Kirby B. Hughes

Most people gradually fade away from concious memory when they pass, but others are remembered over time because the power of their personalities and what they accomplished when they were alive. I remember Kirby clearly because of his friendly, attentive, and energetic personality and because he accomplished much in the venue (the Colorado Sierra Club) where I knew him. His activities in mining and other environmental issues, including Chapter management, were vigorous and have not been...

Kirby was the person in the Colorado Chapter of the Sierra Club who, more than any other person for many years, followed mining issues assiduously for us. We have yet to find anyone remotely as knowledgeable and as involved in this vital issue as Kirby was. I was fairly well acquainted with Kirby personally and was shocked by his sudden and fatal illness. In my experience, knowledge of a person's personality fades after his death, but the hole left in our environmental protection efforts by...

I haven't thought about Kirby in years and when I googled his name it broke my heart to read that he had passed. Kirby was was the first person I rented a home from. He had such a wonderful giving spirit. He always calling to check on us, to make sure everything was going well. It wasn't nothing unusual for me to come home from work and see him visiting my exhusband and drinking a beer. He came to visit us when each of our daughter were born. He was just as excited to see and hold them as we...

Kirby was a great soul, a helping personality, and a person whose expertise on certain environmental issues in Colorado was enormously helpful to the Colorado Sierra Club in particular. He lived an interesting and varied life, cut way too short.

I remember Kirby's intelligent conversations and sage advice when we worked together at CTA. Our friendship extended beyond work to dinner at Alpenglow Stube on Keystone Mountain, and a couple fun ski days at Copper Mountain. Kirby and Sara were kind enough to share their home with us when we passed through Colorado Springs a few years ago. RIP old friend.