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1) Lupe Calunga
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She was a migrant worker who lived in La Colonia (in what is now Las Colonias). Her children attended the Emerson School. She and her husband Albert became the head bakers of Holsum Bread. They had a daughter named Hope.
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He was a migrant worker who lived in La Colonia (in what is now Las Colonias). His children attended the Emerson School. He and his wife Lupe became the head bakers of Holsum Bread. They had a daughter named Hope.
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Truant officer for Grand Junction in his older years. He coordinated his efforts with Dorothy Tindall to get the children of the migrant workers who lived at La Colonia (in what is now Las Colonias) to attend school more often.
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She was a school nurse who worked with the children of migrant workers living in La Colonia (the original housing settlement from which Las Colonias gets its name), helping them with conditions like lice and basic hygiene.
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She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to William Wesley Taylor and Helen (Booker) Taylor. Her father was one of the main caretakers and officials of the Handy Chapel, Grand Junction's historically Black church. Her mother was a homemaker. 1930 US Census records indicate that they lived at 817 Kimball Avenue in the Las Colonias neighborhood, when she was six. The same census shows her father working as a porter in a barber shop. Josephine attended...
