George Victor Fewson

George Victor Fewson was born in Long Beach, CA on March 27, 1943 to George Calvert Fewson and Thelma Wheeler Fewson. After the war the young family moved to northern Minnesota, ultimately settling in Duluth where George was raised. He graduated from Duluth East High and the University of Minnesota Duluth where he majored in business and economics.

In 1965 George traded the shores of Lake Superior for Boulder’s Flatirons to attend law school at the University of Colorado. During his second year he met and married a newly minted Nebraska graduate, Linda Shuey, who was a teacher at Paddock Elementary, the decision that George said was his best. They spent 56 happy years together. After graduating law school in 1968 George joined the Denver office of the Internal Revenue Service where he worked in the Estate and Gift Tax group and the IRS Appeals Office.

In 1978 George left the IRS and entered private practice with his old IRS colleague and friend Dawson Joyner in the firm Joyner and Fewson PC concentrating on estate planning, wills, trusts, probate and representing clients before the IRS. After retirement he and Linda commenced a new life plan. They sold their beloved home at the foot of NCAR and downsized to a southeast Boulder condo and a condo in Palm Desert, CA, a place where they had vacationed and loved.

For over twenty years they divided their time between Boulder and Palm Desert. They loved the warm winters, the desert plants, the great restaurants, and the entertainment venues of Palm Desert and the cooler Boulder summers. Spending time in the great outdoors was important to George and Linda.

George was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his wife Linda Shuey Fewson, sister Mary Ann Pearson (Bob), his brother Barry (Judy) of Minnesota and Florida, sister-in-law Charlene Rasmussen of Boulder, brothers-in-law Dean Shuey (Bobbi) of Seattle and Keith Shuey (Bonnie) of Tecumseh, and numerous nephews and nieces.

George was diagnosed with a rare and deadly form of leukemia which led to his death on June 8, 2023. George and Linda are grateful for the extraordinary care and sensitivity shown to them by the doctors, nurses, technicians and health care workers of Boulder’s Rocky Mountain Cancer Center. Honoring George’s specific request, there will be no memorial service. George does hope that some of his friends will lift a glass of Colorado craft beer in his honor, preferably while wearing an Aloha shirt.