People

: Ruth Bereman (Zingg) Tilton; 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” Tilton in Holyoke. She married him in Boulder in 1920 and settled with him in Palisade, Colorado in 1924. Frosty became a cashier at the Palisades National Bank, recently purchased by his brother Arch Tilton and George Bowman of Palisade. She and her husband were avid skiers and skied the Mesa Lakes Ski Run on the Grand Mesa. She also loved river rafting.

: Ruth Bryant; She was a New Yorker and business woman who married the artist Harold Bryant and helped his career. She had been a WAVE in the Navy and he was a World War I veteran. They met in a saloon in New York at midnight and began seeing each other. When he moved back to Colorado, she followed him. They eventually married. She was responsible for the sale of his paintings to a calendar company.

: Ruth Burdett (Fulwider) Bull; She was born in Colorado to Newton Fulwider, a stockman and liveryman, and Minerva Fulwider, a homemaker. She grew up in Denver, Colorado. The 1920 US Census shows her teaching music. After marrying Dr. Heman R. Bull in 1916, she moved to Grand Junction from Denver, Colorado. Along with other local music enthusiasts, she started a music club sometime after 1916 (most likely the Wednesday Music Club or the Fortnightly Music Club) and served as the club's first president. She was also a member of the Reviewer's Club.