Colorado College Bulletin

Obituaries  

Anna Hitchcock Overocker ’24, Bakersfield, Calif., Aug. 5, 1999. Anna was a retired high school teacher. 

Kathryn Lace ’27, Lakewood, Colo., Dec. 15. She was a retired educator. Survivors include her great-niece, Jean Carbutt ’01. 

Isabelle Patterson Workman ’27, Granite Bay, Calif., Dec. 15. 

Dorothy Rose Donahue ’29, Colorado Springs, June 7. A Colorado Springs native, Dorothy was a teacher, realtor, and owner of Airport Limo Services and Mount Vernon Hotel. 

Elizabeth Morgan Phelps ’29, Colorado Springs, April 6. Elizabeth retired from CC after working for 23 years at the bookstore. 

Margaret Bissonnette Banuat ’30, Concord, Calif., Feb. 18, 1999. 

Opal Barrett Hathaway ’30, Arvada, Colo., May 19. Opal was a retired teacher. 

Mary McConnell Johnson ’30, Colorado Springs, May 9. Mary was a librarian with School District 11 for 38 years. 

Velma Rose Bullard ’32, Las Cruces, N.M., Jan. 2. Velma was a homemaker and school teacher. 

Lyle F. Jones ’33, Anchorage, Alaska, March 21. Lyle was an engineer with the Department of the Interior of the Bureau of Land Management. He retired in 1973 as chief of the Division of Technical Services. Before retiring, he initiated the survey of the 104 million acres granted to the state under the Alaska Statehood Act. 

Walter Knodel ’33, San Diego, June 7. After retiring, Walter was appointed first advisor to the mayor of San Diego’s Senior Citizen’s Advisory Commission. He was a proud member of the Westerners, a volunteer organization dedicated to the preservation of Western legacies. Survivors include his wife, Marjorie. 

Daniel Santry ’33, Sun City, Ariz., May 15. Survivors include his wife, Inez. 

Martha Keene Taylor ’33, Denver, April 7. 

Willis E. Parkinson ’36, Glenwood Springs, Colo., Feb. 5, 1999. Willis practiced law in Glenwood Springs for 40 years. Survivors include his wife, Ruth. 

Philip H. Reilly ’36, Menlo Park, Calif., May 17, 1999. Phil and his wife, Pauline, taught dance classes for children and adults in the mid-peninsula area from 1955 until their retirement in 1996. 

Arnold C. Kimmell ’40, Aurora, Colo., April 18. Arnold retired from the First National Bank of Denver. He was preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth Copeland Kimmell ’39. 

John B. Griffith ’41, Englewood, Colo., May 2. John was a retired physician. He was preceded in death by his wife, Enid Moore Griffith ’44. 

Mary McElwain Johnson ’41, Colorado Springs, April 12. Mary retired after 42 years with Mountain Bell. 

Emilie “MiMi” Buka Tescher ’41, Englewood, Colo., June 9. Mimi was a former teacher and real estate broker. Survivors include her daughter, Carol Nowels Wright ’66. 

Cecil V. Bishop ’42, Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 20. Cecil was an avid motorcyclist and member of the Tacoma Yacht Club and House Boat Yacht Club. Survivors include his wife, Betty Newell Bishop ’43. 

Robert C. Tallmadge ’42, Mesa, Ariz., April 10. Robert retired in 1987 as a municipal bond attorney. He was an avid reader and an orator of Denver history. Survivors include his wife, Doris. 

Robert Lennox ’43, Colorado Springs, June 22. He was a HUD real estate specialist. 

John “Jack” Lee ’44, Colorado Springs, May 18. Jack was an active alumnus, serving on numerous reunion planning committees. He was a development volunteer, a class agent volunteer, and had served on the National Alumni Council. He was active in the Fifty Year Club and had been serving as a vice president at the time of his death.  Survivors include his wife, Amy. 

Jane Galligan Hard ’45, Oriental, N.C., June 12. She was a devoted wife and mother. Survivors include her husband, William. 

Diana Demarest Mitcheltree ’45, Golden, Colo., May 28. She was a docent with the Denver Zoo and a naturalist with Roxborough State Park. 

Susan McPhee Mahony ’46, Denver, August. Susan was a volunteer for St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary, the Denver Dental Society Auxiliary and the Goodwill Society. 

Willard Millikan ’48, Littleton, Colo., July 7. Willard was a petroleum geologist. Survivors include his wife, Gloria Bradley Millikan ’49. 

Allen L. Kelly ’49, Denver, April 9. Allen retired as a teacher from Denver Public Schools in 1981 after 28 years. Survivors include his wife, Virginia. 

Weldon “Jeff” Grinnan ’50, Santa Maria, Calif., March 17. Jeff worked for 30 years in petroleum exploration and in aerospace technical management and administration. Survivors include his longtime companion, Libbie Beardsley. 

Frances Kapelke Haynes ’50, Lakewood, Colo., June 14. Frances was a homemaker and artist. She is survived by her husband, Robert G., and son, Robert E. Haynes ’73. 

Wilma Fite Newcomer ’50, Cheyenne, Wyo., July 3. Wilma was a former assistant registrar at Colorado College. 

Harry Whitworth ’50, Sun City, Ariz., April 8. Harry was a teacher, coach and administrator at District 11 in Colorado Springs. He played hockey while attending CC and was inducted into CC’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998 with the other members of the 1950 NCAA National Championship team. Survivors include his wife, Maxine. 

Jack A. Wellmerling ’51, Worthington, Ohio, Aug. 7. Jack retired in 1985 as a sales representative with Dupont Corporation, where he had worked for 30 years. Survivors include his wife, Marjorie. 

Betty Wright ’51, Corsicana, Texas, July 19, 1999. Survivors include her niece, Anna Blackford Zier ’73.  

Marsha Sehm ’52, Bellevue, Wash., Feb. 23. Marsha was an avid skier, hiker and camper. 

James A. Weir ’54, Calgary, Alberta, March 16. Survivors include his wife, Mabel. 

William R. Entrikin ’55, Sun City, Ariz., June 18. William was retired from North American Aviation. Survivors include his wife, Emily. 

Jody Shattuck Kisselburg Hill ’56, Denver, May 12. Jody was an anthropologist, an accomplished pianist and a painter. 

Richard “Dick” McGhee ’58, Parksville, British Columbia, March 8. Dick worked in the oil and gas industry in Calgary for 26 years. Survivors include his wife, Jocelyn. 

Robert Novak ’58, Colorado Springs, May 4. 

William F. Savage ’58, Sun River, Ore., Sept. 8, 1998. William retired from Eastman Kodak Co. 

Lynn Brown Culver ’59, Wichita, Kan., July 9, 1999. Survivors include her husband, Joe. 

Frances Trotter Welch ’61, Short Hills, N.J., May 25. Survivors include her husband, Richard Welch ’60, sister, Barbara Trotter Weiskopf ’54, and brother-in-law, Gilbert Weiskopf ’53.  

Alexander Yankovich ’63, Belfountain, Ontario, Jan 1. Alex was chairman of Canusa Capital Corp. Survivors include his wife, Kathy Clark Yankovich ’63. 

Caroline Jacobson-May ’64, Santa Cruz, Calif., June 23. Carrie was an artist and a career volunteer for CC and had just attended CC’s Tour Choir Reunion held in the spring. She co-founded the now-popular Capitola Art and Wine Festival in 1983 and was the artist coordinator up until her passing. She volunteered many hours for the arts and was currently serving as president of the Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild. Survivors include her husband, Dan. 

Michael Denson ’68, Lakewood, Colo., June 23. Michael was a computer sales representative. 

Claire Wuebbold Kratz MAT ’68, Colorado Springs, May 31. Claire was retired from  teaching and was a cellist in the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra. Survivors include her husband, Thomas. 

Anna Waltemade Partridge ’68, Walnut Creek, Calif., June 10, 1999. 

Richard Lewis ’75, Breckenridge, Colo., died suddenly on July 24. Richard was an ophthalmologist. Survivors include his wife, Wendy, his mother, Estelle ’71, and brother, James ’74. He was preceded in death by his brother, Robert ’80. Gifts in his memory may be made to the Richard Lewis Memorial Fund, Development Office, Colorado College, 14 E. Cache La Poudre, Colorado Springs, CO 80903. 

W. Mark Harty ’84, Los Angeles, Calif., April 26, in an automobile accident. Mark was working in San Francisco as a design engineer at EcoMat, a start-up company doing water purification engineering and systems design. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Janello ’87. 

R. Samuel Liesching ’87, Washington, D.C., May 9. Survivors include his wife, Angela, and newborn son. 

Kenneth “Gene” Lawrence ’90, Littleton, Colo., Sept. 25, 1998.  

FRIENDS

John O. Fundingslund, Colorado Springs, April 12. John taught chorale music at CC from 1946 until 1951. After 1951, he was a self-taught, self-employed engineer, inventor and photographer. Survivors include his wife, Gladys. 

Varina “Marka” Webb Stewart, May 25, 2000. Marka was the great-granddaughter of Jefferson Davis, and the widow of John W. Stewart, a trustee of Colorado College from 1962 to 1968. Her first husband, Gerald Bennett ’23, preceded her in death.  They had two children, Gerald W. Bennett ’48 and Charles F. Bennett ’54.  She also had step-children, and several grandchildren, including John Wolcott Stewart II ’79 and Richard Stewart Phelps ’73. 

Marka’s father-in-law was Philip Battell Stewart, a CC trustee from 1900 to 1953 and the CC baseball coach from 1902 to 1905. Philip Stewart, his wife, and their son, John W. Stewart, lived in what is now Stewart House from 1902 until Mr. Stewart died in 1957.  At that time, Stewart House was given to Colorado College.  In 1935, Phil also financed the construction of CC’s Stewart Field. 

Marka, a long-time supporter of CC, was an honorary trustee of the Colorado Springs Symphony; the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and the Colorado Opera Festival.  She was also an honorary trustee of the Webb-Waring Institute in Denver, which was founded by her father, Dr. Gerald B. Webb.

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