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Local Obituaries for Families in Wickenburg, Arizona
Dennis Stetler
Jun 1, 2015
Dennis Anthony Stetler passed away at the Prescott VA Hospital on June 1, 2015, at the age of 68, from complications related to a chronic illness. Dennis was born on July 10, 1946 in Garrett, Indiana, the son of Patrick and Briarly Stetler. He grew up in Riverside, California and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps after graduating from...
James Johnston
May 30, 2015
James "Jim" W. Johnston, age 80, passed away May 30, 2015 at his home in Peeples Valley. Jim was born January 15, 1935 in Des Moines, Iowa to Jeff & Gertrude Johnston. He was raised and attended schools in Des Moines and later served in the U.S. Army. Following his military service he moved to California working construction. He moved...
Frank Hansche
May 28, 2015
Commander Frank C. Hansche, Jr., CEC, USN (Ret.) passed away at home in Sun City West, Arizona, on May 28, 2015. His loving wife Roxanne, daughter Carolyn, and stepdaughter Shannon were with him. Frank was 94 and died of congestive heart failure. He had struggled bravely with pneumonia for all of 2014. Until late 2013 Frank and Roxanne traveled widely...
Maria Martinez
May 27, 2015
Maria Martinez, age 74, passed away May 27, 2015 in Peoria, Arizona. Maria was born January 21, 1941 in Buena Vista, Jalisco, Mexico to Santos & Elena Sanchez. She was raised there on the family ranch and later married Vicente Martinez. They lived in Mexico until 1971 when they came to Arizona settling in the Congress area. She was a...
Felipe Mercado
May 24, 2015
Felipe Mercado, age 77, passed away May 24, 2015 in Sun City West, Arizona. Funeral Mass will be said on Monday, May 25, 2015 at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church.
Roberta Fleeman
May 18, 2015
Fleeman, Roberta passed away on May 18, 2015 in Peoria, Arizona. She was born September 6, 1928 in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, the daughter of George Clayton and Ethel Mary Logsdon. Roberta was the mother of five daughters: Christine Phillips; Jayceene (JC) Drake; Bernadine (Bobbie) Thayer; Claudine (Claude) Ellerbee; Nanneene (Nan) McManis; and Grandmother of 13, Great Grandmother of 27, and...
John Vandecoevering
May 18, 2015
John Mark Vandecoevering, age 59, passed away May 18, 2015 in Surprise, Arizona. John was born November 5, 1955. He served in the military and returned to Oregon where he worked in the lumber industry. He is survived by his wife Monika of Wickenburg, Arizona and Daughter; Sarah Marrie Burge of Mitchell, South Dakota.
Virginia Lucero
May 10, 2015
Virginia L. Lucero, age 95, went to be with her Lord and Savior, May 10, 2015, in Wickenburg, Arizona. Virginia was born December 18, 1919, in Nogales, Arizona, to Abraham Lopez and Maria Rojas Lopez. She attended schools in Bouse and Swansea and later married Clemente Lucero. They lived in Bouse and then Parker, AZ. for many years and finally...
Johanna Montgomery
May 8, 2015
Johanna Kisner Montgomery, age 64, passed away May 8, 2015 at her home in Yarnell. Johanna was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland February 19, 1951 to Earle Eldred Scoggins and Agnes Rosalie McDonnel-Scoggins. She was raised there and attended schools there. She raised her daughter in Baltimore and later moved to Arizona in the late 1980's. She returned to...
Ann Reese
May 8, 2015
Ann Reese, age 84, passed away May 8, 2015 in Mesa, Arizona. Ann was born August 31, 1930 in Los Angeles, California to Frank P. Layne and Bess Craw-Layne. She was raised there and attended schools there and later graduated with a degree in nursing. Ann married George Reese and raised three sons, Kip, Wayne and Greg. She and George...
Eugene Kerkman
May 8, 2015
Eugene John "Gene" Kerkman, 84, passed away at his home in Prescott on Friday, May 8 after a long and brave battle with leukemia. Gene was born in a farmhouse in Antelope County in northeast Nebraska on Nov. 27 (Thanksgiving Day), 1930, to Theodore and Theresa Kerkman. After graduation from Petersburg High School in 1948, he joined the U.S. Air...
Robert Sutton
Apr 30, 2015
Robert George Sutton, age 89, passed away April 30, 2015 in Avondale, Arizona. Mr. Sutton was born February 21, 1926 in St. Paul, Minnesota to Robert G. & Celia S. Sutton. He was raised and attended schools there and later enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Serving during WWII. Following his military service he attended a vocational school. He began working...
Jane Boyd
Apr 30, 2015
Eleanor Jane S. Boyd, age 86, passed away April 30, 2015 peacefully at her home in Wickenburg, AZ. Eleanor Jane Starke was born on July 19, 1928 in Tarrytown, New York to George A. Schrader Starke and Anne McEwan Starke. Mrs. Boyd was raised in Tarrytown attended and graduated from the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. An enterprising...
William Depperschmidt
Apr 27, 2015
William "Bill" Depperschmidt, born November 2, 1923 in Liebenthal, Kansas to John and Rosalia was the last known survivor of 18 siblings. Bill grew up in Kansas, speaking only German, where he survived the Dust Bowl of the 1930's before he moved to Colorado, where he worked in the CCC Camps and learned to speak English. Liebenthal, Kansas, once known...
Duane Staley
Apr 22, 2015
Duane A. (Due) Staley Jr., 79, formerly of Littleton, CO died in his home in Congress, AZ on 22 April 2015. Duane was born 27 February 1936 in Perry, IA to Duane Staley and Florence Workman. Preceding him in death are five sisters Elnora Kirsch, Jean Anise, Carol Messerly, Barbara Hazen, Patricia Brandenburg, and one daughter Patti Kowal. Surviving him...
James Baker
Apr 18, 2015
James Barton Baker, was born February 21, 1941 in Pueblo, Colorado to Eddie Gibson Stewart Baker and Curtis Gordon Baker. He passed from this life into God's hands, on April 18, 2015. He grew up on the family farms in eastern Colorado and western Kansas. He was the youngest of six children, and preceded in death by his parents and...
Margarita Oribe
Apr 16, 2015
Margarita Oribe, age 85, passed away April 16, 2015 at her home in Aguila. Margarita was born January 1, 1930 in Tejupilco, Mexico. She is survived by her daughter Cristian Maldonado of Aguila. Visitation was held on Sunday, April 19th at Wickenburg Funeral Home.
Lesley Rogers
Apr 15, 2015
Lesley Loraine Rogers, age 54, passed away April 15, 2015 in Wickenburg, Arizona. Lesely was born September 2, 1960 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to George M Lawrence and Rosemary Pemberton Lawrence. She was raised in Clio, Michigan and attended schools there. Following her schooling she worked in customer service for years. She moved to Monticello, Utah in 1998 and met...
