Signe M. Tucker

Signe was born at home in the farming community of Waverly, Nebraska. Her parents Axel and Sigrid Spader emigrated from Sweden. Signe completed all her schooling in Waverly until she went college in nearby Lincoln at Nebraska Wesleyan completing 2 years of college. Signe earned high school letters in tennis, volleyball, and track and field. After high school she played "kitten ball" (softball) for the all female Waverly Butterfingers. She loved to write poetry and also wrote the school song for Waverly High.

In the spring of 1939 she met Lawrence Tucker and they married in October. She said, "wait" the first time Larry asked for hand because she and 2 girlfriends had tickets to the Chicago World's Fair that summer. Lawrence and Signe spent 69 wild and wonderful years together until his passing in October of 2008. They raised 4 boys, mainly in the Denver area.

Signe was a full-time mother until the mid 60's when she went back to work as a bookkeeper for Nelson-Cato Distributing Company in Denver. Later she became a real estate agent and also kept the books for family owned businesses Arvada Optical and Tucker Enterprises. She was always very active and energetic. She and Larry (Tuck) were avid dancers, tennis players, played cards and had an enviable social network. They loved travel and took their boys on great adventures to the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone and many trips to see relatives in Lincoln and Kansas City. Later when the kids were gone Sig & Tuck travelled to Scandinavia, Canada, cruised Alaska, and motored 46 of the lower 48 states.

Sig and Tuck were active in church fellowship and service and their Christianity was very evident in the way they raised their boys and in their business and personal relationships.

Surviving Signe are the Tucker clan of: Jim & Alice of Longmont, Gary and Connie of Arvada, John and Delli of Colorado Springs, and Bob and Sandi of Arvada as well 11 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.

What an awesome woman!