People

: 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.

: 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.

: 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.

: 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.

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