Dolores N. Plested, 101, died November 11 at her home in Denver.
Born in Trinidad, Colo., in 1908, she was a graduate of the University of Colorado in 1931.
Plested had a long and successful career as a journalist, having lived in New York City where she worked for the聽New York Times聽and the聽New York Herald Tribune. After the outbreak of World War II, Plested returned to Colorado where she worked for Denver radio station KMYR, and later was the the western correspondent for Fairchild News Service, the umbrella organization for聽Women鈥檚 Wear Daily.
When President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in Denver in 1955, Plested covered that event, and was one of two women who were members of the summer White House Press Corps during the Eisenhower administration. She also covered Jackie Kennedy when she and her family visited Colorado for a holiday skiing vacation in the early 1960s.
Plested was a member of the聽Denver Woman鈥檚 Press Club, and a member of聽Warren Methodist Church聽in Denver were she was a founder of聽Warren Village, a church sponsored home for women and their children in Denver. She was also a founder of the聽Friends of Historical Trinidad聽and the聽Mitchell Museum of Western Art聽in Trinidad.
She was a lifelong supporter of the CU Buffs football program.
Plested leaves many nieces and nephews and friends of all ages and walks of life.
Denver Woman鈥檚 Press Club website member page for Dolores Plested.
