Maltbie Funeral Services

10/09/2025

There are 3 types of tears:
1. Continuous tears help protect against infections.
2. Reflex tears run when the eye is irritated.
3. Emotional tears are a natural reaction and can be a painkiller.

10/07/2025

Maltbie Funeral Services

10/06/2025

When a loved one dies we have to consider the expectation of our grief versus the reality. Our mourning may feel different than how we expected it to feel. A funeral service, or celebration of life, can look like many different things. It may be more traditional within the church or funeral home; or it could be a community picnic, a family dinner, or even a special time set-aside for a phone call. Love and support are shown in many different ways, and there is no wrong way to honor the lives of our loved ones. Through this shared time together, we allow our family and friends to help us knit together shared memories of happy times, silly times, angry times, and sad times to create an emotional comfort blanket that can warm and ease us during this time of loss.

10/04/2025

Losing someone changes us. The pain sculpts us into someone who understands more deeply, hurts more often, appreciates more quickly, cries more easily, hopes more desperately, and loves more openly.

10/03/2025

10/02/2025

Yes, ashes can be divided up in urns. This choice often varies by family and religious beliefs. We are happy to comply with whatever decision family members arrive at and of course, we are here to help along the way.

09/30/2025

Who do you remember being the hardest worker? How do you want to be remembered?

09/28/2025

When we experience a death, a funeral service helps fill several needs that begin the healing process. Take a deeper look into these needs to see how funerals help us in our grief.

09/26/2025

Grief is often unseen and therefore can be a very lonely journey. Remember, we are always here for support.

09/25/2025

Elsie Marie (Wait) Cox was born on October 24, 1934, on the family farm west of Campo, Colorado to Edward and Anna Wait. Elsie passed away on September 23, 2025 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She was 90 years old.

Visitation will be on Thursday, October 2, 2025 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Maltbie Funeral Services Chapel, located at 265 W. 8th Avenue, Springfield, Colorado.

A Graveside Service will be held on Friday, October 3, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. at the Campo Cemetery, Campo, Colorado.

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09/24/2025

A grief poem by Rudyard Kipling we thought may be helpful today --

For a season there must be pain -
For a little, little space
I shall lose the sight of her face,
Take back the old life again
While She is at rest in the place.
For a season this pain must endure,
For a little, little while
I shall sigh more often than smile
Till Time shall work me a cure,
And the pitiful days beguile.
For that season we must be apart,
For a little length of years,
Till my life's last hour nears,
And, above the beat of my heart,
I hear Her voice in my ears.
But I shall not understand -
Being set on some later love,
Shall not know her for whom I strove,
Till she reach me forth her hand,
Saying, "Who but I have the right?"
And out of a troubled night
Shall draw me safe to the land.

09/21/2025

DID YOU KNOW? From earliest recorded history, people have been acknowledging death via ceremonies. Sociologists, anthropologists and counselors generally believe that humans have a deep need to mourn after a death.