Leland Paul Sidwell

Leland Paul Sidwell was born in Wellington, Colorado to parents William Edward and Opal Vivian Sidwell. In Nunn High School he played basketball, football and track. Leland was a member of Nunn Producers 4-H Club. At 16, he caught a Catch-It Calf at the Denver National Stock Show and returned the next year to claim the Championship. While in the Air Force, he was one of two Airmen assigned to install and test the first Bendix Navigational Computer on the B-29 in Alaska. Leland was a Test Engineer at Ramo Wooldridge for the Spy in the Sky satellite computing system. He was a Design Engineer with General Electric and Hewlitt Packard as well as a Systems Engineer with IBM for over 16 years before forming his own company, International Consulting & Education, Inc. (ICE) Leland authored two patents on Storage for large frame computers and remained active in his ICE computer business through 2012. In his other business, Sidwell Enterprises, Inc., he produced an EPA approved product, De-Bug, for treatment of grasshoppers and crickets while also operating a tree spraying business for eradication of the pine beetle. Leland was active in the Arabian horse business and was President of the Colorado Arabian Horse Club.

Leland is survived by his wife of 65 years, Donna Dee Balmer Sidwell; three children, Kim Alita Factor of WI, Karla Kae Hogan of CO and Sherman Lee Sidwell of VA, and families; sisters Era Berg, Monna DePorter and Shirley Bradshaw.

There will be a service honoring Leland for his US Air Force duty at Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, on Friday, July 27th at 1:15-1:30pm; and a Celebration of Life at the Nunn Community Center in Nunn, CO from 2-4pm on Saturday, July 28th. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his name to the charity of your choice.