The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction, Colorado), 5 November 1950, Sun., p. 8

Humphry Rites Will
Be 2 p.m. Wednesday

     Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Martin chapel for Mrs. Elizabeth Dorothea Humphry, who died at 9:20 a.m. Saturday at the family home, 1743 North Ninth street.
     Mrs. Humphry, wife of Joseph William Humphry, had been bedfast since June 6.
     The Rev. N. W. Heimsoth will officiate, and burial will be in Orchard cemetery.
     Elizabeth Dorothea Roeber was born April 23, 1877, at Hanover, Kan., the daughter of Theodore and Mary Roeber.  The family moved to Montrose when she was 10 and to Paonia one year later.  She was married to Joseph William Humphry May 31, 1899, at Paonia.
     Mr. and Mrs. Humphry moved from Paonia to Palisade in 1934, and to this city in 1940.
     The deceased was a member of the Lutheran church and the American Legion auxilliary.
     Surviving are the husband; two sons, Harry H., route 2, and Asa W., 1031 Colorado; two daughters, Mrs. Harry Hayes, Paonia, and Mrs. Viola M. Luke, 1743 North Ninth; four sisters, Mrs. Mary Brown, Paonia, Mrs. Augusta Ruble, Hotchkiss, Mrs. Maggie Piburn, Crawford, and Mrs. Clara Weuming, Paonia; two brothers, Gus and Adolph Roeber, Paonia; and seven grandchildren.

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The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction, Colorado), 17 March 1962, Sat., p. 6

Joseph W. Humphry

     Joseph William Humphry, 95, a resident of western Colorado since 1898, died at 2 p.m. Friday in St. Mary's Hospital.  He had been ill for two weeks.
     Mr. Humphry lived in Paonia from 1898 to 1934, in Palisade until 1949 [sic.], and in Grand Junction until three years ago, when he returned to Paonia to live with a daughter.
     Retired for many years, he worked in a feed store during most of his active life.
     Mr. Humphry was born in Sidney, Iowa, and spent his childhood in Falls City, Neb.  He went to California in 1893, remaining in the Los Angeles area for five years.  He was married in Paonia on May 31, 1899, to Elizabeth Robber [sic.].  Mrs. Humphry died in Grand Junction Nov. 4, 1950.
     Surviving are two sons, Asa W. Humphry of Grand Junction and Harry H. Humphry of Los Altos, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Harry (Nellie) Hayes of Paonia and Mrs. Eugene (Viola) Mulford of Grand Junction; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
     Funeral arrangements are being completed at Martin's Mortuary.

Bill and Lizzie's shared headstone at Orchard Cemetery.