People

: Roy Bell; A novice pilot who crashed his plane and died on Pinon Mesa sometime around 1948.

: Roy Catlin; Roy Catlin is a singer songwriter hailing from Montrose Colorado. In the early 2010’s Roy moved to Denver Colorado to join the progressive hardcore band Anchorage. During his time with the band they released two eps, a full length album, consistently toured the western US and quickly became one of Denver’s most popular hardcore bands. When the band decided to part ways in 2015 Roy had already begun a new musical path as a singer songwriter. In 2015 he released his debut album “From Being Lost.” Since the albums release Roy has gone on to record an EP and over 20 singles while building a solid online fan base. In 2018 and 2019 Roy played over 150 shows across the western us and in his new home of Grand Junction Co.

: Roy Chapman; He owned a stationary store between 5th and 6th Streets on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado in the early Twentieth century. A World War I veteran who lost his eyesight when he was gassed, he was known for being blind. Later, he ran for the Colorado State Senate and was elected in 1934, serving until 1938 when he lost to Wayne Aspinall. Afterward, Chapman was appointed to the Board for the Blind and got a job as the head of the State Blind Association. According to oral history interviewee Richard Williams, Chapman was driven to New York by Grand Junction Lions Club members Bert Benge and Williams. There, he was given a seeing eye dog.

: Roy Dunham; A rancher on Pinon Mesa. He worked for Charles Sieber on the S-Cross Ranch before starting his own ranch. He owned one of the first cars on Glade Park, a Dodge. He once witnessed a wolf teaching her pups how to take down a bull.

: Roy Edward Dinkins; He was born to Charles "Chalk" Dinkins and Margaret (Hyatt) Dinkins in Salida, Colorado, and grew up there. According to US Census records, his father worked as a steward for the Elks Club for many years. His mother was a homemaker. He became a machinist for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad as a young man. He moved to Grand Junction sometime in the 1920's or 30's, where he was the co-owner of Costanzas Liquor Store. He married Bernadine Goe in Cripple Creek on May 28, 1933. They lived in Grand Junction during the 1930's, though the 1940 Census shows that he returned to Salida to live with his father for at least a time. He witnessed the death of J.W. “Big Kid” Eames during the armed robbery of his gambling parlor, The Biltmore.

: Roy Foster Leininger; Roy Foster Leininger was born in Mason City, Ill. on Oct. 21, 1890. He was a brakeman for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and was killed by a runaway train at Pando, Colorado on January 22, 1918.

: Roy Frederick Schumann; He was born in Montrose, Colorado to John Schumann and Anna Katherine (Weidenkeller) Schumann. His parents were Germans from Russia who had immigrated to the United States in the 1890’s. Anna’s family lived in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood and were also farmers in Eastern Colorado. John’s family purchased land in Eastern Colorado. Anna and John married in Loveland in 1906. The 1910 US Census shows them farming in Weld County with their first two children, William and John. They then moved to Montrose, and the 1920 census shows the family farming there with their seven children, when Roy was five years old. By 1930, the family had moved with their nine children to a farm in Garfield County, when Roy was fourteen. The 1940 census shows the family living on Cache Creek, with Roy having attended two years of college at the age of twenty-five. He attended the Colorado State College of Education in Greeley (now Northern Colorado University). Sometime after 1940, he married Wilma Elizabeth Segebartt of Mesa County, a hospital nurse. The 1950 census shows them living with their three children in unincorporated Mesa County, with William working as a “city school” teacher and principal. City directory’s from that time indicate that he was the principal at the Riverside School. He died at the age of eighty-seven and is buried in Grand Junction’s Orchard Mesa Cemetery. Photograph from the 1941 Colorado Teacher's College yearbook.

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