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A canning factory that was established in 1911 to process anticipated harvests in Loma, Colorado. But
the factory closed down a few years later not having reached its full capacity.
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The Loma Community Church was organized as the First Presbyterian Church in 1909. Reverend George F. McCleve, who had held services at the Loma School prior to the church's organization, served as the first minister. The congregation built a church in 1909-1910 (The Church That Stayed by Virginia Donoho).
According to oral history interviewee and Loma resident Hazel W. (Durham) Murphy, the Loma Presbyterian church was built and furnished with money...
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He was born in Loma, Colorado to George Washington Harper and Henrietta (Rhoades) Harper. His parents had moved to Loma in 1910, where they homesteaded. His father worked as a surveyor for the Highline Canal as it was being built.
Around 1913, when Cecil was three years old, the family moved to the Horsethief Canyon ranch, which his uncle was renting. They returned to Loma two years later.
Cecil attended the Loma School for his first two years,...
109) Wilbur Eugene Downey
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He was born to David Downey and Bertha Cassinda (Suedekum) Downey in Stafford, Kansas. His father owned a pool hall and farmed. His mother was a homemaker. The family arrived in Loma, Colorado in 1919. David Downey bought the pool hall there and ran it for four years before the family moved to a farm on 13 Road.
Wilbur attended grade school in Kansas and Loma, and finished the 8th grade. By 1930 the family was living in Fruita, where the US Census...
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According to Grace and Ralph Inskeep, it was a church presided over by pastor Alvin Ricks in the early Twentieth century. Ralph Inskeep was appointed superintendent of the church by the state church’s overseer. Ricks had a parsonage built east of the church. Church attendance apparently declined when some members started working on Sundays.
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According to the book The Church that Stayed by Virginia Donoho, The Methodist Church in Loma was founded in 1909 with a church building being constructed in 1913. Longtime resident Gertrude Rader moved to Loma around 1920 and became an active member of the church and of the affiliated Ladies Aid Society. The Church seems to have met in the houses of members, at least for a time, and to have had guest ministers. A popular minister was James Baggs...
112) Leland Jacob Buniger
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He was born to Jacob Buniger and Catherine Alice (Krigbaum Darnell) Buniger in Grand Junction, Colorado. His father, a Swiss immigrant, was the Fruita town marshall. He also delivered salt to the Ross Brown Ranch at Douglas Pass, where Brown would give the salt to his horses. Leland’s parents married the year before Leland was born and separated a few years later.
By 1920, when Colorado records indicate that their divorce was finalized, Leland...
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She was born in Vernal, Utah to William E. “Ben” Smith and Jessie Smith, both originally from Colorado. Her father was a teamster and a mechanic with his own garage. Her mother was a homemaker. The 1920 US Census shows the family living in Riverton, Wyoming, when Mildred was 9. By 1930 the family had moved to Loma, Colorado.
Mildred married Wilbur Eugene Downey in 1929. She was a housewife. During the 1960’s, she helped Wilbur run the Loma...
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An annual event held in Horsethief Canon, near Loma, Colorado, during the early Twentieth century. Fish were taken with nets spread across the Colorado River and fried for the attendees. Speeches were made. According to oral history interviewee and Loma resident Gertrude Rader, the Fish Fry became a place for “electioneering” in later years, with politicians coming to the event. This discouraged her and others from attending, and the event was...
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He was born in Kansas to George Washington Harper Sr. and Mary J. (Pearson) Harper. His father was a physician and his mother was a homemaker. Marriage records show that he was living in Kiowa County, Colorado by 1905, when he married Henrietta Rhoades. The 1910 US Census shows them living in the town of Towner, Colorado with their first three children. George Washington was working as a farmer. According to George Cecil Harper, George Washington’s...
116) David Brumbaugh
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He was the postmaster of Loma, Colorado in the early Twentieth century. He also owned a mercantile company there.
He was born in Pennsylvania to Henry Dougherty Brumbaugh and Sarah G. Brumbaugh. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. Census records show that he was married to his wife Elizabeth and living in North Woodbury, Pennsylvania by 1900, when he was twenty-five years old. He worked as a heater in iron production.
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She was born to Samuel Robert Durham and Lillian Jane (Lee) Durham in Piedmont, Missouri. Her father was a lawyer and a postmaster. Her mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Pueblo, Colorado toward the end of her childhood and she graduated from high school there. She then went to Colorado State Teachers College in Greeley and to Western State College, where she obtained her teaching degree.
She married U. Earl Murphy on May 21, 1917 in Pueblo....
118) David Burton Downey
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He was born in Ohio to Q.C. Downey, a clergyman, and Sarah A. Downey, a housewife. In 1880, when David was 10, US Census records show the family living in Cambridge, Ohio. By 1900, when David was 30, census records show him living as a lodger in Enid, Oklahoma, where he worked as a painter. He married Bertha Suedekum in 1902. By 1910 they lived on a farm in Lincoln, Kansas. According to oral history interviewee and son Wilbur Downey, they moved their...
119) Robert St. James
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A Grand Junction, Colorado radio DJ who was known for his elaborate jokes on air at KEXO AM. He was a contemporary DJ of Reford Theobold in the 1970’s, and continued in the vein of the Theobold, who often told jokes about his hometown of Loma.
In one on-air joke St. James apparently told, he described how the farmers of Loma all hitched their tractors to the land and moved the entire city of Loma several feet in order to escape a flood. He retired...
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She was born in Ft. Collins, Colorado to Charles Frank Miller and Maggie May (Dexter) Miller. Her father was the foreman in a sugar factory and her mother was a homemaker. The 1910 US Census shows the family living together in Ft. Collins, when Marguerite was five years old. The 1920 US Census shows Charles Miller married instead to a Jula Miller and living with their newborn daughter. Marguerite is not shown living with her father at that time. Marguerite...
