Allyce Mae Ford
Marriages
Lyman Harold Ford - June 19, 1949
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 8B Death Notices - September 7, 2016
Allyce Mae Ford, 92, Grand Junction, died Sept. 4, 2016, at her home. Services will take place at 11 a.m. Monday at Martin Mortuary. Committal will follow at 1 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado. She was a homemaker.Survivors include three sons, Greg, Doug, and Rod, all of Grand Junction; one daughter, Rene Hollandsworth of Grand Junction; 10 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and 15 great great-grand-children. Memorial contributions to HopeWest, 3090B N. 12th St., Grand Junction 81506.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 8A Death Notice - August 9, 2016
Allyce Mae Ford, 92, Grand Junction, died Sept. 4, 2016, at her
home.
Services will take place at 11 a.m. Monday at Martin Mortuary.
Committal will be follow at 1 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery
of Western Colorado.
Survivors include three sons, Greg, Doug, and Rod, all of Grand
Junction; one daughter, Rene Hollandsworth of Grand Junction; 10
grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions to HopeWest, 3090B N. 12th St., Grand
Junction 81506.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 D Obituary - September 11, 2016
Allyce Ford passed
peacefully from this life on
September 4, 2016, after a
long battle with Alzheimer’s
Disease. She was 92 years
old.
Allyce Mae Henderson was
born to Ray and Golda
Henderson on March 21,
1924, in National City,
California. She had two
brothers, James Myers
(deceased) and Edward
Henderson. The family moved
back to Western Colorado in
1926. Allyce attended
Fairview School in Austin,
Colorado and graduated from
high school in 1942.
Growing up on a ranch near
Austin, Colorado, Allyce was
a ‘Tomboy’. She ran on the
track team and said she was
known as the fastest kid in the
school because she “could out run all the boys!” She developed
a love of horses, a passion that continued through to her adult
years where she and her daughter, Rene, rode with the Frontier
Belles Side Saddle Club and raised Arabian Horses. She liked to
crochet and sew and made the costumes for Rene’s riding
competitions.
In 1948 she met Lyman Harold Ford at a party when he asked
her to dance. They were married on June 19, 1949. They raised
four children and during their 54 years of marriage they grew
and sold fruit and produce from their orchards, at “Ford’s Fine
Fruits” on B ½ and 32½ Road, also known as “Ford’s Corner”.
They raised peaches, plums, pears, apricots, and cherries and
at one time, farmed over 54 acres. They were very independent,
Allyce and the kids sold the majority of their fruit and produce
out of their yard and Harold trucked the rest to Nebraska and
Wyoming. Besides working on the farm, raising children and
horses, Allyce worked a number of jobs outside the home, most
of which consisted of taking care of others in need. She has
lived at the same address on Central Orchard Mesa for over 67
years
Allyce will be remembered for her strength as the glue that
kept her family together. She adored her grandchildren and the
Broncos. She got to take a long wished for trip to Hawaii with
her family at the age of 82. She flew in a helicopter, snorkeled
and went deep sea fishing. She loved fishing, boating on Blue
Mesa and Lake Powell, had a beautiful garden of roses and
peonies and in later years loved going to yard sales with her
caregivers/best friends, Donna and Arlene. She loved to wear
bright colors and her “bling”.
Allyce was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Jim,
and her husband, Harold.
She is survived by sons, Greg (Jayne), Doug (Peggie), Rod
(Terri), and daughter, Rene Hollandsworth. She has ten
grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; 15 great-greatgrandchildren,
and her beloved caregivers, Donna Garcia,
Arlene Beltran and Katie Wilson.
A Funeral service will be held at Martin Mortuary on Monday,
September 12th at 11:00 a.m. There will be interment at the
Veteran’s Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado following
the service at 1:00 p.m. with a gathering afterwards at Cross
Orchard’s Living History Farm on Patterson Road.
Memorial contributions may be made to HopeWest Hospice,
3090B North 12th Street, Grand Junction, CO 81506.
Friends and family may leave their condolences at
www.martinmortuary.com.
