People

: Anna Rebecca (Bowman) Rogers; She was born in Virginia to David Bowman and Susanah (Hedrick) Bowman. Her father was a Baptist minister and her mother was a homemaker. According to her son, Donald “Don” Rogers, she taught school for many years before marrying Lucas Melvin “Luke” Rogers in Mesa County, Colorado in 1907. They farmed in the Appleton area before moving to Fisher, on the Redlands just across Black Bridge from Orchard Mesa. They ran their ranching operations there and on Pinon Mesa. She died in 1933.

: Anna Scott; A reverend and minister in Grand Junction’s Center for Spiritual Living. Prior to that time, she worked as a Prayer Practitioner. She attended Western State College (now Western Colorado University), where she met Wendy Robinson, the mother of Mesa County Oral History Project interviewee Shannon Robinson. She helped care for Shannon after she was pulled from elementary school due to racism and bullying.

: Anna Steenlage; Contributor to "The place they like best", a "corn-and-potatoes Midwesterner" who found her way to Colorado via Oregon where she fell in love with the climbable rocks, raft able rivers, and opportunities for poetry. (source: The place they like best A Gunnison Valley Journal.)

: Anna Stout; A Grand Junction city councilperson, former Grand Junction mayor, and Mesa County Libraries patron.

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