Larry Gene Price

Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Plateau Valley High School.

He was a teacher.

Survivors include his wife, Cynthia L.; one son, Ronald of Collbran; three daughters, Jenifer Montague of Peyton, Tamara Mayne of Bailey, and Melissa Lewis of Brighton; one brother, Otis Price of Beebe, Arkansas; and one sister, Lana Roberts of Beebe; 12 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions to HopeWest Hospice, 3090B N. 12th St., Grand Junction 81506.

LARRY PRICE OBITUARY

September 16, 1945 – November 5, 2016

Larry G. Price, age 71, died on November 5, 2016. He was born on September 16, 1945 to Argie Dell and Leonard Abert Price, in Conway, Arkansas. They lived in Wooster, Arkansas. He joined a growing family of 4 other siblings at the time, and was there to welcome his baby sister, Lana a few years later.

He attended elementary school in Wooster, and graduated from high school in Lonoke, Arkansas in 1963. He earned a business degree at the University of Arkansas in Jonesboro, graduating in 1966. He moved to Colorado in 1967 to teach business classes at Plateau Valley School in Collbran, where he taught for the next 32 years, taking additional positions of coach (basketball, football, and track) as well as filling in administrative positions when needed. Over the years, he led the high school students as sponsor of various classes, as well as Athletic Director and Student Council Sponsor, with annual production of a grand School Carnival. As track coach, he helped guide many students to successfully challenge and place in the State competition, many times setting new school and state records – always improving their own “best” times and distances. He received the Girls’ Track Coach of the Year Award, presented by the Colorado High School Coaches Association in 1996.

He loved teaching and retired in 1999.

He married Cindy (Lyons) in 1969, and they added children to their family: Ron, of Collbran, Jeni (Kyle) Montague, of Peyton, Colorado, Tama (Kyle) Mayne, of Bailey, Colorado, and Melissa (Brian) Lewis, of Brighton, Colorado. They survive him.

He is also survived by a brother, Otis Price, and a sister, Lana Roberts, both of Beebe, Arkansas, 12 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Larry was predeceased by his parents, two brothers Bob and Jim, and a sister, Peggy Pruitt.

Graveside service will be on Sunday, November 13, at 2pm at Clover Cemetery in Collbran. Memorial service will immediately follow at 3pm, at the Plateau Valley High School, (where Larry spent many, many hours over the years) and a reception is planned at the school following the service.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to HopeWest – Plateau Valley, 3090 North 12th Street, Unit B, Grand Junction, CO 81506.

COMMENTS FROM HIS PROTEGES:

Bryan: (38) Don’t mess with Grandpa when he was watching football!

Tina: (34) Grandpa meant the world to me. I never wanted to disappoint him, and wanted to be like he was as a coach. I looked up to him. I’m going to miss him. Love you, Grandpa.

Kristina: (25) I’ll always love sledding till the wee hours of the morning, making it more and more icy (with the help of Uncle Ron) till someone could get under the fence. One other memory is the year we brought Crash Bandicoot Team Racing for Christmas and Grandpa even played with us once or twice.

Kayelynn: (16) Something I loved about Grandpa was how encouraging he was to me to be kind to others. He also encouraged me to push myself on and off the track and on the court. I also loved how much he cared about my art. He was always so interested and impressed with all of my art work, and that meant the world to me!

Ashlen: (16) One time I was visiting Granny and Grandpa’s in the summer and I got to help harvest corn out of the garden. Grandpa asked me to help him “shuck” the corn over by the fence. I started “chucking” them over the fence into the field. Grandpa asked “What are you doing?” I told him I was chucking the corn…he started laughing and said “No, we are shucking it, not chucking it!”

Porter: (15) I remember when my cousins and brothers and I all went Nightcrawler hunting with Grandpa. It was so much fun and we even got to go fishing with him the next day.

Trevor: (15) “How are the Cowboys doing?” was a daily question in regards to the high school boys’ sport teams whether I was playing or participating in the sport or not. Pa knew I would always tell him.

Kelsey: (14) I remember when I had my own little Grandpa Boot Camp! This was time JUST FOR ME and Grandpa! And I learned how to shoot a bow and a BB gun. And we rode the 4-wheeler and fed dogs together. It was one of the best and fondest memories I will ever have.

Payton: (14) Once I remember when all the cousins got to Granny and Grandpa’s house and asked Grandpa if he could teach us how to shoot the bow. We were out there for hours shooting then pulling arrows out of the bales of hay. Grandpa never gave up on us, even when we missed the bale completely.

Emma: (13) Grandpa was always willing to take me for rides on the 4-wheeler. I loved it when we would play on the sledding hill and Grandpa would take Mop on the sled with him.

Daniel: (13) Grandpa was always happy to see us and was a loving Grandpa.

Scott: (13) Pa’s famous sled hill. When I first moved my breeding goat herd to the barn, Pa made sure I had a wagon to cart water to the goats.

Terrin: (12) One memory that I have with Grandpa is he always used to feed “Papa berries” (raspberries) through the fence to me.

Rylee Ann: (10) Love you Grandpa. I’m going to miss you and your hugs.

Ana: (7) I remember taking the new 2 day old baby goats or puppies or kittens or bunnies or chicks over in the front seat of the truck to show Pa the newest baby.