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Marion Pink “Pinky” Mounts

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Marion Pink “Pinky” Mounts Veteran

Birth
Clinton, Custer County, Oklahoma, USA
Death
19 Apr 1998 (aged 68)
Durango, La Plata County, Colorado, USA
Burial
Durango, La Plata County, Colorado, USA Add to Map
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I Lt. US Army - Korea
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April 19, 1998

Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday for Marion Pink "Pinky" Mounts, who died Sunday, April 19, 1998, at Centura Health-Mercy Medical Center. He was 68. The Rev. Robert Kujath will officiate. Burial will be at Greenmount Cemetery.

Mr. Mounts was born October 21, 1929, in Clinton, Oklahoma. He married Georgine Driever April 20, 1953.

Mr. Mounts graduated from Wellington High School in Wellington, Texas with the Class of 1947 and attended Texas A&M in Arlington, Texas, for one year. He served in the U.S. Army in the Korean Campaign 7th Infantry, as instructor at NATO Intelligence School in Oberammergau, Germany, and as instructor at Mountain 2nd Ranger Co. in Dahlonega, Georgia.

He worked at Mercy Hospital, 9-R School District, Tamarron Resort and Sunnyside Metals in Silverton.

Mr. Mounts was a Boy Scout and Girl Scout leader for approximately 25 years and a leader for the junior and senior high school youth fellowships at the First Presbyterian Church.

Survivors include his wife, Georgine Driever Mounts, of Durango; sons, Richard, Michael and Dave Mounts, all of Durango, and Ronnie and Doug Mounts of Phoenix; daughters, Geriann Campbell of Durango, Cindy Gilbert of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Claudia Tillman of Wheatland, Wyoming; sister, Billie Wilson of Show Low, Arizona; 17 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
I Lt. US Army - Korea
~~~~
April 19, 1998

Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday for Marion Pink "Pinky" Mounts, who died Sunday, April 19, 1998, at Centura Health-Mercy Medical Center. He was 68. The Rev. Robert Kujath will officiate. Burial will be at Greenmount Cemetery.

Mr. Mounts was born October 21, 1929, in Clinton, Oklahoma. He married Georgine Driever April 20, 1953.

Mr. Mounts graduated from Wellington High School in Wellington, Texas with the Class of 1947 and attended Texas A&M in Arlington, Texas, for one year. He served in the U.S. Army in the Korean Campaign 7th Infantry, as instructor at NATO Intelligence School in Oberammergau, Germany, and as instructor at Mountain 2nd Ranger Co. in Dahlonega, Georgia.

He worked at Mercy Hospital, 9-R School District, Tamarron Resort and Sunnyside Metals in Silverton.

Mr. Mounts was a Boy Scout and Girl Scout leader for approximately 25 years and a leader for the junior and senior high school youth fellowships at the First Presbyterian Church.

Survivors include his wife, Georgine Driever Mounts, of Durango; sons, Richard, Michael and Dave Mounts, all of Durango, and Ronnie and Doug Mounts of Phoenix; daughters, Geriann Campbell of Durango, Cindy Gilbert of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Claudia Tillman of Wheatland, Wyoming; sister, Billie Wilson of Show Low, Arizona; 17 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.


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