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- Bio: WILLIAM MONK
- William Woodward Monk was born in the Pleasant Valley Community, Yuma County on October 22, 1919 to Albert and Cynthia Anne (Woodward) Monk. He died Friday November 11, 1994 at his home in Greeley.
- On June 15, 1947, he married Arliss Jeanette Shaffer at the First Lutheran Church in Ault.
- Mr. Monk graduated from the School for the Blind in Colorado Springs in 1939 and was the first visually handicapped graduate of the University of Northern Colorado where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music in 1944. He was a member of Phi Alpha Theta and Phi Delta Kappa honorary fraternities.
- He taught music at the School for the Deaf and Blind in Staunton, Virginia for 10 years and studied violin with I. (Israel) Feldman in Norfolk, Virginia. He moved to Greeley in 1954 and was a piano technician until his retirement in 1984.
- Mr. Monk was a charter member and elder of Family of Christ Presbyterian Church, a member of the board of Catholic Community Services and of the Covenant Council, United Ministries in Higher Education, and the Greeley Senior Center.
- Survivors are his wife, Arliss of Greeley, two daughters, Roberta Joann Holschlaw of Longmont, and a daughter of Greeley, a son, J. Ken Monk of Wray, two sisters, Phoebe Josh of Yuma and Beulah Neiman of Holyoke, a brother, Gilbert Dale of Yuma, four grandchildren, a step-grandchild, and two great-grandchildren, a sister Zella Piper, and a brother. A sister, Zella Piper, and a brother, Dallas Albert, are deceased.
- Mr. Monk requested that his body be given to the Colorado State Anatomical Board for the purpose of medical research after which inurnment will be in Linn Grove Cemetery.
- Yuma Pioneer, Yuma, Colorado, November 24, 1994
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