Yuma County CO Archives Obituaries.....Spelts, Olive Fay Gurnsey May 27, 1989
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Wray Gazette Newspaper, Thursday, June 1, 1989
Olive Fay Gurnsey Spelts was born November 6, 1927 to Loran and Bernice 
(Ernst) Gurnsey around the Yuma area, and passed away on May 27, 1989 at the 
Yuma District Hospital after a lengthy illness.

Olive was united in marriage to Alfred "Spike" Spelts on October 20, 1946.  To 
this union they had four children, Leon, Diana, Chuck and Larry.  They were 
also foster parents to Barbara McCloud Smith and brother Robert McCloud for 
four years.

She lived most of her life in Yuma County.  At the time of her death she lived 
in Eckley with her husband, Alfred.  She loved to collect may different 
things, especially her Avon bottles.  She also enjoyed having her 
grandchildren around.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Bernice Smith in 1985, and her 
father, Loran Gurnsey in 1988, and her son, Leon (Jake) in 1988.

Survivors include her husband, Alfred of Eckley; one daughter, Diana McMurphy 
and husband Harold of Denver; two sons, Chuck and wife Lois of Eckley and 
Larry and wife Rachel of Denver; daughter-in-law, Linda Spelts of Eckley; 
foster children, Barbara Smith of Yuma and Robert McCloud of Wray; ten 
grandchildren; two great grandchildren; two sisters, Vera Crabtree and husband 
Meryl of Northglenn and Rozella Weed and husband Harold of Laird; and numerous 
nieces and nephews and many friends.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, may 31, 1989 at the New Life Fellowship, 
Rev. Brian Severin officiationg.  Interment was in the Eckley Cemetery.

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