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- Dorothy Helen (Rosson) Young
- She was born in Turney, Missouri to John Hugh Rosson and Minnie Fredricka (Erps) Rosson. Her father was a farm laborer. Her mother was the child of German immigrants and a homemaker. The 1910 US Census shows Dorothy living with her parents and step-brother in Lathrop, when she was not yet one year old. In 1920, the family lived in Shoal, and the census lists Dorothy as having two younger siblings: Virginia and Woodrow. Her father died in the 1920’s. The family was able to stay on the farm for a time, but eventually, Dorothy’s mother could not afford the land and the government foreclosed on it. Dorothy found other work. The 1930 census shows Dorothy living in Turney with the Todd family as a household servant at the age of twenty. She married Ralph Eldon Young in Hiawatha, Kansas on May 14, 1932, when she was twenty-two years old. Her husband was a mechanic for a trucking company. The 1940 US Census shows them living in Gallatin, Missouri with their two young daughters. During World War II, he worked for a factory making airplane parts. They moved to the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado in 1946, when she was about thirty-six years old. The 1950 Census shows them living just west of Appleton, with her husband working as an auto mechanic and Dorothy listed as “Housekeeper.” They first rented a home on River Road and then purchased lumber from Glenwood Springs to build their own home. She died at the age of seventy-nine in Grand Junction and is buried in the Orchard Mesa Cemetery.
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- Dorothy Margaret Ottman
- She was born to unknown parents in 1893. The 1900 US Census lists her birth place as Colorado, while later censuses list her birth place as Missouri. According to a record on the website Find a Grave, she was born to Nicoll Champlin Johnson and Dorothy (Cook) Johnson in St. Joseph, Missouri, but this information seems to lack official documentation. Nicoll and Dorothy Sr. died in 1896 and 1897, respectively. The 1900 US Census shows Dorothy Jr. and her brother as seven-year-olds boarding with Johnathan and Josephine Adrian in the Pomona area of Mesa County. According to the census, the childrens’ parents were from Iowa. By 1910, the children had been adopted by Hamilton and Harriet Ottman. Harriet (Dyke) Ottman was one of the founders of the Reviewers Club, a longstanding book club in Grand Junction. Dorothy applied for a secretarial position at the Grand Valley National Bank during World War I, when there was a shorteage of men in the workforce. She was given the position on a trial basis and ended up working at the bank, which became the First National Bank, for forty-three years.