Vena Margaret Runyan Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Funeral services for VENA MARGARET RUNYAN, 91, will be held at 2pm Thursday, April 30, 2015 at the Colyer Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Rick Cederholm officiating. Burial will follow in the Valley View Cemetery. A memorial service will be held at a later date at the Covenant Village of Colorado in Westminster, Colorado. Vena went to be with her Lord on April 24, 2015 at Covenant Village in Westminster. Memorials may be made to Gideon’s International or the donor’s choice. The casket will be open briefly following the service. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Vena was born in Torrington, Wyoming on March 22, 1924 the second child of Harry and Maud (Bright) McDaniel. She attended grade school in Lingle and Torrington, graduating from Torrington High School in 1942. She worked in the real estate office of C. O. Downing in Torrington and attended two years of college in Tarkio, Missouri. At college she met Thomas Wayne Runyan and they were married in the old United Presbyterian Church in Torrington, on December 24, 1946. Vena and her sister, Betty Jo taught at the Katzer school near Lyman, Nebraska. She lived as a Navy wife in San Francisco, Del Monte, and San Diego, California. She enjoyed traveling with her husband to various off-site assignments during his thirty-six year job with General Dynamics in San Diego. She was always active in their church and in the Gideon’s International Auxiliary. She taught Sunday school and Bible classes in Florida, Belgium, and San Diego. After Wayne retired in 1989 they moved to Loveland, Colorado. She enjoyed working with Wayne on their family genealogy. In 2004 they moved to the Covenant Village located in Westminster, Colorado. Vena is survived by two sisters, Roberta (Harold) Nobel of Olympia, Washington, and Betty Jo (Bud) Hertzler of Torrington, Wyoming; a sister-in-law Katherine McDaniel of Loveland, Colorado; several nieces, great nieces, great-great nieces, nephews, great nephews, and great-great nephews; and an "adopted" granddaughter Katrina (Tom) Schultz and children Gabriel, Samara and Lucas. She was preceded in death by her husband Thomas Wayne Runyan; her parents; her brothers Ward McDaniel, and Bob McDaniel; a nephew Gary Hertzler and a great nephew Denton Hertzler.

Vena Margaret Runyan

March 22, 1924 - April 24, 2015