Euneva A. "Lucy" (Washburn) Frey
Marriages
D. Odell Lewis - September 18, 1937
In Henderson County, Texas
William C. "Bill" Frey - November 23, 1953
In Raton, New Mexico
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 6A - June 11, 2013
Euneva A. “Lucy” Frey, age 92,
of Grand Junction, CO, passed
away on June 7, 2013, at Larchwood
Inns in Grand Junction,
from age related issues.
L u c y w a s b o r n i n R i c h l a n d
County, Texas, on February 26,
1921, to Rufus I. and Minnie Lee
“Speed” Washburn. She was the
youngest of four girls. Her mother
died on May 10, 1928, when Lucy was just seven years old. She was
raised by her oldest sister, age 11 at the time of her mother’s death,
until her father remarried. She was educated to the eighth grade in
East Texas.
She was married in Henderson County, Texas, on September 18,
1937, to D. Odell Lewis. They had three children. She was married
in Raton, NM, on November 23, 1953, to William C. “Bill” Frey,
after which they moved to Billings, MT, which the family, having
been raised in East and South Texas, considered to be the North
Pole. She and Bill had no children. Both husbands are deceased, Bill
having passed away in April, 1995, in Grand Junction. Her parents
and all of her sisters predeceased her.
She is survived by her daughters, Minnie Dell (Bruce) Zobel of
Clifton, CO; Neva LaFawn (Jerry) Kleinasser of Billings, MT, and
son, Dickie D. Lewis of Clifton, CO. She is also survived by four
grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren,
as well as by numerous nieces and nephews, and their children
in East Texas.
She had the pleasure over the Memorial Day holiday in 2013 of
having a five generation photo taken, including the youngest
great-great-grandchildren, Piper, three months old, and Zachary ,
seven months old.
She had wander lust. Before all of her children were grown and left
home, every summer was a long adventurous vacation when she
would pack up the family and join Bill, “on the road” in the western
United States where he was employed as a superintendent for an
electric power line construction company. After her children left
home, she traveled with Bill on his job. She liked to tell people that
over the years she had moved numerous times and lived in 13 states.
At the time of her death, she had lived in Mesa County since 1982.
Although she had a limited education, she never let it limit her. She
had been employed as a school lunchroom supervisor, cook, waitress,
dry cleaning silk finisher, nanny, nursing home aide, and motel
clerk.
She was an excellent cook, an avid gardener, of flowers (particularly
red roses), but not vegatables, having grown up on a hard
scrabble subsistence farm in East Texas during the depression. She
was also an excellent seamstress which led to her favorite past time
of making and clothing dolls, all the way from finishing green ware
for their heads, hands and feet, to designing, making patterns, sewing,
and dressing them in elaborate clothes.
She and Bill were dog lovers of the first magnitude, and seldom
were without one. Her last two were pugs, “Yellow Dog” and
“Black Dog”, which also survive her.
Services are under the care of Callahan-Edfast Mortuary. Viewing
will be Tuesday, June 11 from 5 - 7:00 p.m. Services will be
Wednesday, June 12, at 1:00 p.m. with internment in the Orchard
Mesa Cemetery beside her husband, Bill.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donation to Hope West and
Hospice of Grand Junction, 3090B North 12th Street, Grand Junction,
CO 81506, or to Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch, 1732
South 72nd Street West, Billings, MT, 59106.
