan. 10, 2023 Richard Allen River, 78, of Ouray, Colorado, sadly left us on January 10, 2023. Rick was born to Elwood and Alene (Fellin) River in the Miners Hospital in Ouray where he gr...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
January 5, 2023
Mere words cannot describe this man, the gas man. His life celebration will be held at 11 a.m. on January 14, 2023, at the Elks Lodge #492, 421 Main Street in Ouray. He is survived by his mother, thre...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
January 5, 2023
Carol Lipton, beloved wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away on November 22nd at age 80, following a seven-year battle with cancer. Carol died at home with family by her bedside. With her degree i...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
January 5, 2023
February 6, 1939-January 1, 2023 Joseph Slawitschka, 83, passed away, peacefully at home, surrounded by his family on January 1, 2023. He is survived by his love of 61 years, Anneliese, son Gary, daug...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
November 30, 2022
1928-2022 Arthur Dodd, Sr. passed away peacefully, age 94, surrounded by his family on October 19, 2022. He was predeceased by his parents, brothers, sister in-law, nephews, and niece. He leaves behin...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
November 30, 2022
April 2, 1982-November 12, 2022 On the morning of Saturday, November 12, 2022, Carrie Allison-Folga passed away unexpectedly at the young age of 40. Carrie was a beloved wife to her husband, Kevin, an...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
November 23, 2022
January 9, 1941-November 18, 2022 Marilyn Cipra Beall, of Ouray County, passed away at her residence after a short illness. Marilyn was born on January 9, 1941, to H. Eugene Bowman and Gladys R. Bowma...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
November 9, 2022
Dec. 24, 1964-Oct. 26, 2022 Anthony D. Vallejos, age 57, of Ouray, CO, passed away on October 26, 2022 in Phoenix, AZ, where he was residing for the past two years, of natural causes. Anthony was born...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
November 9, 2022
June 21, 1943-Nov. 1, 2022 Jerry Donald Overton, 79, passed on 1 November, 2022, in Montrose, Colorado. Jerry was born on 21 June 1943 to George L. and Lucille Baldwin Overton in Memphis, Tennessee. H...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
November 2, 2022
Sept. 23, 1953-Oct. 26, 2022 Gertrud 'Trudy' Giels was born in the little country town of Hillesheim, Germany. She earned a degree in pharmacy, working first in a hospital setting as a pharmacist. She...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
October 20, 2022
Jan. 21, 1949-Oct. 9, 2022 The lord has called our beloved Mother, Sister and Nana to Heaven and she will be greatly missed. We can rest knowing, that she will no longer be in pain, but in peace insid...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
October 20, 2022
Nov. 9, 1923-Sept. 23, 2022 Crosby was born in Cape May, New Jersey, the youngest of Oliver Perry- Smith and Agnes Adolph Perry- Smith's four sons. They grew up in Lake Placid, New York, and built a s...
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Obituaries
By News Staff 
October 13, 2022
September 3, 1930-October 4, 2022 Jane V. Eaton Meiklejohn was born on September 3, 1930 in New York City, the only daughter of John “Jack” Stafford Eaton, a two-time Oscar winning short-subject film ...
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Main, News...
Landowners seeking wintertime motorized access increasingly encountering opposition
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 2, 2025
Outrage over wintertime wheeled access on public county roads is resurging as Ouray County residents scorn new requests from private landowners to plow public roads and argue the county’s snow-protect...
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Main, News...
By Lia Salvatierra lia@ouraynews.com 
April 2, 2025
Ouray County commissioners are debating whether to offer planning commissioners a stipend after about a month of struggling to recruit replacements for four openings on the commission. Four planning c...
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Feature
PREP ROUNDUP
By By Matt Meyer Special to the Plaindealer 
April 2, 2025
Editor's note: The Plaindealer is trying something new – publishing a sports column with information about local high school sports during the seasons for those sports. We don't have the resources to ...
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News
By Mike Wiggins mike@ouraynews.com 
April 2, 2025
The areas where Ridgway School District students gather to socialize, eat, study and host musical and theatrical performances will receive roughly $1 million of improvements this summer. Work at Ridgw...
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