Obits

• CHARLES W. PACE 
• Daniel Franklin Pace
• Daniel R. Pace
• Frederick Augustus Pace
• LAURA [Piburn] PACE
• SUSAN [Williams] PACE

The following is an obituary for Daniel. Regrettably the one for Daniel is brief. The issue of The New Market Herald that is referred to is not in the Bedford archives. A big disappointment. But the one for Richard is an informative one.

IA: THE BEDFORD FREE PRESS, Thursday, March 29, 1896

Thursday's New Market Herald contains an obituary of Daniel R. Pace, who died at his home in Mason township, on March 8, 1896, after a long and severe illness.

Mr. and Mrs. Pace came to Taylor county in 1855 and settled on the premises where they lived a happy and contented life up to the day of his death. Mr. Pace was an industrious farmer, an honorable citizen, and a success financially. Though trouble and sorrow overshadowed their home at times, both these aged people bore their grief with remarkable fortitude.

Funeral services were held on Tuesday, and the body laid to rest in old Memory cemetery.

Thanks to Jane Mason for providing this obituary to be published here.

"CHARLES W. PACE DELTA - Charles W. Pace, 93, died at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday at Long Beach, Calif. He had been on a visit to Long Beach when he became ill. 

A pioneer resident of western slope, Mr. Pace came first to Pitkin in 1880 from Iowa. After returning to Iowa, he later accompanied his father who had won a railroad-building contract at Ridgeway. 

Since 1904, with the exception of a few months spent in Utah, he had been a resident of Delta, where he was employed nearly two decades by Holly Sugar Corp. before his retirement. Previously he had been a cattle rancher near Crawford and had helped in the development of the Oliver Coal Mines near Somerset, now owned by U.S. Steel Corp. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and the Delta IOOF Lodge. 

He was born November 5, 1873 in Page Co., Iowa. His wife, the former Alatha Viola Moore, whom he married at Montrose September 13, 1892 died May 7, during the couple's visit in Long Beach. 

Surviving are a son Arthur, and two daughters, Mrs. Rose Stuber, and Mrs. Marguerite Stewart, all in California; six grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. 

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Robert's Funeral Home. The Rev. Robert Spindler, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will officiate. Graveside rites will be conducted in Grand View Cemetery at Montrose by Delta Odd Fellows."

Source: August 24, 1967, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, pg. 3

"Funeral services were conducted at Crawford Sunday afternoon for Frank Pace who suffered a heart stroke in Denver, Tuesday, Aug. 31, and he passed on, in a hospital there the following day. The deceased had just gone to Denver a few days previous with a shipment of sheep. Burial was made in a local cemetery. He is survived by his widow, Susie Pace, and two daughters, Mrs. Leafa Gingrich, Alaska, and Mrs. Myrtle Gingrich, Crawford."

Source:  Sept. 9, 1939, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, pg. 3

"Daniel Franklin Pace was born in Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, Dec. 13, 1875. He passed on at the Colorado General Hospital in Denver Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1939, at the age of 63 years, eight months and 17 days. At a very early age Mr. Pace came to this state with his parents and brothers. He engaged in freighting with his father from Pitkin to Gunnison for some time. In 1891 the family moved to Delta County. In 1893 he was invited in marriage to Laura Piburn. To this union were born two daughters. Frank and his father were among the earliest settlers on Missouri Flats. They homesteaded and cleared the land where he lived until his departure from this earth. He was active in the community, always willing to lend a helping hand when needed. In 1914 he was united in marriage with Susie M. Piburn. He is survived by his wife, Susie M. Piburn, of Crawford; two daughters, Leafa M. Gingrich, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Myrtle A. Gingrich, Crawford, one grandson, two stepsons, Walter Piburn of Los Angeles and Gordon Piburn, Crawford, his mother, Mrs. S. Lockwood, Delta; two brothers, Gus and Charlie, both of Delta, besides a number of nieces and nephews and a host of friends. Funeral services were held at the local M.E. Church Sunday afternoon, Sept. 3, conducted by Rev. John S. Brownell of Boulder, a former Crawford minister. Internment was made at a local cemetery."

Source: Sept. 15, 1939, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, pg. 3

"MRS. LAURA PACE DELTA - Mrs. Laura Pace, long-time resident of Crawford, died early this morning in Delta Memorial Hospital. Among survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Sam (Myrtle) Gingrich of Crawford and Mrs. Leafa Gingrich in California. Funeral Arrangements are to be made with the Taylor Mortuary at Hotchkiss."

Source: April 10, 1960, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, pg. 19

"MRS. LAURA PACE CRAWFORD - Funeral services for Mrs. Laura Pace, 85, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Crawford Community Church. The Rev. Everett Matz of Delta, former pastor, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Lloyd Barnett present pastor. Burial will be in Crawford Cemetery, directed by the Taylor Mortuary of Hotchkiss. A pioneer resident of Crawford, Mrs. Pace died at 4:55 a.m. Saturday in Delta Memorial Hospital, where she had been a patient one day. She had been ill only four days before her death. Born Laura Leona Piburn at Bethany, Clay Co., MO., Jan. 30, 1875, she came to Crawford with her parents, Thomas B. and Mary Fluke Piburn, in 1882. She married Daniel Frank Pace at Delta May 19, 1892. He preceded her in death. She was a member of the Methodist Church and Rebekah Lodge. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Sam (Myrtle) Gingrich of Crawford and Mrs. Leafa Gingrich of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Nell Brady of Castle Gate, Utah, and Mrs. Mary C. Adams of San Diego, Calif.; a grandson, Dr. Ted F. Gingrich of Oaklans, Calif.; and a great-graddaughter."

Source: April 9, 1960, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, pg. 7

"MRS. SUSAN PACE, CRAWFORD, DIES (Special to the Sentinel) Crawford, Nov. 29 - Mrs. Susie Merinda Pace, widow of Frank Pace, died Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Nies in Delta. She had been ill for the past five weeks. 

Funeral services will be held in Crawford, Taylor Mortuary in charge, but no date has been set. Burial will be in the Crawford Cemetery. Susie Merinda Williams was born Jan. 17, 1876, in Kansas and she spent her childhood in Kansas and Nebraska. She moved to Crawford as a young woman and had resided here for nearly 60 years. 

The deceased was married to Frank Pace Dec. 21, 1914, at Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Surviving are one son, Walter Piburn, Compton, Calif., two brothers, Sam Williams, Crawford and George Williams, Durango; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren."

Source: Nov. 29, 1949, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, pg. 5

"FREDERICK PACE, DELTA, DIES IN ARIZONA MONDAY Delta, February 27 - Frederick (Gus) Pace died of pneumonia at noon Monday in Mesa Ariz., where he and his wife had gone about three months ago for his health. His son E.B. Pace who flew to Mesa Friday to be with him, returned here Monday. The Lamar funeral home is in charge of funeral arrangements, which are still pending. Mr. Pace's body was expected to arrive by Frontier Airlines this morning."

Source:  Feb. 27, 1952, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, pg. 7

"PACE FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE 2:30 MONDAY Delta, Feb. 28 - Funeral services for Frederick Augustus Pace will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday March 3, in the chapel of the Lamar Funeral Home with the Rev. Eugene Moore pastor of the Nazarene church officiating. Internment will be in Delta cemetery.

Mr. Pace was born Feb. 3, 1884, in Taylor County, IA., and died Sunday in the South Side Hospital at Mesa Ariz. In 1913, he married Miss Nellie Bellmire in Delta County, where he had come as a boy and spent his entire lifetime. He farmed at Crawford, was in the Dairy business, and also a car salesman.

He attended Delta Schools and was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge. Surviving him, besides his widow, are six sons, Richard A. Pace of Annette, Alaska and Eberly B. Pace of Delta, both by a former marriage. Robert Keith Pace of Elma, Wash., Edmund Sherman in Washington and twin sons, Frank and Fred Pace, at home; a brother, Charles Pace of Delta and nine-grandchildren."

Source:  Feb. 28, 1952, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, pg. 8