A 44-year-old man who died in a recreational-vehicle fire on Memorial Day got by doing odd jobs in east Denver, friends said.
Lennie Dean England was killed early Monday when a blaze consumed his small Winnebago RV parked behind Cadillac Jack’s Bar & Grill.
The Denver Fire Department is investigating the cause of the blaze.
“He never really had a lot in his life,” Cadillac Jack’s owner, Jack Lohman, said of England. “What he did have, he tried to do the best with, God bless him.”
Cadillac Jack’s, 2250 S. Monaco Parkway, was set to hold a fundraiser at the bar Wednesday night 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 parking 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, The Denver Post
