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According to Hilda Ann (Walther) Cary, who ran a dairy farm in Loma with her husband Joseph H. Cary, it was an organization composed of local dairy producers. It assisted farmers with the sale of milk to dairies in the 1950’s and possibly before.
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She was born to David and Elizabeth Schlegel in Denhoff, Russia, a descendant of Germans who had settled in that area in the 1700’s, near the Volga River and the Ukraine. She learned the German language in school. Her family farmed sugar beets. According to the 1920 US Census, she immigrated with her family to the United States in 1912, when she was 8 years old. The family moved to Windsor, Colorado, where a cousin of her mother lived. David Schlegel...
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She was born in Waynesboro, Tennessee to Amos H. Alley and Mamie Eve (Neett) Alley. She grew up in Haskell, Texas, where she attended high school. She then went to speedwriting school. She later went to Mesa College.
She married Robert Garland Wood on March 21, 1942. They had three children. They moved to Loma, Colorado in 1961. They lived in Fruita from 1968 to 1969, then in Grand Junction from 1969 to 1980. They settled in Clifton after that....
144) Reford Theobold
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He is the former mayor of Grand Junction. The Theobold family has lived on the Western Slope for over four generations, with Joseph and Ella Theobold first arriving in Delta County. His parents, Clyde and Alma Theobold, purchased the Loma General Store on August 1, 1970 and moved to Fruitvale in order to run it. In 1975, Reford took over the store at the age of twenty.
He began a career in broadcasting when a senior in high school in 1972, working...
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He was born in Logan, Kansas to Robert Jaenicke and Mary (Baker) Jaenicke. His father was a farmer. He attended Pleasant Hill School in Glade, Kansas.
He married Ida Hempler of Phillipsburg, Kansas on January 19, 1926. The 1930 US Census shows them farming in Logan. They had moved to Westcliff, Colorado by 1937. At that time, they came to Loma, Colorado along with several other families as part of the US Farm Security Administration’s resettlement...
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He was born to Edward Long and Margaret J. Long in Kansas, were the family farmed. He married Lora Shigley in Salem Township on December 23, 1904. The family came to Loma, Colorado in 1917, where they homesteaded.
With his brother Quince, he moved the Valley View School north over the Colorado River when it was frozen in the early 1920’s, so that it would be closer to the children that attended the school, including his own kids.
He was a...
147) Howard Hafey
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An engineer for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. His father, William M. Hafey, was a rancher who came to Colorado in 1883. Howard Hafey was born in Grand Junction, Colorado and went to school at Loma Elementary School and Grand Junction High School. He worked for Kress Department Store in Grand Junction for $8 a week until he graduated. He also worked in local Civilian Conservation Corps camps until graduation. After graduation, he worked in a pool...
148) Roger Prescott Green
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He was born in Curtiss, Wisconsin. After attending college, he became a teacher. He married Dorothy (Welles) Green, whom he had met in school, in 1936. She was also a teacher. They had four children. He became a lay minister in the Congregational church in South Dakota, and the family moved often for his career. After several years as a minister, he returned to work as a school teacher, first in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, where he lived for a year...
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She was born in Dehnhof, Russia. As with many Germans from Russia, she settled in the Great Plains of the United States with her family, and lived for a time in Windsor, Colorado. The family moved around, planting crops that failed in Idaho and Utah before moving to Loma, Colorado, where they raised sugar beets for Holly Sugar. She was a homemaker and made German and Russian foods such as pickled apples, pickled cucumbers, sauerkraut, and borscht...
150) William Carl Osborne
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According to George Cecil Harper, Carl Osborne was a homesteader near Loma in the 1910’s, along with Harper’s father, George W. Harper.
He was involved in the mercantile business and the livestock business in early Fruita, Colorado. He was also involved in business with his son, Max Osborne. He was the Fruita mayor for a time.
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A large business in the early Twentieth century. It milled wheat that farmers produced locally. According to oral history interviewee John Brach, whose family farmed wheat near Loma, it operated during the same time period as the rival Juanita Flour Mill. It purchased wheat at the market rate, milled it, and sold back flour at the market rate.
According to oral history interviewee Gladys Gross, it was purchased by Colorado Milling and Elevator...
155) Harold Shults
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He was born, along with his identical twin Howard, in a log cabin north of Loma in 1905. His parents, James F. Shults and Daisy G. (Hosey) Shults, had come to the Grand Valley in 1902 after graduating from a teacher college in Springfield, Missouri. They married in Clifton, Colorado in 1904. They taught in the Pear Park School before moving west in the Grand Valley. His father eventually became involved in the auctioneering business.
When Harold...
160) Highwater (Video)
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Live recording of Shaun Ray (Band) performing their song "Highwater" at the 970West Studio March 1, 2018.
