Eva V McCarty
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L. J. McCarty - August 1942
Burial Details
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 6 B Death Notice - March 13, 2013
Eva V. McCarty, 86, Eckert, died March 9, 2013, at Horizon’s
Care Center in Eckert.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 23, at Delta United
Methodist Church.
Survivors include sons Dwain and Larry, both of Delta; daughter
Darlene Skutchan of Delta; and sister Rose Madaris of Fruita.
Memorial contributions can be made to Delta United Methodist
Church, 477 Meeker St., Delta 81416, or Horizon’s Care Center, 1141
Colorado Highway 65, Eckert 81418.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 5B - March 21, 2013
Delta resident, Eva V. McCarty,
passed away peacefully on Saturday,
March 9, 2013, at Horizon's
Care Center in Eckert, Colorado.
She was 86 years of age.
A memorial service will be held
10:00 a.m., Saturday, March 23,
2013, at Delta United Methodist
Church in Delta, Colorado.
Eva was born in Hotchkiss,
Colorado on July 11, 1926 to Joseph and Francis Starkovich and
was the oldest of five children. She attended schools in Hotchkiss.
Eva met L. J. McCarty and they were married at her family's home
in Hotchkiss in August of 1942. They enjoyed 64 years together before
L. J. passed away in July of 2010.
Eva was L. J.'s equal partner in building up a large farming operation
in the day when women were expected to stay in the home do -
ing "women's work". However, Eva was not a stay in the house
woman and was happiest working in the field driving tractor, plowing,
planting and harvesting crops. She was the only woman that
drove a wagon and team while hauling sugar beets dug by hand to
the factory. By the time the sugar beet factory was taken out of
Delta she had worked her way up to driving a semi-truck and trailer
piled high with some of the highest sugar content sugar beets on the
western slope.
Although Eva worked hard in the fields farming, she was also able
to have three children; sons, Dwain and Larry and daughter, Deanna
Darlene. Farming was very time consuming and hard work, but Eva
managed to keep a house, help L. J., raise three children and still
have time to help with their different projects in 4-H, including
raising Angus cattle, Landrace pigs and Darlene's one lamb, which
Eva made sure was repurchased at the livestock sale so Darlene's
lamb would be spared from a dinner table!
Eva enjoyed flower gardening and planted a very large vegetable
garden for food for her family for many years. She also loved
hunting with L. J. and riding horses and packing the meat out. But
most of all, Eva enjoyed following her son Dwain's stockcar racing
career. She and L. J. rarely missed a race and often followed him to
out of town races, always cheering loudly for #99 to the finish line.
During Larry and Darlene's softball playing years, you would see
Eva and L. J. sitting in the car and honking the horn whenever a
good play was made.
Eva loved snowmobiling more than anything she did whole life.
She and L. J. introduced hundreds of people to the sport, always
willing to take them out and show them the best trails and ways to
ride. Rare was the man who could out handle or out ride her. She
was very strong and could pick up the back end of a snowmobile
and toss it back onto the trail while waist deep in snow. ATV’s took
the place of snowmobiling in the summertime and she often came
home from riding with goggle eyes-dirt on her face everywhere
except behind where the lenses of goggles protected her. She was a
real outdoors woman her whole life.
Eva is survived by one surviving sister, Rose Mae Madaris and
family from Fruita, Colorado; two sons, Dwain McCarty and wife,
Loretta, and Larry McCarty and wife, Debbie; a daughter, Darlen e
Skutchan and husband, Dwain Bush; a sister-in-law, Billie Jean
Starkovich and family; L. J.'s niece, Florence Jones and family ; six
grandchildren, Clint Skutchan and wife, Shelly; Travis McCarty and
wife, Tara; Tina Miller and husband, Terry; Chantal Urqhart;
Chelsea St. Peter and husband , Josiah; and eight
great-grandchildren, Kennedy Skutchan, Trevor and Trent McCarty,
Tatem and Kayla Miller, Shilo and Laurisa Thomas and the youngest,
Londyn St. Peter. Eva was preceded in death by her husband, L.
J. McCarty; her only brother, Eldon Starkovich, and two sisters from
Michigan, Josephine Ferriby and Charlotte Pratt.
In lieu of flowers Eva's family suggests memorial contributions be
made in her name to Delta United Methodist Church, 477 Meeker
St. Delta, CO 81416 or to Horizon Care Center, 1141 Hwy 65,
Eckert, CO 81418.
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.
