People

: Anna McGinley; Her parents, Annie and John McGinley, homesteaded in Fruita in the late Nineteenth century. She attended Fruita High School for three years, and went to Ross Business College for her fourth year. She was an elementary school teacher in Mesa County, Colorado for 43 years. She taught at the rural Hunter School for 24 years, and then in Fruita for her last 13 years. She never married.

: Anna Pearl (Cable) Cunningham; She was a frail child who could not play outside much. Her family moved from Connecticut to Meeker, Colorado in 1915, where they lived on a ranch. They stayed in a small house built on a homestead that her father and two brothers had taken out. When she was old enough, she wanted to get away from home, and so moved to Grand Junction. She lived in the Lennox Hotel, a boarding house. She worked in the cannery, at a restaurant, and as a housekeeper at Watson’s florists.

: Anna Peugh; Early resident of Whitewater, Colorado. Her husband, George Peugh, owned the general store in Whitewater.

: Anna Porta; Anna Porta was born in Lafayette, CO on November 16, 1913. She married Charles Porta on July 5, 1932 and they had no children.

: Anna Ranta; Anna (Erma?) Maki Ranta was born in Finland on October 12, 1886; she immigrated to the United States in 1905, to join her sister that lived in Telluride. Jacob and Anna were married in Telluride, and were an integral part of the town's Finnish community during the early 1900s. A son, William "Bill," was born on October 26, 1906, and another son, Elmer, was born on August 5, 1917. Anna took in washing from the miners and different businesses in Telluride and was also a housewife. Anna passed away July 30, 1957, from cancer.

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