Career
Born and raised in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, "Skeeter" Werner learned to ski and race at Howelsen Hill. Werner retired from competition in 1958, and modeled and designed fashions in New New York She later founded the Steamboat Ski School.
They eloped in 1969 to Las Vegas and lived together in Steamboat Springs for the rest of their lives.
He died in 1998 at age 71, eight months after a ski accident left him paralyzed. She died of cancer in July 2001, at age 67.
