Peter Neidecker

1925 - 2017

Peter Aubrey Coats Neidecker was born in Paris, July 11, 1925. He married Dora Drake Shaw, (Dody), in Westbury, Long Island, NY in 1951. He attended Lycee Janson de Sally in Paris, and the Scaitcliffe Boarding School in Surrey, England. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and received his Economics Degree from Princeton University, and his Master of Engineering degree from Brown University. He served in World War Two as an ensign and skipper of a landing craft in the South Pacific. He was a consultant in NYC, then plant manager and Director of Dominion Chain Company in Toronto Canada. He founded National Wire in Denver in 1959, and invented the ski ticket wicket, along with many industrial and electronic product innovations. He volunteered as President of the United Way of Niagara County, Canada, the Boys and Girls Club of Denver, the Board of Trustees of the Kent (Denver) School, and the Rotary Club in Englewood, (mentoring 4th graders from Bishop Elementary for over 18 years). He was a member of the Seawanhaka Yacht Club, (Oyster Bay, L.I.), DKE fraternity, and the Denver Country Club. He was bi-lingual all his life, visiting France almost every year, including 2017. He was an avid sailor, skier, tennis player and fly-fisherman. He is survived by his wife, Dody, 3 children, Sylvia, Peter and Sally, 8 grandchildren, and 6 greatgrandchildren. Services will be held on Saturday, September 16, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. at Calvary Episcopal Church, 1320 Arapahoe St., Golden, CO. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Englewood Rotary Club and/or the Boys and Girls Club of Denver.