Florence was born on June 9th, 1925 in Birmingham, England. She lived through many frightening times during WWII. During that time she met her husband from America. He was a serviceman in the Army Signal Corp. They were married in 1945 at the end of the war. John traveled home and later Florence followed. From Texas they moved to Colorado. Once in Colorado she taught and directed at University Preschool. She was quite well known as "Miss Florence". She loved children and worked with them most of her life. Florence is survived by her husband John Saunders, her daughter, Andrea (Dennis) and her son Bill (Karen), her grandchildren Michael, Ladd, Seth, Laura and Nathan and 8 great- grandchildren.