Juanita Janiece Conway

1941 - 2018

Juanita Janiece Conway obituary, 1941-2018, Durango, CO

BORN

1941

DIED

2018

Juanita Conway Obituary

Juanita Janiece Conway (Hudspeth), known by friends and family as Jan or Nini, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on August 8th, 2018 in Lakewood, Colorado, at St. Anthony Hospital after a brief battle with cancer.
Jan was born in Monahans, Texas, on April 7th, 1941, to Faye and Oran Fielding. Jan graduated from Durango High School in 1959 and had been a Rainbow Girl during high school. After high school she had several jobs in town doing accounting and waitressing at the Cathay and Mandarin restaurants. She was a carhop at Lucky's Drive-In where she met Tom Conway. In the late sixties she worked at Community Hospital as a nurse's aide and ward clerk
Jan and Tom Conway were married on July 23rd, 1966, in Durango, Colorado. They made their permanent home in Ignacio, Colorado, on their cattle ranch. Jan was owner and operator of Big Cheese Pizza for a number of years. She served on the Ignacio School Board and was a past member of the La Plata County Fair Board. She also won numerous ribbons at the county fair for baking and canning. Tom and Jan have members of the Oxford Grange for many years.
Jan is survived by her husband Tom and sons Ron of Ignacio, Colorado, and Joseph of Phoenix, Arizona, brother Oran Hudspeth of Chaparral, New Mexico, sisters Edna Hallock of Durango, Colorado, Melba Onstott of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and Ramona Sowa of Westminster, Colorado, and various nieces, nephews, and cousins
A memorial service will be held on August 16th, 2018, at Life Church, 699 Bayfield Parkway, Bayfield, Colorado at 6:30 p.m.

Published by The Durango Herald on Aug. 10, 2018.
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I have just learned of Jan's passing and am so sad. She was such a loyal and loving friend to me and my family. Tom, I am sorry for your loss. I know you and the boys will be lost without her. We had been praying for her, here in Texas.

Jan Johnson

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August 24, 2018

Jason Billington

August 15, 2018

Jan will be missed by all of us who knew her through the County Fair. She was a vital part of that event all year long.

Carole Morain

August 13, 2018

I met Jan in 1992 when I bought the laundromat next door to Big Cheese Pizza. She was so kind to me. I came to love her dearly during the years that I raised my family and we owned businesses next door to each other. I have thought of her so often in the years since we "lived" next door to each other. I am saddened by her passing. She was a delight always!

Ann Perkins-Parrott

August 12, 2018

Brth

August 12, 2018

My deepest sympathy and condolences to the family. I knew Jan when we lived in Ignacio and our kids went to school together. I know she will be greatly missed by all. God Bless You all.
Sheri Wyatt

August 11, 2018

Janet Tubbs

August 11, 2018

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