Dora Candelaria Crandall was born on January 15, 1943 to Saturnino and Luisa Candelaria in Mancos, Colorado.
She was one of seventeen children. Dora attended and graduated from Montezuma High School in Cortez, Colorado in 1961.
She came to Denver and worked various jobs, met and married Kenneth Crandall.
Dora is preceded in death by her husband and two sons, Matthew and Donald, her parents and many of her older siblings.
She is survived by sons Wade and Billy, four grandchildren and one great granddaughter. Also surviving are brother Porferio, sisters Mary, Lydia and numerous nieces and nephews.