Second Regular Session
Sixty-first General Assembly
LLS NO. M980932.01 LAG
STATE OF COLORADO
BY REPRESENTATIVE Udall
HOUSE MEMORIAL 98-1006
WHEREAS, By the Will of Divine Providence, our beloved
former member, the Honorable Patricia Eastman Burrows, departed
this life February 13, 1998, at the age of 72; and
WHEREAS, Representative Burrows was born April 21,
1925, in Chamberlain, South Dakota to Thomas Eastman and Ella
Jones Eastman; and
WHEREAS, Representative Burrows received a bachelor's
degree in political science in 1947 from the University of Colorado,
a Colorado teacher's certificate in 1955, and a law degree in
1973 from the University of Denver College of Law; and
WHEREAS, Representative Burrows taught elementary
school from 1952 to 1962 in Boulder, Adams, and Jefferson counties
and business law at the University of Colorado at Denver from
1978 to 1980; and
WHEREAS, From 1975 to 1977, Representative Burrows
was a deputy district attorney for the 17th Judicial District,
in Adams county, and she maintained a private practice of law
from 1977 to 1980, and was a Boulder County Court judge from 1980
to 1983, when she retired; and
WHEREAS, In 1974, Representative Burrows was elected
to the House of Representatives, thus fully exhibiting her passion
for the legal profession and public service; and
WHEREAS, In her term of office, Representative Burrows
was the vicechair of the Judiciary committee, and was a
member of both the Transportation and Energy and Education committees;
and
WHEREAS, Representative Burrows sponsored legislation
on medical malpractice, college scholarship aid for women athletes,
state inheritance tax equity for widows, nuclear plant safety,
and designating Eldorado Canyon as a state park; and
WHEREAS, Representative Burrows was a member of Governor
Richard Lamm's Rocky Flats Task Force, as well as on the governor's
committees on Criminal Justice, Energy Conservation Standards
and Goals, and Accessibility and Confidentiality of Criminal Records;
and
WHEREAS, It is fitting that we, the members of the
House of Representatives of the Sixtyfirst General Assembly,
pay tribute to the years of dedicated public service by Representative
Patricia Burrows and express our deep regret and sorrow occasioned
by her death; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives
of the Sixtyfirst General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
That, in the death of Patricia Burrows, the people
of the State of Colorado have lost an outstanding citizen and
a devoted public servant and that we, the members of the House
of Representatives of the Sixtyfirst General Assembly, do
hereby extend our deep and heartfelt sympathy to the members of
her family and pay tribute to a woman who served her community
and the State of Colorado well and faithfully.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this Memorial be sent to her husband, Lewis, her son David of Seattle, and her daughters Lynne and Laurel of Denver, and Jill of Grants Pass, Oregon.