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Local Obituaries for Families in Cottonwood, Arizona
Rozella L. Kleck
Mar 11, 2003
Rozella L. Kleck, 93, died on Tuesday evening, 11 March 2003. She was born in Pittsburgh, Kansas on March 9, 1910 as Rozella Lorraine Hammond. She and her youngest sister, Clara Bell married brothers, George and Edd Wilson. George was killed in an auto accident. By 1939 Rozella had moved to Arizona and in June of that year she married...
Florence M. Bade
Mar 11, 2003
Florence M. Bade, 93, of Cottonwood, Arizona died on Tuesday, March 11th. Miss Bade was born in Berger, Missouri on September 6, 1909. She was a retired secretary and had resided in Arizona for the last twenty seven years. She was a member of the Mountain View United Methodist Church and a fifty three year member of the Turquoise Rebecca...
Carol Arminda Saad
Mar 10, 2003
Carol Arminda Saad, 81, of Clarkdale died on Monday, March 10, 2003. She was born on June 23, 1921 in Boone, Iowa. A resident of Arizona for 16 years, Mrs. Saad worked for a tire manufacturer in the accounting department. She was an avid bridge player at Lampliter Village and Pine Shadows. She was also a member of The Republican...
Carolyn ''Sue'' (McMenamin) Buss
Mar 10, 2003
Carolyn \u0027\u0027Sue\u0027\u0027 (McMenamin) Buss, 48, of Cornville and life long resident of the Verde Valley passed away on Monday, March 10th. She was born in Cottonwood, Arizona on June 10, 1954. Carolyn Sue graduated from Mingus High School in 1972. This was the last class to graduate in Jerome. She is survived by her three children and their spouses: Amber...
Victoria Ann Baker
Mar 10, 2003
Victoria Ann Baker, 49, of Camp Verde, died on Monday, March 10th. She was born in Cottonwood, Arizona on December 24, 1953. Mrs. Baker was a member of the Yavapai-Apache Nation and worked as the Director of Tribal Enrollment. She was the daughter of Victor Hamaley and Naomi Mocasque-Gibson. She is survived by her children: Marisa R. Rious Marcella O....
Terrence Dean Baker
Mar 9, 2003
Terrence Dean Baker, 67, of Cottonwood, Arizona died on Sunday, March 9th. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 10, 1936. Mr. Baker was a veteran having served in the United States Air Force. He was a lifelong student of English Literature and Humanity. He was a true gentleman and founder of The First Church Of The Second Day...
Phyllis D. Fallen
Mar 3, 2003
Long time Cottonwood resident Phyllis D. Fallen died on Monday, March 3, 2003 at the Kachina Point Health Care Center in Sedona, Arizona. Mrs. Fallen was born on June 6, 1916 in Iowa City, Iowa. A retired typist, she moved to Arizona in 1975. She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry C. Fallen in 1992. A graveside service...
Mary Jane Fernandes
Mar 3, 2003
Mary Jane Fernandes was born Mary Jane Edwards July 16, 1912 in Reno, Nevada. She died March 3, 2003 at Little Eden on South Eighth Street, Cottonwood, Arizona at the age of 90. She graduated from Hilmar High School in 1929 and is a life member of the California Scholaraship Federation. Mary Jane was a young divorcee supporting two dhildren...
Margaret D. Aiken (Stone)
Mar 3, 2003
Margaret D. Aiken (Stone), a much-beloved artist, whose paintings have been widely shown in New York, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, the Grand Canyon and many other venues across the country, died in Sedona, Arizona on March 3, 2003. She was 78 years of age. Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico on April 3, 1924, Margaret could never remember not wanting to...
Harry W. Snyder
Feb 27, 2003
Harry William Snyder, 76, of Cottonwood died February 27. He was born December 28, 1925 in Freeport, Pennsylvania. Mr. Snyder retired after a career in sales. He was a member of the Evangel Worship Center. He loved watching his grandsons play baseball and was a huge Diamondback\u0027s fan. He was a naval veteran. Mr. Snyder leaves his wife Dorothy M....
Aladar Molnar
Feb 26, 2003
Al Molnar died February 26th at his home in Cottonwood. He was 77. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he attended the Military Academy there and trained as a fighter pilot in the Hungarian Air Force. Overrun by the Russians at the end of the war, he was barred from further flying and found work as a heavy vehicle driver within the...
Alvin Charles Cole
Feb 23, 2003
Alvin Charles Cole, 61, of Camp Verde died February 23. He was born June 6, 1941 in Ladysmith, Wisconsin. He was retired from the U.S. Postal Service. He attended Immaculate Conception Church and was a member of the Jerome Lodge of the Elks and the American Legion. He was a Vietnam veteran of the Air Force. He leaves his mother,...
Gesche Ingrid Butschun
Feb 22, 2003
Gesche Ingrid Butschun, 63, a resident of Sedona died February 22, 2003. She was born December 26, 1939 in Augsburg, Germany. She leaves her husband, Gerhard Paul Butschun; a daughter, Angela P. Lindberg of Forest Lake, Minnesota; a son, Donald G. Butschun of Cypress, Texas; a brother, Dirk Harms of Linkenheim, Germany; two grandchildren, Robert Lindberg and Matthew Lindberg, both...
Velma Octavian Owens
Feb 21, 2003
Velma Octavian Owens,92, a long time resident of Cottonwood,(Bridgeport) died on Friday, February 21st. She was born in Bryant, Oklahoma on June 29, 1910. A homemaker, Velma lived in Arizona for 84 years. Mrs. Owens was a long time and devoted member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Diamond Chapter #7. She was married to Albert (Bert) Owens who...
Donald A. Godman
Feb 19, 2003
Donald Alfred Godman, 82, of Camp Verde died February 19. He was born December 5, 1920 in Pueblo, Colorado. He retired as an owner of a refrigeration and heating business. He served in the Army during World War II. He leaves his wife Elizabeth N. Godman of Camp Verde; a daughter, Susan E. Skagss of Prescott; a son James D....
Irene A. Connolly
Feb 19, 2003
Irene Antoinette Connolly, 76, of Clarkdale, died February 19. She was born May 15, 1926 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She was a homemaker. Mrs. Connolly is survived by her mother Florida Sweet of Cottonwood; a daughter, Donna Holub of Fontana, California; two sons, James M. Connolly of Florence and Thomas P. Connolly of Fontana; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. There...
Audrey Jean Killingsworth
Feb 15, 2003
Audrey Jean Killingsworth, 43, of Camp Verde, Arizona died on Saturday, February 15th. She was born in Yuma Arizona on January 8, 1960. Mrs. Killingsworth was a homemaker, and had resided in Arizona for the last 20 years. She is survived by her husband, James Michael Killingsworth; her father: Mickey L. McGill of Camp Verde; two sisters: Sherry Lynn Montgomery...
Kathleen ''Kay'' Bareford
Feb 15, 2003
After three years of struggling through three accumulatively degrading strokes, on February 1, 2003 Kathleen suffered a massive stroke that left her terminal. She departed this world on February 15, 2003 and joined her Heavenly Father and His Choir of Angels, as she had always planned. From the age of eleven Kay became a believer of the Lord Jesus Christ,...
John Peter Hiegel
Feb 14, 2003
John Peter Hiegel, 88, of Cottonwood died February 14. He was born November 21, 1911 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hiegel retired from Reynolds Aluminum. A baseball and football enthusiast, he played on a minor league team in Erie, Pennsylavania as a young man. He was a jack of all trades. Before his marriage he had been a music teacher of...
Jo Anna L. Marshall
Feb 9, 2003
Jo Anna L. Marshall, 54, of Cottonwood died February 9. She was born September 11, 1948 in Knoxville, Iowa. Jo Anna was a massage therapist and owner of Jo Anna\u0027s Professional Body Work. She has been in Cottonwood for about 12 years moving here from San Diego. She was an active member of American Business Womans Association and had served...
