obituaries


SIBRELL Arlene Hahn Sibrell, a longtime figure skating


judge and accountant, was born in Denver on Jan. 4, 1929, to Earl and Geraldine Hahn, and passed away on June 22, 2016. Arlene received a scholarship to play percus-


sion at the University of Denver (DU), and often said that the most fun she ever had was playing in the band there. In the 1940s in the Denver area, she and her partner Jean played professionally, live and on radio, as the Marimba Twins. While majoring in chemistry at DU, she met


her husband Al. They married on June 21, 1952. Af- ter finding that the only chemistry job available to her was in the milk analysis lab, she became an el- ementary school teacher and taught in the Denver Public Schools for her entire career. Arlene developed a love of figure skating after


her daughter Donna took lessons at DU, and was involved with figure skating for the rest of her days, both as a skater and then as a judge and an accoun- tant.


She received her gold test judge with inter-


national certificate in dance in 1973 and gold test judge appointment in singles/pairs in 1992. She judged more than 4,600 tests since 1998; it is un- known how many prior to then. Arlene did not enjoy competition judging so decided to turn her focus to the accounting side of the sport while con- tinuing to judge tests. She received her national accountant appointment in 1981 and set up count- less competitions and mentored many who called her “Mom,” both in the Denver area and nationwide. Arlene loved playing golf and going to tea


with her friends in the figure skating community. She always carried a special love of dance and Spe- cial Olympics in skating. When she wasn’t busy with skating competi-


tions or traveling around the world, Arlene enjoyed watching and listening to Rockies and Cubs base- ball and DU hockey games. She also enjoyed work- ing in her yard on flower and rock gardens. She was preceded in death by her husband


Albert E. Sibrell, and is survived by her sisters Judy Hensley (son Mark) and Margie Hahn (husband Brian White and children Jeff and Katie); her three children Marie, Donna and Philip (wife Kathy); and three grandchildren Paul, Jack and Lisa. Donations in her memory may be made to


Special Olympics Colorado Figure Skating Program and sent to Karen Schleu, Program Director, at 16671 E. Navarro Dr., Aurora, CO 80013.


TATEOKA Ida Tateoka, a U.S. judge at the 1984 Olympic


Winter Games, passed away on Oct. 16, 2016. Born to Toru and Sai Shimizu in Weston, Idaho,


on Dec. 12, 1923, Ida spent most of her growing-up years in Los Angeles. Because of World War II and the possibility of being sent to internment camps


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with thousands of other Japanese Americans liv- ing along the West Coast, Ida’s family moved to Springville, Utah, where she finished high school. Ida completed her nursing degree at the Uni-


versity of Utah and worked at St. Marks and Cotton- wood Hospitals. She married Matt Mateo Tateoka on Jan. 16, 1953, and resided in South Jordan, Utah, for more than 40 years. While living in Los Angeles, Ida began figure


skating. She continued skating at Hygeia Iceland lo- cated in Sugarhouse, Utah, where she helped with the newly formed Utah Figure Skating Club. Ida served in many leadership positions in


both the Utah Figure Skating and United States Fig- ure Skating Associations. She began judging figure skating in 1953 and became a national, internation- al and world figure skating judge. She judged the figure skating competitions at the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in 1984. She judged numerous world and internation-


al competitions, as well as national and internation- al Special Olympics events. Ida was instrumental in bringing the 2002 Olympic Winter Games to Salt Lake City by representing the state of Utah at the Olympic announcement ceremony in Budapest, Hungary. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-


ter-day Saints in 1975. Ida is survived by brothers Jim (Peggy) Shi-


mizu and M. Tom (Junko) Shimizu; son Reid (Shau- na) Tateoka; daughter Doree Ann Tateoka; and grandchildren Jacob (Michell) Tateoka, Elizabeth Tateoka and John Tateoka. Ida was preceded in death by her parents, brothers Hiroshi and Bill Shi- mizu, and sister Helen Oniki.


ZILLMER Dr. Made-


leine Zillmer, who coached figure skating at the Essex Hunt Club in Peapack, New Jersey, for 27 years (1979–2006) died on Sept. 25, 2016, in Collingswood, New Jersey. Madeleine taught many talented skaters and


was the coach of the gold-medal-winning synchro- nized skating team The Vixens. The Essex Hunt Club established an award in her name in 2003. Made- leine was also a member of the Professional Skaters Guild of America. She was born on June 25, 1923, in Vienna,


Austria. Madeleine went on to have a stellar ama- teur skating and coaching career in Europe. Most notably, she coached her daughter Eileen “Bibi” Christina to three German national titles, three top-10 European Championships, one top-10


World Championships and the 1968 Winter Olym- pics in Grenoble, France. Bibi’s ninth-place finish at the 1969 World Championships at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, represents the cul- mination of her coaching career. From 1944 to 1950, she toured as a profession-


al skater with the Vienna Ice Revue, where she was a soloist performing throughout Europe. A gifted student, she enrolled in the Univer-


sity of Vienna and earned her doctoral degree in physics in 1946. Her doctoral dissertation was titled “The Effects of High Electricity in Vacuum.” She be- came one of the first women to graduate from the University of Vienna, and one of the first women to earn a doctoral degree in physics. She went on to teach high school and college physics for more than six years. She met her husband Lt. Col. David Zillmer at


an ice rink while at graduate school. They were mar- ried for more than 65 years. Madeleine lived a life full of vitality and ener-


gy. She was one of the most positive people one could be around. She was fiercely independent, a champion of women’s rights, and elegantly fought discrimination in her academic and athletic career in Europe. She was a loyal and loving wife, moth- er, grandmother and great-grandmother. She will be remembered as an extraordinary person who touched many people’s lives and did so with au- thenticity and a smile. Her loving family, daughter Bibi, son Eric,


grandson Christopher Jr. (CJ), son-in-law Christo- pher Sr., granddaughter Kanya, great-grandson Summit, and Summit’s father James survive Mad- eleine.


NEWSOME Seree M. New-


some, an adult com- petitor at the Chelsea Piers Sky Rink in New York, died in June. She was 64. Seree competed


in numerous U.S. Fig- ure Skating and ISI events and was a participant at the inaugural 1995 U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships. She also volunteered as a mentor and coach with the Figure Skating in Harlem pro- gram. Seree later coached at Riverbank State Park and The Pond at Bryant Park. Her unexpected death left a myriad of


saddened friends and students, who will always re- member her beautiful smile, graceful skating and encouragement to other skaters. Survivors include her devoted husband Wendell Newsome, sister Dorothea Clayton and brother John Threadgill.


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