At the time, Transcript editor George West wrote "Miss Coors is a native Golden girl and proud of it. The name change was intended to align the ceramics business with the booming tech sector. Technology in Ladera Ranch, CA, in 2009, EmiSense Technologies LLC, to commercialize emissions sensors developed by Ceramatec. They had 4 children: Adolph Coors III and 3 other children. Click. [1] He remained ashamed of that action for the rest of his life, and decreed that his family should never speak about it. The assets included a 200-ft-long gas-fired tunnel kiln purchased in 1988 that was transported in 19 sections. Dallas Morse Coors Birth 26 Oct 1917 - Golden Jeffe, Colorado Death 7 Aug 1996 - Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA Mother Dorothea C Morse Father Herman Frederick Coors Quick access Family tree New search Dallas Morse Coors family tree Family tree Explore more family trees Parents Herman Frederick Coors 1890 - 1967 Dean Rulis was the president of Wilbanks 198492. At times, "Citizen Coors" lacks specific chronological references, leaving the reader to surmise when some events took place. Herbert Collbran held an important position with the government railways. A key function of the site was to act as the sales and marketing facility for the European market. So Adolph diversified, tapping into the vast clay deposits surrounding Golden to form a pottery company that first made dinnerware and then labware during World War I; the Germans had dominated that market beforehand but were embargoed from selling to Americans during the war. [28], [29] Growth in the 1970s enabled Coors to build the 150,000ft2 electronic ceramics Clear Creek Valley Plant east of Golden in 1970,[30] and its first facility outside of Golden, an electronic substrate plant in Grand Junction, CO, in 1975. It became a bigger opportunity four years later. Hoskisson helped negotiate the merger of VZS Technical Ceramics of Glenrothes with Seagoe Advanced Ceramics of Craigavon, Northern Ireland, in January 1998. After America started legally drinking again in 1933, ceramics became an afterthought. CoorsTek acquired Covalent Materials Corp., formerly Toshiba Ceramics Co., and its three factories in Japan in December 2014 for ~$450M, the largest acquisition in CoorsTek's history. Bill continued to taste test Coors beer until his 100th birthday and he was so good at his job he could tell the where the beer had been brewed! In 2005 CoorsTek launched a venture to make fake bones out of ceramics. Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Coors family tree. He was 74. Joe Jr. retired as chairman of CoorsTek in 2000, and was succeeded by his younger brother John (b. (5.) His second marriage with Phyllis Mahaffey was blessed with another son, Scott. Since the Coors family took it private in 2003, revenues have jumped to $1.25 billion, and the company claims it has turned a net profit every single quarter (though it refuses to disclose exact net profit figures). William Coors died on December 30, 1923 and is buried at the Golden Cemetery. Despite numerous obstacles in the past few years, Sports Travel and Tours is thriving as the official tour operator of the Baseball Hall of Fame. CoorsTek Advanced Ceramics Hamilton ULC, foundry filters, formerly Hamilton Pottery Co. Oguno, Yamagata; Hatano, Kanagawa; and Kariya, Aichi, Japan. "Woodie" Howe (1942-2006) managing both operations and reporting to John Jenkins, VP and GM of Coors Ceramics Structural Division. The Irish factory closed in 2002. [68], John Coors had been the president of Golden Genesis Corp. (GGC), a manufacturer of photovoltaic devices for solar power collection in Scottsdale, AZ.