Obituaries

Local obituaries for the Boulder, CO

Alice Byrd

Alice Byrd

Mar 1, 2014

Alice Byrd, beloved mother, grandmother, and friend passed away on March 1, 2014. Alice Wilhelmina Anna Priesmeyer Byrd was born September 10. 1913 in Yoakum, Texas. Alice celebrated her 100th birthday this past September. Her parents Henry and Clara Priesmeyer owned a general store which became Priesmeyer's Department Store of Garwood, Texas. Alice and her brothers, Edward, Frederick, and William...

David Ramroth

David Ramroth

Feb 19, 2014

David Nelson Ramroth was born July 4, 1952 in Troy, NY and passed away recently in Boulder, CO. He was raised in Seattle, WA, Huntsville, AL and North Ogden, UT. He received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from Whitman College and Masters of Zoology from the University of Maine. He worked as a scientific writer in the medical and...

Barbara Kosenski

Barbara Kosenski

Feb 16, 2014

Barbara Anne Kosenski, 79, of Lafayette, CO, died Sunday. She was born in Chicago, IL, on August 9, 1934. She attended the University of Illinois and the College of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. She married her husband, John Kosenski, on May 3, 1958. They lived in the Boulder area for 40 years. Barbara was the mother of 10. She...

Anna Scott

Anna Scott

Feb 11, 2014

Anna Wessinger Scott, 63, of Louisville, Colorado passed away on February, 11, 2014 in Boulder, Colorado. Anna was born on August 18, 1950 in Thomasville, North Carolina to Charles and Alice Wessinger. She earned a BS degree in Sociology from Duke University and a MSW in Social Work from the University of South Carolina. On June 10, 1972 Anna and...

Harold Reagin

Harold Reagin

Feb 11, 2014

Harold Gene Reagin, 76, of Boulder, Colorado passed away on February 11, 2014 in Boulder. Gene was born on June 17, 1937 in Prague, Oklahoma to Lloyd and Ruby Reagin. Gene retired after a long career as an entrepreneur. Gene and Nora Charlene were married on January 13, 1955 in Dennison, Texas. Gene is survived by his wife; children, Tracy...

Nancy Gallagher

Nancy Gallagher

Jan 25, 2014

The Matriarch of the Gallagher family, Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher (Popst), passed away peacefully with family by her side on January 25, 2014. Nancy’s amazing life started in the beautiful mining town of Fairplay, Colorado on May 23, 1934 as the sixth daughter of William (Bill) Popst and Emelia Popst (Schnurbusch). Nancy moved to Boulder in 1941 onto 1010 Lincoln with...

Dorothy Sidney

Dorothy Sidney

Jan 15, 2014

Dorothy M. Sidney passed on peacefully at home on January 15, 2014 at the age of 93. Dorothy met her husband, Ed Sidney, in Chicago, which began a wonderful 75 year life together. Dorothy raised a close knit family of four children, Mike Sidney (Karen), Kathy Sidney (Scott Sarbaugh), Scott Sidney (Karin), Jane St. Germain (Will ) which is a...

William Hammond

William Hammond

Jan 9, 2014

William Mac Hammond, 89, of Boulder passed away on January 9, 2014. William was born to Jack and Pauline Hammond on June 19, 1924 in Indianapolis, Indiana. On May 19, 1951 William and Catherine Crampton were married in Indianapolis. William graduated from Purdue University and worked for IBM for many years. After serving in World War II William received an...

Peter "Piper" Wyckoff

Peter "Piper" Wyckoff

Dec 30, 2013

Piper Warner Wyckoff, 45, of Louisville, Colorado passed away on December 30, 2013 while vacationing with his family in Cancun, Mexico. Piper was born on July 2, 1968 in Buffalo, New York to Margot Rumsey Banta and Peter Goodyear Wyckoff. Piper graduated from high school at Avon Old Farms School and graduated from college at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs,...

Glen Rosenkrantz

Glen Rosenkrantz

Dec 16, 2013

Glen Rosenkrantz, age 65, died on December 16, 2013. Born April 23, 1948 in New York, NY. He moved to Colorado in 1980. He started working for Fashion Bar and rose to the position of Vice President. He was an avid Brooklyn Dodgers fan, enjoyed sports history and memorabilia, reading and hanging out. He is survived by his mother, Iris...

Ferdinand Perz

Ferdinand Perz

Dec 13, 2013

Ferdinand Perz, 91, died on December 13, 2013, in Boulder, Colorado. He was born on December 16, 1921 in Yugoslavia, now called Slovenia. He fought in the German army on the Russian front, where he cunningly survived a firing squad execution. After WWII, with his family’s homeland lost, he immigrated to New York in 1950. He worked as an aerospace...

Diana  Aldridge

Diana Aldridge

Dec 13, 2013

Diana Aldridge, age 62, longtime resident of her hometown Boulder as well as Washington DC and New York City, passed away on December 13. A graduate of the University of Colorado, Diana put her well-known and highly respected communications talents to work on a range of major public policy issues and causes, as well as providing communications advice to prominent...