Obituaries : The Rocky Mountain News

Father McBride, 'deeply loved' at Queen of Peace Parish

Father Malachy McBride, a Capuchin friar and parochial vicar at Queen of Peace Catholic Parish in Aurora, died at the San Antonio friary in northwest Denver on May 1 after a 12-year struggle with prostate cancer. He was 71.

French chef won 3 Michelin stars

Paul Haeberlin, a famous French chef who transformed his family's modest restaurant into a world-class affair that won Michelin stars, died Saturday. He was 84.

Longtime Denver radio man Gus Mircos dies

Gus Mircos was a feisty Greek with a mellifluous voice who loved to talk . . . and talk . . . and talk.

Whiteaker had hand in Eisenhower Tunnel

Whether it was helping build bridges in Afghanistan during World War II, paper mills in Finland or the Eisenhower Tunnel, Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt Whiteaker was happiest when he traveled with a big project on his plate.

Country singer Eddy Arnold was early crossover success

Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like Make the World Go Away made him a successful country singer, died Thursday morning, days short of his 90th birthday.

Merrill Hastings, state skiing industry pioneer

Friends called him "Haste" -- not least because once he made
up his mind, he took swift, decisive action.

Alaska newsman Lew Williams Jr. was voice for state

He wrote columns for one of the smallest newspapers in Alaska - the Ketchikan Daily News - but Lew Williams Jr.'s reputation for a strong editorial voice commanded the respect of lawmakers in Juneau and Washington, D.C., and university leaders in Fairbanks.

Virginia Lee, longtime CSU prof

Virginia "Ginny" Lee grew up in a time when it was unusual for a woman to pursue any sort of career in science, let alone earn a doctorate in it. But Dr. Lee, a longtime professor of nutrition at Colorado State University, was never one to do the expected.

Anita Rosenau: Writing plays 'was her life'

Anita Rosenau was an Ivy League-educated economist. But her passion was the theater.

Mildred Loving, helped break interracial marriage ban

Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday.

Lenore Stoddart, volunteer who was 'very, very giving'

Lenore Stoddart was old Denver.

Hambrick, track coach who wanted kids to do their best

It was not all the medals his athletes won, or how many state qualifiers he mentored, or the times and records those young men and women were able to achieve under his guidance.

Lewis L. Tuck, oilman, flier, horseman, family man

Lewis L. Tuck loved drilling for oil, flying airplanes and racing horses, and he spent a lifetime doing all three.

Robert Alldredge, scientist, pilot, hiker

Robert Alldredge loved chemistry. There's no other explanation for it. What else could motivate a man to spend his leisure time working out the problems in college-level thermodynamic textbooks?

Father of LSD dies at 102

Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102.

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