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She was born in Colorado to Calvin F. Kelly and Ida (Lasater) Kelly. Her father was a farmer. Her mother was a homemaker. US Census records from 1910 and 1920 indicate that she grew up on the Rhone Plateau in Mesa County, and in Missouri. She married Sterling Price Bittle in Grand Junction, Colorado on December 25, 1925. By 1930, the US Census shows them living in Loma, Colorado. They had two children. She was a homemaker and an active member of the...
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She was born in Unaweep Canyon to Joseph Rawlings, a railroad conductor, and Emma Rawlings, a homemaker. The 1900 US Census shows her living at 8 Pitkin Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado at the age of 12. She married Ellwood Brouse on December 24, 1906. Beginning in 1915, they homesteaded, farmed, and raised children on Glade Park. She was a homemaker.
83) Didi Williamson
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Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina (of North American parents); have lived in New York City, Nebraska and Texas before Colorado. Occupation: Homemaker and mother. Children: Three married daughters, two grandsons and three granddaughters. Special Interests: Dancing, golf, sailing, reading and sewing.
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She was born in Sweden on November 26, 1885 and left for the United States in 1910. She settled with her aunt and uncle in Kansas, where she was confirmed in the Lutheran faith. She moved to the Mack, Colorado area with her husband Albert Alstatt, where they homesteaded. She was a homemaker who raised five children on the farm.
85) John P. Kettle
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He was born in Indiana to Stephen V. Kettle, a farmer and teamster, and Elizabeth Kettle, a homemaker. He grew up there and in Nebraska. He married Osa Nannette Cox on November 8, 1899. They moved to the Pear Park area of Mesa County, Colorado in 1907, where he grew apples and pears.
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She was born in Amazon, Nebraska. She married Edward Martin on October 3rd, 1901 in Toppenish, Washington. She was a teacher in an Indian school in Washington, did the bookkeeping for her husband’s business, managed the family farm, and served as homemaker. She advised her daughter, Dorothy (Martin) Tindall, not to become a teacher.
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She was born in Missouri to French immigrants. She married John W. Cox and together they moved to Canon City, Colorado (US Census records show them living there by 1900), where she worked as a housekeeper. Sometime between 1900 and 1903 they moved to Kannah Creek, Colorado, where they homesteaded and raised cattle. She was a homemaker.
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She was born in Missouri to James and Jennie Overton. She moved with her husband Ernest W. Hicks and their family to Mesa County, Colorado in 1937. She was a homemaker on a farm. She also peeled tomatoes and canned peaches for the Kuner Canning Company in Appleton.
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She was born near Canon City in the Colorado Territory. She moved with her parents to the Whitewater area of Mesa County, presumably in 1880's, after the removal of the Utes. She married John V. Geiger, a homesteader from Pennsylvania, in December 1984. She was a homemaker on a fruit growing farm.
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Born in Colorado in 1899 and attended the Lowell, Hawthorne and Franklin Schools in Grand Junction. She went to college at the University of Colorado. She taught piano for two years and after marriage, she was a homemaker for thirty-nine years. Her mother was a German immigrant from Canada, and her father's parents were from Ireland.
91) Raffaela Guerrie
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She married Phillip Guerrie sometime after the passing of his first wife in 1904. They immigrated from Italy to the United States in 1907. She was a homemaker who made Italian cuisine, cookies and bread for the family, and who oversaw their celebration of an Italian Christmas.
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She was born in Buena Vista, Colorado to Bishop Brown and Emma (Yount) Brown. She was a homemaker. She was the wife of Albert Turner (Sr.), who established the Cisco Ranch. At the age of fifty-one, she was killed in a flash flood on Diamond Creek after refusing to climb the hill due to her fear of lightning.
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Catherine (Saxon) Moore discusses her early life and education in Mesa County, her nursing experience and training at St. Mary’s Hospital, and her life as a homemaker in survey encampments. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
94) Mary "Sea" Duran
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Sea Duran, longtime Red Cliff resident, at the Shrine of the Stations of the Cross, San Luis. A group from St. Patrick's Parish, Minturn, visited in April 2000. Sea was a member of the Altar and Rosary Society in Red Cliff and was married to Joe Duran. She was a homemaker and child-care provider.
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She was born to Peter K. Bonebreak and Carrie F. (Craddick) Bonebreak in Guthrie Center, Iowa. Her father was a farmer and county clerk who apparently died when Edna was young. Her mother was a homemaker and school teacher. She worked as the first full-time music teacher in the state of Iowa. She married Orlo David Williams in 1905 and the two moved to Grand Junction, Colorado shortly after. They purchased a home at 1148 Ouray Avenue, which was the...
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She was born in Albia, Iowa to Thomas E. Johnson and Margaret M. (Hartsuck) Johnson. Her father was a coal miner and her mother was a homemaker. Her father suffered from asthma, and the family moved to Palisade, Colorado in an attempt to improve his health. They arrived in 1917, when Ruth was 15 years old. She graduated from Palisade High School. She married Marion Julian Echternach in Palisade on September 20, 1920. He was born in Oklahoma and grew...
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She was born in Colorado to Charles Carlson and Bertha (Davis) Carlson. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a homemaker. She grew up in Loveland, Colorado and attended the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. There, she met William Fredrick Hartman Jr. They married in 1937, when she was 24 years old.
She and William moved to Grand Junction in 1938, where William taught journalism at Mesa College and Lucy worked as a substitute teacher...
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She was born in Illinois to Phillip Steinbach Jr. and Laura (Grimm) Steinbach. Her father was a bricklayer and her mother was a homemaker. She Married Charles Rump in 1908. Bu 1910, US Census records show that they had moved to Denver, Colorado, following her husband’s work as an irrigation and real estate developer. She was a homemaker.
They moved to the Redlands area of Mesa County in 1919. There, she became one of the organizers of the Redlands’...
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She was born in Brighton, Colorado to Thomas Wayne Beede and Marguerite Elizabeth (Miller) Beede. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a homemaker. The family moved to the town of Loma in Mesa County sometime between 1930 and 1940. The 1940 US Census shows them farming in Loma when Margaret was twelve years old.
She attended a country school near Loma with 28 students. Margaret attended Fruita Union High School. After graduation, she attended...
100) Marie (Becker) Young
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An early settler of Mesa County, fruit farmer, and ranch homemaker. Marie was born in Central City, Colorado, and moved to the Western slope when her father decided to raise fruit in the area. The family moved to Orchard Mesa in 1903 when Marie was nine years old. Her father was a German immigrant, and Marie and her family were subjected to discrimination during the period from World I to World War II. She was married in Moab, Utah, to Lew Young,...
