Montezuma County CO Archives Obituaries.....Burnham, Owen F. December 30, 2001
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Owen F. Burnham

Military graveside services were held Jan. 4, 2002, in Hayward, Calif., for Owen F.
Burnham, who passed away at his home Dec. 30, 2001, at the age of 83. Owen was born in Red
Mesa, Colo., May 19,. 1918, to Vosco S. Burnham and Myrtle Fielding Burnham.
Owen graduated from Mancos High School in 1938, where he played center for a championship
basketball team. A quote from his yearbook said, "Owen was tall like a towering tree that
stands in a forest primeval, is the form of this worthy gentleman." His friends fondly
called him "Slim."

Owen joined the service and was a proud veteran of WW2. He served his country in the South
Pacific. He was a charter member of the Mancos VFW and a lifetime neighbor of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars. 

Owen made his home in Hayward, Calif., for over 45 years, where he was foreman of a large
construction company and was a lifetime member of the Carpenters Union. His great love was 
the outdoors, especially fishing and caring for his beautiful yard and garden. He enjoyed 
coming to Mancos for his class reunion every year on Mancos Days.

He married Clytie McRamey in 1949, who preceded him in death. He was also preceded in
death by his parents, one brother and one loving companion.

He leaves to mourn his passing a brother, Ben F. Burnham, Newark, Calif.; sisters Eileen
Jones of Thatcher, Ariz., Ruth Seybold of Arvada, Colo., Gladys Saulters of Cortez and
Ellen Paquin of Mancos.

After Glow
I'd like the memory of me
to be a happy one.
I'd like to leave an after glow
of smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing
times and bright and sunny days.
I'd like the tears of those who grieve, 
to dry before the sun
Of happy memories that I leave
When life is done.

-- 
Tom Vaughan, Editor
The Mancos Times 
Serving the beautiful Mancos Valley since 1893
P.O. Box 987, Mancos, CO 81328
(970) 533-7766     (970) 565-8527
thomasv@cortezjournal.com  fax (970) 565-8532      

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