Cle Cervi Symonswho was editor of Cervi’s Rocky Mountain Journal, the (*90*) of the Denver Business Journal, died December 30 at the age of 90.
Some obituary states“She attended St. Mary’s Academy; received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1956; and after graduation he spent ten years in Manhattan. When fame didn’t pan out, she returned to Denver and worked at the weekly business newspaper her father had founded, Cervi’s Rocky Mountain Journal (today often known as the Denver Business Journal). She met her husband Bill Symons at the Denver Press Club, they married on January 15, 1972, and had two daughters. Clé lived for service to others. She has mentored writers through the Denver Woman’s Press Club, journalists at small newspapers, and students through The Bridge Project.
In 2006, Symons was inducted into the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame.
She took over the newspaper, one of the nation’s first business newspapers when it was founded in 1948, in 1966. In 1957, Time magazine he called it “Denver’s thriving $12-a-year newspaper is a cheeky, fact-packed compendium of personal information, local business dealings (including almost every latest automotive sale on the town), and complex taunts at such unlikely targets because the Chamber of Commerce, complacent businessmen , Scripps-Howard’s Rocky Mountain News and the mighty Denver Post.
The publication is now part of American City Business Journals.
