Obituaries
Edith Swanson
Nov 28, 2020
Edith Cora Rogers Swanson July 26, 1933-November 28, 2020 Edith Cora Rogers Swanson, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother passed away on November 28, 2020, at Covenant Living, Westminster, CO. She was born on July 26, 1933, in Dubuque, IA to Albert L. Rogers and Lydia Albrecht Rogers. Edith attended Rapid City High School in Rapid City, SD. Always one to love...
Phyllis Hansen
Nov 17, 2020
Phyllis was born and raised in Tennessee and attended Blue Mountain College in Mississippi majoring in music. She went on to live and work in Georgia for a while before returning to Tennessee, where she met her future husband, Vance, at Dyersburg Army Air Base. He was the love of her life for 56 years. She and Vance, a former...
Jay Reed
Nov 15, 2020
On November 15th, 2020, Jay Edmond Reed, a loving husband and father of two, passed away at the age of 70 from complications stemming from an aortic aneurysm. He was born on February 4, 1950, on an American air base just outside Wiesbaden, Germany to Jason & Jean (Rhine) Reed. Raised in Colorado Springs, Jay graduated from Mitchell High School...
Lydia Brody
Nov 14, 2020
Lydia Brody, a Boulder artist, died on Nov. 14, 2020. She Was 75 years old. Lydia was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, to parents who had fled Berlin Germany the year that Hitler came to power. Lydia studied at the Alliance Francaise in Tel-Aviv, and then the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem. She then went to Paris, France and studied...
Jason Buehler
Nov 6, 2020
From creating and sipping award winning beer to climbing Fourteeners, Jason loved adventure. He passed away November 6, 2020 from injuries suffered in Colorado’s Maroon Bells while hiking the Traverse between Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak. Born October 25, 1977 to Jim and Judy Buehler in Holmes County, Ohio, Jason attended West Holmes County High School in Millersburg, OH....
Fred B. Fead Jr.
Oct 27, 2020
Fred Bingham Fead Jr. (1929-2020) was a quiet, self-confident, and determined man who like to do things his own way. A kind and gentle soul with a sharp mind and a big heart, he always believed he had been born under a lucky star. He was the third of four siblings [Emilie Nell Fead LePla (1922-2004); Katherine Louise “Kathie” Fead...
John R. Hoffman Jr.
Oct 25, 2020
John R. “Boots” Hoffman, Jr. of Boulder died on October 25, 2020, at his residence. Born on August 16, 1943, to John R. Hoffman, Sr. and Lois Muench, John grew up in Louisville, KY. Following High School, John served in the U.S. Navy as a Hospital Corpsman from 1968 to 1970 where he spent 9 months in Vietnam with the...
Forrest Andrew Carhartt
Oct 23, 2020
Andy, as he was known, passed away quietly at the Flatirons Health and Rehab Center in Louisville, CO on October 23 while recovering from an earlier fall this year in his home. He was 97 years old. Born in Denver, CO, his education and working life spanned New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, MO and finally back...
Richard Roth
Oct 23, 2020
Richard Lewis Roth was born in New York City (the Bronx) in 1936. In 1947, when he was 11, the family moved to Tucson, Arizona, then a small city in the middle of the desert. He graduated first in his class of 1000 from Tucson High School in 1954. His interest in higher mathematics began in high school. Harvard was...
Coila Maphis
Oct 11, 2020
Coila Joy Maphis Coila Joy Maphis has moved on to a better place where there is only love and peace. She was one of a kind, a real “Treasure” to her family, a special lady, a unique combination of intelligence, integrity, compassion, including 24/7 essential family guidance - her family was her life. Her beauty was so passionately true on...
George Bittler
Oct 8, 2020
George Bittler of Broomfield,70, died Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. Arrangements for a celebration of George’s life are pending.
Carol Dupree
Oct 5, 2020
Carol J. Dupree, 79, of Lafayette, died Monday Oct. 5, 2020 at Good Samaritan Health Care Center. Private family graveside services will be held at Coal Creek Cemetery in Lafayette, CO. She was born Oct. 18, 1940, in Sutton, WV to William P. & Jenny Lee (Bly). A graduate of Sutton High School, she married Carl Dupree on April 24,...
Jennifer Fligg
Sep 20, 2020
When Jennifer Fligg passed away on September 20, she left behind her grieving boyfriend John who planned to propose to her on October 31. Beyond her love of the ocean, summer, and playtime with her nieces, she leaves her family members – parents Donna and William L. Fligg Jr, brother, Tommy, sister-in-law, Alexandra and nieces Cali and Laney. Grandparents William...
Edward Cohrs
Sep 11, 2020
Edward J. Cohrs, a Louisville resident for over 25 years, left this life on Friday, September 11, 2020, at UC Health Anschutz, following a nine-year battle with multiple myeloma. He was 67 years old. Born July 23, 1953, in Cedar Rapids, IA, he was the eldest son of Jack and Betty Jean Cohrs. Eddie grew up in towns throughout the...
Bohdan Kurylko
Sep 2, 2020
Bohdan Kurylko was born in Lviv, Ukraine, in 1928, to Joseph and Anna (Udud) Kurylko. He and his younger brother Lubomyr attended school in Lviv until 1941, when their father, Joseph, was executed by the NKVD; shortly thereafter, Anna and her two sons left Ukraine for Austria. The boys continued their schooling throughout the war first in Vienna, then in...
Ann Shaffer
Aug 22, 2020
Ann Shaffer tribute Ann Shaffer, former long-time resident of Boulder, Colo., died Aug. 20, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. Ann Lucille Marnell was born April 5, 1919 in St. Joseph, Missouri, the youngest of eight children, to Irish immigrants John Marnell and Nellie Toohey Marnell. She was proud of her 100 percent Irish heritage, and was able to visit Cork, Ireland...
Jay Goldstein
Aug 13, 2020
Jay Edward Goldstein, 74, passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 13, 2020, in his home in Boulder, surrounded by his loving family after a hard-fought battle with cancer. Jay was born on January 7, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York to the late Harry and Birdie Goldstein. He was the youngest of two children. Jay very proudly served in the US...
Timothy Lee Schmitz
Aug 11, 2020
Timothy Schmitz passed away peacefully in Lafayette, Colorado on August 11th, 2020 at the age of 67 years. Tim is preceded in death by his father. He is survived by his mother Leona Schmitz, and five children; Cecilia Schmitz, Nathan Schmitz, Aaron Schmitz, Patrick Schmitz, Julie (husband Todd) Krommenhoek, his siblings Tom Schmitz, Julie Jensen, and Roxie Chocholousek, and two...
William G. Hofgard
Jul 30, 2020
Long-time Boulder community member William Glenn “Bill” Hofgard died July 30, 2020, of natural causes. He was 88. Bill was born Nov. 13, 1931, in Scottsbluff, Neb. to W. Sidney Hofgard and G. Pearl Hofgard. He graduated from Scottsbluff High School and attended Scottsbluff Junior College before going on to receive a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University...
Geraldine Kowalczyk
Jul 4, 2020
Geraldine Ann Kowalczyk (née Johnson), 88, of Boulder, and in recent years, of International Falls, MN died on July 4, 2020, at AltaVita Memory Care Centre in Longmont, Colorado. She will be interred beside her husband of 27 years, Michael Richard Kowalczyk, at the National Cemetery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A celebration of her life will be held at...
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