Sarah Alice Ochs

She was born in Denver on July 27, 1937 to Herbert and Jewel Jenkins.

Alice grew up in the Lefthand Canyon area, where the family summered with the cattle on the mountain ranch and lived in many different houses on the flatlands in the winter months. She recalled riding her horse, Tony, to attend class in the one room school house at Potato Hill.

Alice attended college in Gunnison, Colorado and developed a life long dislike of skiing and cold weather. After graduating, she worked at the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder where she met Gerard Ochs. They overcame her love of Johnny Cash and his love of Beethoven to be happily married for over 50 years.

Alice enjoyed travel. She and Gerry visited many countries and national parks. They made it a point to visit all of the fifty states when their children were young. She always encouraged her family members to travel.

Alice was a lifelong horsewoman who trained horses as a teenager and exercised thoroughbred race horses in middle age. She enjoyed nothing more than trail riding or rounding up cattle on a good horse and continued to ride horseback into her eighties.

Alice loved her land and defended it fiercely. She never shied away from a good fight, be it with a rattlesnake, a trespasser, a county official or the national guard.

In later years, Alice wrote many articles for The Fencepost magazine and served on the board of directors of the Poudre Valley REA.

Alice is survived by her son Travis Ochs, daughter Letha Ochs and daughter-in-law Dee Walsh. The family will hold a private ceremony at a later time. Contributions can be made to the The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg.