Obituary: Harvella Jewell Bewley

Harvella Jewell Bewley, age 86, formerly of Meeker, passed away Friday, April 24, 2009, at the Paonia Care Center in Paonia, Colo.
Jewell was born in Meeker on May 1, 1922, daughter of Morton Giles and Katherine (Kracht) Butler. Her parents and grandparents, George Elmer and Maude Laura Butler, worked on various area ranches in the early 1900s. Her grandparents eventually proved up on a homestead near Trapper’s Lake and when Jewell was a small…