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Marker for: "Baby [Esther] Marfitano, June 30,1938," Greenwood Cemetery. A lamb and flowers are engraved at the top of the marker.
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Joy Marfitano (Dump Boltjes) standing next to the Red Cliff city limits sign in 1937.
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Wedding photo of Ralph and Stella Allaria Marfitano, May 24, 1919, in Ouray, Colorado. "...they had four children, Joy, Roy , and lost the other two. Son, Louie, died as an infant (buried at Ouray) and daughter, Esther died at birth (buried at Red Cliff). Ralph started working for the D&RG Railroad in 1919 on the section gang in Ouray/Ridgeway (7 years) before relocatiing to be the section foreman in Red Cliff from 1926 until 1944 when he was transferred...
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Roy Marfitano, holding the reins of his horse, in 1940. They are standing above the Eagle Bridge in Red Cliff, with the Warren family barn and corrals in the background, looking north. The Anderson delivery truck and the railroad tracks are left of Roy.
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Rifle and leather gun scabbard with initials RRM; leather glove. Roy Ralph Marfitano (RRM) first purchased the scabbard to use on his horse in 1940. The horse wasn't around very long so Roy's dad, Ralph, then started using the scabbard to protect his 1927 Winchester Model 94-32 Special rifle (shown in photo) while traveling the tracks on his railroad "putt-putt" car. The Model 94 rifle was a very popular big game rifle in those days (1920s-1980s)....
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Joy Marfitano (Dump Boltjes) on Senior Sneak Day 1938. She is standing at the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun in Colorado Springs. Spencer Penrose built the shrine between 1934 and 1937, dedicating it to Will Rogers who died in a plane crash in 1935. The elevation on the top deck in 8,136 ft. The shrine is now part of Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
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The Ivan Dump family seated around the dining room table for dinner in the early 1950s. The wallpaper and metal kitchen cabinets in the background are appropriate to the era. From front left, going around the table to the right: Ed Dump, Ernie Dump, Ralf Marfitano, Ivan Dump, Joy Marfitano Dump, Stella Marfitano, Len Dump and Betty Mae Dump (Elsberry).
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Rose and Roy Marfitano at the 1992 Red Cliff Union High School reunion. The dinner was held in the high school auditorium.
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Roy Marfitano wearing his Red Cliff High School band sweater in July 1940.
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The Dump Family reunion held at the Apple Blossom Inn, Leadville, Colorado. Unbenownst to the family at the time, the Inn is three building lots away from where the 1942 Dump Family reunion was held at the home of Ike and Joy Dump. From left to right, bottom row: Len (Dump) Dumph, Travis Dump, Ivan (Dump) Dumph Second row: Sandy Dumph, Norm and Diana Dump, Betsy and Ed (Dump) Dumph Third row: Bobbie Marfitano, Bernadette Crye, Joy Dump, Judy (Crye)...
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Studio photograph of Brother and sister, Roy and Joy Marfitano, taken in the 1920s. Joy is seated while Roy is standing to her right, holding her hand.
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Mrs. Carlson, mother of Betty Carlson (manager of the phone company at the time) and Joy Marfitano (Dump Boltjes) in front of the Red Cliff telephone office. The office was north of the "Red and White Grocery Store" (building still standing in 2010) at the East end of Monument St. and Eagle St.
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Dump Family reunion in the summer of 1942 after Betty Mae Dump (Elbserry) was born. It was at the Leadville home of Ivan "Ike" dump and Joy Marfitano Dump (Ike was working at Climax Mine). The family, from left to right: Ralph and Stella Marfitano, Chuck Dump, Joy (Marfitano) Dump (Boltjes), infant Betty Dump (Elsberry) held by Ivan Dump, Dick Mize, Vic Morgan, Ethel "Sis" Morgan (Dump), Ruby (Dump) Crye, Blanch Dump (Gay) Harry and Pearl (Dump)...
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Roy Marfitano and Joy Marfitano (Dump Boltjes) carrying their father's (Ralph Marfitano) trout near Red Cliff.
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Students in formal attire, lined up for an 8th grade graduation photograph at Red Cliff School. From left: Warren Anderson, Geneva Durbin, Mary Herrera, Elvira Rockwood, Miss Olson, Joy Marfitano, Ilene Taylor, Hugh Wilson, John ?, Blanche Tippett, Herman Bergman.
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Grandmother Theresa Cistofani Allaria with Roy Marfitano and Joy Marfitano (Dump Boltjes) at the Denver & Rio Grand section house at the south end of Eagle Street, Red Cliff.
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Danny Crough and Joy Marfitano (Dump Boljtes) standing in front of Mickey Walsh's garage in Red Cliff in 1938. Joy has her arm hooked in Danny's and the automobile door is open.
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Roy Marfitano and his mother, Stella Allaria Marfitano, at the Glenwood Springs nursing home. The photo was taken on Mother's Day, May 10, 1981.
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Studio wedding photo of Ivan Lon "Ike" Dump and Joy Marfitano Dump. They were married on July 20, 1941, but, due to circumstances were unable to have their wedding picture taken until December 7, 1941, in Leadville. "While having their picture taken, they listened to breaking news about Pearl Harbor on the radio." -- courtesy of Len Dumph
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Ivan Lon "Ike" Dump with wife, Joy Marfitano Dump (Boltjes) standing next to the wood shed off the kitchen of their house, shortly before Ike left for WW II. Children, Ernie Dump Dumph and Betty Mae Dump (Elsberry) are standing in front of them. The house belonged to the John and Alton Paddock family. The Paddock's permitted Joy and her children to house-sit rent free while Ike was overseas. In the background are two tiers of cribbing that shored...