Rev. James Wendall Nylund
Marriages
Karol Nylund
Obituaries
The Daily Sentinel page 8C - September 25, 2022
Rev. James Wendall
Nylund, 88, of Grand
Junction, CO, passed away
peacefully on September
14 from complications of
pneumonia. His devoted wife of 48 years, Karol, was
by his side.
In addition to Karol, Jim will be lovingly remembered
by his children: Sally Maude (Tom), Jim Nylund (Lori),
Carrie Moore (Jeff), Matthew Nylund, Amy Dryer
(Ron), and Russell Dawn (Sharon); his sister Phyllis
Turner; his 9 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren,
and ten nieces and nephews. Jim was predeceased by
his parents, Edwin and Gladys, his son, Zachary, his
brothers-in-law, Warren Turner, Jack Griggs, and Jim
Gould, and his sister-in-law, Kathryn Gould.
Born and raised in Grand Junction, Jim was a natural
athlete, lettering in football, basketball and baseball.
He attended the University of Colorado on a baseball
scholarship, graduating in 1957 with a BA in Geology.
Jim had the opportunity to pursue a baseball career, but
instead chose to follow his love of geology, working in
the Denver area as an exploration geologist for 25 years.
In the 1970’s, Jim and Karol became interested in
breeding and raising horses, and in 1985 they built a
horse breeding ranch in Grand Junction, where they
had a very successful business showing and breeding
Appaloosas. Sadly, their Appaloosa stallion died
unexpectedly, so they returned to Denver in 1995.
There, Jim began his third, and what he considered
his most rewarding, career as a chaplain at Swedish
Medical Center. Jim studied Pastoral Care and Theology
at the Bishop’s Lay School of Theology and at Denver
Seminary, and in 2010 he was ordained to the Anglican
priesthood. Jim served as a chaplain at Swedish until
2014, and as a priest at The Light of Christ Anglican
Church until 2021, when he and Karol moved back to
Grand Junction.
A funeral service will be held at Messiah Lutheran
Church on Saturday, October 8 at 11:00am at 840 N 11th
Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501. In lieu of flowers,
memorial donations may be made to Redeeming Life
Outreach Ministries Inc. at www.rlom.org.
The family wishes to send a special thank you to the
nurses and physicians at St. Mary’s Hospital for their
care and compassion.
