Montezuma County CO Archives Obituaries.....Reddert, Lottie Walker October 25, 2001
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Lottie Walker Reddert

Lottie Walker Reddert, a longtime Mancos Valley resident, died on Oct. 25,
2001, at the age of 97.
She was born in Pagosa Springs on July 4, 1904, to John and Winifred
Richmond Walker. In the same year, her family established itself in Arboles, Colo., at
the confluence of the San Juan and Piedra Rivers, where they remained until the
construction of the Navajo Dam. 
Lottie attended the Fort Lewis Boarding School at the Hesperus campus, where she graduated
from the Rural Teachers' Training Program. She attended summer
courses at the college in Greely and taught at the Arboles and Stollsteimer
Elementary Schools until her marriage to Fred Reddert in 1926.
They first lived in Fort Collins, where she attended classes in English
Literature until Dr. Reddert's graduation from the School of Veterinary
Medicine in 1928.
By 1931, Fred and Lottie Reddert were working together establishing his
veterinary medicine practice in Santa Cruz, Calif., where they remained
until the early 1950s.
They gradually moved to the Mancos ranch, much of which had been purchased from the
family of George Menefee, Fred Reddert's step-father.
During the California years, Lottie was active as a teacher, writer,school
board member and YMCA president. However, her life was primarily spent
assisting 'Doc' Reddert's veterinary,ranch and community activities. After
his death in 1979, she managed the Reddert Ranch.
During the last 50 years, she has been active in the Mancos Valley with the
Methodist Church, PEO and Cowbelles, and has written memoirs of Menefee, Walker and
Reddert family members, as well as a history of the Mancos Methodist Church.
She is survived by a daughter, Naomi Reddert of Carmel, Calif.; a daughter
and son- in-law, Norma and Corrick Brown of Santa Rosa, Calif.; a brother,
James Walker, of Arboles, Colo.; three grandsons, Ryan and Derek Brown, both of
Washington, D.C., and Keven Brown of Santa Rosa, Calif.; four
great-grandchildren, Nathaniel and Gabriel Healey Brown of Washington, D.C., Mikayla
Mieko Brown of Santa Rosa, Calif., Julianna Hellman Brown of Washington, D.C.; six nieces
and nephews and many friends.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Mancos Methodist Church, to the Fred and Lottie
Reddert Scholarship Fund at the San Juan Basin Vo-Tech School or to an educational program
of the donor's choice.
Funeral services were held on Oct. 30 at the Mancos United Methodist Church Interment
followed at Cedar Grove Cemetery. The Revs. Ora Dailey and Bud Rousset officiated.
Services were under the direction of the Ertel Funeral Home.

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Tom Vaughan, Editor
The Mancos Times-Tribune 
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P.O. Box 987, Mancos, CO 81328
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