Myron E. Kapperman

He grew up and attended school in the Hartford area with his 8 siblings. He was quite the avid baseball and basketball player in high school, captain of the basketball team, homecoming king, and president of the Honor Society. After high school, Myron joined the U.S. Air Force and served as a staff sergeant from 1953 to 1957 during the Korean War. He was honorably discharged and returned to the states, where he married Yoshiko Fujise on Dec. 26, 1960. They were blessed with three children: Stan, Patricia "Patsy" and Bill.

Myron and Yoshi raised their children in Lakewood, Colorado, where Scoot started working in the appliance repair business before his desire to help people led him to work as a fireman for the Lakewood Fire Department. He was the engineer, driving the fire trucks, and the family even raised two dalmatians, both of which served as the firehouse mascots. Scoot cherished family time, and every year took the family on travel vacations around the Midwest and to family reunions in South Dakota.

He loved hunting and fishing and taught the entire family, including wife Yoshi, who preferred to sit inside the camper and watch. After becoming injured carrying someone out of a burning building, Scoot retired from the fire department and worked various jobs, mostly still in service of others.

He moved his family to Loveland, Colorado, where he worked in real estate, construction, and security. The family built their home alongside Loveland Lake, where he could continue his love of fishing and lake activities. He continued to take the family on group adventures. One of his favorites was movie nights, taking the family to see every James Bond movie that came out, alongside other action series like Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and Star Trek. He still loved the outdoors, and as he grew older and the kids started moving out, he became close with neighbors Jerry and Marcia Goss, and their children Mike and Tamie, who owned a cattle ranch in Merino, Colorado. Scoot and Yoshi often visited their adopted family in Merino, where Scoot went pheasant hunting and enjoyed other farm life adventures with Mike and Tamie and their 5 children, Kayd, Taryn, Slayter, Coltyr, and Syree.

After retirement, Scoot still enjoyed watching baseball and football, he enjoyed golfing, becoming a pro at his local golf course, going to OTB on greyhound dogs and horses with his friends, and “picking” at local garage sales. There wasn’t an item that he couldn’t find at a garage sale; all you had to do was ask, and he would show up with it a few months later with that silly grin from ear to ear on his face. He definitely earned the name “Scooter” as the man would not stop moving, staying active until the end of his life.

During the course of his adult life, Scoot was a member of Elks, Knights of Columbus, American Legion, VFW Post 41 in Loveland, and his parish, St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church.

Grateful for having shared his life, his family includes his loving wife: Yoshi, his children: Stan (Joy) Kapperman, Patsy (Jamie) Trulson, Bill (Christine) Kapperman, Cindy (Kim) Francis with first wife Kay Bruyn, and grandson Luke Francis. He was loved by his numerous godchildren, and countless nieces and nephews, cousins and friends, some of whom have preceded him in passing. He is survived by his brothers and sisters: Maurice (Alice) Kapperman, Lola Kielstrup, Carolyn (Rob) Humphreys, and Jim (Marva) Kapperman. He was preceded in death by his parents: Bernard and Helen Kapperman; his in-laws: Senichi and Yoshie Shimada; his brothers: Jerome Kapperman and Clarence Kapperman; his sisters: Monica Hennings and Colleen McCann; his brothers-in-law: Rob Keilstrup, Fred McCann, Maynard Hennings, and Yoshimasa Shimada; his sisters-in-law: Helen Kapperman and Margaret Kapperman.

Scoot touched a large number of people’s lives while he was here on earth, and surely is causing a lot of commotion now in heaven, where he’s dipping Oreo cookies in milk and eating spicy pickles to his heart’s content.

Rosary will be held at 4pm on Thursday, May 1st, at Resthaven Memory Gardens, 8426 US Hwy 287, Fort Collins, CO 80525. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10am Friday, May 2nd, at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 1730 W. 12th St., Loveland, CO 80537, followed by a reception in the Knights of Columbus Hall at St. John’s at 11am. Burial will be at Resthaven Memory Gardens at 1:30pm.

Treasured memories of Myron and words of compassion for his family are welcome at resthavencolorado.com.