Susan Marie “Sugar” Wieseler
CROFTON — Susan (Sugar) Marie Wieseler, wife of Dean Wieseler, Crofton, died June 6, 2020, at home after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
A public viewing will be held Thursday, at church, from 5-8 p.m., with a vigil service at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue one hour prior to services Friday at church.
Mass of Christian Burial will be June 12, at 10:30 a.m., at the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Crofton, with Rev. Eric Olsen officiating. Cremation will follow the mass.
A Celebration of Life will be held in Denver at a future date. Details will be posted on Sue’s Facebook page once available. To watch a live stream of the funeral service, please go to www.facebook.com/ WintzRay/live
Arrangements are under the direction of the Wintz Funeral Home, Crofton.
Sue was born Oct. 22, 1948, to Paul and Marie (Gioia) Walden in Denver, Colo. She graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in 1966. Sue raised two loving, wonderful children, Steve and Tina. She was blessed with two grandchildren, Courtney and Justin, and two great-grandchildren, Anthony and Charlotte.
Sue, the oldest of six, was raised in Wheat Ridge, Colo. Her greatest childhood memories were spending time with her Italian grandmother, Sarah Gioia, making spaghetti sauce and homemade pasta and riding with her grandfather, Nick Gioia, delivering fresh produce to homes in Denver. By the early age of eight, she was helping her father with his homebuilding business. This is where her love for real estate and sales began. During her 40+ year career in real estate sales, marketing, management and training, she received four Home Builders Association MAME (Marketing and Merchandising Excellence) awards, three National Association of Homebuilder awards and inclusion in the International Who’s Who Historical Society list. For Sue, the accolades were nice, but that wasn’t what drove her. It was helping others succeed that made it all worth it to her, and many considered her a “Life Coach.” Even when she became diagnosed with Wet Macular Degeneration (WMD) in 2017, which impeded her ability to see the smiles of her family and friends, she never let on about the challenges with her vision.
In 1993, while working in Colorado Springs, she met her soulmate, Dean Wieseler. Their relationship started with dinner and a game of cribbage after work. She was also a card shark as Dean would soon find out. They were married Sept. 15, 2006, in Colorado Springs. Sue knew family was very important to Dean, so after semi-retiring in 2008, they moved to their lake house in Crofton, to be closer to Dean’s family. She was welcomed with open arms and continued to spread her love. In September 2011, Sue and Dean exchanged their vow’s again at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Saint Helena, with Father Ross Buckhalter and Father Eric Olsen officiating. She and Dean made frequent trips to Denver to spend time with her wonderful family and friends. She loved being a grandma and great-grandma “GG” and their visits were always full of love, joy and, of course, games and cards. Many tears of laughter were shed. She also enjoyed traveling, especially road trips with Dean, and visiting the many people she met over her training career across the country.
Sue is survived by her husband, Dean Wieseler, Crofton; two children, Steve Miller, Lakewood, Colo., and Tina Miller of Lakewood, Colo.; two grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, five siblings, many sisters and brothers-in-law, and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family prefers donations be made to the Bright Focus Foundation (http://www.brightfocus.com/donate)