Don Sturm, founder of ANB Bank and a major donor to the University of Denver, died on Saturday at age 92.
“He was in the office every day — even until right here at the end,” said Koger Propst, CEO at ANB Bank, who described Sturm as a thoughtful and strategic thinker who even into his late 80s and 90s continued to plan for the future.
Born Donald Lawrence Sturm to an immigrant family in Brooklyn on Jan. 10, 1932, Sturm attended City College of New York before being drafted into the U.S. Army. He moved to Denver to earn his law degree at the University of Denver, and then returned to New York, where he obtained a master’s degree in taxation law.