My father Leonard was born on September 21st, 1933 to Ethel Agnes Defreece and Leonard Fred Dobrinski at 4:45 AM in the Saint Benadict Catholic Hospital in Sterling, Colorado. He was 82yrs old when he died. In 1942 when he was 8 yrs old they moved to Denver, they drove there in a 1934 Buick only going about 40 mph. His father got a job at the Cobusco Defense Plant where they made bombs for the war. Leonard's parents divorced in 1943 when he was 10yrs old. It was a hard life, him and his mother were dirt poor Leonard dropped out of high school to go to work full time to help his mother pay bills, then when he was 19yrs old he was drafted into the Army. Then in 1955 when he was almost 22yrs old, he got to go home. He worked with his father doing carpenter work. He met a woman named Anna Ferguson in abt 1963, in 1965 they were married. They bought a house in Adams County Colorado in 1965 also, that is where they raised their three children. Leonard and Anna were divorced in 1997, but Leonard kept their home and lived there until he passed away on February 1st, 2016. My father loved the Denver Bronco's football team, and never missed watching a game. He didn't live long enough to see the Bronco's win the super bowl in 2016, but we did bury him in his Bronco jersey. My father loved to fish, and growing up it seems that's all we did, but us kids loved going with him. He went on his last fishing trip in July of 2015, which is the photo shown here, he was 81. Dad died from congestive heart failure caused from a heart attack he had in November of 2013. Dad did not want to die, he was not ready, he fought hard and long, but it was just too much for him to take, his heart failed him. He couldn't even get out of bed any longer, he got weaker and weaker, and finally gave up. It was very hard on me to watch a man that I loved die knowing he did not want to go yet, I took care of him myself as best I could and honored his wish to die at home. I would have given up some of my life just so he could have lived a healthy longer life without having a heart attack. I think of him everyday and will for the rest of my life.