William “Bill” E. Bremkamp ’49 of Greenwood Village, Colo., died on December 8, 2009. Bill was born in 1922 in Brighton, Colo. He married Josephine Rombeck on January 29, 1949, in Denver. He graduated from Mines with a degree in geological engineering, before beginning a lifelong career in the oil and gas business. However, his other career, that of raising his family, always remained his foremost priority.

Bill is survived by his wife, Josephine; sons, Stephen ’81 and James; daughters, Susan Lang, Carole Shank, Roxanne Sienkiewicz and Karen Carnahan; sister, Elizabeth Hattendorf; 13 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.