Grace Warren

Grace passed away at the age of 91 on March 24, 2015 after suffering a stroke. Grace was born to Leo Little and Norma Elizabeth Young on January 12, 1924 in Dardanelle, Arkansas. She had two older brothers and one younger sister. They lost their mother when Grace was just 7 years old, her father remarried and she gained four more brothers and one more sister.

On January 12, 1942, at the age of 18, grace married Manford Warren of Rosetta, Arkansas. Throughout the years she gave birth to one girl and six boys, losing her first child, a son 12 hours after birth.

Mom and dad moved to Colorado in 1952, where they lived in a lumber camp at Redfeather Lakes. Then in 1955 they bought their home in Wellington, Colorado and raised their brood.

They were blessed with 14 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, 4 great-great-grandchildren and many more additions to the family through marriages.

Grace worked at many jobs including a Cheese Factory and cafes where she waitressed and cooked. She started working at Teledyne WaterPic in 1966 and retired twenty years later, so she and dad could do some traveling and whatever they felt like doing.

After losing dad in 2006 mom went to live with her daughter Norma at the K Ranch in Dinosaur, CO. She enjoyed watching the humming birds at the window, the geese and chickens in the yard, the deer, elk, wild turkeys, even a bear that came down to visit. Hearing the cows bawl, the calves run around just made her day.

She moved into Eagle Crest Assisted Living in Rangely, CO in May of 2013 where she enjoyed visiting, playing cards and bingo with her dear friends there and looked forward to going to Massadona to eat lunch.

Mom is survived by her sons, Bobby Dwayne, Dinosaur, CO; Kenneth Eugene, Laporte, CO; Stanley Allen and Jeffery Dean Warren, Ft. Collins, CO. A daughter, Norma Lynn Snyder, Dinosaur, CO. A brother Roy Young and sister Nora Phillips in Arkansas. She is preceded in death be her husband Manford Warren, sons Charles Lewis and Quentin Dale Warren and grandson Michael Dan Snyder.

Funeral services will be held in Wellington, CO on April 11, 2015, there will be another service held locally for family and friends, but the date has yet to be set.