People
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- Ann Bassett
- An associate of Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch who lived in the Brown's Park area. *Public domain photo of Ann Bassett, taken around 1905
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- Ann Loper
- Ann Falk Loper was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Boise, Ada County, Idaho. Loper is a graduate of the University of Colorado (CU) in Boulder. While at CU, she met her lifelong love, William Dean Loper. Ann Loper also raced for the CU ski team and taught skiing in Vail for forty years. She attended her thirtieth reunion of the Veterans Ski Instructors, an organization that memorializes the careers of dedicated ski professionals. The Lopers typically enjoyed annual ski trips to Park City, Utah and Jackson, Wyoming; occasionally, they helicopter skied in Canada. In 1973, Ann and Bill Loper established themselves in Vail. Their business, Prestressed Concrete of Colorado, was involved in several notable buildings and structures: Vail Post Office, Vail Racquet Club, Sandstone Creek Club, Vail International, The Mark, Villa Cortina, the communications tower, the original Lionshead lift houses and Lionshead parking structure. Ann Loper is an accomplished ceramicist who works with horsehair and raku techniques. As a member of the Vail Valley Art Guild (VVAG) and the Denver Potters Association, Loper won many awards in juried art shows. Loper also exhibited in Vail’s first cooperative art gallery in the 1970s - 1980s and in the VVAG Gallery in Eagle. She attended numerous art trainings including programs at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, Boise State University, and Laloba Ranch in Steamboat Springs. Loper actively volunteered for Vail Public Library and the Eagle Valley Community Fund annual rummage sale. The latter was a popular, long-standing nonprofit that benefited Eagle County charities. She has also performed as a vocalist with Vail’s Mountain Harmony singing troupe. Ann Loper sat on the board of the Eagle Valley Humane Society, while husband Bill served as president for many years. Ann and Bill Loper were married on 25 June 1952 in Boise, Idaho. At the time of Bill’s passing in 2018, the Lopers were married sixty-five years. Three children were born to their union: Amy, Steve, and Ted. The Loper Family Scholarship honors Bill’s memory and benefits artists associated with the VVAG. In 2020, Ann Loper removed to Denver.
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- Anna "Laura" (Brown) Turner
- She was born in Buena Vista, Colorado to Bishop Brown and Emma (Yount) Brown. She was a homemaker. She was the wife of Albert Turner (Sr.), who established the Cisco Ranch. At the age of fifty-one, she was killed in a flash flood on Diamond Creek after refusing to climb the hill due to her fear of lightning.