Darlene Axtell Obituary

"Dee" Axtell was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the daughter of Sylvia Anna Marie Hort and Clyde Clayton Wheeler. She was preceded in death by her parents, her step-grandson Daniel Hawk Axtell and by her husband Eugene Nelson Axtell, Colonel, US Army (1915-1969); and by her first husband Delmer Gabriel Olson, Ensign, US Navy Air Force (1921-1944). Axtell served in the WAAC in 1942. Her long and varied work career in administration, public relations, publishing, broadcasting, marketing and advertising included employment with the Omaha World Herald, the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service at Athens, Geneva, and at Washington D.C for International Conferences Division; by Kiplinger's "Changing Times Magazine" at Washington, D.C.; Radio KIDD, Monterey, CA; Deutscher Auslandiest fur Rundfunk und Fernsehen, Bonn (Germany) KETV, ABC TV affiliate at Omaha; and in Colorado Springs, with Gabel Advertising Inc. Axtell studied acting and performed with Bliss-Hayden Theatre and Geller's Workshop in Los Angeles and retained her interest in theatre through acting, writing and producing/directing plays while posted abroad as well as in the U.S. She is survived by her step-sons Michael Van Nicholas Axtell of Denver and William Ray Axtell of Breckenridge; her step-grandson Matthew Axtell, of Aspen, his mother Joann Connington of Crestone. Axtell will be interred at Ft. Logan Cemetery, Denver.