Stacee Annette Cover

Stacee Annette Cover, age 51, of Loveland, CO was born on May 30th, 1964 in Minot, North Dakota. She is survived by her mother, Darlene Ziegler of Billings, Montana. Her father, Louis Ziegler, passed away in 1973 when Stacee was 9 years old. Louie was from a family of ten children and emigrated from Europe as a teenager. Stacee was very proud to be a first generation American with German ancestry.

Stacee grew up in Billings, Montana and attended Miles Avenue Elementary, Lewis & Clark Junior High and Billings West High School, graduating in 1982. Her most fond high school memories were of singing in the choir and performing in musicals and plays where she made many lifelong friends and met the love of her life, Jim. Nobody made a better Grettle in The Sound of Music than Stacee. She attended Carroll College in Helena, Eastern Montana College in Billings, and Montana State University in Bozeman studying business marketing. In 1984 her and Jim were married and began their action packed fun filled life together.

Right from the start Stacee and Jim took on many projects together including starting their own businesses (CVR – Montana Furniture Industries , Montana Furniture Galleries, and building homes in Bozeman, Montana), and building a beautiful mountain home on the Bozeman Pass. In 1988 and 1990 they brought their two daughters, Jennifer Darlene and Katherine Anne-Marie, into the world. The family attended Hope Lutheran Church in Bozeman and Stacee was actively involved in the music programs there.

Stacee shared her love of God through her voice and was involved in many music projects including performing with the Hope Lutheran Church choir, the Bozeman Symphony Choir, Montana Theater Works, the Firehouse 5 Playhouse, the Larimer Chorale, the Timberline Church choir, and many different praise teams.

Since relocating to Fort Collins in 2003 Stacee and Jim took on many different projects including building two custom homes and creating two companies: Rocky Mountain Woodworks in Fort Collins and The Artisan Shop in Loveland. More recently she worked as an ambassador for Aegerion Pharmaceuticals sharing her life story and her experience living with hypercholesterolemia and mentoring other men and women who had the same rare disease she did. In everything she did, including her work with Aegerion, she tried to help make the world a brighter, happier place.

Stacee is preceded in death by grandparents, Bill & Denise Stacey and Peter & Veronika Ziegler, her father, Louie, and by her faithful chocolate lab Libby and her robust black cat Spooky. Stacee is survived by her mother, Darlene, her sister, Marianne, her husband, Jim, her daughters, Jennifer and Katie, and many other loving relatives and friends.

In lieu of flowers please consider making a donation to the FH Foundation in honor of Stacee's courage in living with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia; this cause was very dear to her heart and being such a rare disease this cause gets little support. You can make a donation in her name at http://thefhfoundation.org/donate . Please reference Stacee Cover with email address cover.jennifer@gmail.com if you chose to donate.

There will be a public Celebration of Life Service held for her on Saturday, June 20th at 11AM at Timberline Church, South Auditorium, 2908 S. Timberline Rd. in Fort Collins. Any and all who were touched by Stacee are invited to come celebrate her life and to remember her legacy.