John Steven Daily
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Therese C.
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 7B Death Notice - April 26, 2017
John Steven Daily, 85, Parachute, died Jan. 12, 2017, at the Veterans
Affairs Medical Center.
Services will take place at 11 a.m. Friday at the Immaculate Heart
of Mary Catholic Church. Graveside service will follow at 1 p.m. at
the Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado.
He was an automotive salesman.
Survivors include his wife, Therese C.; one son, Charles J. of Elgin,
Illinois; four daughters, Janet Hillery Daily of Darby, Montana,
Julie T. Daily of Salt Lake City, Nancy C. Smith of Elgin, and Jackie
A. Caul of Gilberts, Illinois; five grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren.
Memorial contributions to the VA Medical Center CLC Fund,
2121 North Ave., Grand Junction 81501.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 7 B Death Notice - January 14, 2017
John Steven Daily, 85, Parachute, died Jan. 12, 2017, at the Veterans Affairs Memorial Hospital in Grand Junction.
Services will be held this spring.
He was a car salesman.
Survivors include his wife, Therese C. of Parachute; one son,
Charles J. of Elgin, Illinois; four daughters, Janet Hillery Daily of
Darby, Montana, Julie T. Daily of Salt Lake City, Utah, Nancy C.
Smith of Elgin, and Jackie A. Caul of Gilberts, Illinois; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 D Death Notice - February 12, 2017
John Steven Daily, 85, Parachute, died Jan. 12, 2017, at Grand
Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Services will be at 11
a.m. April 28 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church. Interment
will follow at 1 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western
Colorado.
He was an automotive salesman.
He is survived by his wife, Therese C.; a son, Charles J. of Elgin,
Illinois; four daughters, Janet H. of Darby, Montana, Julie T. of Salt
Lake City, Nancy C. Smith of Elgin, and Jackie A. Caul of Gilberts,
Illinois; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions to the VA Medical Center CLC Fund,
2121 North Ave., Grand Junction 81501.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3D Obituary - April 9, 2017
John Steven Daily, 85, died
peacefully, surrounded by his
family, on Thursday, January
12, at the VA Community
Living Center.
He is survived by his wife,
Therese of 65 years; children,
Charles, Janet Hillery, Nancy,
Julie, and Jackie; five
grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren,
and many close
friends.
He grew up in Chicago, the son of Omer and Mary Daily. As a
youth he was drawn to his lifelong passions of hunting and
fishing, bicycling more than 100 miles to learn about these from
his uncle. While attending Lane Tech, he ran track and cross
country. He fell in love with his wife at a church dance and was
married three years later at St. Ferdinand, going AWOL from
Air Force basic training to do so. He was deployed to England
during the Korean War where his first two children were born.
John combined his automotive expertise with his gregarious
nature to become a successful business owner; he was the first
Snap-on Tool dealer to reach $100,000 in yearly sales.
Family adventures were the norm with memories of road
rallies, 1967 World’s Fair, house boat cannonballs, and
snowbound ski trips. After retirement he sought out the wide
open spaces of Colorado to pursue golf, swimming, skiing and
of course hunting and fishing. His hunting expertise was
expansive including bow, black powder, precision handloading,
and cowboy shoots as Slim Rocking Horse.
He never missed an opportunity to serve the VFW selling
poppies and cooking pancake breakfasts. John’s sense of humor
was his most endearing and enduring quality teasing and
tricking the nurses in his final days.
A funeral mass will be held at Immaculate Heart of Mary in
Grand Junction on April 28 at 11:00 a.m. followed by an Honor
Guard service at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery at 1:00 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the VA Medical
Center CLC Fund at 2121 North Avenue, GJ CO 81501 in
memory of John Daily.
Friends and family may leave their condolences at
www.martinmortuary.com.
