Terry Alan Duprey, age 71, died in Buena Vista, Colorado on January 9, 2025 where he had been living with his brother, Randy; wife, Joy; and Joy’s parents, Bill and Dorothy.
Artist, precision craftsman, brother, uncle, friend.
Terry was born in Concordia, Kansas on November 29, 1953 to Ren Duprey and Margaret Quinnette Duprey. Terry’s brother, Randy, was born three years later, and the young family moved to Glenwood Springs, Colorado when Terry was six years old. The family built their own home on the Roaring Fork River. Ren was a gunsmith and worked in sporting goods and Margaret worked at Bowles Bootery selling shoes and helped Ren sell hunting licenses during hunting season. Terry grew up camping, hunting, listening to records, and dragging Glenwood’s Grand Ave. Terry graduated from Glenwood Springs High School in 1971.
Terry excelled at drawing; loved old cars; motorcycles; and he also enjoyed mountain man rendezvous where he could live as the mountain men lived. He enjoyed watching wildlife, leather working, carving, and he never met a dog he didn’t like. His working life was mostly spent as a property caretaker. He was also a precision craftsman: building homes, custom cabinets, custom retro campers, and many small detailed items for his friends and family.
Though Terry didn’t have any children of his own, he loved his nephew, Andrew; niece, Angelena; and their kids, McKenzie; Mariah; Tyson; Aiden; and Jackson. He was the “fun uncle” to Andrew and Angelena, they recall rides on his Harley, waiting on the elves to answer the tiny door in their uncle’s tree, being tickled until they would say buffalo, scaring the deer away from the apple orchard he cared for, and his converted school bus.
In his later years he spent summers in Buena Vista, Colorado and winters in his camper soaking up the sun, watching the wildlife, and savoring life’s simple pleasures in the Arizona desert.
