{"id":802735,"date":"2020-01-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376778"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:00:00","slug":"obituary-james-p-fugere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/obituary-james-p-fugere\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: James P. Fugere"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/obit-fugere-sdn-010420-1024x735.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/obit-fugere-sdn-010420-1024x735.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/obit-fugere-sdn-010420-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/obit-fugere-sdn-010420-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/obit-fugere-sdn-010420.jpg 1447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>James P. Fugere<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>December 12, 1939 \u2013 January 1, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James P. Fugere, 80, of Boulder, CO passed away on January 1, 2020.&nbsp; Jim was born on December 12, 1939 in Iron Mountain, Michigan to Philip and Kathleen Fugere.&nbsp; He graduated from Michigan Tech University in 1961.&nbsp; Marlene and Jim met in Minneapolis at Control Data and were married on October 6, 1962 in Jackson, Minnesota.&nbsp; Jim had a great love of the outdoors, especially of skiing, biking and hiking.&nbsp; Jim and the family moved to Boulder in 1981 after accepting a position with Storage Technology.&nbsp; When Storage Tech experienced some financial difficulties in the early 1980\u2019s, Jim and five partners started McData in 1982.&nbsp; Jim was the lead engineer and developed the product.&nbsp; In 1995 McData was acquired in a stock purchase by EMC2.&nbsp; Jim is survived by his wife, Marlene; children, Christine Kaiser (Pete), Lisa Batts (Greg) and Valerie Fugere; siblings, Robert Fugere (Gloria), Mary Jane Vogel (Jim) and Gilbert Fugere (Barb); and six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.&nbsp; He was preceded in death by his parents and his sister, Kathy.&nbsp; The visitation will be Friday, January 3 starting at 5:00 PM with the Vigil at 6:00 PM at Greenwood and Myers Mortuary.&nbsp; Mass of Christian Burial will be on Saturday, January 4 at 10:00 AM at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church.&nbsp; In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to a charity of your choice.&nbsp; Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwoodmyersfuneral.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.greenwoodmyersfuneral.com<\/a> to offer condolences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/obituary-james-p-fugere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James P. FugereCourtesy photo December 12, 1939 \u2013 January 1, 2020 James P. Fugere, 80, of Boulder, CO passed away on January 1, 2020.&nbsp; Jim was born on December 12, 1939 in Iron Mountain, Michigan to Philip and Kathleen Fugere.&nbsp; He graduated from Michigan Tech University in 1961.&nbsp; Marlene and Jim met in Minneapolis at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-802735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-29 12:45:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}