Pamela M. Heller
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Kenneth R. Heller
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 D Obituary - January 22, 2017
Pamela M. Heller
March 7, 1927 - January 16, 2017
Pamela M. Heller of Parachute, a long-time resident of Mesa, Eagle and Garfield counties who was active in the region’s arts and in community service, died Monday at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction. She was 89 years old. The cause was lung cancer, her husband, Kenneth R. Heller, said.
Her main interest was art. She attended the Vesper George
School of Art and other schools in Boston, MA. She later
brought her skills to various volunteer efforts, working with
children in early education groups. At one point she drafted
maps for Eagle County.
For several years she maintained a small studio in her home in
Parachute and before her death was making drawings of the
Piceance Basin that illustrated the underlying geology of the
region.
As a young woman, she turned her eye for art to fashion, and
in the early 1950’s worked as the fashion coordinator for The
Diamond Department Store in Charleston, West Virginia. The
store sponsored a short television program, hosted by Ms.
Heller, to show off its clothing line. That brief stint led her to
television work in Palm Beach, Florida and, shortly thereafter,
to New York, where, in 1956 she became a co-host of the
nationally televised CBS Morning Show with the Western
personality, Will Rodgers Jr. Later she held several jobs in
marketing and communications. She was also a founding
member of the All Saints Episcopal Church of Parachute-
Battlement Mesa and a life member of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars Auxiliary.
She is survived by her husband, Kenneth R. Heller of
Parachute; children, Michael Norman of Montclair, New Jersey;
Kenneth W. Heller of Glenwood Springs, Colorado; Paula Faith
Heller of Lakewood, Colorado; Charles Heller of Mesa,
Arizona; Christopher Heller of Denver; Olivia Lowe of
Loveland, Colorado, and Matthew Heller of Eagle, Colorado.
She leaves eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
