December 23, 2025 Sturgeon Electric Brings Holiday Cheer to Patients of Children’s Hospital Colorado
Honoring our company’s festive history by helping keep our community merry and bright
The holiday lights outside Children’s Hospital Colorado didn’t just illuminate the building when they were turned on the last week of November. They lit up the faces of children who will call the hospital home over the holidays.
This is the seventh year that Sturgeon Electric has partnered with Children’s Hospital Colorado to bring merriness to its patients and families, but the company’s impact on Colorado’s – and the world’s – holiday cheer far predates this tradition.
Legend has it, Sturgeon Electric’s founder David Dwight “D.D.” Sturgeon invented outdoor colored Christmas lights back in 1914, decorating the trees out front of his home in paint-dipped lightbulbs for his bed-ridden son David to enjoy from his bedroom window.
According to the article When Christmas Went Outdoors by Grady Johnson, “David lay there smiling as he watched the lights sparkle like emeralds and rubies against the ermine mantle of snow… in horse drawn buggies and chugging automobiles, people came from miles around to drive slowly past the Sturgeon home and admire the tree.”
111 years later, Sturgeon Electric continues to live out D.D.’s innovative and community-oriented spirit. Today, a similar scene can be found at the Children’s Hospital Colorado, where the Sturgeon Electric Colorado service department decked its exterior with merry Christmas lights.
“What made this year even more special was that this was the very first reveal event for the kids at the hospital,” recounts Ryan Yates, Sturgeon Electric project manager, “It was so heartwarming to see the kids’ faces light up as the lights came on.”
In addition to decorating the hospital itself, our volunteers decorate the homes of the hospital’s child ambassadors each year. Earlier this month, our crews surprised 11-year-old Parker by decking his home with spectacular holiday lights.
Parker has been receiving care from Children’s Hospital Colorado since his diagnosis with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and anxiety in 2024. He now fundraises to support pediatric mental health in southern Colorado. The care he and his family received from the hospital during such a difficult period was life-changing, and today Parker is using his story to help make a difference.
“Fueled by his own resilience and the care he received at Children’s Colorado Telstar Therapy Services, Parker hopes that his story can help others facing mental health challenges and remind them that with the right support, they can overcome any obstacle they face,” writes the Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation in an article about the ambassador.
It was an honor to help make the holidays of such an inspiring child merry and bright this year. Sturgeon Electric’s history is rooted in the use of innovation to improve and uplift communities, and more than a century after D.D. Sturgeon’s festive invention, the company continues to carry that spirit forward, Creating Connections and Empowering People through giving and service.