A 44-year-old man who died in an RV fire on Memorial Day got by doing odd jobs in east Denver, friends say.
Lennie Dean England was killed early Monday morning after an intense blaze consumed his small Winnebago RV parked behind Cadillac Jack’s.
The Denver Fire Department is still investigating the cause of the blaze.
“He never really had a lot in his life,” Cadillac Jack’s owner Jack Lohman said today of England. “What he did have, he tried to do the best with, God bless him.”
Cadillac Jack’s, 2250 S. Monaco Parkway, is holding a fundraiser at the bar tonight to collect money to transport England’s body to his family in Michigan, Lohman said.
England vacuumed or mopped floors at the bar in exchange for the right to park his RV behind Cadillac Jack’s, Lohman said.
“He had a lot of friends,” he said. “We’ll miss him dearly.”
England also did landscaping around town. Just about every day, he showed up at the bar and watched television, Lohman said.
“Every morning when I came into work, he was the first person I would see,” Lohman said.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com
