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- Ruth Raney
- A special education teacher in East Middle School in Grand Junction, Colorado in the mid-Twentieth century.
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- Ruth Sadie (Kerstetter Learned) Morris
- Former Post Master of the Whitewater Post Office. She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado, between 5th and 6th Streets on Rood Avenue, to Vaughn Cook Kerstetter and Emma Louise (Murray) Kerstetter. Her father was a farmer and Spanish American War veteran. When he first moved to Grand Junction, he worked as a cook at the Pastime Café, where he met Emma. Her mother was a homemaker whose parents had come to Grand Junction after running a saloon in Cripple Creek during the gold rush. Ruth’s maternal grandfather, Gaylord Morris, ran a saloon in Grand Junction in the 1890’s. Her parents were apparently musicians, her mother attended a music conservatory as a young woman, and formed a band in Grand Junction. Ruth grew up on a homestead in Kannah Creek to which the family moved in 1913, when she was two years old. The family raised cattle and she grew up helping on the ranch. The city of Grand Junction gained an easement through their ranch for a water pipe to Grand Junction. She attended local schools. Ruth married Lawrence Learned in Glenwood Springs on October 10, 1929, when she was 18 years old. They lived in Kannah Creek, where they ranched, until 1940. They sold out of the ranching business and moved to Whitewater, where Lawrence was given the job of post master. During this time, she sometimes worked as a substitute mail carrier. By 1950, the US Census shows that Lawrence had become a carpenter and that Ruth had become the post master, a job she held for many years. He died in 1962. She remarried, to Everette Morris in 1963. He died in 1978. She died in Cortez at the age of 87 and is buried in Grand Junction’s Orchard Mesa Cemetery. She was a member in the Elks Ladies, the National Association of Postal Supervisors, and other organizations.
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- Ruth Whyte
- Ruth was born and grew up in Kenosha, Wis. She attended college at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In the early 1950s, following college graduation, she moved to Aspen and became a physical education teacher. Once settled in Aspen, Ruth began to volunteer for many organizations and became active in philanthropic endeavors important to the then emerging ski town, the Aspen Historical Society being her most dedicated mission while living there. She loved to ski the Aspen mountains and was known for entertaining her many friends and family members during the winter months. Ruth enjoyed traveling the world and visited many countries. She also enjoyed hiking, cooking, collecting travel pictures, visiting her family and caring for her poodles. Ruth lived in Aspen until 2000 when she moved to Denver. Aspen Times (Aspen Hall of Fame website)