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Obituary: Freedus Colter

Services for Freedus Colter will be held at Bohlender Funeral Home in Fort Collins, 121 W. Olive Street, on Saturday Oct. 29 at 1 p.m. A Military Honors service will follow at Grandview Cemetery.

A Celebration of Life reception will be held beginning at 4:30 p.m. at the EMBASSY SUITES Hotel (4705 Clydesdale Parkway, Loveland). Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

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For those of you that have a piece of jewelry made by Freedus, we welcome you to wear it to the service in his honor.

Thank you Freedus Monroe Colter – Magnificent son, brother, husband, father, uncle, grandfather, great-grandfather, and friend for life. We will love you always and forever…

Freedus is preceded in death by parents Robert and Rheba Colter; sister Zelma; wife Evelyn; and son Daniel Isble and grandson Thomas Bergh.

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Though our hearts are breaking, he is with Mom now, where he belongs.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Fort Collins Pathways Hospice.

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