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Grace Emma "Winky" Booco

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Birth Date: May 20, 1943
Death Date: July 20, 1998
Age at Death: 55
Sex: F

Burial Details

Cemetery Name: McCoy Cemetery
Cemetery Location: McCoy, Colorado

Obituaries

Phyllis (Peg) Booco - November 2000

Grace E. "Winky" BOOCO of Craig, Colo., died July 20, 1998, at Valley View Manor in Craig, Colo. She was 55 yrs. old.
Winky was born to Wm. Gordon and Grace E. (Hubbard) BOOCO May 20, 1943, in Oak Creek, Colo. She spent all of her childhood in Routt County mostly in the Hayden area. She attended grade school in Milner, Colo., then was bused to the Hayden Schools for the balance of her education. She spent 10 yrs. in Denver and spent the last 22 yrs. in Battle Ground, Wash. She had come back to Colo. and became a resident of Craig in June of 1998.
Her occupation was an electronics assembler. She enjoyed crafts, woodworking and oil painting. She had spent the last 2 yrs. of her life painting a mural on the wall over her fireplace while on oxygen. She died of severe emphysema and asthmatic bronchitis.
Wink is survived by a daughter, Desiree Irene BOOCO, of Portland, OR, and a son, Abraham Lee "Abe" LEPAK II of Battle Ground, Wash.; brothers Wm. A. "Duke" BOOCO of Whitewater, Colo., and Jim ZUBAL of Price, Uttah, and a sister, Iris Booco DOOLIN of Craig, Colo.
Wink was preceded in death by a daughter, Alicia Denice BOOCO, who died of SIDS in 1972 and her parents, Wm. Gordon and Grace E. (Hubbard) BOOCO in 1966 and a brother, Gordon Deloss BOOCO, in 1995. A final disposition was cremation. A celebration of her life will be in Oct. of 1998 when out of town relatives can attend at the McCoy Cemetery in Eagle County. Her ashes will be interred at the site of her baby's grave, Alicia BOOCO, and where her parents are buried. A headstone will be placed there at that time.
This obituary kindly donated by Phyllis (Peg) BOOCO, November 2000.

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