{"id":1320333,"date":"2020-06-03T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/obituary-howard-raley\/"},"modified":"2020-06-03T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T00:16:09","slug":"obituary-howard-raley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/obituary-howard-raley\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Howard Raley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howard E. Raley Jr.<\/strong> January 12, 1943 \u2013 May 30, 2020<\/p>\n

There is no greater testament to Howard E. Raley Jr.\u2014to the significance of his life and the mark he has made on the lives of others\u2014than the gathering of his family to help usher him from this world in the midst of a global pandemic. He passed peacefully and with extraordinary dignity at his home in Glenwood Springs on May 30, 2020.<\/p>\n

Mr. Raley was born January 12, 1943, in Rifle, Colorado, son of Howard E. Raley Sr. and Angelina Ada Mazzuchi, two families with extensive roots in the Western Slope. Mr. Raley grew up on various small farms around Silt and graduated from Silt High School in a class of thirteen. Immediately thereafter, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and served on the USS Coral Sea, spending three years traveling throughout the Pacific Rim from Japan to Australia. During his fourth enlisted year he was stationed at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where he met his future wife, Annig Agemian, to whom he was married for nearly 54 devoted years. Mr. Raley spent his working career in various retail positions, from sales representative to manager and owner, in Los Angeles, Grand Junction, and, ultimately, Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n

A true paterfamilias, Howard oversaw the evolution of the Raleys from a regional family to one that realized his early dreams of cosmopolitanism. He himself was able to travel and see much of the world\u2014from climbing Mt. Fuji while in the service to later trips with Annig to Canada, Mexico, France, Italy, the UK, Chile, and the U.S. Virgin Island of St. John. He was though deeply attached to, and firmly established in, Colorado, and over the years he hiked, biked, and skied the back country at Maroon Bells, Independence Pass, Vail Pass, Gothic Mountain, Rifle Gap, Powderhorn, Williams Peak, and of course Sunlight. In his 40s and 50s and into his 60s, Howard was a devoted, year-round, endurance athlete and he competed locally in the Fall Color Classic 26-mile run and the Doc Holliday 35-mile trail run, as well as the Birkebeiner 55-k ski race in upper Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

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