Frances Clara Niccoli
\nFebruary 24,1931 – January 18, 2025
\nFrances Clara (Duran) Niccoli, age 93, born February 24, 1931 in Delagua,
\nColorado to Fred and Jenny (Hart) Duran. Frances passed away peacefully
\nJanuary 18, 2025 in Trinidad Colorado. Frances was the middle child of two
\nbrothers, Charles Duran the eldest and Leroy Duran the baby, who Frances
\nadored and raised.
\nFrances’ parents passed away at an early age. Jenny\u2019s sister’s Margaret Hart
\nand Rose Marie Hart, teamed up and raised Frances and her brothers. Frances
\nlived in Delagua, Aguilar, Ludlow, and Trinidad. Frances met her husband Joseph
\nSerano Niccoli as a teenager and married him. Together they had three
\nchildren, Freddie, Irma and Annette and settled in Trinidad Colorado. Frances
\nworked at Ben Franklin\u2019s in the 70’s as a cash register clerk. In the 70s and
\n80s\u2018she worked at Jamieson\u2019s Department Store as a sales clerk, accountant,
\nand gift wrapper, which she did perfectly, until her husband, Joseph got sick with
\ncancer and she decided to stay home and became his caregiver.
\nFrances had many passions that she loved to do. She enjoyed the dances in
\nLudlow, where I believe she met her husband at. She was great at crocheting
\noutts for dolls with fancy dresses. She loved to bake cakes from scratch and
\ndecorate them so beautifully. Her cakes were delicious. She also loved to sew
\nand would fashion design and make our clothing growing up. She also liked to
\ngive the grandkids haircuts to the boys with a bowl and razor and scissors for
\nthe girls. She had a passion for owls and collected them. She loved the actor
\nJohn Wayne because he always reminded her of her husband Joseph. She also
\nloved to babysit. She would make a large impact on their lives and was so loved
\nby each child.
\nFrances was the matriarch of the family and tried to make it a point to keep the
\nfamilies together. What Frances loved the most was being with her
\ngrandchildren, great grandchildren and her great-great grandchildren. They were
\nher pride and joy. She would welcome everyone into her home with open arms
\nand a big heart. She adopted many of our friends as her grandkids.
\nFrances was loved by everyone she met. She was a very strong woman, with a
\nheart of gold and a beautiful smile, who rarely complained about her pain and
\nfought to the very end. She is survived by her granddaughters: Gaylene
\nFuru-Vigil (Robert Vigil Jr.) Barbara Decker, Theresa Killian (Kevin) Lactic
\nEdwards, Serana Arellano, grandsons: Roy Niccoli (Brooke), Harvey Decker
\n(Lexie), William Decker (Felicia), and Abe Vigil; great grandchildren:Lilijana Furu
\nVigil, Robert Race Furu Vigil, Brittney Rutherford (Austin), Lacretia Vigil Bayer
\n(Adam), and Abe Vigil; great-great grandchildren: Malachi Felthager, Tatum
\nRutherford, Max Niccoli, Zackary Niccoli, Weston Cole Niccoli, Bellezza Katrina
\nNiccoli, Sophia Julianne Niccoli, Ivy Cook (Riley), Mark Miera Jr., Zameralynn
\nMiera, Elizabeth Niccoli, and Antonio Niccoli; her special and favorite niece
\nDomonica Esgar (Ric); her favorite cousins: Johnny Trujillo and Billy Hart;
\nDaughter-in-law Joy Cummings and Son-in-law Henry A Furu III, and several
\ncousins, nieces, nephews and loved ones who she adored.
\nPreceded in death by her parents Fred and Jenny Duran, Leroy Duran (brother),
\nJoseph Serano Niccoli (husband), Fredrick Niccoli (son) Irma Furu and Annette
\nFelthager (daughters), Margaret Hart and Rosie Marie Hart (aunties), Corey
\nFelthager, Clinton Furu, Mathew Niccoli, and Joey Niccoli (grandsons) Dennis
\nFelthager, Vaughn Vigil and Erin Vigil (great grandchildren), (grandparents) and
\nmany other family members.
\nFrances services are Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 at Comi Funeral Home
\nlocated at 1804 E. Main Street, Trinidad Co 81082 at 10am. Interment at
\nTrinidad Catholic Cemetery with Father Hank ociating. Donations can go to
\nComi Funeral Home and send correspondence to Family of Frances Niccoli at
\n301 N. Commercial Street, Trinidad CO 81082.
\nPallbearers are Race Vigil, Roy Niccoli, Che\u2019 Felthager, Slade Maes, Lejon
\nGuiterrez, and Shawn Martinez. Honorary Pallbearers are Johnny Trujillo, Sonny
\nTrujillo, Henry Furu III, Ric Esgar, and Mike Armijo Sr.
\nA Special Note of Thanks to Domonica and Ric Esgar for their love for Frances,
\nhelping take great care of her over the years. Johnny and Sonny Trujillo for
\nalways visiting and keeping the family together. Gail Courtney, Henry Furu III and
\nChe\u2019 Felthager for always visiting her in the nursing home. Thank you to
\nGwendolyn, Brock Lopez, Athena Brock Osborne for your love and support.
\nThank you to the staff at the Trinidad Inn Rehabilitation Nursing Home and Mt.
\nRose Hospice Services for their love, caring and support with Frances. She was
\nalways happy and comfortable thanks to you all. Thank you to Comi Funeral
\nHome for making the arrangements so easy and beautiful.
\nFrances will be loved and missed dearly, but she is resting in Heaven with our
\nLord and most of her family peacefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Frances Clara Niccoli February 24,1931 – January 18, 2025 Frances Clara (Duran) Niccoli, age 93, born February 24, 1931 in Delagua, Colorado to Fred and Jenny (Hart) Duran. Frances passed away peacefully January 18, 2025 in Trinidad Colorado. Frances was the middle child of two brothers, Charles Duran the eldest…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":93872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93871","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\/93871","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=93871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93873,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93871\/revisions\/93873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}