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William "Bill" Redmond

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Birth Date: November 15, 1923
Death Date: December 10, 2009
Age at Death: 86
Veteran Of: U.S. Navy; WWII

Burial Details

Cemetery Name: Yampa Cemetery
Cemetery Location: Yampa, Colorado

Obituaries

Steamboat Today - January 3, 2010

Longtime South Routt resident William “Bill” Redmond died Dec. 10, 2009, at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins.
Bill was born in the house on the Redmond ranch on South Hunt Creek on Nov. 15, 1923, the third child of James and Elizabeth Redmond.
He attended the one-room country school, The Heart Mountain School, through eighth grade and then Yampa Union High School, graduating in 1941. Because they lived so far out, the four children would ride their horses into Yampa on Sunday and stay the week in a house they owned there, riding home Friday night after school.
Bill joined the Navy after graduation and served on the USS Iowa during World War II. He then attended the University of Denver and graduated in 1950. He worked for Farm Bureau Insurance as an insurance adjuster before returning to school at University of Northern Colorado in 1952 to get his teaching credentials. He then returned to Yampa, bought a small ranch south of town and started ranching again with teaching as a second income. In 1976, he purchased a ranch on South Hunt Creek just over the hill from where he was born. In 2006, he sold his ranch and moved to Fort Collins. He talked every day about coming back to Routt County. Throughout his lifetime, he worked as a teacher, carpenter, backhoe operator and insurance salesman. He did construction on the Craig power plant, the Sheraton Steamboat Resort and the Holiday Inn in Steamboat and several condominium projects in Silverthorne.
Bill is survived by his brothers, Jack (Wanda), of Yampa; and Dean (Roberta), of Grand Junction; his sister, Patsy, of Denver; his wife, Virginia; and his eight children, Mike (Patty), of Yampa; Maureen Smith, of Steamboat Springs; Patrick (Lori), of Fort Collins; Brian (Patricia), of Saratoga, Wyo.; Tom (Tonnya), of Durango; Deirdre Monahan, of Rapid City, S.D.; Kate, of Denver; and Charlie (Debbie), of Denver; 16 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
After a funeral Mass at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Oak Creek, Bill was laid to rest in the Yampa Cemetery. Bill was a loving husband and father, a good friend and neighbor. He will be greatly missed.

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