Obituary: Neva Nottingham

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Obituary: Neva Nottingham

June 13, 1932 – February 11, 2024 Born in Catoosa, Oklahoma, to Ben and Goldie Snook, my mother moved to Fruita, Colorado, with her parents and eight siblings when she was 5 years old. Growing up, she worked alongside her family in the vegetable fields and fruit orchards of the Grand Valley and attended Fruita Elementary School through the eighth grade. At 14, she moved to Avon to work for her sister and brother-in-law, Arnold Nottingham, where …