Michael Lynn Trout

April 14, 1953 - February 3, 2022

Dignity Memorial

Michael Lynn Trout died of complications of COVID when his heart stopped on February 3, 2022.  He was 68 years old.  

Mike was the youngest child of Martha Trout, who died at Good Samaritan in Loveland in 2020 at the age of 102.  Mike was born after Martha’s divorce from John Trout of Mount Vernon, Illinois.  John took the older children Farrell, Glenda, and Judy; Martha took Mike.  She took him all the way to Colorado in 1959.  Mike grew up in downtown Boulder on Pearl Street.  Martha and Mike managed a hotel there while Martha worked various other jobs to support herself and Mike.  

At the age of 18, Mike joined the Air Force and married Susan Mason.  Both his term of service and the marriage lasted about two years.  Susie gave birth to a son during the marriage, who was adopted by her second husband.  Susie died about 15 years ago of complications of MS.  

Mike supported himself at various production jobs until 1988.  At that point, his own MS made if necessary to stop working.  In the early 1990s, he went on disability, as he developed additional auto-immune problems such as MG and RA.  These, along with COVID, contributed to his death.  

Mike kept himself busy learning about computers, a short phase of casting and printing ceramics, cohosting a web group “I was in Boulder in the 50s & 60s,” and writing.  The group may recall his short story about the “waffle butts” in front of the courthouse.  The story was written under his nom de plume, Alexa, and more recently, his political commentary.  

Mike didn’t get out much in the last five years or so.  The MS caused double vision and he did not like to leave the house.  He kept in touch by phone, computer, and having his housemate of 30 years ferry him.  He will be missed by Pam, his sister Judy of Mount Vernon, his second life friend Yazzie, Texas relatives Nita, Dave and Dana, his cousin Bob of Longmont, Marion and Jean of Colorado and Indiana, Dave Cook, a former workmate, and Glen and Debi Friedly of Brighton, Colorado.  

Mike’s claim to fame was a plaster wizard he painted at American Casting.  It was on the counter at the early “Magic Shop” on the Show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”  

Mike’s wishes were to be cremated.  Pam hopes to hold a memorial service in his honor in Lyons, Colorado in summer 2022.  Mike will be interred with his mother, Martha, at the Lyons Cemetery.  

Michael Trout was fondly remembered by these BHS Classmates:  

Mike always had the biggest smile and positive attitude.  

Sandi Sorden Adams

I remember hanging out on the rooftops with Mike when we were kids.  He lived real close to Pearl and Broadway, always a smile and a flat top haircut.  

Neil Brown