Dennis Lee Mundt

Dennis passed away at home on Friday, August 22.  Dennis was born to Clarence Raymond Mundt and Bertha June Lee on August 29,1945 at the Longmont Hospital.  His family farmed east of Longmont on Hwy. 66.  He was a farmer from a very young age when he would crawl under the yard fence and head to where his father was working in a field.  He attended Mead schools until they consolidated, and he had to finish high school in Longmont.  Farming followed most school days when he got home and on weekends.  He graduated in 1963 and started full-time farming with his father.

Dennis married Kathleen Coleman in February 1966, and they had two wonderful children, Todd Lee and Tricia Kay.  They separated.

Dennis served a short time in the Army during Vietnam and was stationed in Mannheim, Germany and then in California.

Dennis married Lola Girardin in July 1972.  She had two daughters from a previous marriage: Debra Rae Frank and Kelli Lynn Frank.  With his new family life became farming, school, art classes, scouting, winter vacations, graduation, and weddings.

While farming southeast of Longmont, Dennis raised sugar beets, corn, Coors barley, pinto beans, white wheat and alfalfa each year.  He also did custom combining for friends and neighbors. He was hardworking and dedicated dawn to night. In 1992, he moved his farming operation east of Greeley; and added onions and lettuce to his crops.  Through the years, he hired help on the farm and was fortunate to have many who were skilled, reliable workers, stayed several years and became like part of the family.  His favorite time of the year was harvest and Bronco games.

He received recognitions through the years for Highest Production, Superior Beet Quality, Western Sugar President’s Club, and Coors Top Barley Grower.  He enjoyed working on ag issues and projects serving his community on the American Pride Coop board, the Sugar Beet board, and Boulder County and Weld County Farm Bureau boards. He was a member of the Sirloin Club and then the T-Bone Club. 

Dennis adopted his first grandchild, Zachary Tyler, because of his deep love for him and the situation required.  He had seven more grandchildren, and he loved them everyone: Matthew, Abigail, Marco, Gilly. Sarah, Jesse, and Thomas. He looked forward to their visits and a chance to share his joys of farming and the wonders of the Colorado mountains: site seeing, hiking, riding up ski lifts and down alpine slides, riding horses, and even left time for souvenir shopping.

Dennis retired in 1999, sold his machinery, and moved to Eaton.  He went to work for Syngenta, raised sugar beet test plots in northern Colorado, and sold Hilleshog beet seed.  He retired from Syngenta but continued to work on farms when needed, driving trucks for harvest, and working for Western Sugar maintaining their pile grounds and during harvest.  He liked barbecue, hamburgers, salmon, homemade chocolate chip cookies, root beer freezes, popcorn, lemon meringue pie, and chocolate sundaes.  He was a man of few words but was often heard say, “There is no more vanilla ice cream; put it on the list.” He discovered some of his favorite events were covered on TV: Nascar races, rodeos, and tractor pulls but still worked daily in the yard.

Dennis is survived by his wife Lola; Zachary Mundt, son; Todd Mundt, son; Tricia Mundt, daughter; Debra Fink (Blane) step-daughter; Kelli Narvaez (Tony) step-daughter; Matthew Heil, grandson; Abigail Fink, granddaughter; Marco Narvaez, grandson; Gilly Narvaez, grandson; Sarah Fink, granddaughter; Jesse Fink, grandson; Thomas, grandson; and Carol Carper, cousin.

At Dennis’ request, no services will be held. Memorial gifts may be made to the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 7023, Merrifield, VA 22116-7023