Linton Kingsbury Obituary

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Linton Kingsbury
August 12, 1937
February 16, 2023

Linton D. Kingsbury of Colorado Springs died peacefully at home on February 16, 2023. Born in Springfield, Illinois to the late Stuart Stone Kingsbury and Lucille Linton Kingsbury. He grew up in Narberth, Pennsylvania and he graduated from Drexel University with a degree in engineering. He was a proud member of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity for more than 60 plus years. He met his wife, Penelope Voyantzis, on a cruise on the Queen Mary ship. They married in 1959 and moved to Arizona where he went to Thunderbird University where he earned a master's degree in international business management. He and Penny moved to Florida where he worked for Miles Laboratory as a sales manager and then they moved out west to Colorado Springs in 1969 after he got a job offer to run a company called Systemation. He and Penny fell in love and embraced the whole Colorado lifestyle, and they bought some land where they raised chickens, rabbits and kept goats and rode horses. Lin later became an entrepreneur getting into commercial real estate in Colorado Springs, and the hotel and oil business in Oklahoma. He loved skiing and the mountains so much that he moved to Vail and lived there for 20 years. He took full advantage of the outdoors biking, fishing, bird watching, and skiing. When he wasn't in the mountains, he was in his beloved Caribbean. Sailing, scuba diving, free diving, spear fishing, and taking a daily swim in the ocean. Lin was preceded in death by his wife, Penelope and his brother Stuart Kingsbury II. He is survived by his two daughters, Carina Potter and Michelle Hagen; his grandchildren Nicholas Kowalski, Sara Hackleman, and Jessica, Calissa and Brooklyn Hagen, cousin Sharon Fricke, two nephews, two nieces and two great grandsons. A memorial service will be held at Swan-Law Funeral Directors on March 25th, 2023, at 2:30pm.