Obituaries

DANNY KATZMAN Dec. 1, 1960 – Aug. 14, 2022

Danny Katzman passed away Aug. 14, 2022. He was born in Odessa, Texas Dec. 1, 1960 to Israeli emigrants Arie and Ziporah Katzman and grew up playing with bullfrogs, racing slot cars, and listening to Bob Dylan.

He attended Permian High School in Odessa, then attended the University of Texas in Austin. On a geology field trip to Taos, he fell in love with New Mexico skies and rocks and decided to move after receiving his bachelor’s degree in Geology in 1985.

In Taos, he taught himself to fly fish in remote streams, learned to taste the earth, and to appreciate the Read More

NIELS RICHARD BORCH Aug. 4, 1930 – Aug. 16, 2022

Niels Richard Borch passed away in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Tuesday, August 16, at 92, after a long, peaceful decline.

Niels was born on August 4, 1930, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Lilly Merete Hein and Ole Gotfred Borch.

The first child of Danish immigrants, much of Niels’ early years were spent in a string of locations around the west and midwest, as the Great Depression forced his father, an electrician, to pursue work wherever he could find it. Niels shared stories of a cold winter spent in a boxcar with his parents and two younger brothers in Horse Creek, Read More

JOE BURTON MEACHAM – July 16, 2022

With heavy hearts, Pam Meacham and family announce the sudden passing of Joe Burton Meacham at his home in Albuquerque. He had recently celebrated his 74th birthday.

Joe lived in Turkey, Texas until graduating from Turkey High School. His earliest job was working in his dad’s grocery store. After graduation, he attended Texas Tech University where he studied Accounting. 

After his time at Texas Tech, he followed his family to Los Alamos, New Mexico where he often worked multiple jobs at the same time — at his dad’s liquor store, bartending at the Los Alamos Inn, Read More

SHIRLEY ANN RAY March 27, 1931 – Aug. 4, 2022

Shirley left this world Aug. 4, 2022, and survived cancer 4 times, which started in 2001.

Unfortunately, in the end her heart was too weak to continue the fight and she passed at the age of 91.

Shirley was born March 27, 1931, to Leora C. and Bernard F. Wipplinger in Waterloo, Iowa and was baptized at Trinity American Lutheran Church. She graduated from East Waterloo High School in 1949.

While attending High School she worked at KenMar Drug Store after school and Sundays, de–tasseled corn in the summer for 3 dollars a day and baby sat. Saturdays, she Read More

PATRICIA E. BOYER June 2, 1955 – Aug. 1, 2022

Patricia E. Boyer passed away Aug. 1.

She is survived by two sons, Jeremiah and Jason, grandson Quinn, mother Norma Ellingwood, and four brothers, Robert Jr., Edward, Scott, and Brian Ellingwood.

She was born June 2, 1955 in Upland CA., grew up in Southern California, Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Finger Lakes area in Upstate New York.

She left New York in 1996 for Santa Cruz, CA graduating from University of California, Santa Cruz in 2000 with a Bachelor’s in Psychology, 2001 from Harvard with a Master’s in Education, and 2007 from University of New Mexico Read More

JERRY POWER CONNER March 20, 1927 – July 1, 2022

It is with heavy hearts that the family of Jerry Power Conner announces his passing on July 1, 2022. Our beloved father was born in Sherman, Texas on March 20, 1927. He was the only son of Maude Power Conner and Vester Conner and spent his formative years both on the farm and in Houston. He served in the US Navy in the final years of World War II where he received training in Naval aircraft electronics. After discharge he returned to Houston to marry his sweetheart, Annie Lela Lee, on September 7, 1947, and to pursue his college education.

After obtaining his Read More

RICHARD HARVEY ROBERTSON June 3, 2022

Richard (Dick) Harvey Robertson died June 3, 2022, the day after his 98th birthday.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 65 years, Carol.

He is survived by his children Cindi Robertson, Michael Robertson and Mark Robertson, along with their spouses, four grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.

Dick graduated from Roosevelt High School in Portland, Oregon in 1943. After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics with specialization in crystallography from Oregon State University in 1947, Dick worked at the Oregon Bureau of Mines where he assisted in a Read More

CORINNE ‘CORKY’ COCKBURN 1926 – July 12, 2022

Corinne “Corky” Cockburn, 96, died peacefully after a brief illness in Santa Fe, NM on July 12, 2022.

Corky was born to Harold and Opal Fort in Manson, Washington in 1926. She attended Washington State College where she met Curt Cockburn. After graduation in 1948 they married and moved to upstate New York where he worked for General Electric. In 1960 he was transferred to Arizona. They loved the desert and lived in Cave Creek and Carefree for the next half century.

Corky was a community organizer all of her life. She established the Cave Creek kindergarten Read More

MARILYN LOUISE ZEIGNER July 9, 1927 – Aug. 3, 2022

Our beloved Mother, Marilyn Louise Zeigner, passed away on August 3, 2022, in the presence of her family in Green Valley, Arizona.

She was born on July 9, 1927, in Goodland, Sherman County, Kansas to James Wayne Jones and Zoe Boyd Jones. 

Marilyn is survived by her four children, Nancy Wolff (Howard Thorhaug) of St. Maries, Idaho; Mary Pike (Tom Pike) of Las Vegas, Nevada; Judy Trujillo of Green Valley, Arizona; and Steven Wolff (Teresa Wright) of Durango, Colorado; step daughter Christina Thompson (Lyman Thompson) of Greenfield, Indiana; special Read More

CARL WILSON Oct. 28, 1954 – Aug. 10, 2022

Carl Wilson passed away peacefully and unexpectedly at his home in Gering, Nebraska on August 10, 2022.

Carl was born on October 28, 1954 in Los Alamos New Mexico, the youngest of 3 boys, to Donald and Rowena Wilson.

Carl was an active member of boy scouts his entire childhood earning his God and Country Award in High School. He enjoyed riding his bike, playing sports in the yard with neighborhood kids, and tinkering with anything he could get his hands on. Destructing, fixing, and building was his lifelong hobby.

Carl had a love for music, playing the drums in Read More