Other Hats Q&A | Assistant Minority Leader Ty Winter talks running a funeral home and the family ranch
Assistant Minority Leader Ty Winter, R-Trinidad, operates his family’s third-generation funeral home and helps his brother with their fourth-generation ranch just outside Trinidad. Before his election to the state House, he served as chairman of the Las Animas County Republican Party. He was elected Assistant Minority Leader during the 2024 session.
Winter’s grandfather lost his mother as a child and was taken in by the Mullare family, who owned the Mullare-Murphy funeral home. According to Winter, his grandfather started working at the house when he was about 13, and when the Mullares passed away, he and his wife took over and raised their family there. In the 1980s, Winter’s grandfather became ill and stepped away from the business. Still, community members asked him to return, so when he recovered in the late 1980s, he reopened the company with his daughter, Winter’s mother.
