Obituary from a Denver newspaper:
Denver Author Dies at 85
by Ruth Eloise Wiberg
Lulita Crawford Pritchett, 85, a lifetime resident of northwest Denver and a well known Denver author, died February 11. Her pioneer grandparents, James and Margaret Crawford, traveled 35 days by wagon train from Sedalia, Missouri to Denver in 1873. The next year they struggled over the unfinished Rollins Pass Road to Hot Sulphur Springs. After spending some time there, they moved on to the Yampa River, founding the town of Steamboat Springs.
A Denver native, Miss Pritchett graduated from the Steamboat Springs High School, then from the University of Denver, with honors, in 1926. She served as an executive secretary and assistant purchasing agent for the Wilfley Pump Company, Denver, where the knowledge of mining processes she had learned from her mining engineer father and her skill in speaking and writing Spanish made her a valued employee for thirty-four years.
Meanwhile she was writing short stories, poetry, and books, most based on facts of pioneer life in Steamboat Sparings and the Western Slope. One of her books, "Cabin at Medicine Springs", received the prestigious Franklin Watt Fiction Award. She also received the F. G. Bonfils Short Story Award in 1930. She was a long time member of the Colorado Authors' League and the Denver Woman's Press Club.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Margaret Pritchett, a well known musician in Denver.
Funeral services were held February 15 in Denver with burial at Steamboat Springs. Memorial gifts may be made to the Wheat Ridge Congregation, United CHurch of Christ, 6210 W. 29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, CO 80214.
Denver Author Dies at 85
by Ruth Eloise Wiberg
Lulita Crawford Pritchett, 85, a lifetime resident of northwest Denver and a well known Denver author, died February 11. Her pioneer grandparents, James and Margaret Crawford, traveled 35 days by wagon train from Sedalia, Missouri to Denver in 1873. The next year they struggled over the unfinished Rollins Pass Road to Hot Sulphur Springs. After spending some time there, they moved on to the Yampa River, founding the town of Steamboat Springs.
A Denver native, Miss Pritchett graduated from the Steamboat Springs High School, then from the University of Denver, with honors, in 1926. She served as an executive secretary and assistant purchasing agent for the Wilfley Pump Company, Denver, where the knowledge of mining processes she had learned from her mining engineer father and her skill in speaking and writing Spanish made her a valued employee for thirty-four years.
Meanwhile she was writing short stories, poetry, and books, most based on facts of pioneer life in Steamboat Sparings and the Western Slope. One of her books, "Cabin at Medicine Springs", received the prestigious Franklin Watt Fiction Award. She also received the F. G. Bonfils Short Story Award in 1930. She was a long time member of the Colorado Authors' League and the Denver Woman's Press Club.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Margaret Pritchett, a well known musician in Denver.
Funeral services were held February 15 in Denver with burial at Steamboat Springs. Memorial gifts may be made to the Wheat Ridge Congregation, United CHurch of Christ, 6210 W. 29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, CO 80214.
Obituary from a Denver newspaper:
Denver Author Dies at 85
by Ruth Eloise Wiberg
Lulita Crawford Pritchett, 85, a lifetime resident of northwest Denver and a well known Denver author, died February 11. Her pioneer grandparents, James and Margaret Crawford, traveled 35 days by wagon train from Sedalia, Missouri to Denver in 1873. The next year they struggled over the unfinished Rollins Pass Road to Hot Sulphur Springs. After spending some time there, they moved on to the Yampa River, founding the town of Steamboat Springs.
A Denver native, Miss Pritchett graduated from the Steamboat Springs High School, then from the University of Denver, with honors, in 1926. She served as an executive secretary and assistant purchasing agent for the Wilfley Pump Company, Denver, where the knowledge of mining processes she had learned from her mining engineer father and her skill in speaking and writing Spanish made her a valued employee for thirty-four years.
Meanwhile she was writing short stories, poetry, and books, most based on facts of pioneer life in Steamboat Sparings and the Western Slope. One of her books, "Cabin at Medicine Springs", received the prestigious Franklin Watt Fiction Award. She also received the F. G. Bonfils Short Story Award in 1930. She was a long time member of the Colorado Authors' League and the Denver Woman's Press Club.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Margaret Pritchett, a well known musician in Denver.
Funeral services were held February 15 in Denver with burial at Steamboat Springs. Memorial gifts may be made to the Wheat Ridge Congregation, United CHurch of Christ, 6210 W. 29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, CO 80214.
Denver Author Dies at 85
by Ruth Eloise Wiberg
Lulita Crawford Pritchett, 85, a lifetime resident of northwest Denver and a well known Denver author, died February 11. Her pioneer grandparents, James and Margaret Crawford, traveled 35 days by wagon train from Sedalia, Missouri to Denver in 1873. The next year they struggled over the unfinished Rollins Pass Road to Hot Sulphur Springs. After spending some time there, they moved on to the Yampa River, founding the town of Steamboat Springs.
A Denver native, Miss Pritchett graduated from the Steamboat Springs High School, then from the University of Denver, with honors, in 1926. She served as an executive secretary and assistant purchasing agent for the Wilfley Pump Company, Denver, where the knowledge of mining processes she had learned from her mining engineer father and her skill in speaking and writing Spanish made her a valued employee for thirty-four years.
Meanwhile she was writing short stories, poetry, and books, most based on facts of pioneer life in Steamboat Sparings and the Western Slope. One of her books, "Cabin at Medicine Springs", received the prestigious Franklin Watt Fiction Award. She also received the F. G. Bonfils Short Story Award in 1930. She was a long time member of the Colorado Authors' League and the Denver Woman's Press Club.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Margaret Pritchett, a well known musician in Denver.
Funeral services were held February 15 in Denver with burial at Steamboat Springs. Memorial gifts may be made to the Wheat Ridge Congregation, United CHurch of Christ, 6210 W. 29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, CO 80214.
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