Dr. Cynthia Rose

Dr. Cynthia Rose, of Colorado Springs, CO, passed away in the company of immediate family on the morning of the summer solstice, June 21 2023, at the age of 87. She was predeceased by father, Irving; mother, Eleanor; and son, Daniel. She is survived by her sister, Janice; son, Scott; niece, Alexandra; and grandniece and nephew, Elise and Benjamin.

Dr. Rose is an alumna of Tufts University and Boston University Medical school, and performed her medical internship at the San Francisco Medical Center and her fellowship and adult and child psychiatric residencies at the University or Colorado in Denver. Upon moving to Colorado Springs in 1969, she served as the Medical Director of the Pikes Peak Mental Health Center. Her education continued with board certification in psychiatry and psychoanalytic training. She remained active professionally until the time of her death.

Positions of distinction include her leadership as the first woman president of the Colorado Psychiatric Society, western region president of the American Psychiatric Society, and President of the Denver Psychoanalytic Society.

Her passions included travel, both as pilot and passenger, with personal and professional travel providing "a wonderful opportunity" to broaden her perspective and make many close friends.

Funeral services will be held at the Levine Chapels, 470 Harvard St., Brookline on Monday, June 26 at 11:30am. Burial will follow in the Boylston Lodge Cemetery, 776 Baker St., West Roxbury.