Durango put itself on the map again Thursday, registering the first baby of 2015 in Colorado – a girl at Mercy Regional Medical Center.
Evelyn Rose Gosney was born at 12:02 a.m., edging out, according to the Fox television affiliate in Denver, a girl born in Denver at 12:14 a.m. and a girl born in Pueblo at 4:24 a.m. Mother and newborn daughter are doing fine.
If she had arrived a few minutes earlier, Evelyn Rose would have displaced still another girl, Tiegan Colliander, who had been waiting since early Wednesday to be recognized as Mercy’s last baby of 2014.
Evelyn Rose was 18½ inches long and weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce. She was named for her paternal grandmother, who died two years ago at age 101.
Parents Kira and Rayburn on Gosney arrived at Mercy Wednesday evening because they knew the birth was near.
The Gosneys were accompanied by grandparents Don and Kellie Gosney and Georgia and Dave Anderson and Rayburn Gosney’s mother, Becky Gosney.
The Gosney family goes way back in the Pine River Valley, with Evelyn Rose becoming the fifth generation in the Bayfield region.
The name Evelyn derives from the French name Aveline and means “wished for child.”
Kira and Rayburn Gosney – he’s 39, she’s 38 – have three other children – Grayson, 13; Carter, 9; and Rayburn II, 21 months.
Rayburn Gosney works in the Gosney and Sons oil and gas operations. Kira Gosney is with Momentum 24/7 Fitness at gyms in Bayfield and Pagosa Springs.
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