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John Blaine Livingston
July 10, 1952 - May 10, 2013
John Blaine Livingston, 60, of Lakewood, Colorado died Friday May 10th. John grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, attended Southwest High School and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he earned degrees in biology and geology. He moved to Colorado in 1977 to begin his career as a petroleum geologist. He worked for several exploration companies with projects located across the U.S., Canada, and Russia. John was active in professional organizations including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Rocky Mountain Association of Petroleum Geologists. John's passions included hunting, fishing, exploring the Colorado and Wyoming backcountry, and reading. As an avid trap-shooter, he became deeply involved with Ducks Unlimited. Additionally, John played an important part in Lakewood Boy Scout Troop 814 and Venture Crew 303. Married from 1978 to 2002 to Sara Livingston (Baxter), John is survived by his son Allen Livingston of Montgomery, Texas. He also leaves two sisters, Laura Delvaux of Staunton, Virginia and Joyce Gray of Archie, Missouri. A memorial service is to be held this summer in Hume, Missouri.
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Jadie Ingram (Trageser)
It's been one year since my darlin' man found peace. He was as much a gentleman at 60 as he was at 13, which is what attracted me to him at Bingham Jr High. Miss talking to him every day. Always will.
Chris Mahley
Rest in peace John; the demons of alcoholism are no longer with you; overwhelming you - thank God. Too much of same in my own family's past.
I didn't know John very well in HS (maybe because I was gone from SW a couple of years) but we played 3 & 2 baseball together as kids for the St. John's Methodist team of which John's Dad was head coach. I'm looking at a pix of the team but sadly I can only remember about 1/3 of the team. I'm guessing we were 10-11 yrs old. Some of the guys are John, Bill Brimacombe, Kenny Burrell, Danny Prezebel, Charlie McCord, John Pence, Jim Wilkerson, Bob Waggener and eight others whose faces are very familiar, but names long forgotten. Maybe someone out there can help me put names with faces?
We had a good team and we played in a nighttime (first time and way cool!) league or city championship game on 56 hwy west of Swope Pkwy., Seemed like there were hundreds watching the game, but in reality probably a dozen or two. I believe John was either our catcher or first baseman or maybe both. I was centerfielder and in denial of being blind as a bat - especially at night. I got lucky and threw out a runner at home plate in a later inning.Ii soon went from hero to villian. With the game tied and on the line in the last inning with a runner at second, I lost a fly ball in the lights, it dropped and I threw as hard and accurate as I could but I wasn't as lucky as in the prior inning - and the other team scored the winning run. I was completely bummed out, but who was the first one to console me? Big John. Out of humiliation, it was my last hardball game (had much more fun many years later - wearing contacts! - playing adult men's overhand fast-pitch softball after college, and coincidentally, across the street from that fateful game). But I'll never forget Big John's act of kindness for a dejected teammate.
Jadie, Alex and other loved ones of John's, my thoughts and prayers are with you.
Chris Mahley
Jim Wilkinson
Ah, Chris Mahley, you reminded me of the St. John's Methodist teams. That's how I first met John Livingston, and his older brother "W.D." played with my brother, John. So, that probably goes back to when I was 7 years old when we played for the Midget "C" team. Sorry to hear about John. Jim Wilkinson