Harwood Burrows Dolbeare Jr.

July 24, 1934 – November 19, 2011

Harwood B. “Burry” Dolbeare, Jr. was born in Norwich, CT on July 24, 1934.

He moved to Gainesville, FL where he graduated from P.K. Yonge High School in 1952 and then attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, majoring in Advertising Design.

He was Honorably Discharged from the Army in 1959 from Fort Carson, CO. Mr. Dolbeare worked in Colorado Springs for Gowdy Printcraft Press, The Free Press newspaper, KVOR and KSSS radio, KKTV, and School District #11, from which he retired in 1998 after 17 years.

During his life in Colorado Springs Mr. Dolbeare was very actively involved in the sport of automobile racing. He was an announcer at several Colorado race track and worked in public relations for Sportsman’s Raceway Park, the Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb, Colorado Springs International Speedway, and in the media center at Pikes Peak International Raceway from 1997 until its closing in 2005. He was a charter member, lifetime member, and three-term President of the Colorado Hill Climb Association and a President of the Pikes Peak Stock Car Racing Association. He was the Public Relations representative for three California NASCAR drivers from 2000 through 2006. He was also a member of Arie #2360 of the F.O.E.

Mr. Dolbeare is survived by his loving wife Treva Green, his former wife Nancy Cliffton, their two daughters; Annette Dolbeare and her husband Steve Tapley, Renee Dolbeare (a son, Harwood “Woody” Dolbeare passed away in 2006); Step-children Annette and her husband Alan, David and his wife Rebecca, Chuck and his wife Judy, Barb and her husband Neil, Sherry and her husband Karl, Toni and her husband Joe; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.