Elizabeth Ellsworth Freeman Memorial Fund
Duncan's Place is honored to create the Elizabeth Ellsworth Freeman Memorial Fund, which will establish an ongoing, low cost vaccine clinic.
Lizzie's father, Skip, has been so generous to us, and we hope to keep Lizzie's memory alive through this program.
Please consider making a donation in Lizzie's memory to help the animals of Colorado.
Lizzie passed away on Thursday, April 16, in Castle Rock, Colorado. She was born Anchorage, Alaska on December 1, 1979. She was raised in south Anchorage and attended O'Malley Elementary, Hanshew Middle School and graduated with honors from Robert Service High School in 1998.
She started an undergraduate program at Oregon State University in Corvallis and later transferred to The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she graduated with honors and multiple awards of recognition for excellence with a degree in Mathematics in 2003. Lizzie subsequently completed a two year Graduate Program in Computer Information Systems, with honors, in 18 months at Colorado State University in Fort Collins in December of 2005.
Lizzie began her professional career in Information Technology in Las Vegas at the Mariposa Company as a Database Engineer where she worked for approximately 18 months. In July of 2006, she accepted a position with Dish Network as a Senior Analyst Developer in Denver so that she could return to Colorado. She had recently taken a more advanced position with Aurora Mortgage Company in Littleton, Colorado as a Senior Analyst. She had recently purchased her first home.
Lizzie loved to work hard and was a success in all her endeavors. She was very spiritual, talented and beautiful, and had many and varied interests, with a true zest for life. She was a pianist, a singer, artist, model, dancer and athlete. She had been a gymnast and cheerleader in high school and was a wake boarder and snow boarder. She spent almost every weekend in the Rockies with her very special group of snowboarding friends. She also had many other friends from all walks of life in Alaska, Las Vegas, Oregon and Colorado.
Lizzie had a particular connection and love for children. She was a natural and gifted teacher and spent almost every day as she grew up helping her parents with the operation of their Sylvan Learning Center businesses in Anchorage. She had plans to pursue a PhD at the University of Colorado in Boulder and dreamed of working at NASA. She had special interests in mathematics, and especially in space exploration. She had a strong desire and vision to develop a curriculum to reach and inspire children with the wonders of the universe.
It has been a great comfort to her family to know that she was at one of the happiest and most fulfilling times of her life.
I wish you enough
by Bob Perks
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life
appear much bigger
I wish you enough gain to satisfy all your dreams
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all you possess
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final goodbye
And more than anything,
I wish you to know that who you are, is enough.
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