James Vincent Persichetti

Jimmie was born on September 25, 1931 at St Joseph’s Hospital in Denver. He was the first of three sons for James Vincent (Sr.) and Verna Irene (Pankoski) Persichetti. He and his younger brothers Kenneth and Gary all grew up on the family’s produce farm near Clear Creek north of Denver.

Jimmie attended high school at Westminster High, where he first met his future wife, Joanne Marie Bloom. Jimmie and Joanne were married on August 11, 1951. Shortly thereafter, Jimmie began construction on their new home, located along one corner of his family’s farm. While they lived there, Jimmie and Joanne had four sons: Mark, Steven, John, and Paul.

Shortly after they started their new family, Jimmie began working as a carpenter for the Denver-based Perl-Mack Company. He started as a framing and finish carpenter for that company’s starter-sized single-family homes, and soon advanced to become a project foreman and supervisor for their north-Denver area residential neighborhoods. When the Perl-Mack Company expanded its construction projects to include commercial structures and mall developments, Jimmie was promoted to become one of their on-site commercial project supervisors, and later became their overall on-site commercial project supervisor.

The many commercial projects on which he worked included the Northglenn Mall, remodeling of the Southglenn Mall, Southwest-Plaza Mall, Plaza on the Greens, several savings-&-loan branch-bank locales along the front-range corridor from Fort Collins to Arapahoe County, multi-story precast-concrete-panel office buildings in Northglenn, Aurora, southeast and southwest Denver, southwest Denver-area auto dealerships, and Beth Israel High School. Jimmie retired from the newly renamed Jordan Perlmutter Company in 1996.

While they lived on the family farm north of Denver, Jim and Joanne enjoyed taking their family on annual summer vacation trips to the nearby mountains and the region’s national parks. They went on camping trips to Brainard Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, the Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks, and even a few trips up to Glacier-Waterton Park, and Banff and Jasper National Parks in Alberta and British Columbia. In 1998 and 2000, Jim and Joanne enjoyed Mediterranean cruises along the Spanish-French-Italian-Greek coastlines. And in 2001, they enjoyed a 50th-anniversary river cruise along the Mississippi River, presented by their sons.

Jimmie also enjoyed going on annual autumn pheasant hunting trips in northeastern Colorado with his sons, his brother Ken and his sons, his brother Gary, and brother-in-law Fred. He also enjoyed several summertime fishing trips with his sons and his brothers up to the ‘Miracle Mile’ along the North Platte River, northwest of Rawlins, Wyoming.

In 1970, Jimmie and Joanne decided they needed to move from their original homesite on Jim’s family farm. What had been an area of small family-owned farms had become an area of open fields used for storage of commercial-truck trailers and construction vehicles, and many farms adjacent to Clear Creek had been sold for open-pit gravel mining. They found a much better homesite twenty miles away in a rural area of Boulder County, just north of Lafayette. So late that year, Jimmie and his sons worked to separate their house and garage into several sections, moved those structure sections up to their new homesite, reassembled those sections and upgraded their ‘new-again’ home.

In 1976, Jimmie and his sons began construction on a new summer vacation home just north of the small town of Glen Haven in Larimer County, close to the North Fork of the Big Thompson River. Their first day of work on that cabin site was July 31st of that year. But extremely heavy rains that night resulted in the “first” Big Thompson flood in that area, and it was months before Jim and his boys could get back to that site to start-up again! For the next 20 years, Jim & Joanne, and their adult sons with their families, enjoyed frequent visits to their mountain cabin, year-round.

And following his retirement in 1996, Jimmie & Joanne decided to move up to their mountain cabin and live there year-round. They decided to double the size of their cabin, and so Jim and his sons worked to expand their cabin. Jim and Joanne lived in their Glen Haven home year-round from 1997 to 2019, enjoying the far-less-hectic pace of their mountain locale, and their close proximity to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, with their recreation opportunities.

But the passing years, along with the hazards of winter driving in the mountains, compelled Jim and Joanne to move from Glen Haven in 2019, to the flatter terrain of northwest Loveland. They purchased a new home alongside an open-space area with a view of the front range, where Jimmie lived until his passing.

Jimmie was preceded in death by his parents, his younger brother Ken, and his young granddaughter Cassandra. He is survived by his wife of 73 years, Joanne; his sons Mark (Eileen) in Louisville; Steven (Stacey) in Littleton; John (Jill) in Littleton; and Paul in Loveland. He is also survived by twenty grandchildren and great-grandchildren:

Steven’s son Tony, and his daughter Tiera; Steven & Stacey’s sons Chase and Christian; John & Jill’s son Andrew & spouse Sephi, Andrew’s daughters Isabelle & Evelyn; daughter Emily & spouse Nick, their sons Lawrence & Anthony; son Alex & spouse Becky, their children Emma, Declan, Maggie & Kian; son Jamie & spouse Mario; and son Patrick (PJ) & spouse MaryAnn; Paul’s daughters Caroline, Shanna, and Eilean.