Weldon C. Julander

February 11th, 1917 to October 14th, 2012

Weldon Carl Julander passed away at Swedish Medical Center on October 14, 2012 at the age of 95. Mr. Julander was a petroleum geologist and the founder and chief executive officer of a publicly held independent oil and gas exploration and production company. The company was Energy Minerals Corporation, which was listed on the American Stock Exchange. He lived in Cherry Hills Village, CO for the past 30 years.

Weldon was born in Boxholm, Grant Township, Boone County, Iowa on February 11th, 1917, to Noah Elgot and Nellie Frederickson Julander. He had a hard working and motivating childhood on his family’s farm and graduated from Boxholm Consolidated School in 1934. Mr. Julander went on to attend the University of Iowa, which he worked his way through, and graduated with a B.S. in Geology in 1940. While on the job in the student cafeteria, he met, and fell in love with, fellow student Ila Mae Klocksiem, She grew up 6 miles away from him in Paton, Iowa but they did not meet until college. Ila Mae passed away last year. They had a loving marriage of almost 70 years. After graduating from the University in 1940, Weldon had a semester of graduate work and then accepted a job as a geologist with the State Mineral Survey in Atlanta and Rome, Georgia. Weldon and Ila Mae then moved to Ely-Kimberly, Nevada where he worked as a geologist for Consolidated Copper Mines Corporation. After Pearl Harbor, Mr. Julander enlisted in the US Army Air Corp and worked in the communications squadron in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Camp Wallace, Texas, Nashville, Tennessee, Boca Raton, Florida and New Haven, Connecticut. He was discharged as a Captain in Denver in 1946. After his military service, Weldon returned to Paton, Iowa where he managed a lumber yard until he accepted a position as a geologist with

Stanolind Oil & Gas in Casper, Wyoming He resigned from this major company in February of 1957. Mr. Julander than began his career as an independent petroleum geologist, settling in Farmington, New Mexico where he and Ila raised three sons, Frederick, John, and Robert (d. 2011). In 1968 the family moved to Denver and Mr. Julander founded Energy Minerals Corporation, a publicly held company listed on the American Stock Exchange, He was proud of the company and the return it earned for its shareholders. After selling Energy Minerals in 1984, Mr. Julander formed a privately held company, Petroleum Energy Corporation, with his sons, John and Robert. Weldon was a member of the Petroleum Club, The Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Oil and Gas Pioneers. Weldon enjoyed spending time with his family, fishing, snowmobiling and trips to the mountains and Iowa to study his beloved rocks. He was a man of faith, intense while also full of humor. He loved to tell jokes and shower his grandchildren with love. He also grew especially close to he and Ila’s care givers in their later years, Amelia “Melly” Costa and Florita “Rita” Seeger. They brought him much comfort and joy. Weldon had two brothers, Lee and Delmar and two sisters, Beulah and Blanche, who are all deceased. Weldon is survived by his two sons, Fred and John, daughter in-law, Deborah, three grandsons, Matthew, Brett, and Lance, granddaughter, Nora, and five great-grandchildren, Hunter, Nick, Kalyn, Bailey and Ava. A service for Weldon will be held Friday, October 19th, 2012 at 3 PM with a visitation on Thursday, October 18 at 4:00 PM at Olinger Chapel Hill Mortuary, 6601 South Colorado Boulevard, Littleton, CO 80121.