The wake-up calls Izzy Rosenbloom made to his granddaughter only now have stopped.

So have the "Izzy Gang" lunches attended by cops, teachers, judges and business barons.

Mr. Rosenbloom, unable to recover from a fall he took at his Thornton home, the Villas at Sunny Acres, died Thursday.

He was 95.

The Manual High School graduate drove a trolley through the streets of Denver in the 1940s and owned several local bars, including the Stardust Club, the Plainsman and the 12-Foot Inn. Later, he worked for the public schools as "maitre d' " at a restaurant run by students learning the service industry.

Mr. Rosenbloom's Rolodex - in his case actually a thick black notebook full of phone numbers - expanded each day. Daughter Sharon Works bought the pad to help him keep track of friends. Until then, he had jotted digits on scraps of paper scattered all over the house.

Bill Coors, grandson of brewery founder Adolph Coors, said he knew Mr. Rosenbloom for nearly 70 years and appeared regularly at the "Izzy" lunches.

Isador Rosenbloom, known as Izzy to everyone, started the tradition maybe 50 years ago to see his buddies. Eventually, the functions turned into parties to celebrate his Dec. 13 birthdays.

Mr. Rosenbloom, who married Roberta Dunlap in 1936, was divorced and married again, abstained from alcohol and cigarettes, but liked to party and to ballroom dance. He hosted St. Patrick's Day gatherings, where he was called Izzy O' Rosenbloom. Coors and others were eagerly planning the next one when they learned of their friend's death.

"Money was never important to him," said Coors, now 90. "Friends were his treasures."

Jerry Kennedy, a former Denver police captain, first ran into Mr. Rosenbloom after being called to the 12-Foot Inn - literally that long - to remove a reprobate from the bar. A bond between the cop and the bar owner grew from there.

"Artists, businessmen, government people," Kennedy said, "he treated them all the same."

The get-togethers attracted an eclectic crew, including everyone from Coors to Kennedy to Jake Jabs of American Furniture Warehouse.

The longtime Coloradan, born in Tennessee, set aside time for everyone and focused on the good in people, while seeking to understand the bad, his family and friends said.

His granddaughter, Kathryn Works, 42, recalled how her alarm clock broke 16 years ago. Every single day since then, he has called at 6:30 a.m. to rouse her.

"He was adorable," she said. "He'd say, 'It's 6:30 and it's 7 degrees.' And he'd tell me he loved me very much."

While others exhibited road rage, Mr. Rosenbloom stayed calm behind the wheel. When he got into a disagreement with a tenant at the assisted-living home, he raised his voice but didn't yell, Works said. The two moved to different tables to cool off, but he remained kind, sending pieces of grapefruit over to her as a gesture to show he cared, she said.

He is survived by three other grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren.

He'll be remembered at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Feldman Mortuary in Denver.

If his family calls every number in Mr. Rosenbloom's notebook, it could be a big crowd.

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