LaFavre, Joan (Samson) 1929-2003

SAMSON, LAFAVRE, VANDERVEER, RANDALL, PENNOCK

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Date: 7/31/2015 at 09:18:21

Joan (Samson) LaFavre

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. - Joan (Samson) LaFavre, 73, a former Newton resident, died Monday, Oct. 13, in a hospice hospital in Denver, Colo. The cause of death was Bulbar ALS.

Funeral services will be Friday, Oct. 17, at Crossroads Baptist Church in North Glenn, Colo. Aspen Mortuaries of Commerce City, Colo., are in charge of arrangements.

The daughter of Gerrit and Johanna (VanDerVeer) Samson, she was born in Newton on Nov. 25, 1929. She graduated from Newton Senior High School in 1948 and married Dennis LaFavre on Nov. 10, 1949, in Newton. She worked as a beautician and at the Maytag Company before moving to Colorado in 1951. She retired from the Keebler Company in Denver, Colo.

Survivors include her husband, Dennis LaFavre of 6201 Ivy, Commerce City, Colo.; two daughters, Diane LaFavre of Denver, Colo. and Denice Randall of Thornton, Colo.; a son and daughter-in-law, Steve and Marie LaFavre of Centennial, Colo.; and three grandchildren; her sister-in-law and her husband, Joanne and Wayne Pennock of Newton; and many cousins. ~ The Newton Daily News, Newton, Iowa Wed 15 Oct 2003.