Eric H. Corwin

Eric H. Corwin was born on March 11, 1954 in an Army MASH in Austria. His father’s work brought him back to the United States in 1956, and Eric grew up in Northern Virginia with his parents, Howard S. and Sydelle Friedman Corwin and his older brother, Jack. Eric passed away quietly at home from pancreatic cancer on September 19, 2025 in Colorado Springs, CO at the age of 71.

Eric grew up in the Washington, DC area. He attended Trinity College in Hartford, CT where he worked with the engineering department head to create Trinity’s first Computer Science major. Eric graduated from Trinity in 1976 with a BS in that new major (then called a Computer Coordinate degree) and an Art Minor. In 1978 he earned his MA in Computer Science at Duke University in Durham, NC.

Eric’s favorite job was his first at Decisions and Designs, Inc (DDI) in northern Virginia. He moved to northern California in 1982 and met his future wife, Bonnie, when they both started working at the same high-tech company that summer. Eric spent his career in the tech industry working as a programmer, a marketing manager, and a software engineering manager, director and VP.

Eric and Bonnie got married in California in 1987. They moved to Colorado Springs in 1990 when Eric started the Rocky Mountain Technology Center for Sun Microsystems, Inc. They fell in love with Colorado, raised their family there and stayed through retirement.

Eric was deeply involved in his children’s lives, serving as a Scout leader and a basketball coach, teaching a programming class for his son’s fourth grade math class, serving on middle school committees, and co-chairing the high school parent council. He introduced the kids to skiing (breaking a rib in the process) and then supported their move to snowboards (he kept his skis). He grew vegetables and built various enclosures with the kids over the years to try to keep out local wildlife. Eric was an amateur photographer who left the family with an abundance of photos documenting trips, events, and years of moments, big and small. He loved Duke basketball and attended many Final Fours, getting to see his beloved Blue Devils win national championships firsthand in 1991 and 2001. Eric loved to travel and was ready to move to the South Island of New Zealand after spending four weeks there in 2024.

Eric loved his family and friends and took care of everyone around him. He was a wonderful cook and a wonderful host, always making sure guests had plenty of food, a good glass of wine, and a cappuccino. Eric loved jazz. He made an agreement early on in their relationship that he would teach Bonnie about jazz and she would teach him about classical music. Bonnie learned a lot about jazz and loved it as much as Eric; Eric learned just a little about classical music but did learn to like some of it. Eric supported his family in all of their individual endeavors, was so proud of his children, and loved that each of them attended one of his schools.

Eric is survived by the love of his life, his wife, Bonnie (Burrus); his two children: Natalie (Jay) Corwin and Samuel Corwin; and his brother, Jack.

A Celebration of Life service is planned for Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 11am at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church at 730 N. Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, CO. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that those wishing to honor Eric contribute to their favorite cancer research charity in his memory.