Virginia H. Curtis

Services for Virginia H. Curtis, 88, Hays, Kan., will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the First Christian Church in Loveland. Burial will be in the Loveland Burial Park.
Mrs. Curtis, formerly of Loveland, died Sunday, May 31, 2009, at Hays Good Samaritan Center.
She was born Oct. 2, 1920, in Johnstown, the daughter of Earl J. and Mabel E. Meacham Worden. She was a 1938 graduate of Loveland High School and attended Colorado State College of Education in Greeley.
During World War II she and her husband had lived in Colorado, Oklahoma, Tennessee and California. They moved back to Loveland in 1965. Mrs. Curtis moved to Hays in 2006.
Mrs. Curtis was a homemaker and bookkeeper, retiring from the Longs Peak Federal Credit Union after 20 years of service. She was a lifelong member of the First Christian Church of Loveland. She was also a member of the Order of Eastern Star and the Philo Club.
She enjoyed spending time with her family, watching sports on TV and playing bingo, and was an avid knitter, bowler and seamstress.
She married Cecil J. “Jack” Curtis in Glenwood Springs. He preceded her in death in 1995.
She was also preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Mansel E. Worden, a sister, Naomi Yeager, and a great-granddaughter, Adelaide Hope Welch.
Survivors include two daughters, Joan and husband Daniel Welch, Lawrence, Kan., and Barbara and husband Glenn Rockers, Hays, Kan.; two sons, Mark and wife Kathy, Loveland, and Robert “Bob” and wife Deniece, Longmont; 11 grandchildren, Jennifer Welch-Bernson, Nathan Welch, Rebecca Welch-Weigel, Jon Welch, Aaron Rockers, Andrew Rockers, Benjamin Curtis, Conor Curtis, Kyle Curtis, Matthew Curtis and Sean Curtis; and a great-grandson, Miles Bernson; a sister, Carma Jean Foiles, of Moscow, Idaho; and many nieces and nephews.
The family will meet friends from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Kibbey-Fishburn Funeral Home in Loveland.
The family suggests memorials to the Virginia Curtis Memorial Fund in care of Kibbey-Fishburn Funeral Home, 1102 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland, CO 80537.