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Carol Lee Robinson

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Carol Lee Robinson

Fri, 10/28/2016 - 1:39 pm
Funeral services for Carol Lee Robinson, formerly of Graham, were held Wednesday, Oct. 20, at the Greenwood Community Church in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Robinson died Oct. 17, 2016, in Centennial, Colo., after a five-year struggle with dementia and accompanying diseases. Carol Lee Peter was born Jan. 11, 1938, in rural Sherman County, Kansas, to Philip Peter and Fern Johnson Peter. She attended a country school through the eighth grade and graduated in 1955 from Sherman Community High School in Goodland, Kansas. She attended business college in Denver before returning to her hometown to serve jointly as secretary of the Goodland Chamber of Commerce and as the community's Western Union agent. She and Roy Robinson were married July 31, 1960, in Goodland, Kan. In 1961, the couple moved to Lamar, Colo. In 1966, they purchased the weekly Ute Pass Courier newspaper in Woodland Park, Colo. Both their children, son Robert and daughter Michelle, began kindergarten and graduated from high school in Woodland Park. They were active in newspaper publishing in Cripple Creek, Eagle, Westminster and Fort Morgan, Colo., before moving in 1998 to Graham. Mrs. Robinson's husband was publisher of The Graham Leader and vice president of Graham Newspapers, Inc., a subsidiary of MediaNews Group. They returned to Colorado in 2014, when her advancing illness required more family care and assistance.  Mrs. Robinson was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Graham, where she was active in the High Questor Sunday School Class. She is survived by her husband, Roy, of Denver; her son, Robert, also of Denver; her daughter, Michelle Koenig, and son-in-law, Mark Koenig, of Centennial; a grandson, Jonathan Kopec, of Centennial; a granddaughter, Nadia Robinson, of Pueblo, Colo.; her brother, Dean Peter, of Westminster, Colo.; two sisters, Bonnie Jones of Westminster, and Kathy Schupp Aurora, Colo.; two aunts and numerous cousins.