Chuck Thompson died peacefully on December 30, 2025 after a brief illness.  As he had hoped, Chuck successfully stayed in the beloved home that he and his wife Janet Quaintance designed and decorated in early 2000 until his final moments.

Chuck was born in the small town of Wallkill, New York in 1930, and grew up on his family's dairy farm, though he quickly decided that farming was not his passion. At age 15, Chuck worked part-time in a local movie theater, tallying the daily proceeds from ticket and snack sales and found his professional calling: accounting and financial management.

After graduating from the University of Buffalo in 1952 with a degree in accounting, Chuck began his career at Price Waterhouse as a Staff Accountant.  He was drafted into the Army in 1953, and thanks to his accounting background, he was stationed at the Army Audit Office in Salt Lake City, the only member of his platoon not sent to Korea.

While in Utah, Chuck traveled frequently to Denver with his friend and colleague Jim Skinner and fell in love with the Rocky Mountain west.  Chuck met his future wife Janet while on leave from the Army, and they married in 1956 after he left the Army and returned to Price Waterhouse.  Chuck then transferred to the fledgling office of PW in Denver, and he and Janet began this new chapter in their lives in the area that quickly became home.

Chuck and Janet's two daughters, Carolyn & Linsley, were born in Denver, and in 1962 the family moved to Sydney, Australia for six months on a professional assignment for Chuck.  That international adventure sparked a lifelong love of travel and an unwavering desire to make new friends along the way.

After a short stint with the PW office in Los Angeles in the mid 1960s, Chuck accepted a new position with Phipps Land Company in Atlanta and relocated in 1969. While Chuck and Janet made the most of their time in the southeast, Denver kept calling them, and they returned to Colorado in 1978.  Chuck worked as VP of Finance for Sanford Homes and then became President of Columbia Savings at the height of the savings & loan crisis in the late 1980s.  He navigated the bank through its recovery and its subsequent acquisition by Wells-Fargo, retiring in 1993.

Chuck and Janet shared deep passions for the visual arts, opera, the Episcopal church, and travel over their 65 years together.  In the early 1980s they invested in a townhouse in Santa Fe with friends and enjoyed regular trips there for more than 20 years, visiting art galleries, developing close friendships with artists, and attending many productions of the Santa Fe Opera company.   They also traveled the world, always with an eye to the artistic endeavors available at each location.

Chuck also put his affinity for making sense of financial data to great use to support organizations engaged in the arts and faith.  He held financial leadership roles for the Art for Arts' Sake annual artisan show in Los Angeles, the Southern Regional Opera company in Atlanta, the Rotary Club of Denver's Artists of America annual show, the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado, the homeowners association for his condo building, and Saint John's Episcopal Cathedral.   Chuck ensured that the books of each organization were rigorously managed while at the same time helping lay people make sense of the data and use it effectively.

Chuck was a social person who maintained long term relationships and made new friendships comfortably.  He had a particular skill for connecting with people of various generations, not just his own.  Thanks to that breadth of interactions, he kept up with the new restaurants in town, managed his own email account, and shared with many the highs and lows of the Denver professional sports teams.

Chuck is survived by daughter Carolyn McCormick and her husband Jay, daughter Linsley Withers and her husband Duncan, and grandchildren William McCormick and Koda Withers.

A memorial mass will be held on Monday, January 12, 2026 at 11:00 am at Saint John's Episcopal Cathedral 1350 N. Washington St., Denver, CO 80203.  In lieu of flowers, contributions are encouraged to be made to Saint John's Episcopal Cathedral, Denver, CO or Opera Colorado .