Phelma (Smithey) Morgan
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 5 B Obituary - September 22, 2016
Phelma Morgan, age 91, a
35 year resident of Apple Tree
Park, New Castle, Colorado
passed away peacefully on
September 14, 2016, at her
daughter’s home in
Battlement Mesa, Colorado.
Visitation will be held at
Rifle Funeral Home on Friday,
September 23, at 9:00 a.m.
with the Funeral Service
immediately following at 10:00 a.m. and Pastor BJ Worthen of
Assembly of God Church officiating. Interment will take place
at the Veterans’ Cemetery in Grand Junction following the
Funeral Service. There will be a reception at the DeBeque
Community Center in DeBeque Colorado following the
interment. Rifle Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Phelma was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska to Edward and
Alice Smithey on July 6, 1925. She worked as head
housekeeper/bus driver for Coats Reid and Waldron for several
years. She then went to work for Western Academy to serve our
younger generation for a few years. She continued her service to
others at Clagett Memorial Hospital. She enjoyed quilting,
fishing and her friends.
Phelma is preceded in death by her parents, Edward and Alice
Smithey; husband, William Martin Morgan and her son, Frank
Delbert Morgan.
Phelma is survived by her sisters, Elma Loose of Greeley,
Colorado; Eunice Sampson of Ovid, Colorado; Lauralee
Greenwood of Fort Morgan, Colorado, and brother, Larry
Smithey of Rangely, Colorado. Also surviving are daughters,
Stellamae Fredericks of Canpoint, Illinois; Dolores Elaine
Walter of Battlement Mesa, Colorado; Gwen (James) Bourke of
Woodbridge, Virginia; Billy Jo (Robert) Jordan of Albuquerque,
New Mexico; son, Martin Jeffrey (Sharon) Morgan of Silt,
Colorado; 17 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren, and 17
great-great-grandchildren.
William Martin Morgan
