Quzenne Rollosson

Q Rollosson, 84, passed away on October 12, 2009. Q. Rollosson was born Quzenne Yvonne Lovely in Ames, Oklahoma in what was known as the Cherokee Strip on September 11, 1925 to Era and Russell Lovely. She was the only girl of 4 children. Her dad was a hunter and dog trainer and local sheriff, whose shooting skills were so legendary he was written up in Field and Stream. With a locally prominent father and three brothers Q learned to survive by wit, sarcasm and physical courage. Like many women of her generation she married quickly after WWII hoping to start a family and have a normal life. She had a daughter, Ginger, and after eight years she divorced and took a job at Tinker Air Force base in Oklahoma City. Not long after, her pioneering spirit took her to a better job at Sandia Air Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She later took a job at Sandia Research Labratories. It was in Albuquerque in 1957 that she met and married Dr. G. William "Bill" Rollosson a physicist at Sandia Research Labratories. They had fraternal twin girls, Shelli Ann and Terri Jo in 1961. Q pushed all of her girls to be the best that they could be. She was a true feminist in that regard. Her daughter Ginger was a forceful court clerk in Judge John Kochenburger's county court; Shelli who had Down's Syndrome became an "independent woman" (with some help!); and Terri Jo graduated from Stanford University with a master's degree in chemical engineering. Q loved to travel. She and Bill traveled all over Europe, toured Russia, cruised the Caribbean, and railed across Canada to Alaska. They lived for a time in Thailand and were citizens of the world. After Bill retired from teaching physics at Menlo College in Menlo, California in 1995 they moved to Fort Collins and became ardent fans of CSU women's basketball and volleyball. Q volunteered for Tom Collins summer basketball camps and they were boosters for Tom Hilbert's volleyball program. Q was a force of life. She was frightening if you were on her bad side and a champion fighter if she were on your side. Her family sometimes thought she might meet her demise while confronting people who illegally parked in a handicap parking spot--a pet peeve of hers. Other irritations were overcooked vegetables and undercooked meat. Her favorite things were playing bridge, travel, flower gardening, sewing and photographing her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She is survived by her husband of 51 years, Bill Rollosson; her daughter Ginger Cook and husband Bill, their two children J.D. Cook and his wife Kari and their two children Kayli and Liam; Tammy Shier and her husband Brad and their three children Shelby, Natalie and Chris; and her brother Bob Lovely and his children. Formal services have not been planned at this time. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in her name to Foothills Gateway.