Marcella Iretha Dalton, born on January 18th, 1927, passed away on January 15 2011.

Marcella was the eldest of five girls and one boy, born to Bessie Ruth and Edward Claude Taylor. Born in Turkeyford Oklahoma, she was 2 years old when the family moved to Rocky Ford, Colorado where she eventually graduated from high school. After high school, she attended one semester of college at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado before marrying George Andrew Dalton, after which the couple moved to the Pueblo, Colorado. Marcella was the proud mother of two boys, Edward Thomas Dalton and Michael Steven Dalton. Soon after the birth of the youngest, the couple divorced and Marcella raised the two boys alone while working full time for the U.S. Government. She then moved to Fowler and the boys enjoyed growing up in a small town. Once the boys were off on their own, she started her own seamstress business. Soon her sons convinced her to move with them to Greeley so her seamstress business would have a better chance than in a small town. She soon redeveloped her artistic nature and attended classes at the University of Northern Colorado where she graduated Cum Laud with Honors with a Bachelor of Arts degree (Art History-1981).

She lived proud and independent knowing that she made her own way. In 1990, after the death of her first born, she moved to the town of Cedaredge, Colorado and enjoyed the fresh air of the Grand Mesa. In 2004, she was diagnosed with cancer and had been battling various forms of cancer ever since. In May of 2010, after having brain surgery, she moved to Idaho to live with her youngest son.

Marcella is survived by one sister, Maxine Taul of Anselmo, Nebraska, her son Michael of Nampa, Idaho and a number of nieces and nephews.

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