Donald M. Culver ’47

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Donald died peacefully June 28, 2012, at Boulder Valley Farm in Lafayette, Colo. The cause of death was
cancer.

Don attended the Gilman School in Baltimore and was a graduate of St. Paul’s School. At Princeton he was a member of Ivy Club and received his diploma in February 1948. Don served for three years in the Marine Corps during World War II and for two years in the Korean War. He was discharged as a first lieutenant.

Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, an early pioneer in Boulder, Donald was active in banking, real estate, and cattle-ranching. He loved spending time at his Owl Creek Ranch in North Park, his house in Antigua, and his home at Boulder Valley Farm, which he and his wife, Rosalie, nurtured into a place of beauty.

Don is survived by Rosalie; his sons, Daniel and John; granddaughter Daillen Culver; and stepsons Charles, Bruce, Edwin, and John Fenwick. To them all, the class extends deepest sympathy.

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