Adele Jane Dyer

Adele Jane (Walmsley) Dyer was born July 20, 1935, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, third and youngest child of Henry Clay and Dorothy Grace (Gotwols) Walmsley. She graduated from Central Bucks High School, class of 1953, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Adele met an Army man, Lee Dyer, at Fort Carson, Colorado, and they married on September 16, 1961, in Chalfont, Pennsylvania. Adele and Lee raised their three children in various places in the U.S. and abroad while Lee served in the U.S. Army.

After Lee retired as a Major in 1977, they moved to Fort Collins where Adele made a home and all three children graduated high school. While her children went off to college, married, moved on and raised families of their own, the home that Adele created was homebase for her children and nine grandchildren for 41 years, until she moved to the Denver area in 2020 to be closer to her daughters.

Adele Dyer passed on to glory on September 5, 2023, in Denver, Colorado. She will be missed by her family and many others who have come to love and care for her.
Adele is survived by her daughter, Melanie Garcia and husband, Martin, of Denver; her son, Kevin Dyer and wife, Ann, of Charlotte NC and her daughter, Cheryl Hardy and husband, Brian, of Parker. She is also survived by her grandchildren, Stephanie Cary (& Sean), Nathan Garcia, Ryan Dyer (& Erin), Courtney Garcia, Heather Ellis (& Chris), Brendon Hardy, Natalie Garcia, Preston Hardy and Grayson Hardy, four great-grandchildren: Spencer and Sullivan Cary and Leighton and Olivia Ellis, as well as her sister-in-law, Barb Walmsley, and several dearly loved nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband of nearly 47 years, Lee Dyer, both her parents, her sister, Dorothy Sautter Allen, brother, Henry Clay Walmsley III, brothers-in-law, Hank Sautter, Ed Allen, Emmett Dyer, Joe Rogers and Larry Solmonson and sisters-in-law, Joan Dyer, Virginia Rogers and Dawn Solmonson.

A service to honor her memory will be held on September 6, 2023, 7:00 p.m., at Fort Collins United Methodist Church, and a burial at Black Hills National Cemetary at a later date.