Wyvonna J. Mcclelland

Wyvonna Joan McClelland, a retired medical transciptionist and bookseller, died July 21, 2018 in Fort Collins. She was the descendant of pioneer settlers in the Fort Collins area. Ms McClelland, widely known by her nickname of "Pepper", was born in Fort Collins, February 28, 1931 to Homer McClelland and Ellen Dixon McClelland. She was a 1949 graduate of Fort Collins High School and earned her bachelor's degree from Colorado State University (then Colorado A&M) in 1953. She was awarded a Master of Science degree from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1984.

After working as an office supervisor and traveling supervisor for a major insurance company, during which time she lived in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, she started her own business in Indianapolis and subsequently sold that to do medical transcription, a career she followed in Indiana and subsequently on her return to Denver until her first retirement in 1998. she came out of retirement in 2000 to work in a bookstore, an occupation which fit nicely with her favorite hobbies of reading and book browsing. She retired for the second and final time in 2004 and returned to Fort Collins to live. She was a volunteer at Bas Bleu Theater and the Poudre Valley Library District and enjoyed the many cultural events in the city.

She is survived by her sister, Barbara Rutt of Fort Collins , and four nephews. Ms McClelland was cremated and internment was private. there will be no service.

Friends may send condolences to the family at bohlenderfuneralchapel.com.