Paul Hastings – Dec. 11, 1946 to Dec. 7, 2006

Paul Hastings – Dec. 11, 1946 to Dec. 7, 2006

Paul Hastings found a new home in Colorado after a growing up in California, bringing along his same active life from our Golden State.

Hastings and his wife Carol owned a machine shop in Colorado, and his vacations often brought him back to California and Mexico to the south for skiing and diving adventure.

Hastings died on Dec. 7, 2006, and entered the Adytum after a year-long struggled with cancer, days before his 60th birthday. He is survived by his wife Carol of 36 years, son Scot, mother Muriel, brother Carl and sister Myna. He had lived in Boulder, Colo., since the early 1980s.

Hastings’ best friend from the chapter was Scott Irwin, who also sadly died in 2005.

Hastings and his wife Carol were high school sweethearts and graduated from Wilson H.S. in Long Beach in 1965. He attended UCLA and joined the Upsilon chapter, graduating with a degree in Chemistry. The two married in 1970 shortly after his graduation.

Hastings worked for several large companies in Los Angeles but decided he would rather open his own business. He and Carol researched locations, chose Colorado, and did the marketing. Their company, Colorado Roller and Wheel, manufactures and repairs industrial rollers for everything from conveyor belts to computers.

Hastings began playing pick-up beach volleyball games in the 1970s, and he continued that in Colorado along with his son Scot, who is now 26 and work at Qualcomm. He founded the Colorado High School Boys Volleyball Association, a non-profit organization the fields 40 teams of high school age student-athletes. (Colorado does not have interscholastic volleyball.)

Hastings loved the water and the outdoors, and he was an avid hiker, skier and ocean diver. The family had a dive boat and scuba-ed in Guaymas and Mazatlan, Mexico, and off Catalina Island.

Two celebrations of life were held on Dec. 10 in Boulder and on Dec. 17 in Lake San Marcos in southern California.

His wife Carol can be reached in Colorado. Contact Jay Ross for her phone at (310) 979-9255 or Ross_Jay@Hotmail.com.