- Date Of Birth: August 31, 1926
- Date Of Death: July 11, 2021
- State: Colorado
HUSBAND FATHER PHYSICIAN EDUCATOR
N Kenneth (Ken) Furlong died on July 11, 2021. He was 94. He is survived by his loving wife, Helen, and daughters Karen Childs (husband Joseph and grandchildren Kathleen and Drew), Lucy Smith, Patricia Furlong (grandson Jacob), and Susan Fisher (husband Rob).
He was born in Youngstown, Ohio on August 31, 1926; the only child of Virginia McBreen Furlong and Neil Joseph Furlong. He left Youngstown at the age of 2 months and hadn’t been back since.
At sixteen, Ken graduated from Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx, NY. His college education at the College of the Holy Cross was interrupted when he enlisted in the Navy in 1943. After the war, Ken returned to Holy Cross and graduated with a B.S. in Biology. He immediately began medical school at the University of Cincinnati.
Ken met Helen on a blind date during his freshman year of medical school. He said it was the best thing that ever happened to him. Nine months later, they began a happy marriage of 73 years.
Ken was an expert skier. He taught Helen to ski at Boyne Mountain, MI. After watching all the snow melt off that ski hill one year, they took to skiing in Colorado. Skiing and the Rocky Mountains lured Ken and Helen to relocate to Colorado in 1975. Colorado has meant home ever since.
Ken was Medical Director at Lutheran Hospital, on the faculty of Family Medicine Residency at Mercy Hospital, and served as Associate Dean of Continuing Education at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He ended his career overseeing eight outpatient clinics where he supervised resident physicians.
Ken was an avid and accomplished photographer. In addition to his own fine art work, Ken photographed thousands of artworks as a volunteer for the Denver Art Museum.
Ken was a member of Rotary International for over fifty years. He was proud of Rotary’s fight to cure Polio, foster literacy, and provide clean water and sanitation around the globe.
