Jennie E Trujillo

Balerio on January 28 1932 in Alamosa Colorado.

Our Beloved Sister and Aunt passed away at her home surrounded by family November 26 2022 at the age of 90. Jennie discovered her work ethic working the farm fields with her siblings and continued through out her adult life. Jennie was generous when she saw someone in need or a worthy organization she gave helping family and friends and less fortunate.

In 1948 at the age of 16 the Balerio family moved to Grand Junction. Jennie attended Mesa college nursing program and received her LPN license it is during that time she met her beloved husband Simon Trujillo they married in 1954. She started her career in nursing in 1955 and retired from Grand Junction Community Hospital in 1983. Jennie participated in St Joseph Spanish Choir and was an Eucharistic Minister. She loved gardening and canning. She would share her famous red chili at her family and church functions most of all she loved her nephews and nieces.

Jennie is survived by her sisters Esther Lujan and Marcella (Mike) Vasquez Brother in law Clyde Arguello Nephews Gary Lujan, Ron Campbell, and Michael Vasquez; nieces Vivian Lujan, Makayla Patrick, Valerie Vasquez, and Ashlee Lujan and several great nieces and great nephews.

She is preceded in death by her father and mother Henry and Evangeline Balerio, brother Joe Balerio sisters Vicki Martinez Margret Balerio, Kathy Arugello and Brothers in law Joe (Sliver) Martinez and Lee Lujan, and nephews Kenneth Gomez and Joseph Sanchez.

Visitation and Rosary will be held on Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 5:00 PM, at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary, 2515 Patterson Rd. Grand Junction, CO 81505. Funeral Mass Monday, December 19, 2022, 10:00 AM, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 230 N. 3rd St, Grand Junction, CO 81501. Interment 1:00 Pm, at Veteran's Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado, 2830 Riverside Pkwy, Grand Junction, CO 81501, Reception 2:00 at St. Joseph Catholic Church.

Special thanks to Abode Hospice Columbine home health care and Angela Robbinette.

Safely Home

I am home in heaven, dear ones, Oh, so happy and so bright! There is perfect joy and beauty In this everlasting light. All the pain and grief is over, Every restless tossing passed. I am now at peace forever, Safely home in heaven at last. There is still work waiting for you, So you must not idly stand. Do it now, while life remaineth, You shall rest in God’s own land. When that work is all completed, He will gently call you home. Ah, the rapture of that meeting, Oh, the joy to see you come!