Marlyn Max ""Mick"" McGrath
Marriages
Margaret Kay McIntyre McGrath - July 26, 1956
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 5 A Notice - July 30, 2011
Marlyn Max “Mick†Mc-
Grath, 85, Delta, died July 27,
2011, at Sunrise Assisted Living.
Services will be 10 a.m. Monday
at Taylor Funeral Service
Chapel in Delta. Burial will follow
at Mesa View Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife,
Kay McGrath of Delta; one
daughter, Dawn Shari McGrath
Shea of Kissimmee, Fla.; one
brother, Ken McGrath of Cory;
and one grandson.
Memorial contributions can
be made to Hospice and Palliative
Care of Western Colorado,
P.O. Box 24, Delta 81416.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 C Obit - July 31, 2011
Delta resident, Marlyn Max
"Mick" McGrath, passed away on
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at Sunrise
Assisted Living. He was 85.
A Memorial Service honoring
Mick's life will be held at 10:00
a.m., Monday, August 1, 2011 at
the Taylor Funeral Service Chapel
in Delta with Danny McIntyre and Dr. Kevin Pulsipher presiding.
Interment will follow at Mesa View Cemetery with military honors
presented by the Army National Guard Honor Guard.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice and Palliative
Care of Western CO P.O. Box 24 Delta, CO 81416
Marlyn Max McGrath was born to Kenneth Waldo and Vivian Lorraine
(Hesher) McGrath on July 8, 1926 in Gypsum, Kansas. He attended
Gypsum public schools and upon graduation joined the
United States Marine Corps. He was a member of the 1st Marine
Division, advancing to Sergeant. He was deployed to the Island of
Okinawa, Japan, on the front lines of the beaches as stretcher bearer.
He also spent time in China guarding the railroad. He was honorably
discharged in April of 1947.
On July 26 1956 Mick married the love of his life, Margaret Kay
McIntyre at Hotchkiss, CO.
Mick retired to Cory, Colorado, where his parents had moved
while he was overseas. He helped his father on the Dairy and the
farm.
Sam Fairlamb contacted him to introduce him to a lady in Hotchkiss
from Atlanta, Georgia, Elizabeth Montogue, whose husband
had recently tried to help her on the farm which was the original
Jerry Baxter Ranch. They became partners in the Dairy business until
Elizabeth moved back to Atlanta. Mick bought her share of the
Dairy business along with his own which kept him in the Dairy
business for 55 years. Mick was on the board of Western Colorado
Milk Producers for 23 years. He was one of the original members
along with four others that worked to form WCMP Co-op who sold
milk to the Arden Meadow Gold. He was later vice president of the
WDCI Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah. He witnessed WCMP dwindle
from over 100 producers on the western slope down to six producers
of today and now our original WCMP becoming DFA of
America.
Mick is survived by his wife of 55 years, Kay McIntyre McGrath
of Delta; one daughter, Dawn Shari McGrath Shea of Kissimmee,
FL; one granddaughter, Jontel Kelly Shea of Kissimmee, FL; one
grandson, Zachery Todd Blake Shea of Kissimmee, FL; one brother,
Ken Marvin McGrath and wife, Linda of Cory, CO; two nieces,
Dana Worsham of San Diego, CA and Roxanna McGrath of Hotchkiss;
four nephews, Danny McIntyre and wife, Jo Ellen of Grand
Junction; Rick Wrightsman and wife, Missy of Indianapolis, IN;
Kelly McGrath and wife, Julia of North Dakota, and Kevin McGrath
of Carlin, NV. Mick is further survived by a large extended family.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a daughter, Sharon
Marie "Fuzz" McGrath Dunn
Arrangements are under the care and direction of Taylor Funeral
Service and Crematory.
View the internet obituary and sign the online guest registry at
taylorfuneralservice.com.
