The Rt. Rev. William Harvey “Dub” Wolfrum, Bishop Suffragan of Colorado from 1981 to 1991, died Nov. 24 after becoming ill on Thanksgiving Day. He was 81.
 
In a short note posted on the internet, Bishop Wolfrum’s wife, Beverly, stated that Bishop Wolfrum “suddenly sort of wilted” while awaiting the arrival of his children on Thanksgiving Day.
 
After the retirement of the Rt. Rev. William Frey as Bishop of Colorado in 1990, Bishop Wolfrum became the acting ecclesiastical authority in the diocese until the election of the Rt. Rev. Jerry Winterrowd the following year. Bishop Wolfrum returned to the diocese as an assisting bishop, 1993-1995. He also helped with an episcopal transition in the Diocese of Wyoming, serving as an assisting Bishop in that diocese in 1996 and 1997. He remained active in retirement, serving for a number of years as bishop-in-residence at Trinity Church, Jeffers, Mont. Recently he and his wife relocated in Colorado in order to be closer to children.
 
A native of Missouri, Bishop Wolfrum graduated in 1959 from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest (ETSS) in Austin, Texas. He was ordained priest in the Diocese of Colorado the following year. After ordination he served at a number of congregations in New Mexico until 1968, when he accepted a call as chaplain and chairman of the department of religion at St. Stephen’s School in Austin.
 
Bishop Wolfrum had been rector of St. Alban’s, Worland, Wyo., for 10 years when he was elected Bishop Suffragan of Colorado in 1981. He received his PhD. in divinity from ETSS that same year.
 

Bishop Wolfrum is survived by his wife and their three children. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Nov. 28 at St. John's Cathedral, Denver.

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