Linda M. (Fallows) Gasper, 91, died Monday, March 1, 2016, at Brookdale Meridian Senior Living Center, Lakewood, Colo.

She was born Jan. 10, 1925 in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, to Annie (Mathers) and William Fallows.

She married Francis C. Gasper, who was a member of the Army Air Corps during World War II, on Sept. 1, 1945 in St. Peter and Paul Church, Bolton, England.

After the war, they resided in Tipton, Kan., where they farmed for a short time before assuming ownership of the Tipton Telephone Company. Upon sale of the company, they resided in numerous Kansas communities, including Wilson, Lenora, Victoria, Ellis, and Hoxie, as well as Phoenix, Ariz., and the Denver area. Her many friends and acquaintances will remember her as outgoing and very entertaining as well as an excellent mother, grandmother, homemaker and baker. While in Victoria, she worked as a cook at Victoria High School for many years.

Survivors include four children, Shirley Richard and husband Ken, Phoenix, Carol Koel, Golden, Colo., Sandy Jackson, Wheat Ridge, Colo., and Bill Gasper and wife Pam, Hays; five grandchildren, Brian Koel and Brent Koel, Lakewood, Kevin Koel and wife Claire, College Station, Texas, Eric Gasper, Lakewood, and Kyle Gasper and wife Trista, Hays; one great-grandchild, Sophia Koel, College Station, and one brother, Leonard, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, three sisters and one brother.

A memorial service for Denver-area friends will be at Mt. Olivet in Wheat Ridge. Another memorial service is planned at a later date in Tipton, where her and her husband’s cremains will be laid to rest in the Saint Boniface Cemetery, Tipton.