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Beryl Walker Albertus

I have a BA degree in American Studies with a minor in minority studies from CU and have been married to Jerry for 50 years during which time we have lived in Calgary Alberta, Canada; Midland, Texas; Littleton, Colorado; Covington, Louisiana and back to Colorado. I have owned and operated three Antiques and appraisal businesses in Colorado and Louisiana. I also owned and operated an English Tack business with my daughter for five years. My passion is collecting Native American Indian art and artifacts. I worked for 15 years as an African/Oceanic docent at the Denver Art museum both writing and giving school and public tours. I am still involved with music and sing when ever I can. For now, I am retired from the working world! My husband is a geophysicists now retired from 48 years of working in the Oil and Gas Industry where five years ago he was named the "Explorer of The Year" by the Rocky Mountain Assoc. of Geologists. We have three grown, beautiful, talented and intelligent grandchildren, Molly (29) has a second degree blackbelt in Tae Kwondo, writes amazing poetry and graduated the Spring of 2013 from CU with a degree in Sociology. She is currently working for a team of doctors doing research and is also working on her master's degree in Public Health which she received in Spring of 2021. She was married in July of 2016. Hannah (26) has a first degree black belt in Tae Kwondo, played on the Varsity LaCrosse team, ranked first in her senior HS class academically and is a National Merit Scholar. She graduated in 2015 Magna cum laude from Tulane University on the President's Scholarship. Her freshman Summer she spent five weeks in Kenya doing research with a Research Grant team from Tulane. She is currently enrolled in a Doctoral program in Evolutionary Biology at The University of California in San Diego on a Full Ride Scholarship. Derek (23) graduated in December 2017 from CSU majoring in computer science, plays a mean electric guitar, acostic guitar, piano and bass fiddle. He is currently working on a master's
degree at The University of Oregon in Eugene, OR. Their mother and our daughter, Michelle loves her horse, Troy and was a competitive Dressage rider. She is currently teaching Dressage and training horses and enjoying being semi-retired in San Diego, CA. Our son Ric works in the mountain bike industry and rides and races mountain bikes. He was married in July of 2011 to his wonderful Caitlin and they are first time parents to our 4th grand, beautiful little Sinead Elizabeth Albertus born Feb. 15, 2013. We now have grandchildren 21 years apart. What a blessing! He competed in the One Lap of America auto race four times and in 2012, he and his Dad (my wonderful husband Jerry) competed together in Jer's 2012 Boss Mustang LaGuna Seca. I still have family in Casper so return there several times a year to visit. We currently live on five acres of pine forest and meadow outside of Franktown, CO with one cat and lots of deer, fox and birds and bunnies and the occasional Black bear to entertain us and we recently purchased a Winter retreat home in Star Harbor, Texas on Cedar Creek Lake where we hope to spend time when the snow is flying in Colorado. 2014 and 15 have been challenging health years for both Jer and me but we are moving forward and hoping that 2016 will find us healthier and meeting the challenges that confront us! Update: My wonderful husband Jerry lost his battle with renal carcinoma on Christmas Day 2016. I have sold our home in Franktown and have moved to a cottage in a retirement community in Littleton called Concordia On The Lake. It is close to my son Ric and his family. I still own a home in Star Harbor, Texas where I plan to spend most of the Winter months. I miss my Jer every minute of every day but I am trying to move forward as he wanted me to do. I would welcome a visit from any classmates who are coming through Denver. My new address is 7986 W. Parkhill Place, Littleton, CO 80123. My telephone number is 303-993-5070.

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