Photos: The Aspen Times’ in memoriam, 2016
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Jack dePagter was born and raised in Holland and he spent World War II with the French Underground. Coming to Aspen after the war, he bought a Victorian cottage right under Lift One and opened it as a hostel. A Dutch wooden shoe hung over the doorway, and he called the place Holland House. dePagter created Winterskol, Aspenâs annual toast to winter, in 1951.
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Margaret "Maggie" Lee Lemle DeWolf, 87, of Aspen died suddenly but peacefully April 23, 2016 at the Aspen Valley Hospital. DeWolf helped develop the Aspen Area Community Plan in the 1990s. She was a community activist, also well known for the impressive gardens around her green Victorian home in Aspen's West End.
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Dale Albert Potvin died on April 7, 2016, at home after living with brain cancer for two years. Dale, also known as âPaco,â came to Aspen in 1969 to teach skiing. In the 1970s, Dale co-founded Aspen Kayak School and later Aspen and Vail White Water Adventures, turning his passions into his profession. He eventually moved onto real estate, and built Peak Properties of Aspen in 1985, which merged to become Stirling Peak Properties in 2012. In 2012, Dale was inducted into the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame and given the âOutstanding Advocate Awardâ in recognition of his passionate support of the Club.
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Ralph and Marian Melville pose in September 2013 in front of the Mountain Chalet Aspen, the ski lodge Ralph began building in 1954. He also was involved with what became Mountain Rescue Aspen from 1956 until the early 1990s. Ralph Melville died Feb. 15, 2016, at the age of 90.
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Patrick Kelly, who passed away Feb. 4, 2016, shakes hands with the Dali Lama. Kelly worked as deputy director at the Aspen Institute, creating seminar and event programming.
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Former Pitkin County commissioner and bona fide Aspen character Fred Crowley died Dec. 5, 2016 in Mexico at the age of 69. Crowley was a decorated Vietnam veteran who moved to Aspen around 1970, according to an Aspen Times story from September 2005. He served as city and county building inspector before being elected to the Board of County Commissioners in the 1980s, according to the story. Crowley served two terms on the Pitkin County board, though he resigned before completing his second term in October 1993.
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Aspen mail carrier Charles Cline, 53, of Basalt, died suddenly on Sept. 28, 2016 while working his shift as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service.Cline had worked at the post office in Aspen for about a year and a half. As the city letter carrier, Cline primarily delivered mail throughout the downtown area. While Cline hadnât lived in the valley for long, those who knew and interacted with the mail carrier spoke highly of him.
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George Madsen was inducted into the Aspen Hall of Fame in 2015. Madsen was an editor and longtime columnist at The Aspen Times after his own one-man publication, The Aspen Flyer, was absorbed by the larger newspaper. He worked for Aspen Skiing Co. as vice president of marketing and headed a three-person department during a period of vigorous growth in the 1970s. He won election twice as a Pitkin County commissioner and served from 1980 through 1988. He died Aug. 3, 2016.
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Glenn Frey performs at the JAS Labor Day Festival in 2010. Frey, the frontman for The Eagles, maintained ties to Aspen that spanned several decades. He once owned a home on Snowmass Creek Road, The song "Partytown" was partially inspired by Aspen, Frey told The Aspen Times in 2010. Frey died in New York on Jan. 18, 2016.
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Hansi Brenninger, 48, died after a skiing accident in Park City, Utah, on April 2, 2016. Brenninger was a full-time ski instructor at Aspen Mountain and was popular and loved among colleagues in the ski school. He's also remembered for the love and devotion he showed to his wife and two children.
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