People
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- Clea (Johnson) Greenawalt
- Clea Johnson Greenawalt was born in Gunnison on May 9, 1927 to John C. Johnson and Vera Adams. (source: An Oral History of the Gunnison Valley: Clea Greenawalt)
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- Cleaola Alice (Livesay) Ernst
- She was born in Montana, Kansas to Henry Monroe Livesay and Sarah (Holt) Livesay. She was one of eight children. The family moved to Hotchkiss, Colorado on July 4, 1897, when Cleaola was almost six years old. Her parents ran a general store in town, and the family lived in a two-story house on Main Street. Her father also was a tinsmith with his own tin shop, and was a plumber who knew steam fitting. During the summer, members of the family worked in the sawmill. Cleaola graded and packed apples and peaches for orchards around Hotchkiss, and worked for a dressmaker. She attended local schools until the 10th grade. She then quit school and went to Pueblo to become a nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital. She also took three years of nurse’s training at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver. She worked for one year as a nurse before moving to Ontario, Oregon, where she married James A. Clark. Beginning in 1914, they homesteaded in Montana. Drought and forest fires forced them to return to Colorado in 1919 (She later wrote the book Homesteading in Montana). US Census records show them living on Bridge Street in Hotchkiss, with James Clark working as a farm laborer and Cleaola as a homemaker. The 1930 Census shows James working as a general laborer and Cleaola as a laundress working from their home. They had three children, but divorced in 1930. Colorado marriage records show that she married John Rollings Charlesworth, a lawyer from England, in Hotchkiss on June 14, 1931. He died just months later, on October 5, 1931. The 1940 Census shows her working as a nurse. She is listed as married, but as living alone with her daughter. She married again to Frederick Guy “Fred” Ernst. They had two children. They moved to Grand Junction, where he died in 1949. Cleaola is buried in Grand Junction. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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- Clementine "Clemmie" C. (Toeppe) Cox
- She was born in Missouri to French immigrants. She married John W. Cox and together they moved to Canon City, Colorado (US Census records show them living there by 1900), where she worked as a housekeeper. Sometime between 1900 and 1903 they moved to Kannah Creek, Colorado, where they homesteaded and raised cattle. She was a homemaker.
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- Clemont G. "Clem" Goettelman
- He was born in Minnesota and grew up, in part, on California Mesa in Delta County. His father was Frank X. Goettelman of Iowa, the son of French and Canadian immigrants. He was a farmer. His mother was Lena Goettelman of Minnesota, the daughter of Canadian immigrants. She was a homemaker. The 1920 U.S. Census shows Clem working as a printer in Delta County at the age of 18. Clem worked for The Daily Sentinel from 1923 until 1946. He worked for several other papers prior to his time at the Sentinel, including the Los Angeles Examiner, the Santa Monica Herald, and the San Francisco Chronicle. While working for the Sentinel, he was in charge of the Composing Room. As the person in charge and a member of the Typographical Union, he butted heads with Preston Walker, owner and publisher of The Daily Sentinel, over his treatment of employees in the Composing Room and of the union. He had great respect for Walter Walker as a boss and a person. Goettelman was Catholic, and received some discrimination from coworkers during the Ku Klux Klan’s ascendancy in the 1920’s. Goettelman quit just before the Typographical Union Strike took place. He was married to Kathleen “Kath” (Plunkett) Goettelman.
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- Cleona Keith
- According to George Watts, who grew up in Hayden, Colorado, Cleona was one of the first pioneers in the area. She had cancer but outlived her prognosis and raised seven children.