Julie Watson Carey Obituary January 26, 2026

Julie Carey will at all times be often called a seeker of journey and a vibrant gentle who impressed individuals to dwell their greatest, most passionate lives. She devoted her life to serving to individuals develop by means of transformational wilderness experiences and experiential schooling within the classroom and past. She flowed like water between passions and tasks, bringing her distinctive views, playful humorousness and buoyant enthusiasm to every thing she did, lighting up each room she entered.

Born on November 30, 1967 in Denver, Colorado, Julie was the cherished youngest of 4. As a really younger lady, she was light, delicate, and shy with a boundless creativeness that invented new worlds and languages for her stuffed animals. Her love of music was a continuing – studying piano as a child, taking part in clarinet and saxophone within the college band, singing and taking part in guitar with family and friends as an grownup. She studied Anthropology and Art on the University of Vermont and later earned a Master’s Degree in Language Acquisition and Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) on the College of Santa Fe.

Julie was adventurous, enjoyable, and fearless, reveling in wild locations. From mountain climbing up Colorado’s Fourteeners to tearing down Phantom Bridge at Mary Jane or linking sleek S-turns within the backcountry, she felt most at dwelling in movement and in nature. She was an achieved kayaker, a trusted chief for Outward Bound, and an explorer of numerous rivers — by kayak, raft, and dory. She understood {that a} river isn’t the identical river twice, a reality she carried together with her on the water and in life. Her unmistakable hooraking echoed by means of the wilderness, a Carey-family sound of pure pleasure that will probably be ceaselessly related to Julie’s presence in wild locations.

In addition to 12 years with Outward Bound, she was a frontrunner for Deer Hill Expeditions, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Southwest Open School (SWOS), Women’s Wilderness, and Where There Be Dragons. She taught at PS1 High School for at-risk teenagers, Cole Innovation Middle School, Pojoaque Valley Schools in New Mexico, and Manaugh Elementary in Cortez. Her compassionate management fashion and deep perception enriched numerous lives in each group, tour, and venture she touched. Her capacity to fulfill others at their place on the human journey and enterprise ahead collectively was a uncommon, highly effective and pure facet of Julie’s partnership with these round her.

Her ardour to find out about and work with different cultures led her to many locations world wide together with Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, England, Ireland, France, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, China, Singapore and Indonesia the place she spent two years instructing at a faculty in Jakarta.

Julie was deeply artistic and at all times in search of significant methods to dwell and work past standard paths. Dedicated to multicultural schooling, she believed deeply within the energy of expertise, storytelling, and connection to foster understanding and progress. This perception lived on the coronary heart of her work, together with Write Our World, a venture that mirrored her dedication to schooling, fairness, and language preservation. She created and introduced Write Our World to a whole bunch of children, from lecture rooms in Cambodia and Guatemala to immigrant communities in Denver and Aurora, leading to a library of greater than 200 self-authored e-books in dozens of languages.

In current years she developed an in depth curriculum for faculties of the Ute Mountain Ute tribe, served on the Board of the KSJD radio station in Cortez, and facilitated the manufacturing of her brother Jeff’s play Maniac Lake on the Sunflower Theatre in October 2024.

Beyond her athleticism and accomplishments, Julie was recognized for her dedication, generosity, and quiet braveness. She was cussed in one of the best sense of the phrase—unyielding in her beliefs, persistent within the face of problem, and unwilling to take the simple or anticipated path. Her friendships have been lasting, her partnerships significant, and her presence unmistakable, illuminated by her boisterous snicker and affinity for enjoyable.

In the previous few years of her life, she created a paradise for herself in Dolores, Colorado together with her beloved companion Andy that included every thing she liked and valued essentially the most – a small, interconnected, caring neighborhood; desert, mountain, and river adventures at their doorstep; significant work and artistic pursuits.

Some of the issues Julie liked most are spending time with household, making new experiences together with her nieces and nephew, and sharing life’s easiest moments and grandest adventures with the love of her life, Andy, and her pup, Shashi. As with all obstacles, Julie battled psychological well being challenges with tenacity and braveness.

Julie is survived by her companion, Andy Hutchinson; her sister, Ann Sabbah (Basil Sabbah); her brother, Marc Carey (Mary Jo Brooks); and her beloved nephew, Dylan, and treasured nieces, Isabel, Ally, and Emma. Julie was preceded in loss of life by her dad and mom, Betsy Carey and Jack Carey, and her brother, Jeff Carey. She can also be remembered by a large circle of family and friends who carry her reminiscence ahead.

A celebration of Julie’s life will probably be held on Earth Day in Denver and on the summer season solstice in Dolores. Those wishing to honor Julie are inspired to assist psychological well being organizations, outside and multicultural teaching programs, or to spend a day exterior—on a mountain, river, path, or singing a favourite music—in her reminiscence.

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