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: Cora "Mom" (Schoolcraft) Sheets; Cora Sheets was an early Loma, Colorado resident who worked with the 4-H Club and was a chaperone to the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo in 1919. She was born in Nebraska to Albert J. Schoolcraft and B. Minnie Schoolcraft. Her father was a laborerer and her mother was a homemaker. She married Percy Q. Sheets on December 22, 1915. At the time of her marriage, she was a school teacher. The 1920 US Census shows them living in Loma, Colorado, where they farmed. Percy later worked for the Mesa County Highway Department. They had three children. She volunteered for thousands of hours with the Lower Valley Hospital in Fruita. With Sarah Woods, she organized the activity program for the hospital's nursing home, which was added around 1966. She was given the Outstanding Citizen Award by the Fruita Chamber of Commerce. After her death, she was honored with a commendation by President Nixon. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. She died at the age of seventy-three or seventy-four and is buried in Fruita’s Elmwood Cemetery.

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