Tim Stanton, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and a researcher in animal nutrition, died March 24 of kidney cancer. He was 56.
Stanton died just before his 10-year research project on a system to eliminate odors from wastewater ponds was about to be tested.
The system, called O2, will be tested by the AgSmart Co., according to Lonnie Losh, a Strasburg stockman and owner of the company. Losh worked on the project with Stanton.
O2 — which uses algae to create oxygen to aerate the waste ponds — is designed to work in small towns, dairies, feed yards and swine operations.
“Tim was an extremely intelligent man and had good common sense,” Losh said.
Stanton originally thought he’d become a veterinarian, said longtime friend Jerry Sloan of Gehring, Neb.
The interest never left him. He loved horses and always had several, usually buying ones that were sick “and bringing them back to health,” said his daughter Jackie Stanton of Fort Collins.
Stanton did it all through better nutrition, which was his speciality.
Stanton, along with his wife, Renate, owned Sunset Stables East and Sunset Stables West, both north of Fort Collins.
The stables have outside arenas where those who board their horses can train them. Stanton built one of the stables, his daughter said.
“Tim always thought the best place for a man was on the back of a horse,” his wife said. He rode as often as possible.
Tim Stanton was born in Stromsburg, Neb. He earned a bachelor of science degree in agriculture and a master’s in animal science from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
He received his doctorate in nutrition and biochemistry at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
Stanton met Renate Wright while the two were in college in Nebraska. They married on Aug. 15, 1975.
In addition to his wife and daughter, Stanton is survived by another daughter, Hanni Stanton, and a son, Will Stanton, both of Fort Collins; his father, Bud Stanton, of Stromsburg; and a brother, Dan Stanton, of York, Neb.
Virginia Culver: 303-954-1223 or vculver@denverpost.com
