Gloria Jean Ortiz was born in Raton, New Mexico in 1944, to Fred and Zalma Ortiz. She was raised in Raton and continued to live there for 62 years where she was married and raised her four children. In 2005 she moved to Pueblo West, Colorado to be near her children. Gloria lived her life to the fullest. She was so many personalities wrapped up into one. She had a big caring heart and a shining soul for her Lord, her family, and her friends. She loved the outdoors, her flowers, and the\u00a0sun\u00a0shining on her face, her Rottweiler dogs, and her dog Zoya. Most of all, Gloria truly loved her family with all her heart. She would drop everything to help anyone in need. Jerry, \u201cBeaver\u201d Baca was her companion for 12 years. Their relationship was filled with many happy memories. She was involved in many groups throughout her life; CASA volunteer, Secretary of New Mexico Credit Union and chosen employee of the year, New Mexico Bowling Association, she was a Liberty Point board member, served as head hostess at Flower Aviation, and a proud member of Majestic Church of Pueblo West.<\/p>\n
Gloria Ortiz is survived by: her brother, Bob Ortiz, daughter, Teri Encinias, son, Johnny Dabovich and wife Cathy, daughter, Desiree Dabovich-Larranaga and husband Anthony, son, Brandon Dabovich and wife Brandi, son Jeremy.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>Grandchildren:\u00a0<\/strong>Kami Bivens, Heather Huerta and husband Oscar, Edward Encinias, Meranda Williams and husband Brian, Mattison Dabovich, R.J. Dabovich, Taylor Dabovich, Vladimir Dabovich, Gabriella Miranda and husband Carlos and Clarissa Glaze and husband Johnny.<\/p>\n Great grandchildren<\/strong>: Kambri Bivins, Aubry Bivins, Landen Huerta, Alayah Huerta, Jaden Miranda, Mika Miranda, Kameya Miranda and Desmond Williams. Gloria has numerous nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n Gloria was preceded in death by; her parents Fred and Zalma Ortiz, sister, Joan Cornay, brothers; Rudy and Freddie Ortiz and Vernon Wallace.<\/p>\n We as a family would like to thank you for being a great mother, nana, sister, aunt and friend.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cMay the sunshine follow you, Mom, to meet Jesus\u201d<\/p>\n Celebration of Life Services will be held on\u00a0April 22, 2024.\u00a0 1 pm at Majestic Baptist Church, Pueblo West, CO.<\/p>\n \n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gloria Jean Ortiz was born in Raton, New Mexico in 1944, to Fred and Zalma Ortiz. She was raised in Raton and continued to live there for 62 years where she was married and raised her four children. In 2005 she moved to Pueblo West, Colorado to be near her…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":89647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89648,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89646\/revisions\/89648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}