Mildred Cary

Mildred I. Cary, 80, of Fort Collins, passed away Dec. 9, 2005, at her home as the result of heart failure. A memorial service will be Wednesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 300 W. Mountain Ave. Cremation has been completed. Mildred was born July 25, 1925, in Chariton, Iowa, to Julia and Steve Kruzic. After growing up in central Iowa, she came west at age 21 to Cheyenne, Wyo., where she met and married Kenneth E. Cary on Feb. 14, 1948. They operated a family-owned farm near Fort Collins for most of the 1950s, before returning to Cheyenne in the early 1960s and finally moving back to Fort Collins in 1964. After Ken's retirement in 1984 from Colorado State University, they spent many winters in Harlingen, Texas, and summers in the cabin they built in Red Feather Lakes. They traveled frequently through the United States and Mexico. She held a variety of jobs over the years, but was primarily a loving wife to Ken and mother to four sons, Steve, Tom, Keith and Rich. She was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. She was active with the Fort Collinaders Square Dance group, the Observatory Club and Wellington Senior Resources Center. She enjoyed many hobbies including embroidery, crochet, china painting and gardening. She was preceded in death by her parents and her sister, Rita Phillips. She is survived by her husband, Kenneth; two brothers, David and Henry Kruzic of Iowa; and four sons, Steve and wife, Connie, Keith and wife, Marilyn, and Richard, all of Fort Collins and Thomas and wife, Karen, of Loveland. Also surviving are two granddaughters, Arnetta Cary of Fort Collins and Lisa Weber husband, Robert and two great-grandchildren, Hannah and Micah Weber of Longmont; and numerous nieces and nephews around the country, especially Dean and Dale Davis, whose mother Myrtle Ken's sister and Mildred's sister-in-law passed on just hours earlier. We will all miss Mildred's loving ways and beautiful smile. Contributions, in lieu of flowers, can be made to Larimer County Hospice or Crossroads Safehouse, in care of Bohlender Funeral Chapel, 121 W. Olive St., Fort Collins, CO 80524.