Carolyn Joan Hubbell

Carolyn J. Hubbell passed away January 12, 2024, at TRU Community Care Hospice in Longmont Colorado, following a brief illness. She was born on March 13, 1932, to Opal F. and Floyd Oliver in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Her father died when she was a year old and she and her mother moved to Denver, Colorado to be closer to family, where she attended elementary school. When her mother married Herman Kirchner, they moved to Boulder where she attended Casey Junior High and graduated from Boulder High School in 1950.

Following high school, Carolyn went to work for Mountain Bell as a telephone operator where she met and married her true love, Richard Hubbell in September 1954. Together they raised three daughters, Debbie (Jeff) McKinny, Diane (Derek) Lueb, daughters Jennifer and Amanda, great grandchildren Aidan and Temperance and Dayna (Tony) Finn, son Josh and daughter Brittney,

All three daughters finished their school years at Boulder High School, where both parents graduated from, and dad had been drum major for the band. So, it was a no brainer that Carolyn and Dick would become very active band parents as all three daughters became band members. For 7 years, Carolyn cleaned, altered and repaired uniforms, helped with fund raisers and concession stands with other band parents, and accompanied the band twice to the New Years Eve Orange Bowl Parade in Miami, Florida.

In their retirement, Carolyn and Dick were active with the AT&T Pioneers of America as ambassadors at both Stapleton International and DIA airports and traveled to Japan, Germany, Mexico, Hawaii, Canada and Alaska with this group. They also traveled as Carolyn studied her family tree and visited genealogy libraries and cemeteries around the midwest.