LELA Elvira (Fish) BARZ
Marriages
MAXWELL Roy BARZ - March 8, 1939
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise - December 10, 1964
LELA BARZ BURIED TUESDAY.
Funeral services for Mrs. Max BARZ, killed Dec. 4 in a highway accident near Gypsum, were conducted in Eagle Tuesday.
The Reverend L. B. FRIEND conducted the service in the Methodist Church and interment was in the Eagle cemetery.
Pallbearers were Lloyd and Vincent EICHLER, Herb EATON, Jack ROACH, Tom McBREEN and Louis FENNO.
Lela Elvira FISH was born Aug. 19, 1913, in Idabel, Okla., the daughter of Thomas Durant FISH and Annie Laurie MORGAN FISH.
The family came to Colorado in 1931 where Mr. FISH was employed by the New Jersey Zinc Co. in Gilman. Lela attended Minturn High School and graduated in 1932.
Upon the death of Mr. FISH, Lela, the eldest of the children, helped support her mother, brother and three sisters. She worked at the Eagle River Hotel in Minturn, and for the D&RG Railroad Company as a waitress.
On March 8, 1939 she was married to Maxwell Roy BARZ and in June 1952 they moved to Eagle, where Mr. BARZ was District Court Clerk in the County Courthouse.
To this union were born two children: Maureen Elvira, June 21, 1940 and Maxwell Roy, Feb. 10, 1942.
Mrs. BARZ was active in the Ladies Auxiliary Veterans of Foreign Wars, and was past president of District 14.
She is survived by her husband; two children; her mother of Minturn; one brother: Thomas FISH, Farmington, N. Mex.; three sisters: Amanda Viola SISSON and Cora Ophelia BOWLES, both of Farmington and Mary Elizabeth CLARK of ---, Ore.; five grandchildren, George MAXWELL, Rebecca Jean and Mary Eliza MACDONELL; Cindy Elaine and Ricky Dale BARZ; daughter-in-law, Charlotte Kinnett BARZ and son-in-law George E. MACDONELL.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 1 - December 5, 1964
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 - December 7, 1964
