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- Carl Forsman
- He was born to Swedish immigrants in Palisade, Colorado, and moved to near the town of Mesa in 1918. His family lived on a homestead about five miles outside of town. He walked two miles to a school in Plateau Canyon. It was a one room school house with one teacher and 8 children. He worked on his parents’ farm, later as a ranch hand, and then as a shipping clerk.
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- Carl Hillyer
- A musician who played for the Grand Junction Lions Club and the First Methodist Church. He taught piano in the public schools and at The Conservatory, a music education facility located at 7th and Main Streets on the north side of the street in Grand Junction, Colorado. He put on theatrical productions in support of the Grand Junction Junior College (now Colorado Mesa University).