He made many friends, all equally important

By Lisa Barker and Ellen Harne

Our brother Stephen was the fifth of nine Streib children — and he exhibited some (but not all) of the traits common to a middle child. Most times, he tried to keep the peace between siblings, which was not easy when dealing with eight different personalities! He was firm (some would say stubborn) in his beliefs about how some things should be and was not afraid to express those.

Several times a day, you could see Stephen walking down Boulder’s Main Street to check on his liquor store or to take the dog of our dad, Jim Streib, for a walk. He was not content to sit idle for long, instead spending his spare time playing cribbage with another sibling, being puzzled over a puzzle, or visiting his son, Robert, and his grandchildren.