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Dolores N. Plested, 101, died November 11 at her home in Denver.

Born in Trinidad, Colo., in 1908, she was a graduate of the University of Colorado in 1931.

Plested had a long and successful career as a journalist, having lived in New York City where she worked for theÌýNew York TimesÌýand theÌýNew York Herald Tribune. After the outbreak of World War II, Plested returned to Colorado where she worked for Denver radio station KMYR, and later was the the western correspondent for Fairchild News Service, the umbrella organization forÌýWomen’s Wear Daily.

When President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in Denver in 1955, Plested covered that event, and was one of two women who were members of the summer White House Press Corps during the Eisenhower administration. She also covered Jackie Kennedy when she and her family visited Colorado for a holiday skiing vacation in the early 1960s.

Plested was a member of theÌýDenver Woman’s Press Club, and a member ofÌýWarren Methodist ChurchÌýin Denver were she was a founder ofÌýWarren Village, a church sponsored home for women and their children in Denver. She was also a founder of theÌýFriends of Historical TrinidadÌýand theÌýMitchell Museum of Western ArtÌýin Trinidad.

She was a lifelong supporter of the CU Buffs football program.

Plested leaves many nieces and nephews and friends of all ages and walks of life.

Denver Woman’s Press Club website member page for Dolores Plested.