Donald E. Bingham
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Bettye
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 D Obituary - December 18, 2014
Donald E. Bingham was born
June 19, 1940, at St. Luke’s Hospital
in Denver, Colorado. He was
the son of Geraldine and Earl Miller.
Don grew up in Bailey, Colorado
after being adopted by Holland W.
Bingham in 1944. Don attended
school in various locations, but always
considered Bailey as his home and returned there for his high
school years, where he lived with his grandmother until enlisting in
the U.S. Navy in December of 1958. He served his country mostly at
sea in the Pacific until his discharge from active duty in April of 1962.
Don joined the police department in Leadville, Colorado in 1965,
and over the next eight years he was involved in city and county law
enforcement in the Leadville area.
During his lifetime, Don worked in law enforcement, construction
as a heavy equipment operator and hard rock miner, and as a painting
contractor. In the mid 1970’s he worked in South Dakota, where he
returned to his first love as a Deputy Sheriff in Codington County at
Water Town, South Dakota.
Don returned to Colorado in 1979, and met his wife, Bettye, in Grand
Junction. He lived out his life in Grand Junction and started Bingham
Painting in July of 1979.
Don is survived by his beloved wife, Bettye; daughters, Twilight Bingham
of Denver; Lauri Denny of Aurora, and Linda Dalley of Rifle; his
sons, James Bingham of Trinidad and Leslie Stroup of Reno, Nevada.
He is also survived by ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
He was an avid firearms collector and consultant and never lost his
love for law enforcement. His greatest loves were his country, his family,
people in general, and a small white cockatoo named Pitri.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 7 B Death Notice - December 19, 2014
Donald Earl Bingham, 74, died Dec. 15, 2014.
Services will be at 3 p.m. today at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery
of Western Colorado.
Survivors include his wife, Bettye of Rifle; two sons, James of
Trinidad and Leslie Stroup of Reno, Nevada; three daughters, Twilight
Bingham of Denver, Lauri Denny of Aurora and Linda Dalley
of Rifle; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
