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Kiowa County, Colorado, is now at 64 COVID-19 coronavirus cases, with two deaths.

Bunnie Louise Larrew

March 28, 1931 - December 16, 2020

Wednesday December 16, 2020, Bunnie Larrew, loving wife, and mother to five children, passed away at age 89 at Prowers Medical Center in Lamar.

Bunnie Louise Larrew was born March 28, 1931, to Blanche and Shields Eichelberger in their home outside of Fowler. 

Mike Wyckoff 

March 10, 1951 – December 16, 2020 

Mike Wyckoff, 69, passed away December 16, 2020, at his Cheraw home. He born March 10, 1951, in La Junta, to Harold and Dorothy (Bushorr) Wyckoff.  

He grew up on the family homestead in Arlington. He attended elementary school in Haswell and attended High School in Eads and completed a mechanics program at Lamar Community college.

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Bunnie Larrew

March 28, 1931 – December 16, 2020

Bunnie Larrew passed away at Prowers Medical Center in Lamar.

Funeral services will be held at a later date.

Arrangements are under the direction of Brown Funeral Home.