Hannelore Lisa Humphrey

On January 17, 2025, at the age of 86, our beloved mother, Hannelore Lisa Humphrey, slipped away peacefully after months of courageously battling diabetes, congestive heart failure and peripheral vascular disease. As a family, we were gifted with special moments during her last weeks and were able to share all that was in our hearts and special moments. While today is difficult, we find solace in knowing that she is no longer suffering and that we will see her again in heaven. A TIME TO REMEMBER: Lore was born on October 17, 1938, in Nurnberg, Germany to Anni and Theodor Ehrenreich. She was the middle child and was preceded in death by her parents as well as her two brothers, Helmut and Dieter. All her extended family still live in Germany. Following high school, she attended nursing school in Bavaria. Shortly after, she moved to Grafenwöhr, Germany to become a neo-natal nurse, where at the base hospital she met and fell in love with the love of her life, Bob. He was an army medic, at this Grafenwöhr US army military installation and training area. In 1960, Lore and Bob married and moved soon after to the Burbank, California area, where Lore’s aunt from Berlin had settled a few years prior. Bob worked for Lockheed Aerospace for more than 30 years. Upon retirement, they moved to Severance, Colorado to be near Steve’s family. Lore would recall the difficulty of coming to a new country with its new ways and language. The ladies at their first little church near Burbank became her new family which she so missed in Germany. There was also the emotional trauma of having lived through the WWII bombings of Nurnberg and fleeing to the countryside to a large farmhouse with blacked out windows and some 15 other people taking refuge in it. The house was offered to them from a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church her family attended in Nurnberg. She never really knew her father, who was believed to have been killed on the Russian front. He never returned and was determined MIA. And so, it was a special comfort to have her German aunt in California help her acclimate to America. Over the years, Lore was on a visitation team to shut-ins from La Crescenta First Baptist Church and involved in a women’s Missionary Circle writing letters and sending care packages to missionaries abroad. She was blessed in her later years by fellowship with a sweet group of women in the Northern Colorado area. Lore always loved the little ones, and her family became her life. She especially enjoyed each grandchild and great grandchild as they came along. Always being a homemaker, Lore provided much consistency and support to her husband and children all those years. Lore leaves behind her three children, Karen Yonkers, Carla Tueffert and Steve Humphrey and his wife, Christine. She loved and was loved by her 7 grandchildren: Jake (Jamie), Kyle and Aimee Tueffert; Adam (Heather), Andrew (Tori) and Aaron (Katie)Yonkers; and David Humphrey) as well as 8 great grandchildren. Job 19:25-27 “I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!” Until we see you again… Karen, Carla, Steve and Christine

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Hannelore Lisa Humphrey

October 17, 1938 - January 17, 2025