Loretta Mae Togade

Loretta Mae Togade went to be with the Lord, on June 29, 2023, at Mesilla Valley Hospice. Loretta was born October 29, 1935, in Kansas City Missouri, to Elmer Harry and Mildred Izetta Lincoln (Howard). She is survived by her beloved husband, of 45 years, Vicente B. Togade Jr., her loving children, son David, daughter Cathy and her husband Joe, son Glen and his wife Wendy, daughter Leona and her husband Brian, and by her grandchildren (Nate, Rayna, Anna, Chris, Brice, Carl, Zoey, Ethan, Amelia, Samuel, Jared, and Kenzie), great grandchildren (Brandon, Adam, Norman, Eli, and Lillian), and her siblings, brothers, Hal, Kenny, Bob, Don, her longtime friend Bea P. of Francois Lake, BC, her sister-in-law, Mila and her Togade siblings and their families. She is preceded in death by her parents, Elmer and Mildred, stepmother Florence, sister Virginia Cowan, and son Raymond. Loretta was baptized September 24, 1950, and graduated high school in 1953, in Canon City, Colorado. She loved to sing and was a true daydreamer. She left the IOOF Orphanage June 26, 1954, and moved to Francois Lake, British Columbia, Canada after her marriage to Keith where they homesteaded and had five children. During the Vietnam War conflict Loretta and Keith were moved to Guam where they later were divorced. Loretta and her children moved to Anchorage, Alaska to be with family. In December 1977 Vic and Loretta were married. Loretta and Vic loved to travel, often visited family in Alaska, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, and Edmonton, as well as other US states, Canadian provinces, and Asian countries. In 2001, they moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico. Our family will remember her as a kind, loving, generous strong-minded and talented person with many interests from reading, bird watching, rock and shell collecting, quilt-making, and many others, and who has touched many lives. We are blessed and are grateful to have had her in our lives. "You'll never know, Dear, how much I love you, please don't take, My Sunshine, away." We love you, Loretta! - Her beloved family.