People

: Roger Henry "Rog" Long; He was born to Edward Long and Margaret J. Long in Kansas, were the family farmed. He married Lora Shigley in Salem Township on December 23, 1904. The family came to Loma, Colorado in 1917, where they homesteaded. With his brother Quince, he moved the Valley View School north over the Colorado River when it was frozen in the early 1920’s, so that it would be closer to the children that attended the school, including his own kids. He was a farmer. The 1950 Census indicates that they lived south of the intersection of Highway 50 and state highway 139. He is buried in Grand Junction’s Memorial Gardens cemetery.

: Roger Knapp; Roger Knapp was a Presbyterian minister in the 1980's and lived in Telluride/Placerville, Colorado from January 1978 until June 1998. He is married to Linda Knapp. Dr. Knapp currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. To discover more about Dr. Knapp, please listen to his KOTO Friday Live interview, with Terry Selby. Information taken 5/25/21 from the following websites: https://www.telluridenews.com/news/article_4ca4341b-50e4-5db8-bcae-7ae5db0f10d8.html https://www.smartbackgroundchecks.com/people/roger-knapp/santa-fe/nm/EmR0BQZmAmDkZwV3ZmN2AQx1AQx http://wcopresbytery.org/u/newsletter/216-janfeb16.pdf

: Roger Neville Williams; Author, a resident of Telluride, wrote many publications, including New Times and the Village Voice. In December 1983, the Sheridan Opera House was bought by and J. W. Lloyd and Roger N. Williams, who had been leasing the building for about nine months. President of the Picture Show Corporation, Williams stated his intent to promote conferences, concerts and live stage events, with less emphasis on movies.

: Roger Prescott Green; 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 in a teacherage around 1950. He then served as the last principal of the Mack School in Mack, Colorado, which closed permanently in 1953, before becoming the principal in Riverside. He last served as principal for three schools at once: Fruita Elementary, Shelledy, and Loma. He then taught at Riverside, East, and Gateway.

: Roger Roland Goss; He was born to Walter Earl and Ellen Goss in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He attended elementary and middle school in Weatherford, Oklahoma and graduated from high school in Paul’s Valley. He attended four different colleges: University of Hawaii, Oklahoma State University, Cameron College, and the University of Oklahoma. While at the University of Oklahoma, he was a member of the R.O.T.C. He served in the Marine Corps from 1966-1970, during which time he was stationed in San Diego, Pendleton, Da Nang, Dong Ha, as well as in Vietnam more generally. He was in Vietnam itself from March, 1967-1968. He was trained in artillery and was also called upon for security details. He became the supply sergeant for his battalion (exact rank not mentioned, but it seems to have been lesser than ‘Staff Sergeant’). He returned on a medical discharge and went to the Lackland Air Force Base in Corpus Christi, Texas. He married a woman named Ann on June 14, 1969 in Honolulu, Hawaii. They moved to Western Colorado in 1976 He worked in advertising and printing. He had two children, a son and a daughter. He served as president for the local chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America.

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