People

: Bernard Irby; 1987 Cattlemen's Days Parade Marshal. Born in Claude, TX in 1911, moved to Silverton to work in the mines until they closed during the Great Depression, then moved to Montrose, CO looking for work. In 1932 he married Irma Clifford. Following her death in 1978, he remarried to Mary Steward. Bernard bought his own ranch near Sargents in 1943. Has two children, Bob Irby and Jean Means (Mrs. Claude Means), and grandchildren Stan Irby, Dale Irby, Barbara Eve, Carol Lowry, and Karen Prosser, as well as 5 great grandchildren. (source: Cattlemen's Days 1987 Newspaper Insert)

: Bernard Lea Rice; He was the son of Mesa County, Colorado pioneer Phidelah "P.A." Rice. He was born in Fremont County, Colorado, and living in Grand Junction by the age of three or four, around 1882. He attended Colorado College, where he was a member of the Pearsons Literary Society and the Oratorical Association. He later became a Presbyterian minister. US Census records show that his profession took him to Waco, Texas and Cincinnati, Ohio. He was married to Molly (Richardson) Rice.

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