Obituary, Denver Post:
Irma Ruth Polhemus, BORN 28 APRIL 1930, DIED 5 JANUARY 2015 Irma R. Polhemus, age 84, of Englewood, Colorado, passed away on the morning of 5 January 2015. Irma was born Irma Ruth Kirchner on a family farm outside of Peterson, Iowa, went to public school in that town, and subsequently earned a BA degree in art history from Drake University in Des Moines. After graduating, she worked as a cartoonist for WOI, the first public television station in the United States, before marrying John T. Polhemus and moving to Anaheim, California, where he had taken a job with Standard Oil. The couple subsequently moved to Englewood, Colorado in 1960, where John pursued a career at Martin Marietta as an electrical engineer while Irma raised their two children, Dan and John, before returning to a career in art as a paid docent at the Denver Art Museum. At the museum she conducted hundreds of public tours over a span of 25 years, introducing children and adults of all ages to the art of Africa, Asia, Pre-Colombian North America, and the Pacific region, the latter an area in which she had developed particular expertise. She also generously donated her time as a member of various support and lecture groups for the institution's New World arts programs, including the Douglas Society, Alianza de las Artes Americanas, and Malinches. Irma loved the adventure of travel, and visited over 60 foreign countries, in the process amassing notable collections of masks and other carvings from New Guinea and surrounding Melanesia, textiles from Indochina and numerous islands in the Malay Archipelago, and native folk art from many other regions. She is survived by her sons, Dan and John, their wives, 4 grandchildren, 3 step-grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren, and 1 stepgrandchild. Arrangements for memorial services are pending.
Irma Ruth Polhemus, BORN 28 APRIL 1930, DIED 5 JANUARY 2015 Irma R. Polhemus, age 84, of Englewood, Colorado, passed away on the morning of 5 January 2015. Irma was born Irma Ruth Kirchner on a family farm outside of Peterson, Iowa, went to public school in that town, and subsequently earned a BA degree in art history from Drake University in Des Moines. After graduating, she worked as a cartoonist for WOI, the first public television station in the United States, before marrying John T. Polhemus and moving to Anaheim, California, where he had taken a job with Standard Oil. The couple subsequently moved to Englewood, Colorado in 1960, where John pursued a career at Martin Marietta as an electrical engineer while Irma raised their two children, Dan and John, before returning to a career in art as a paid docent at the Denver Art Museum. At the museum she conducted hundreds of public tours over a span of 25 years, introducing children and adults of all ages to the art of Africa, Asia, Pre-Colombian North America, and the Pacific region, the latter an area in which she had developed particular expertise. She also generously donated her time as a member of various support and lecture groups for the institution's New World arts programs, including the Douglas Society, Alianza de las Artes Americanas, and Malinches. Irma loved the adventure of travel, and visited over 60 foreign countries, in the process amassing notable collections of masks and other carvings from New Guinea and surrounding Melanesia, textiles from Indochina and numerous islands in the Malay Archipelago, and native folk art from many other regions. She is survived by her sons, Dan and John, their wives, 4 grandchildren, 3 step-grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren, and 1 stepgrandchild. Arrangements for memorial services are pending.
Obituary, Denver Post:
Irma Ruth Polhemus, BORN 28 APRIL 1930, DIED 5 JANUARY 2015 Irma R. Polhemus, age 84, of Englewood, Colorado, passed away on the morning of 5 January 2015. Irma was born Irma Ruth Kirchner on a family farm outside of Peterson, Iowa, went to public school in that town, and subsequently earned a BA degree in art history from Drake University in Des Moines. After graduating, she worked as a cartoonist for WOI, the first public television station in the United States, before marrying John T. Polhemus and moving to Anaheim, California, where he had taken a job with Standard Oil. The couple subsequently moved to Englewood, Colorado in 1960, where John pursued a career at Martin Marietta as an electrical engineer while Irma raised their two children, Dan and John, before returning to a career in art as a paid docent at the Denver Art Museum. At the museum she conducted hundreds of public tours over a span of 25 years, introducing children and adults of all ages to the art of Africa, Asia, Pre-Colombian North America, and the Pacific region, the latter an area in which she had developed particular expertise. She also generously donated her time as a member of various support and lecture groups for the institution's New World arts programs, including the Douglas Society, Alianza de las Artes Americanas, and Malinches. Irma loved the adventure of travel, and visited over 60 foreign countries, in the process amassing notable collections of masks and other carvings from New Guinea and surrounding Melanesia, textiles from Indochina and numerous islands in the Malay Archipelago, and native folk art from many other regions. She is survived by her sons, Dan and John, their wives, 4 grandchildren, 3 step-grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren, and 1 stepgrandchild. Arrangements for memorial services are pending.
Irma Ruth Polhemus, BORN 28 APRIL 1930, DIED 5 JANUARY 2015 Irma R. Polhemus, age 84, of Englewood, Colorado, passed away on the morning of 5 January 2015. Irma was born Irma Ruth Kirchner on a family farm outside of Peterson, Iowa, went to public school in that town, and subsequently earned a BA degree in art history from Drake University in Des Moines. After graduating, she worked as a cartoonist for WOI, the first public television station in the United States, before marrying John T. Polhemus and moving to Anaheim, California, where he had taken a job with Standard Oil. The couple subsequently moved to Englewood, Colorado in 1960, where John pursued a career at Martin Marietta as an electrical engineer while Irma raised their two children, Dan and John, before returning to a career in art as a paid docent at the Denver Art Museum. At the museum she conducted hundreds of public tours over a span of 25 years, introducing children and adults of all ages to the art of Africa, Asia, Pre-Colombian North America, and the Pacific region, the latter an area in which she had developed particular expertise. She also generously donated her time as a member of various support and lecture groups for the institution's New World arts programs, including the Douglas Society, Alianza de las Artes Americanas, and Malinches. Irma loved the adventure of travel, and visited over 60 foreign countries, in the process amassing notable collections of masks and other carvings from New Guinea and surrounding Melanesia, textiles from Indochina and numerous islands in the Malay Archipelago, and native folk art from many other regions. She is survived by her sons, Dan and John, their wives, 4 grandchildren, 3 step-grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren, and 1 stepgrandchild. Arrangements for memorial services are pending.
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