Gerri Price

PRICE, GERRI -- Services are scheduled for 10:00 A.M., Tuesday, November 27, 2007, at LaGrone Funeral Chapel, for Gerri Lynn Price, age 31, of Roswell, who passed away November 22, 2007 at Eastern New Mexico Medical Center. Rev. Ben Tally of Calvary Baptist Church will conduct the service. Interment will follow at South Park Cemetery.

Gerri was born January 21, 1976 in Roswell. Although Gerri was born with life challenging disabilities, she never let her cerebral palsy stop her feisty spirit.

Gerri is survived by her parents, Steve and Bonnie Ranft of Roswell, Grandparents; Christine and Lowell Hughes of Roswell, her Aunts Sharan K Martinez and Diane L. Hamm both of Roswell, and Great Aunts and Uncle; Faye Bullock of Forest, Virginia, Dean Stanfield, Pete and Maudean Blagg all of Lubbock, TX. Her extended family, all the Cheatem kids and their families and numerous second and third cousins and all the people she met along the way.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents, J. T. Jimmie and Winona Lynn-Bruce, E. R. Gene Bruce, Grandfather Allen Ranft, and uncle, Phillip Ranft, Great Grandparents, numerous great aunts and uncles, her extended family parents, Conrad and Betty Cheatem, and her companion cat, Alf.

Gerri attended the Roswell Public Schools Special Ed Program and graduated from University High Special Ed Program in 1998.

She was an unconventional young lady who enjoyed life to the fullest. She always had a ready smile and loved to laugh. She enjoyed cruising garage sales, watching TV, game shows and sit-coms, looking at catalogs, listening to up-beat rockn roll, and going for car rides. She loved eating out, especially Chicken McNuggets, and had her favorite table at Martins Capital Caf where she could watch people come and go. She loved being involved in everything. She loved shopping, dancing, horse-back riding, going for walks, and participated in Special Olympics where she won many ribbons and medals. Although, she became wheel-chair bound, she remained active through the Tobosa Development Program where she volunteered at the Animal Refuge, St. Peters, Elianza, Casa Maria, Mission Arch, Los Positos, and baked cookies at the Boys and Girls Club.

Her family wishes to thank the Roswell Police and Fire Departments, Paramedics and EMTs for their prompt response and their caring and professional attitudes. They also wish to thank the staff and Carrie Flury PA-C, and Dr. Karen Vaillant M.D. at La Familia for their care and compassion for Gerri during the last year. Most of all they wish to thank all of her friends at Tobosa who cared for her and loved her as much as they do.

Also, they wish to thank all the people Gerri had contact with out in the community who made her life richer.
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