Lee Ann’s CRMS journey started as a new parent living in the New Boy’s Dorm, on the banks of the Crystal River. Lee Ann was both an advisor and an educator in the infancy of Colorado Rocky Mountain School, at Aspen Country Day School, Colorado Mountain College, Carbondale Public Schools, Montessori schools, and others. When not educating, she focused on the arts, entertainment, and the environment, including the early days of Carbondale Council of Arts and Humanities, Crystal Theatre productions, Mountain Fair, and the Aspen Valley Land Trust.

Her remarkable ability to transcend generations in creating, growing and fostering relationships, especially with young people, was her “superpower”. She did all of this with passion, wit, and a contagious smile that caused many others to want to follow in her footsteps. It is both her many contributions and this legacy of love she leaves eternally behind.

Lee Ann was born April 26, 1935, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Shipley School and Vassar College and in 1962, married George Pomeroy Eustis. The young couple moved shortly afterward to Colorado, ultimately landing in Carbondale in 1965.

Appropriately, Lee Ann gently passed in the spring of 2022, living next to that same magical river, just about a mile upstream…