Mary Roudebush

Mary was born on Bastille Day, July 14, 1947, in Hamilton, Ohio, and named for her maternal grandmother (who had died Jan. 1947). She was valedictorian at Taft High School, Hamilton, Ohio, in 1965. She graduated with a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1969 (Phi Beta Kappa and Honors all four years). She graduated with an M.S.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, in 1971 (Beta Alpha Psi accounting honorary). She had the highest score on the May 1971 C.P.A. examination in Colorado. She worked for Price Waterhouse for 4 years (when women were new to accounting firms).

Mary then decided to go to law school. She graduated from George Washington Law School, Washington, D.C., with a J.D. in 1978 (Order of the Coif, Law Review, top 3% of class). She clerked for Judge William Doyle, Tenth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver, became a partner at the law firm of Davis Graham & Stubbs, worked as an administrative law judge for the Colorado State Personnel Board, worked as an attorney for the Public Employee's Retirement Association of Colorado, and clerked for Judge Marcia Krieger of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Denver. She practiced in tax, pensions, contracts, and other areas of law prior to retirement.

Mary had many volunteer activities over the years, including Littleton Public Schools accountability committees, the CBA High School Mock Trial competition, Destination Imagination, and ushering for the Denver Brass.

Mary's children were the love of her life. She is survived by a son, Jeffrey Scott Lepthien, born April 29, 1987, now a Senior Software Engineer at a mobile phone game company in San Francisco, and a daughter, Katrina Marie Lepthien, born January 3, 1989, now at Des Moines University completing her D.O.

She married Larry Lepthien August 4, 1984, and later divorced. Mary loved gardening, traveling, photography, scrapbooking, and making desserts. Mary was preceded in death by her parents Dorothy and Allen Roudebush and her sister Helen Coulter Roudebush Lonsdale.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado; the Denver Brass; the Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue; or a charity of the donor's choice.