Irene Joanne Fortney
Obituaries
Daily Sentinel page 3D - December 22, 2019
Irene Joanne Fortney passed
from this earth on December
11, 2019, following a long battle
with cancer.
She was the oldest of fraternal
twin sisters, born March 30,
1944, in Minturn, Colorado
to the late Eddie Allen and
Nellie Catherine (Miller) Short.
Known to her friends as Joanne, she grew up in Whitewater and the
Redlands area of Grand Junction, Colorado, and attended schools
there. She graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1962.
Joanne was preceded in death by her parents; twin sister, Ilene
June Lahe; older sister, Patricia Jean Ludeman, and brothers, Dale
Allen Short and Charles James Short.
She is survived by her only daughter, Pamela June Fortney of
Palisade, Colorado; younger sisters, Alice Catherine (Felton)
Corbett, Magnolia, Texas, and Donna Mae (Roscoe) Heyman,
Menard, Texas, and numerous nephews, nieces, aunts, uncles, and
cousins.
No services are to be held at this time.
She will be interred close to her twin sister and brother-in-law,
Charles Lahe, at the Whitewater Cemetery.
