Fredrick Robert Seibert

On July 12, 2026, Fredrick “Fred” Robert Seibert settled into a lounge chair at the great Jersey Shore in the sky.

Fred was born in Providence, Rhode Island, but always was intent on going through life channeling his youthful years as a New Jersey bad boy. Fred carried it as a badge of pride that he battled with nuns at his Northeast primary school, and eventually rebelled upwards to attending Rutgers University, where he graduated in 1977 with a degree in Animal Science. Fred took his technical expertise and inherent communication skills to jobs in Terre Haute, Indiana, Kansas City, Missouri, and Mundelein, Illinois, while always keeping a fond spot for his Jersey heritage.

In 1998, Fred moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, appointed to the position of Director of Operations and Business Development at Heska. There, he established an integrated in-house veterinary laboratory system for hematology and clinical testing, which later on became the sole driver of the company.

In 2003, Fred began work at Dako Cytomation as Vice President of Marketing, Sales, and Service. Fred was adept at closing high stakes deals for the company in China, Denmark, Japan, and many countries in between.

It was at Dako that Fred first met Cynthia “Cindy” Coughenour, his life soulmate. The two recognized each other as contrasting spirits in both intellect and personality, always challenging one another to explore more, learn better, and love harder. After the successful sale of Dako, Fred and Cindy moved to Bethel, Maine, where they took over operations of an inn and pub. Fred was a natural bartender, always willing to hear out the wild stories and honest confessions of his friends and clientele.

Fred and Cindy married inside a Danish lighthouse in 2017. The two shared adventures across the world together: climbing the Great Wall of China, sleeping inside an igloo in Lapland, seeing the finals of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, and swimming with the manatees in Key West (and with the sharks in Hawaii). In an especially romantic gesture, Fred even arranged a special flight for Cindy and himself to visit India’s Taj Mahal, an enduring monument to love, marveled at by two people sharing the strongest bonds of it between one another.

Fred and Cindy eventually returned to Colorado, where they spent their evenings peacefully watching the sunsets over Boyd Lake. Cindy let Fred smoke an occasional cigar on the patio, in exchange for him agreeing to play a board game against her that he would almost certainly lose (unless it was Sorry!). He was still a New Jersey bad boy, but a rebel who had learned the one lesson he would gladly follow: the power and gratification of love.

Fred is preceded in death by his wife, Cynthia Kalb Coughenour, his father, Robert Seibert, and his mother, Alice Seibert. Fred is survived by his sons, Robert, Scott, and Bryan Seibert, his daughter, Jordan Coughenour, his grandsons, Sebastian, Vaughn, and Holden Seibert, his sister, Joan Seibert, and his brother, Pete Seibert. If desired, please make a donation in Fred’s name to Save the Manatee Club.