Bruce Many

1948 - 2026

Bruce Scott Many passed away on March 4, 2026. He was 77 years old.
Bruce was born to Mabel Rose Ziemer and Alfred Louis Many in Hackensack, New Jersey. He graduated from Pascack Hills High School in Montvale, NJ, and worked for a short time in the emerging computer industry. He then became a heavy equipment operator and demolition specialist in the construction industry. He traveled to Colorado in 1975, where he met his future wife, Angie, and he worked drilling charge holes in the Climax molybdenum mine near Idaho Springs, Colorado. The couple moved to the Black Hills of South Dakota a few years later. They celebrated 50 years together last April.
Angie and Bruce lived outside Hill City, South Dakota, for 20 years. He transitioned into logging as a timber faller and skidder operator, and then became a logging contractor in 1983, operating as Dakota Logging and later as Woodland Treatment Specialists, LLP. For several years, he and Angie owned Black Hills Power Equipment, formerly Andrea's Chain Saws.
Over the years, Bruce also performed timber management and consulting jobs in Kentucky, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Montana before the family moved to Cedaredge, Colorado in 1998, where he worked in the timber until he retired. He took pride in leaving harvested lands in the best shape possible so that they would look good and regenerate well.
He married Angie (Angela) Gail Boswell, from Montgomery, Alabama, and they had two children: Bobbie Catherine and Kenneth Andrew. Bruce's two children, Scott Keith and Christine Denise, from a previous marriage to Janice Lundstrom, also became part of the couple's lives.
Bruce enjoyed playing baseball and softball, fishing, hunting, playing drums, camping, and riding dirt bikes and ATVs with his family.
He is survived by his wife, Angie; their daughter Bobbie Many, CA, and son Kenny Many, Denver, CO; his daughter Christine Many (James Meyer), his granddaughters Ryan Meyer, Jamie Meyer, McKayla Meyer, and Kerrie Meyer, and great-granddaughters Autumn and Crimson, all of the Western Slope of Colorado; and his grandson Taiga Many, of CA.
He was preceded in death by his parents and his son, Scott Many.
No services will be held.