Dolores Virginia Casey

Dolores Virginia Casey passed away peacefully on February 9, 2025 at age 92.

A true Denver Colorado native, Dolores was born at Denver General Hospital on May 16, 1932 to Pauline (Lathrum) and Dan Abeyta. She fondly reminisced about her childhood growing up in Denver. She would walk to the Denver Public Library and bring her books to read at the Sea Lion Fountain in Civic Center Park. This was the beginning of her great passion of reading.

Dolores attended Saint Elizabeth Grammar School in Denver’s Auraria neighborhood. The school stood behind St. Elizabeth church where the current Auraria Campus Central Classroom Building now stands (coincidently the same building where her daughter Laura spent her career at MSU working in).

She graduated from Saint Joseph’s High School in Denver in 1950 where she enjoyed learning, her friends, and cheering on her two older brothers at their Bulldog sporting events.

After graduation she met her future husband Frank Casey, from Brooklyn New York, at a USO dance where he was stationed at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver. They married in 1952 and spent a yearlong honeymoon living in Melbourne Florida where Frank was stationed at Patrick Air Force Base.

As a young couple they decided to make beautiful Colorado their home and settled into the suburbs north of Denver to work and raise their three children.

Dolores embraced her vocation as a homemaker making her family her number one priority. She was an excellent cook, seamstress, and caregiver. She was loved by her family and friends as she made holidays such special occasions filled with delicious food and fun.

She was a Denver Broncos Fan and season ticket holder since their inception. Dolores and Frank were fortunate to travel to visit friends spread across the United States as well to Canada to see the 1976 Olympic Games.

Dolores will be remembered by those who loved her as a kind, loving, giving, patient and resilient soul.

Dolores is survived by her two daughters Colleen Carwin and Laura Cruz (Rick), her grandchildren, Patrick (Stephanie) Carwin, Christine (Jesse) Piburn, Ryan Cruz and Taralyn Cruz, her great grandchildren Ethan Carwin and Ellie Piburn and her sister Marge (Joe) Sarconi. Preceded in death by her parents, husband Frank Casey, son Francis Richard Casey and Son in Law Tom Carwin and her siblings Ted, Richard and Ronald Abeyta.