Elsie (Silzell) Granere

Birth Date: March 28, 1924

Death Date: September 27, 2017

Age at Death: 93

Marriages

Roy King

Clyde Granere

Burial Details

Mortuary Name: Callahan-Edfast Mortuary, Grand Junction, Colorado

Obituaries

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 8A Death Notice - October 6, 2017

Elsie Silzell King Granere, 93, Grand Junction, died Sept. 27,
2017, at HopeWest Hospice Care Center.
Services will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday at the First Christian
Church.
She was a rancher.
Survivors include two sons, Douglas King of Grand Junction and
Kevin King of Austin, Texas; one daughter, Sandra King Magruder
of Phoenix; four grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions to HopeWest, 3090B N. 12th St., Grand
Junction 81506.

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3D Obituary - October 1, 2017

Elsie Silzell King Granere,
age 93, of Grand Junction,
Colorado, passed away on September
27, 2017. Born March
28, 1924, in Grand Junction,
Colorado, Elsie was raised on
a ranch in the Unaweep Canyon,
attended school in the
Unaweep Canyon for 11
years, and then graduated from Grand Junction High School and
attended Mesa College. After marrying Roy King, she moved to
their ranch on Glade Park, where they raised their family.
Her husbands, Roy King and Clyde Granere, preceded her in
death. After Clyde passed away, she was blessed to have Charlie
Deroiser in her life. Elsie was greatly loved by each family.
Survivors include her daughter, Sandra King Magruder (Mac
Magruder) of Phoenix, AZ; and two sons, Douglas King
(Kathleen King) of Grand Junction, and Kevin King (Patricia
King) of Austin, Texas. She has four grandchildren, Shane
King, Monica King Bullard, Kristine Magruder Thompson, and
Shannon Magruder Barthelemy; and nine great-grandchildren.
She has been a long-time member of the First Christian
Church where she served as an elder, deacon, and president of
the Women’s Board and was honored as Elder Emeritus in
2012. Her Explorers Bible Study was very important to her and
she served as a leader for several years. Elsie has been active in
numerous civic, political, and charitable organizations. She was
a member of the Daughters of the Nile, Territorial Daughters of
Colorado, Woolgrowers Association, Cowbells of Colorado,
and served as president of many of them. Elsie chaired the Make
It Yourself with Wool Contest. She loved her bowling groups,
her book clubs, golf, travel, reading, and entertaining at the cabin
up on Pinon Mesa.
Funeral services will be held at the First Christian Church on
1326 North 1st Street on Saturday, October 7 at 11 a.m. Memorial
contributions can be made to HopeWest in her name.
Elsie was a much-loved wife, mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother,
and friend. All who met her loved her kindness
and her loving heart. She met life’s challenges with strength and
faith and a positive attitude.