Biography
Mr. Coors was born in Colorado on August 11, 1916. He earned a Bachelors Degree, from Princeton University in 1938 and received his Masters Degree in chemical engineering in 1939.
Coors had three daughters with his first wife Geraldine. She suffered from alcoholism and died of illness.
In 1960, William's brother Adolph III was kidnapped and murdered.
William married his wife Phyllis in 1960s. They have one son, Scott. Coors' oldest daughter Geraldine committed suicide August 5, 1983 at the age of 40. She had been suffering from depression.
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