Milton Limbert Remembered

By Michael Bromka

Less than three days after arriving at Lovington Healthcare Hospice, Milton Limbert passed away quietly in the early morning of Sunday, May 18, 2025. He’d been born Wednesday, September 15, 1948, in Carlsbad to Martha and Louis Limbert.

Milton’s father and mother’s forebears hailed from Greece. With no Christian Orthodox Church in Carlsbad, Milton served as altar boy at Grace Episcopal.

Due to his parents’ long separation, his boyhood was mostly fatherless. For manly guidance, he appreciated brother, George, eight years his senior. Milton’s devotion to and care for their mother, Martha, was lifelong unto her death in 2012 at age 101.

Milton served in the U.S. Army, training at Fort Bliss, TX, and mustering out from Fort Sill, OK, plus deployment for a year in Vietnam. There, he launched weather balloons and took wind readings.

Despite being short and shy, Milton was grateful for women who befriended him during those Army years.

Milton attended both NMSU-Carlsbad and the main campus in Las Cruces but stopped short of a degree. In Carlsbad, he worked in food service. He slung burgers for Cavern Supply, and in town, he did prep plus waited tables at the Court Cafe for brother, George, and sister-in-law, Mary Limbert.

After his mother’s death, Milton delivered newspapers both for Current-Argus and Carlsbad Local. His most recent employment was sweeping and mopping at Lakeview Christian Home. He enjoyed staff camaraderie there but griped about gaining weight from frequently proffered baked goods.

At home, Milton solved crossword and jigsaw puzzles. Longterm hobbies were dumpster diving for salvaged treasure, yard work, and recycling aluminum. Prior to health challenges, he would hike three miles several times per week up and down the hills behind the university.

Cognitive challenges plus Parkinson’s disease led to a cane, rollator, and then wheelchair. As funding allowed, he attended physical therapy, with fond memories of Kelli Elwell.

In his salty musings about American public life, he prized generosity and honesty and disdained bullies and blowhards.

Milton’s favorite eateries included Blue House, Yellow Brix, Tokyo, Aquino’s, and the delis of La Tienda and Albertsons. On holidays in recent years, he enjoyed fellowship and good food at North Mesa Senior Center, Alejandro Ruiz Senior Center, Pilgrim Rest Baptist, Sunset Church of Christ, and with Carlsbad’s Low Vision Support Group at Church Street Church of the Nazarene.

Among friends he’s been grateful to are Homer Freeman, Lázara Reyes, Yolanda Jimenez, Ann Halford, and the great Britains of Blue House—Stacey, Tina, Dustin, and Chelsea.

Throughout his bachelor’s life, Milton was a kindly and respectful admirer of women.

Above: Milton in 2015. Below: Milton with Christy Thomas and Vickie Connolly at Stevens Inn, November 2014.