Lisa Annette Hines Salmon is survived by her parents Elmer and Christine (Parker) Hines; daughters Jordan Lee and Melaina Christine; sister LeAnne & husband Terry Salmon; former husband Phillip Salmon all of Creighton and fiance Danny Cameron of Archie.
Lisa was baptized and confirmed in the Trinity Lutheran Church, Creighton. She graduated Sherwood High School in 1988 and attended Central Missouri State University where she earned an Associate in fashion Merchandising and Bachelor of Science degree in Clothing and Textile in Business. Later she became licensed as a manicurist.
She loved being a stay-at-home mom while the girls were young. Her two daughters were the highlight of her life. Following her divorce, Lisa worked at Church & Dwight in Harrisonville, MO, and was employed at Honeywell in KC, MO. at the time of her death.
Bessie was born in Red Oak Iowa. When she was 7, her parents and uncle Sam packed all their belongings in a train car and moved to the dry-land farm in Wellington Co. The established a dairy North and East of Fort Collins where Bessie and her sisters helped their mother and father raise 15 children.
She moved into town to care for an elderly lady while Bessie attended Fort Collins High School (now the Lincoln Center). She dated and married Art Tuttle and they moved to a farm outside Fort Collins then to the a place on the buttes on (now) Highway 287 going to Laramie.
Bessie cared for her ill son for 2 years while her husband worked for the WPA during the depression. She had no phone, electricity or car but she gardened, raised chickens, pigs and cooked on a wood stove. Art always said when her brothers and sisters came to visit that "Bessie, always could throw up something."
Bessie moved to 'town' after Art died. She lived by herself in her little house on Magnolia St. for 30 years, going hunting (on a "tote goat" bike) and fishing every year with her brothers.
Her family was very important to her. She gathered with them regularly. All the children of Simon and Myrta Nims met on Bessies birthday until after her brother Rodney passed away in 1997. Now her great grand children gather at the park and renew the celebration of family.
Bessie was an avid gardner, helping Art in caring for their apple orchard, acres of glads and corn. She learned to sew from her mother-in-law and was the family seamstress. Everyone received pajamas made by grandma for Christmas. She helped her grand daughter make 7 formal dresses for her wedding then went on to teach her great grand daughter to sew. She made a quilt for each member of her family, leaving one unclompleted for a great grandchild to come.
Bessie cooked the family Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys up until the last year of her life and was still canning and freezing food that same time. She remained active until her last season when her gggrand daughter was born in 1993.
Delbert was born to Arthur and Bessie (Fritz) Tuttle in a "maternity home" in a house at Mulberry St and College Avenue where a large Safeway grocery now stands. He lived in his parents house on the buttes North of Fort Collins until he was about 7. Spending 2 years in bed with rheumatic fever, he attended school in LaPorte CO with children a few years younger than himself. Here he met Barbara Kern and later married her. He was fun loving and usually behind pranks pulled at school.
After Pearl Harbor, he felt moved to join the army before graduaton from high school. He entered the US Army Air Corps and became a "soldier in white" serving as a physician's assistant in Fitzimmon's Army Hospital in Denver, in Euphrata Washington, at Hamilton Field Hospital in CA.
He returned home on leave Nov 10 1944 to marry Barbara Kern at her home under the evergeen trees and near his parents home on the corner of Hollywood and Vine. As soon as she was done with the semester of college, Barbara joined him in California. They spent a year working and sharing apartment facilities with new found friends.
After the war, Delbert returned to Fort Collins to work briefly at the Ideal Cement Factory, then attended mechanics school to work for Markley Motors under the direction of "Tony" Toning. He went on to Denver to work for Cullen Thompson Motors in the parts department, in parts sales, and later as a traveling sales representative.
After the flood of 1964 which destroyed most of the Cullen Thompson warehouse, the business went "depot" for Chrysler Corp. Delbert worked for this company until 1975. He had traveled in Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana as well as Colorado. He was one of the "Dodge Boys" and wore a white cowboy hat. Delbert was able to organize and set up the new dealership parts department of Walt Sparrow Dodge in Greeley CO.
Later he re-invented himself working for Gasomat Company as company representative. He trained new (live-in) employee couples, set up and took care of the stations (from hiring, training, hanging curtains, doing audits and fixing the gas pumps) until his heart attack in 1981.
Then he became a house husband, taking up gourmet cooking, working out and having coffee with his group of 'cronies' and recouperating heart attack survivors known as the "attack pack"; helping his cousin, Bob McCafferty with floor refinishing; making things in his wood shop and doing extensive Genealogy.
He also was active in Masons and working with the Masonic youth groups. He served as Rainbow Dad and State Dad, having hundreds of "daughters" who loved and admired him.
He was childhood sweetheart, best friend and companion in 'crime' to his wife. They celebrated their 40th anniversary at the home of his mother in Fort Collins. He took care of his grandfather in Simon Fritz' last years and assisted his many Fritz uncles and aunts who did not have any children.
He was an adoring grandfather and dutiful son and loving father.
Delbert died at the age of 67 after complications from triple bypass surgery at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins. He is buried in Grandview Cemetery half way between the Tuttle family plot and the Kern/Spurlock family plots of his wife' family. Parents: Arthur Adelbert Tuttle (1887 - 1961) Bessie m Fritz Tuttle (1897 - 1993) Burial: Grandview Cemetery Fort Collins Larimer County Colorado, USA
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From the Fort Collins ‘Coloradoan' Monday, Sept. 17. 1990
Arthur D. "Delbert" Tuttle Jr., 67, of Fort Collins died at Poudre Valley Hospital Sunday, Sept. 16, 1990.
A funeral service will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the First United Methodist Church, 1000 Stover St., with the Rev. Robert Hamilton officiating. Burial will be at Grandview Cemetery with a graveside service by Collins Lodge No. 19 A.F & A. M.
Mr. Tuttle was born May 28, 1923, at Fort Collins. He graduated from Cache La Poudre High School in 1944. He married Barbara Kern Nov. 10, 1944, in Fort Collins. She survives.
He was a field representative for Asameral Oil Co., and he worked for Markley Motors.
Mr. Tuttle was a World War II Army veteran and a member of Collins Lodge No. 19 A.F. & A. M. He was also a 32nd Degree Mason, a member of Colorado York Rite of Free Masonry and a member of the Larimer County Genealogical Society. He was on the Rainbow Masonic Award Committee, Fort Collins Assembly No. 2 Order of Rainbow for Girls, Collins Chapter No. 26 Order of Eastern Star. He was also a member of the Galilee White Shrine of Jerusalem No. 13.
Other survivors include his mother, Bessie M. Tuttle; a daughter, Kathleen E Tuttle of Wahpeton, N.D.; three grandchildren; and four step-grandchildren.
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ROBERT L. LOW, 63, of Parkside Drive, a driver-salesman for Coffee An' in Providence before retiring in 1991, died yesterday at home. He was the husband of Barbara A. (Parrillo) Low.
Born in Providence, a son of the late Allan F. and Dora (Cushing) Low, he lived in Johnston for many years.
Mr. Low was an Air Force veteran of the Korean War.
Besides his wife he is survived by a son, a daughter, two brothers, a sister and two grandchildren.
He was the brother of the late Donald Stewart.
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Robert L. Low, Jr., 51, of Glocester, died Sept. 21 at home. He was the husband of Heidi (Manoogian) Low; they celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary Sept. 18. Born in Providence, the son of Barbara A. (Parrillo) Low of Johnston and the late Robert L. Low, he had been a resident of Glocester for 25 years.
From member # 47292223:
Albert Whitting Sears was born to Lorrain and Elma Sargent Sears (from Wisconsin) October 9 1899 in Lead, South Dakota. His mother died when he was six years old and his father married her sister, Elizabeth Matilda "Tillie" Sargent.
Albert married Janet and they had a son in 1930 who was called "Lorrie" after his grandfather.
Albert served in World War I and died in 1948 and was buried in California where he spent most of his life. His parents and step-mother are buried in Colorado with another Sargent aunt, Julia Tuttle.