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- Dorothy Eastenes Fleming
- Dorothy grew up in Lafayette, Colorado. She was six years old at the time of the Columbine Mine Massacre where her father was killed as one of the striking miners.
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- Dorothy Elizabeth (Raber) Beard
- She was born in Fruita at 609 Tabor Street. to Eliza E. (Dawald) Raber and Larkin L. Raber. Her father was a pharmacist who owned his own drugstore in town and her mother was a homemaker. Her sister Marjorie was also a pharmacist. She attended Fruita High School before going to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she majored in Pharmacy. While in college she was involved in the Mortal and Pestle club and the Little Symphony Orchestra. She then worked as a pharmacist in Fruita. She married Irving Curtis Beard, a rancher, on July 8, 1934. They had at least two sons, one named Charles. They homesteaded in Pollock Canyon in the 1930’s, moved briefly to Glade Park and Atchee, where Irving was a teacher, and then raised goats and sheep for several years, retiring in the 1970’s. *Photograph from 1932 University of Colorado yearbook
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- Dorothy Gula (Martin) Tindall
- She was born in Toppenish, Washington. She was sickly as a child, so her family moved to Colorado in 1908, when she was three years old. The family homesteaded near Whitewater Creek, between Whitewater and Purdy Mesa, until 1929. During her youth, she travelled from Whitewater to Grand Junction via horse and wagon, approximately three times a year. She was schooled in Whitewater through 8th grade (which she completed in 1919). She went to Grand Junction High School and graduated in 1924. She began teaching immediately at the Star School. She served as its 19-year-old principal and was paid $90/month. During this period, she instituted the first hot lunch program in the region. She attended college in Gunnison, where room and board during this period cost $5/week. She then attended Greeley State Teacher’s College (now University of Northern Colorado), where she earned her associate degree in 1930, her bachelor’s in 1936, and her master’s in 1942. She gained additional instruction in special education at Denver University, and then in migrant education at Adams State College. She taught for 44 years in the districts that now comprise Mesa County School District 51. She taught for 6 years in the Star (1924-1926), Clifton (1926-1928), and DeBeque (1930) schools before serving for 24 years as the second grade teacher at Emerson (1931-1956). She taught at the Washington School in from 1956-1960, the Whitman School from 1960-1964, at the Hawthorne School from 1964-1968, and at the Riverside School from 1968-1970 (at which point, she retired). She was important in initiating the special education program in the district and two kindergarten programs for underprivileged children in the district. She was the head special education teacher from 1960 to 1970. She taught a special program for the children of migrant workers for at least 6 summers (from 1956-1961), and helped to initiate the program. She served as president for the Western Division of Special education in 1961. In addition to her professional teaching work, she taught Sunday School on her weekends. She was named the Soroptimist woman of the month in April of 1961 by the Daily Sentinel. She was a charter member of ACE. In 1931, she moved to 274 28 ½ Road on Orchard Mesa and lived there at least until 1980. On June 13, 1943, she married Austin Tindall. When her husband died, she took over the Gateway-Uravan Stage and the Star postal route, which had been in her family since 1909, and ran them from 1955-1964.
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- Dorothy Hampton
- A volunteer with the Mesa County Oral History Project.