Deanna Marie Tuley died peacefully in the Pikes Peak Hospice on September 2nd, 2023, with her immediate family by her bedside. Also present was her companion of almost four decades, Thomas Anderson. After a year-long fight, Deanna succumbed to Central Nervous System Lymphoma.

Deanna was born in San Antonio, TX on October 25, 1953, the first daughter to Senior Master Sergeant Everett J. Tuley and Cecilia H. Tuley. Deanna attended Catholic grammar schools and graduated as Valedictorian from McCollom High School, San Antonio, TX in 1971. She enrolled at Baylor

University where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Political Science and International Relations. She was accepted into the Foreign Service program at Georgetown University but instead decided to follow her father’s footsteps into the US Air Force. She graduated from Officer Candidate School in 1975 and the USAF Intelligence Officer School at Lowry AFB, CO in 1976. Her first assignment as an intelligence officer was to Barksdale AFB, LA where she briefed nuclear delivery air crews sitting on rapid reaction alert. In 1980, she was selected to the Headquarters Air Staff Intelligence Office in the Pentagon where she briefed on Soviet Tactical Fighter Operations.

While at the Pentagon, she was selected for the Air Force Funded Legal Education program. She graduated magna cum laude from American University, Washington D.C. in 1985 as an Air Force Judge Advocate General (JAG). Subsequent assignments were at the Pentagon and Pope AFB, NC. She had hands-on leadership experience as the JAG at Falcon AFS (now Schriever AFB), followed by a second base-level JAG tour at McChord AFB, WA. She retired from the Air Force in 1996 and enrolled in the Masters Mediation Program at Pepperdine University’s Straus Institute in Malibu, CA, where she was awarded a LLM degree in Dispute Resolution. Deanna built a successful 20-year practice in mediation and arbitration in Avon, CO before moving to Colorado Springs. Travel was a special joy for Deanna, and she spent many vacations with Tom travelling to London, Edinburgh, Paris, Geneva, Brussels, Amsterdam, Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau and Shanghai. Deanna’s passion was dogs. She trained several generations of agility competitors, and she became a successful breeder of Golden Retrievers. Many of the puppies by Penny, her “mama-dog” Golden, are in homes in Colorado Springs and all along the front range. Deanna was well known as the leader of the Red Cross Canine Therapy program comprised of some 20 volunteers. Volunteer owners and their dogs visited military hospitals, VA facilities, and emergency shelters. In this leadership capacity, Deanna will be most greatly missed. Tom Anderson and Deanna’s family are immensely grateful for the outpouring of support and sympathy from all of Deanna’s friends and neighbors. It is said that to live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die. This is surely true of Deanna. Deanna was preceded in death by her parents and her younger brother, Mark. She is survived by Thomas Anderson, her immediate family, Carolyn Tuley (Mike Rard), Joan Marshall (Mike), John Tuley (Carrie) as well as four nieces and four nephews.

Funeral arrangements and a local memorial service are pending.The family requests that memorial contributions to honor Deanna be made to the American Red Cross and the Morris Animal Foundation.