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1938
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2023
Carolee Truesdale Obituary
Carolee Truesdale
December 12, 1938
May 13, 2023
Carolee Sinfield Truesdale, née Carole Edith Sinfield, December 12, 1938 in Portland, Oregon, the youngest child of Phoebe Isabel (Peggy Elizabeth) Wright and Walter Herbert Sinfield.
In 1959 she married James Wynne Truesdale of Tacoma, Washington in Beaverton, Oregon.
For more than twenty years, she made a home for her growing family in a dozen different locations from California to Germany, settling in Colorado Springs in 1984.
She is survived by her husband of nearly 64 years, James, and their children Peggy Truesdale Haney, Patrick Wynne, James Walter, Jennifer Truesdale Henderson, Jesse James, Christine Carolee, grandchildren, Alexander Truesdale Perry, Lauren Perry-Rummel, Joanna Settineri, Mia Truesdale, Jack Henderson, Caerwyn Henderson, Tucker Truesdale & Hannah Williford and great grandchildren Logan Myers, and Lincoln Settineri.
Her two brothers, her son, Justin Nathaniel, and her granddaughter, Amanda Truesdale-Hix predeceased her.
A memorial service will be held at a later date.
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