Florence Walsh

Florence Angela Walsh, 91, died Saturday, May 5, 2012, in Durango, Colorado. A Catholic Mass to celebrate her life will be held in Denver at Blessed Sacrament Church on May 19, 2012. Her ashes will be interred at Fort Logan Cemetery.

Mrs. Walsh was born April 30, 1921, in Creighton, Nebraska, the daughter of John and Anna Elizabeth (Dartman) Muegge. Florence attended grades 1-12 at St. Ludgers Academy in Creighton. After school she went to work teaching in a one room country school house in Nebraska.

After the outbreak of World War II, Florence moved to Washington DC and worked as a “Government Girl” at the Pentagon as a typist and secretary, until the end of the war. After the war she transferred to a Civil Service job in Denver, where she met her future spouse. She married Edwin Peter Walsh at Blessed Sacrament Church in Denver on July 8, 1950. She remained in Denver until 2010, when she moved to Durango, Colorado, to live with her daughter.

Florence enjoyed dancing and water aerobics. She loved to plant flowers. She was a great seamstress and she loved making rosaries. She was a member of the Altar and Rosary Society at Blessed Sacrament Church for many years. At the age of 72 she became a founding member of the Cactus Stars, a professional line dance troupe that performed at venues all over the Denver area for more than six years.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Edwin Peter Walsh, her son John Peter Walsh, one grandchild and one great-grandchild.

She is survived by seven children: daughter Linda (Ed) Lujan of Laveen, Arizona; daughter Alice (Jim) Brouhard of Glenwood Springs, Colorado; daughter Judy Walsh of Littleton, Colorado; daughter Carol Walsh of Carbondale, Colorado; daughter Kathleen (Terry) Briggs of Durango, Colorado; son Thomas (Nancy) Walsh of Castle Rock, Colorado; daughter Angela Walsh of Fruita, Colorado; brother John Robert Muegge of Loomis, California; 12 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.