Dana Lanae Caldwell was born April 26, 1969, to Devon and Donna Caldwell in Walsh and passed away September 2, 1011, in Denver from causes yet unknown. She was 42 years old.

Growing up she enjoyed life on the farm-driving tractors, riding horses and motorcycles, fishing and caring for farm animals. She graduated from Walsh High School in 1987 and was awarded a softball scholarship to Northeastern Junior College in Sterling, Colorado. She attended her first year of college, majoring in Sociology. In her second year, she opted to take a break from school and pursue other adventures. She moved to Ontario, Oregon to help care for her great-grandmother, the late Florence Findley. She thought of this as a privilege and also got to help out at Uncle Pete's lumber mill. Dana had already developed good strong work ethics as a young girl-helping around the farm and working for her Aunt Virginia at the Get-N-Go Café and Convenience Store.

Over the next many years, Dana started on a journey to find her niche in the working world. She was very mechanically gifted and could do anything she set her mind to. She traveled and worked from the East Coast to the West Coast at jobs including:
an aquarium park in California
a teacher's assistant for special needs children at Rainbows United in Kansas
an assembler/mold operator at the Coleman Company in Kansas (where she
surpassed the record for amount of coolers produced on a shift)
an aircraft finisher at Piper Aircraft in Florida
at a linen supply company in Nebraska
then back to Colorado working at Cousin Rita's Piccadilly, and a lab tech at Seaboard Farms
going on to Denver; she worked at Electro Mechanical Products and Tammy's New Beginnings where she provided 24 hour care for a woman with mental and physical disabilities
Last but not least, she went to work for Sutrak as a machine operator. During her tenure at Sutrak, she attended night classes at Phoenix University. In 2010, Dana graduated with a degree in Criminal Justice. This was a great accomplishment and made us all very proud. Dana was a supervisor at Sutrak and looking to start a new career at the time of her death.

Wherever she lived and worked, Dana always acquired a second family of co-workers and friends. She always made time for fun and friendships, which she cherished.

Dana was preceded in death by her grandparents; Clarence and Hazel Caldwell and Bunt and Lucy Bishop; Aunt Linda Caldwell; cousins, Joe Dall Caldwell and Leann Anderson

She is survived by her parents; Devon and Donna Caldwell of Walsh, Colorado; sister, Kori and husband David and their daughter Taris of Wichita, Kansas, sister Sandi and husband John and his sons Tyler and Justin of Wichita, Kansas; brother, Corbett and wife Shana and her daughter Shawna and son Ryan of Springfield; the families of Dall Caldwell, Rella Peoples, Dan Caldwell, Lana Caldwell, Rocky Caldwell, Virginia Bitner, Jean Kline, Janice Hebberd, Shirley Anderson, Don Bishop as well as numerous other family and a host of friends.