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She was born to Ottway C. Zingg and Bernice Kina Mowry in Holyoke, Colorado. Her father was from a Swiss-American family. He was a history professor and a band director. Her mother was a teacher and principal from Iowa. She grew up in Holyoke and in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where she attended high school. After graduating from high school around 1918, she became a teacher. She taught in country schools outside of Holyoke. She met Forrest L. “Frosty”...

Daughter of George Hawxhurst. Collbran musician and early Plateau Valley resident. She supported plays that were put on by Mesa County teachers and literary societies in the 1930's. She was born in Plateau Valley, Colorado to Alexander Percy Hawxhurst and Margaret “Maggie” (Koch) Hawxhurst. Her father was born in South Park, Colorado and her mother was a German immigrant. Margaret had been married and divorced previously to Theodore Pfeiffer...

He was a long-time auctioneer in Mesa County, Colorado and on the Western Slope. He ended his thirty-seven year auctioneering career in 1983.

He was a farmer near the town of Collbran in Mesa County, Colorado. He was born to Cecil Oliver Walck and Harriet Joanna (Long) Walck in Colorado. His parents were farmers. He married Winona June Kitson in 1949. They had one child. He died at the age of 84 and is buried in Collbran’s Eagalite Cemetery.

When you mention Mary Martin Ryerson to those who know her, the first thing that happens is a big smile crosses their faces and they say, “Mary is my go to person, no matter what I need.” In her 45 years in community banking in Aspen she has secured loans for everyone from the 13-year-old buying his first bicycle to the young couple buying their first house. She has also supported friends and neighbors in times of need, a skill she developed while...

Born in Louisville, CO October 9, 1908. Never finished high school. Began working in the mines at fifteen 1/2 years old. Worked in the mines for thirty years. Married Anna Lostaka on July 5, 1932.

Married to Walt (Woody) Woods in the autumn of 1940. Worked at the Lafayette Leader newspaper as Managing Editor and left when the paper sold out.

He was born to Samuel Frederick Kiefer and Maude Marie (Hummel) Kiefer in Yakima, Washington and grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. His father was a saleman, broadcaster, and broadcast writer. His mother was a homemaker. Warren was working for the railroad by at least 1940, when the US Census lists him as a “wayo maintenance” worker in railroad construction. It also shows that he had attended a year of college. He was hired as a fireman on the...