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She was an early resident of Fruita, Colorado, and later lived in Loma and Mack, where she met her husband Rowland Fowler “Roe” Saunders. They had a small farm near Mack.
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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 Colorado to William Cox and Maude (Jackson) Cox. Her father was a dry goods merchant in the general merchandise business in Mack and Fruita. He later became a farmer. Her mother was a homemaker.
US Census records show that Lucille grew up in Fruita, where she worked in her father’s store. The 1930 Census shows her living in Grand Junction at the age of 19, where she worked as a store clerk. She married Edward Schultz of Kansas...
72) Eugene Longo
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An Italian immigrant and owner of the Longo grocery store in downtown Grand Junction, Colorado in the early to mid-Twentieth century. He was married to Parmee (Catalina) Longo. They lived at 227 Pitkin Avenue. Together with his friend Eugene Mendicelli, who lived nearby, he used to bicycle to Mack and back every weekend, so that he could spend the week working for the Uintah Railway.
76) Edward Schultz
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He was born in Russia, near the Volga River, to Fred Schultz and Amelia (Groff) Schultz. His family were Germans living in Russia. In the early Twentieth century, they fled persecution against Germans and went to France, where they worked to gain money for passage to the United States.
They came to the United States on a cattle boat. They stopped in Baltimore for six weeks before making their way to Susank, Kansas, where they lived in a German...
77) Ralph Aspinall
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Palisade farmer and younger brother of US Representative Wayne Aspinall. He was born to Mack Aspinall and Jessie E. (Norviel) Aspinall in Ohio. The family moved to Palisade, Colorado in 1904, when he was seven years old. There, they farmed fruit. Like his older brother, he probably attended the Mt. Lincoln School near Palisade. He joined the Army Students Training Corps during World War I, but nearly died from the Spanish Flu and was discharged after...
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He was born in Georgia. US Census records from 1880 show him living with his grandparents at the age of 12, working on a farm. He married Isabel Luts in Grand County, Utah in 1891. US Census records show that by 1900, they were living in La Sal, Utah, where he was a sheep rancher at the age of 32. By 1920, the family had moved to Mack, Colorado, where the family owned a general store, and lived in a home directly behind the store. He later returned...
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His parents and family moved from South Dakota to Palisade, Colorado when he was around 13 years old. His father farmed, and Roe later became a sheep rancher. After he met his wife, Lois (Hollinger) Saunders, they farmed near Mack. Saunders Field House on the Colorado Mesa University campus is named after him.
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He was born in Towner, Colorado to Leonard Thomas and Ida (Field) Thomas. He attended grade school in Towner and went to Holly for high school, graduating in 1913, when he was seventeen years old. He served in the US Cavalry from April 17, 1917 to November 11, 1919, and was stationed in Calexico, California and in Arizona. He arrived in Western Colorado on November 15, 1919.
He found work as a farmhand. He came to Mack on February 20, 1920. He...
