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Her parents, Annie and John McGinley, homesteaded in Fruita in the late Nineteenth century. She attended Fruita High School for three years, and went to Ross Business College for her fourth year. She was an elementary school teacher in Mesa County, Colorado for 43 years. She taught at the rural Hunter School for 24 years, and then in Fruita for her last 13 years. She never married.
2) Marie Biglin
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She was born in Utah and grew up in the Nucla, Colorado area, where her father was one of the first white men to settle. After finishing high school, she worked for four years as a legal secretary in Denver before returning to Nucla. There, she raised a family and was the office manager for the Rural Electrification Administration Nucla Regional Office for twenty years.
3) Marie Thomas
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A pioneer school nurse in Grand Junction who sometimes assisted Dr. Everett "E.H." Munro when he made house calls in rural Mesa County. She was also one of the people in charge of the original immunization program in Grand Junction. Sometime later, she left to do public nursing in Los Angeles, and her name is listed in Who's Who in America.
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Susie Ferguson Fuller is the daughter of Alice "Widge" Willgoos and the late John Lord Ferguson. Fuller grew up in rural Cherry Hills (near Englewood, Colorado) and Vail; she graduated from Cherry Creek High School. Susie Fuller is married to Jim Fuller and her sister is Sandy Ferguson Fuller (formerly married to Alan Fuller) of Vail. In addition to skiing and hiking, Fuller enjoys music and singing.
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She was born in Missouri and went to school in Kansas City through the Sixth Grade. She then moved with her family to Trinidad, Colorado, and later to a farm east of town. U.S. Census records show her living in Las Animas County by the age of 10. During her school days in a rural school near Model, she belonged to a literary society, where she put on plays and other events. She married George Underwood, a farmer, in March 1918. They lived on a farm,...
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She was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota to Bruce Edward Jackson and Inez Alma Peterson. Her father was a railroader and her mother was a school teacher. She grew up on a homestead in Cheyenne County, Colorado where her family farmed. In 1920, her family moved to Grand Valley, Colorado (now Parachute). She was thirteen years old. She began teaching around 1927, when she was twenty-one. She taught in rural schools in Garfield County before moving to...
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She was born in in Champion, Nebraska to Champion Chase Davidson and Mable Elizabeth (Eskew) Davidson. She attended Champion Grade School, Alpha Rural High School, and Chase County High School, graduating in 1936. She graduated from Pratt’s Business College in 1939. She married Robert Atchison and they moved to Denver and then Grand Junction in 1945. She worked for the Daily Sentinel from 1945-1952, where she served as an assistant to Advertising...
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He grew up in Lamar, Colorado and attended Lamar High School. According to his website, he began writing a column for the Lamar Daily News at the age of fourteen. During the 1970’s and 80’s, he directed a project called The Country School Legacy Project (sponsored by the Mountain Plains Library Association and funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities). This project documented rural school houses in Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada,...
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The owner of Bar S Bar Ranch in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Bill's parents, Fred and Anna May, were both from Iowa. His father taught school in Iowa before homesteading in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, sometime between 1900 and 1910. He married Anna in 1917 and together had 5 children. Bill was their first son born in 1928.
He grew up in Steamboat Springs on the ranch and later inherited it. He served as a corporal in the US Army during the Korean...
10) James G. Moore
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James has been working professionally in bronze for the last 22 years. After pursuing a 15 year career as a middle and high school art teacher, Jim decided to make the leap of faith and make his sideline passion for sculpting into his full time career. The last several years as a full time sculptor have been rewarding and full of adventure. His award winning work is now in public and private collections across the United States, Mexico, and Europe....
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He was born to Homer Alden Feller and Vila Mae (Lininger) Feller in Lincoln, Nebraska. They were living in Craig, Colorado by the time Melvin was six years old, in 1924. He went to rural schools from 1924 to 1932 and attended school through the eighth grade. He was a rough string rider for large ranches in Moffat County. He broke horses in Nevada from 1935 to 1940.
He enlisted in the US Army on October 4, 1940. He was stationed in California, Albuquerque,...
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She was born in Malvern, Iowa to Arthur Bradley, a farmer, and Nellie (Warfield) Bradley, a homemaker. She graduated from Malvern High School and then attended Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, where she received her B.A. She first came to Colorado in 1929, when she was 34 years old. She was employed as the home demonstration agent (later known as an extension home economist) in Garfield and Mesa Counties for five years, and worked an additional...
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He was born to Bernard and Lela Davis in Boulder, Colorado. He grew up in Boulder, where he attended elementary through high school. At a young age, he decided that he wanted to become an artist. During high school, he became interest in sculpting under the tutelage of his art teacher, D.W. Cohen, who introduced him to welding techniques. He graduated from Boulder High School in 1968. He went to Mesa College in 1969 and became more adept at arc welding.
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Caleb Ferganchick was the nineteenth Artist in Residence at Mesa County Libraries at 970West Studio. He served as the Artist in Residence from August 22, 2022 to November 28, 2022.
Community organizer and persistent cause of good trouble:
He hosts the annual slam poetry show, Slamming Bricks. Hosted by the Western Colorado Writers’ Forum, Slamming Bricks is the state’s largest LGBTQ+ intersectional poetry slam competition commemorating the...
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Sandra Ferguson Fuller was born 16 May 1951 in Denver, Colorado to Alice “Widge” Willgoos and the late John Lord Ferguson. Fuller grew up in rural Cherry Hills (near Englewood, Colorado) and Vail; she graduated from Cherry Creek High School. In 1973, Fuller earned her B.A. in American Studies/Children’s Books from Yale University. She was a member of the first class of Yale undergraduate women and Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity. Her...
16) Hermann Staufer
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Hermann Staufer was born 6 September 1939 in Schörfling am Attersee, Austria to Karl and Teresa Staufer. While both parents modeled kindness, industry and an appreciation for rural montane life, the Staufer children learned to love food preparation and hospitality from their mother. After attending a European hotel management school and gaining experience in Europe and Bermuda, Staufer arrived in Florida on 27 October 1962.
At the behest of...
17) Pat Fallin
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Pat Finley Fallin, a native of Oklahoma, first saw Aspen in 1970 as she, her husband and son Brooks arrived to begin a new chapter in their lives. Four years later, daughter Ashley joined the family.
Pat grew up in rural northeastern Oklahoma at the base of the Ozark Mountains. She attended The Hockaday School in Dallas, Texas, and college at the University of Oklahoma. She married Dick Fallin in Tulsa and they moved to Chicago.
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Josef F. “Joe” Staufer was born 18 August 1934 in Schörfling am Attersee, Austria to Karl & Teresa Staufer. While both parents modeled kindness, industry and an appreciation for rural montane life, the Staufer children learned to love food preparation and hospitality from their mother. Staufer attended hotel school in Lucerne, Switzerland. He worked in Basel, Frankfort and London prior to migrating to Bermuda in 1956. In Bermuda, Staufer...
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"Dick Unruh:
Today, he is an unassuming gentleman in a white cowboy hat and matching beard, a lawyer in a small Western town who defends those who have gotten themselves into trouble. But back in the ’70s, when Telluride was an unpaved mountain hideaway inhabited by old miners and a clutch of ski bums, Dick Unruh was a cowboy hippie in the thick of it—the antics and lifestyle that have become the stuff of legend. Once or twice along the way,...
20) George Stranahan
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George Stranahan didn’t need to work a day in his life, being an heir to the Champion Spark Plug fortune.
But this plain-spoken millionaire with a rebel agenda rejected a life of leisure.
Instead, the colorful Stranahan became an unconventional businessman—a guy who jumps into a venture not so much to make a buck but to have a good time or to promote a social or political cause.
In his 75 years, he’s been an award-winning cattle rancher,...
