Tracy Lynn Fetter

Born Tracy Lynn Stuart in Fort Dodge, Iowa, June 7, 1960, Tracy grew up in a family that moved often because of her father’s work on the railroad. She was the oldest of two siblings and had a mother who worked in real estate. When Tracy was five years old, she was diagnosed with juvenile type 1 diabetes.

Doctors and specialists told Tracy’s parents she wouldn’t live past 30, but she was somehow able to make it to the age of 62 after a full and beautiful life that deeply connected her to many others all over the world.

Tracy moved to Denver in high school where she befriended lifelong pals John, Mike, Duane, and Janice at Arvada West. She loved late-night arthouse films, coffee, and book chats. Even as a teen, art ran intensely through her blood. Once, she took a Sharpie to the walls of her childhood room and wrote in thick black ink all the best lines from her favorite movies, Shakespeare, e.e. cummings, etc.—maybe to try to rid herself of the words that ruled her life from the beginning. Or perhaps to solidify them as her guiding force.

Years later, at the University of Colorado at Denver, Tracy met her husband, Joe. Under a streetlight after their Chinese poli-sci class together, he asked her on a date, and, soon after, they shared a small basement apartment in Capitol Hill. Together, they made memories together across the U.S., like soaking up the sun on a beach near San Juan Capistrano and getting traces of the Great Sand Dunes in the car that would linger for months.

The couple eventually ended up in a home of their own in Southwest Denver. Here, Tracy and Joe ran a daycare, fostered kids, raised dogs, and adopted several children from multiple continents. This is where she would come home from church on Sundays—where she wrote in notebooks, watched her favorite films, and read her beloved books. She’d stash away Christmas gifts she’d buy in June throughout the closets, she’d call people up on the phone and talk for hours… And this is where she was when she passed away on the evening of December 6, 2022.

Thank you for being such a powerful force in our lives, Tracy. You will be missed, but we find peace knowing you’re running around pain-free in Heaven, driving God crazy with Tracy Capers.

Love you.

A memorial service for Tracy will be held Saturday, December 31, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Olinger Crown Hill Mortuary & Cemetery, 7777 West 29th Ave, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.CrownHillFuneral.com for the Fetter family.