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Inell (Hazelton) Harvey

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Birth Date: March 2, 1916
Death Date: May 28, 2008
Age at Death: 92

Marriages

William (Bill) W. Harvey - September 23, 1946

Burial Details

Cemetery Name: Kremmling Cemetery
Cemetery Location: Kremmling, Colorado

Obituaries

Steamboat Today - June 22, 2008

Kremmling and western Grand County lost a true friend and advocate last month with the death of local newspaper columnist Inell Harvey. Harvey, 92, died May 28, 2008, at St. Anthony's Central Hospital in Denver. Her son and daughter, Rick and Janifer, were at her bedside.
According to reports, Harvey developed a lung infection while trying to recover from injuries she suffered in a traffic accident. Those injuries included broken ribs and bruised artery. Harvey suffered her injuries in a rollover accident May 30, in Gore Canyon west of Kremmling. She was transported by Flight For Life helicopter to St. Anthony's Central Hospital in Denver.
According to the local office of the Colorado State Patrol, the accident occurred at mile marker 12.2 on Trough Road west of Kremmling on May 22. Harvey's vehicle was descending a downhill section of the roadway that makes a sharp curve to the right when she apparently lost control. Her vehicle left the roadway, rolled twice, and came to a rest on its wheels after traveling 269 feet off Trough Road. Rescuers arriving at the scene found Harvey conscious and reportedly in good spirits. She had been expected to recover, but her health made a turn for the worse May 26, and she passed away two days later.
Harvey was famous locally for being a newspaper columnist, full-time volunteer, exercise fanatic, teacher, poet and former Heeney Tick Queen. She had been a regular columnist for the Middle Park Times and the Sky-Hi Daily News for the past 22 years, writing close to 1,600 of her weekly Heeney Hearsay columns.
In recent years, Harvey worked at the Cliffview Assisted Living Center in Kremmling, where she organized holiday parties, called Bingo, and helped keep the limbs and minds of local seniors active by teaching chair aerobics. In addition to helping local senior citizens, Harvey also was an advocate for Kremmling's children. In recent years, she volunteered five times a week to help children with their reading. Harvey's work for the public included being a member of the Grand County Council on Aging and the regional Council on Aging. Always generous, Harvey crocheted hundreds of afghans for Kremmling-area babies throughout the years. She also donated her crocheted afghans to raise thousands of dollars for local causes.
Harvey's good deeds were recognized by the public as well. In 2006, she was honored by the West Grand Educational Foundation as its Citizen of the Year. In 2000, she was named a 9News Who Cares Citizen of the Year and was featured on Channel 9 for her many contributions to the community.
She was born March 2, 1916, to Bert and Amanda (Norman) Hazelton in Koshkonong, Mo. She married William W. Harvey on Sept. 23, 1946, in Raton, N.M. Inell came to Colorado to study at Greeley State Teachers College, which later became the University of Northern Colorado.
At the age of 22, Inell taught eight grades in Pratt, Kan., in a one-room school to which she rode a horse everyday and stoked a potbellied stove for heat. Later, she taught on a Ute Indian reservation in Ignacio before going on to teach drama for several years.
After retiring, she and her husband Bill moved to Heeney, where they loved to fish in Green Mountain Reservoir. After Bill's death in 2000, she moved to Kremmling and lived in her own house. She was a member of Kremmling Community Church. An avid writer, Inell freelanced for the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. For more than 30 years, her poems, columns and essays have appeared in the Middle Park Times and Sky-Hi Daily News.
She is survived by her daughter, Janifer Peterka, and her husband, Jeff, of Steamboat Springs; son Ken Hickman "Rick Harvey," and his wife Cathy, of Aurora; sister Evelyn (Gosney) Wommer of Bayfield; grandchildren Katrina Gelinas, Jade Freeman, Sierra Pyle and David Hickman; great-grandchildren Kirsten Gelinas, Jaizah Pyle, Riley Freeman, Rorak Pyle, Sophie Freeman and baby Freeman due in September.
A visitation was held Wednesday at the Foran-Schoenfeld Mortuary in Hot Sulphur Springs. Funeral services were held Thursday at the West Grand High School, and burial followed at the Kremmling Cemetery.

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