{"id":1318211,"date":"2020-02-12T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T01:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/obituary-emmett-haptonstall\/"},"modified":"2020-02-12T18:16:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T01:16:03","slug":"obituary-emmett-haptonstall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/obituary-emmett-haptonstall\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Emmett Haptonstall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/02\/0000550591-01-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"BodyText\"> <b>Emmett Haptonstall <\/b>June 7, 1938 \u2013 February 7, 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyText\"> Emmett Lee Haptonstall passed into the lords\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hands on February 7, 2020. Born June 7, 1938 in Delta, Colorado to Chester &amp; Lois Haptonstall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyText\"> Emmett served 35 years with the Colorado Dept of Transportation as a project engineer. In addition, Emmett had a distinguished 32-year military career, serving eight years as the Command Sergeant Major. Emmett had 20 years volunteering with the Rifle Fire Protection District and a term as fire chief. He was a certified EMT, a high school referee and a City Councilmen in Rifle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyText\"> Emmett was proceeded in death by his parents Chester &amp; Lois, his wife Barbara, 2nd wife Marion, brothers Gary &amp; Dennis. He is survived by his three boys Mark (Tracy), Mike (Anna) and Chet (Jan), sister Carol (Russ), Laura and brother Ray (Darla), sister-in-law Tammy and numerous grandchildren and a great grandchild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyText\"> A graveside service will be held June 6 at the Cedaredge Cemetery followed by a reception in Delta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyText\"> In leu of flowers, please make donations to the Veterans Committee of the Western Slope, Inc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/obituaries\/obituary-emmett-haptonstall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmett Haptonstall June 7, 1938 \u2013 February 7, 2020 Emmett Lee Haptonstall passed into the lords\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hands on February 7, 2020. Born June 7, 1938 in Delta, Colorado to Chester &amp; Lois Haptonstall. Emmett served 35 years with the Colorado Dept of Transportation as a project engineer. In addition, Emmett had a distinguished 32-year military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-05 21:45:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}