WINDSOR, Colo. – Darrel D. Ivins, 87, of Windsor, Colo., formerly of Sterling, died Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, at Windsor Health Care.

Darrel was born March 3, 1925, to William and Nellie (Harmon) Ivins in Woodruff. He graduated from high school in Danvers, and served in the Army Infantry during World War II. On Dec. 2, 1944, he married his high school sweetheart, Norma Jean Reed, with whom he spent the next 68 years of his life.

Darrel worked as an engineer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service for 35 years, designing waterways and watersheds in northern Illinois. Darrel and Norma lived in Sterling for 30 years. Subsequent to retirement, he and Norma moved to Tennessee for 8 years, then to Windsor in 1991. The family had vacationed in Colorado since the 1950s, and it always had been Darrel’s dream to live in Colorado.