Laura Jean Scheuch (nee Toothaker) of Loveland, Co died peaceably at hospice, age 100 years, nine hours and 45 minutes. She was born to Everett C. Toothaker and Pearl E. (Fahrney) Toothaker in an Ash Mesa farm house, near Montrose, Colorado. The Everett Toothaker family migrated to the region from Missouri by wagon in the early 1900s. The Pearl Fahrney family also arrived there at that time from Nebraska. Everett and Pearl married in 1914, moving to Delta, CO a year after Laura Jean’s birth. The family lived there throughout Laura Jean’s school years, including graduation from Delta High School in 1935. (Early American pioneers, the Toothakers emigrated from England to New York aboard the sailing ship Hopewell in 1635. The family settled in Northwestern Maine near the New Hampshire border, where they established a potato farm along with other small enterprises. Several landmarks in Maine still carry the family name, notably Toothaker Island, Toothaker Creek, Toothaker Road and Toothaker Pond. The Fahrney side of the family emigrated from Germany in 1726, settling in Pennsylvania to establish a medical practice.) After High School, Laura Jean attended business college in Colorado Springs at the height of the Great Depression. She met and married Henry Calvin Mallett in June 1936. Calvin was one of three sons of a Texas/Oklahoma border family that lost their ranch during the depression and dust bowl, working as migrants in California, including time as field hands, until settling permanently on a small Montrose vegetable/berry farm bordering the Uncompaghre River.     Typical of many Depression-era families, Jean and Calvin worked at many jobs for several years, including beet factories, surveying, construction, clerking and secretarial. During these years, Laura gave birth to three sons, Ronald, Terry and Travis, all born at home in Delta. A fourth son, Douglas, was born in Long Beach, California, where the family relocated at the start of WWII. Calvin worked as a welding foreman repairing battleships until war’s end in 1945, then returning to Colorado and living in a rental unit in her parents’ Delta home.    Jobs were scarce as millions of servicemen returned home from the war, so the Malletts crossed the mountains to a Cherry Creek farm south of Denver in late 1948. Calvin took up roofing as a sideline, leading to full time self-employment when he landed a contract to service all roofing jobs sold by Montgomery Ward Company from their South Broadway facility in Denver. The family business, begun in 1949, survives to this day under stewardship of Douglas. Jean worked largely as a farm wife and mother, but became a "Rosie the Riveter” building bazooka mortar shells during the Korean War at a Littleton, CO munitions plant.     The family lost the Cherry Creek farm to eminent domain when the Army Corps of Engineers took it to build Cherry Creek Dam, and moved to a small rural property now part of South Aurora, CO.      Jean and Calvin divorced in 1959. She worked several years as an executive secretary, and married Lloyd W. Sheuch of Denver, a World War II decorated veteran, in 1966. Lloyd and Laura Jean lived in Lakewood for many years, while he worked for the Union Pacific Railway installing and maintaining a company-wide communications network. As the holder of a rare First Class Radio License, Lloyd pioneered a radio network linking all on-track engineers and trains on the country-wide system to a central headquarters communications control operation.     The Scheuchs moved to Loveland in 2001. Throughout her 80s and 90s, Laura Jean regularly attended services at Galilee Baptist church. In addition to a lifelong love for singing and writing, she pursued interests in ceramics, sewing, knitting, gardening and cooking. A true Pioneering Spirit stayed with her throughout her 100 years of life, and she continued to live at home, independently and actively to the end.     She was preceded in death by her parents, both husbands, a sister Maxine Thomas, son Walter Travis Mallett and one granddaughter, Donna. She is survived by sons and daughter-in-laws Ronald (Pat), Terence (Frances), Douglas (Charlotte) and Walter’s widow Carol. Laura Jean’s legacy included10 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and 14 great-great grandchildren.  A funeral service will be held at Viegut Funeral Home on February 2, 2018 at 11:00am with interment at Loveland Burial Park. A reception will follow burial at the Viegut Reception Center.