People
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- Robert "Bob" Collins
- Robert “Bob” Collins was born to John A. Collins and Margaret R. (Lacy) Collins in Horse Valley, Pennsylvania. His father was a school teacher and his mother was a homemaker. The 1920 US Census shows that the family had moved Madison, Ohio by the time Bob Collins was one year old. The 1930 census shows the family living in Washington, Ohio. He married Marcella M. Stetzel in Sandusky County, Ohio on May 28, 1939. He is shown living with Marcella and his in-laws in Fremont, Ohio in 1940, when he was 22, with Bob working as the manager of a shoe store and Marcella working as an operator for the telephone company. He registered for the draft on October 16, 1940. He joined the US Navy on April 24, 1944. He served on the LSM in the Pacific Theater and was part of the first Marine forces into Japan during World War II. He was honorably discharged on November 16, 1945. He was introduced to radio broadcasting while in the armed forces and attended radio broadcasting school in Indianapolis after the war. He managed a radio station in Ohio before coming to Grand Junction to manage KEXO radio in 1948. While at KEXO, he was the first behind the scenes announcer for the American Legion Rodeo. He also announced other racing events, including the Land’s End Hill Climb. He announced the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo for twelve years. He moved to KREX in 1961 and stayed there until 1968. There, he played the part of “Uncle Bob” on a daily children’s broadcast. He worked at KSTR before retiring. Upon retirement, he chaired the Grand Junction Centennial Committee, which planned a town centennial celebration pageant and other events in 1981.
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- Robert "Bob" Johnson
- A professor in the English Department at Colorado Mesa University (then known as Mesa College) who taught courses on Colorado and American Folklore, with an emphasis on oral tradition. He was a graduate of CMU when it was a junior college, received his BA at Colorado Western University in Gunnison and his PhD in College Administration in Greeley. He retired from teaching in 2010 and is now a professor emeritus at CMU.
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- Robert "Bob" Lazear
- Part of a team who built large houses north of Fruita, Colorado and ran a high-priced Holstein and Hereford cattle operation in Fruita and on the Grand Mesa. He later left the area and managed the Wyoming Hereford Association, a large ranch in Cheyenne, for thirty-seven years.
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- Robert A. "Bob" Orr
- Homesteader in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado who was said to have planted the first fruit trees in the Grand Valley area. According to Craig Aupperle, Orr planted his apple orchard along Struthers Avenue, close to the Colorado River. The orchard stretched from near 5th Street to the old sugar factory on 9th Street, an area that now encompasses the Western Colorado Botanical Gardens. US Census records show him residing in Pomona by 1900.
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- Robert A. "Bob" Ross
- Robert Ross was born in Iowa and came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1905, after receiving his degree from the University of Colorado. He taught in the Pomona School upon his arrival. He married Pearl S. Smith in 1908. They settled on a ten-acre farm in the Fruitvale area in 1912, on the east end of North Avenue, where they farmed fruit. He was the principal of the Fruitvale School in early Fruitvale, Colorado. He was elected to the Fruitvale School Board, and was later named the superintendent of schools for the Fruitvale district. He acquired interest in the Hoel Business College in 1916. It became the Ross Business College in 1927. He was also a columnist for The Daily Sentinel.