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14141. Ruth Bereman (Zingg) Tilton
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She was born to Ottway C. Zingg and Bernice Kina Mowry in Holyoke, Colorado. Her father was from a Swiss-American family. He was a history professor and a band director. Her mother was a teacher and principal from Iowa. She grew up in Holyoke and in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where she attended high school. After graduating from high school around 1918, she became a teacher. She taught in country schools outside of Holyoke. She met Forrest L. “Frosty”...
14142. Helen (Hawxhurst) Young
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Daughter of George Hawxhurst. Collbran musician and early Plateau Valley resident. She supported plays that were put on by Mesa County teachers and literary societies in the 1930's.
She was born in Plateau Valley, Colorado to Alexander Percy Hawxhurst and Margaret “Maggie” (Koch) Hawxhurst. Her father was born in South Park, Colorado and her mother was a German immigrant. Margaret had been married and divorced previously to Theodore Pfeiffer...
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A volunteer for the Mesa County Oral History Project and local historian. She was the author of Mesa County, Colorado: A 100 Year History.
14144. Howard Roland
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He was a long-time auctioneer in Mesa County, Colorado and on the Western Slope. He ended his thirty-seven year auctioneering career in 1983.
14145. Joseph Woodrow "Joe" Collier
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He was born in Dukedom, Tennessee. According to Montana marriage records, his father was James Collier of Tennessee. The US Census shows him living in Ada, Montana in 1910, where he was a farmer. He married Leota Pearl on October 22, 1913 in Big Sandy, Montana. The 1920 Census shows them living in Red Wing, Montana, where they farmed and had a daughter, Dortha.
According to the nephew of Joe Collier, John Collier, he served as the Sheriff in Mesa...
14146. Scott Jackson Walck
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He was a farmer near the town of Collbran in Mesa County, Colorado. He was born to Cecil Oliver Walck and Harriet Joanna (Long) Walck in Colorado. His parents were farmers. He married Winona June Kitson in 1949. They had one child. He died at the age of 84 and is buried in Collbran’s Eagalite Cemetery.
14147. Eleanor Mae (Barr) Harris
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A member of the Fruita Union High School class of 1927. She worked as the head nurse at the Plateau Valley Hospital.
14148. Mary Martin Ryerson
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When you mention Mary Martin Ryerson to those who know her, the first thing that happens is a big smile crosses their faces and they say, “Mary is my go to person, no matter what I need.” In her 45 years in community banking in Aspen she has secured loans for everyone from the 13-year-old buying his first bicycle to the young couple buying their first house. She has also supported friends and neighbors in times of need, a skill she developed while...
14149. Ethel Jane (Hutton) Keleher
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She was born in Butler County, Kansas to John Baxter Hutton and Mary Ellen (Bradshaw) Hutton. The 1900 US Census shows the family living in Otter Creek, Kansas when Ethel was eleven years old. Her family farmed there. She attended school through the eighth grade. When she was nineteen years old, in approximately 1907, the family moved to Colorado, near Trinidad, where they ranched.
She met William Patrick Keleher and married him in Trinidad on...
14150. Maude Schofield
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14151. Fern (Toby) Woods
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Married to Walt (Woody) Woods in the autumn of 1940. Worked at the Lafayette Leader newspaper as Managing Editor and left when the paper sold out.
14152. Rita Herold
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14153. Michael B. Husband
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A one-time employee and lecturer of the Museum of Western Colorado. He has enjoyed a long career in historical research and museums. As of 2024, he is working for Heberling Associates.
14154. Warren John Kiefer
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He was born to Samuel Frederick Kiefer and Maude Marie (Hummel) Kiefer in Yakima, Washington and grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. His father was a saleman, broadcaster, and broadcast writer. His mother was a homemaker. Warren was working for the railroad by at least 1940, when the US Census lists him as a “wayo maintenance” worker in railroad construction. It also shows that he had attended a year of college.
He was hired as a fireman on the...
14155. Arianthé C. Stettner
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14156. Chester Fred "Chet" Crowley
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He was born to Chester F. Crowley Sr. and Gladys K. (Haynes) Crowley in Birmingham, Alabama. The family moved to Western Colorado in 1936, when he was about seven years old. The 1940 US Census shows Chet, his younger sister and brother living alone with their mother in De Beque. She later remarried. He attended the Palisade School and later obtained his US Army GED.
He served in the US Army from May 19th, 1948 until 1968. He enlisted in Denver,...
14157. Randall Fosburgh
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A participant in a discussion of Plateau Valley history during a panel discussion sponsored by the Mesa County Historical Society in Collbran, Colorado on July 24, 1983.
14158. Darrell Claire Maluy
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He was born in Mesa County, Colorado to Mary Christine "Nanny” (Darrow) Maluy and Clement Maluy. He was raised on a homestead in the New Liberty area. He attended the New Liberty School and Fruita High School, where he was a track athlete. He also ran track and played football at Mesa College and Colorado School of Mines.
His military draft notice shows that by 1940, he was living at 825 E. Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach, California, where he...
14159. Pepi Gramshammer
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Nannie Blaine Underhill was the first teacher in Grand Junction, Colorado. She was born to Eleam and Clarissa Blaine in Illinois, and the 1870 US Census shows her living in Astoria with her family at the age of 7. According to the 1880 US Census, the family had moved to Fremont, Colorado by 1880, when Nannie was 17.
In June 1882, she was hired to teach as the first teacher in Grand Junction. Her schoolhouse was a picket house with a dirt roof and...