People
Collection for person entities.
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- Ariel Kilpatrick
- Contributor to "Out of the Blue and Into the Sun," (source: Out of the Blue and Into the Sun: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
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- Arlee Lee
- Arlee Lee was born in Washington State and lived there until she and her new husband, Bob, moved to Lafayette in 1946. They had three children, Virginia, David, and Carol.
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- Arlene Potter
- She grew up in Palisade. She was a wife and mother, but once her children were grown, she became a special education teacher at the Whitman School in 1960. She continued in that line of work until 1980, following the special education program from Whitman (1960-1964), to Hawthorne (1964-1968), and to Riverside (1968-?) at least. She retired in 1980.
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- Arline (Fellows) Gardner
- She married Harry Gardner in 1913. She worked as a housewife.
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- Arline Mae "Susie" (Spencer) Cantril
- She was born in Salida, Colorado to Earl Spencer and Bessie (Ghent) Spencer. Her father was a teamster and truck driver for a transfer company. Her mother was a homemaker. She was one of four siblings. She graduated from high school in Salida. She married James Elliot Cantril on February 18, 1934. They had three children. They moved to Leadville for his work at the Climax Mine. Some time before World War II, they visited the Grand Valley and liked it enough to purchase land there. They moved to Loma after her husband developed pneumonia. Their farm was located in the Starr district, at the intersection of 18 ½ Road and L Road. Their outbuildings and cellar for their house were built from old railroad ties that James tore out when helping to remove the old Uintah Railway lines. They raised hay, tomatoes, cucumbers, and grain. They took the cucumbers to the pickling factory in Fruita and shipped tomatoes to the Kuner factory in Grand Junction. Aline also worked at the Loma General Store. During World War II, Aline reports that her husband was “required” by the US Government to return to the Climax Mine, due to a shortage of labor. The 1950 US Census shows them living in Lake County, Colorado, where she worked as a cleaning woman in a private residence, and he worked as a mechanic in a molybdenum mine. When he retired in 1958, they moved to Grand Junction, selling their farm in Loma. He died in 1976. She enjoyed fishing, hiking, and going on picnics. She died at the age of eighty-five after a residence at the Lower Valley Nursing Home. She is buried in Fruita’s Elmwood Cemetery.
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- Armand de Beque
- Armand de Beque was an early Mesa County resident who lived in De Beque, Colorado his entire life. He was the son of Marie Louise de Lavillette and Wallace A.E. de Beque, a Grand Junction pioneer, early doctor, and the founder of the town of De Beque. Armand attended De Beque High School (1931-1932), St. John’s Military School (1928-1930), Herrick Drama School (1935), Mesa College (1949-1951), and Colorado Teachers College (1953-1954). He married Ruby M. Sulzer on October 23rd, 1933 in Grand Junction, Colorado and fathered Marianne, Gene, and Roland de Beque. He served in the U.S. Army as Private First Class from 1944-45 and was stationed in Camp Wolters, Texas, Ft. Benning, Georgia, and in Germany. He was a decorated veteran who went on to become a school teacher. He taught music, speech, drama, basketball, and journalism at the De Beque School for 31 years. He also directed the school’s band, glee club, orchestra, plays, and coached the boys’ basketball team. He served on the De Beque School Board from 1946-47 and on the De Beque Town Council from 1980-1981. He also served as a board member for the Mesa County Historical Society. He was part of the American Federation of Musicians. He and his wife Ruby started a band together called the Armand de Beque Dance Band where he sang and played piano and saxophone while his wife Ruby sang and played the drums. He was a drama enthusiast and school-teacher. Around 1930, Armand got a group of people together and they organized several plays. The plays traveled around to Mesa, Grand Valley, Palisade, Ridgway, Moab, Monticello, and even the Eastern Slope and into Kansas. They would play in Odd Fellows halls until they got a show tent in 1935. In 1954, Armand became a teacher in De Beque. He directed over 129 plays during the course of his teaching career there. Like his father, he was involved in oil shale exploration and investment.