People

: Elizabeth Smith; Elizabeth Smith moved with husband Frank Smith and children to Grand Junction in 1896. She was a prominent member of the First United Methodist Church, and was involved in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She may be the same Elizabeth Smith, mentioned by teacher Elizabeth Angus, who taught for a time in the Atchee School in the early Twentieth century.

: Elizabeth Stapleton; Sam and Elizabeth Hammerick Stapleton were both born in the Roaring Fork Valley—Sam, the third generation of ranchers on Owl Creek in 1927 and Liz in Glenwood Springs in 1928. Married in 1948, they raised three children on the Stapleton family ranch, where Liz still lives. Sam’s Knob on the Snowmass Mountain ski area is named after Sam, who tirelessly offered guide service and advice to a fledgling group of planners and skiers intent on creating the ski mountain we find there today. Sam and his family had run sheep and cattle in the area for generations, so Sam knew the area better than anyone. Sam, deceased in 2006, was the president of the Aspen Fire Board for 52 years, served on the School Board, worked for the Aspen Skiing Company for 48 years, and left this world with his rancher’s blood running strong. Liz taught school at the Owl Creek one-room schoolhouse for a short period, ran the Stapleton Spur Bed and Breakfast, aided the Chamber of Commerce (now the Aspen Chamber Resort Association) for many years, is a member of Eastern Star and is a member of the generations-old Aspen Literary Club. Sam was known for years as the guy who could predict the weather by the fuzz on this year’s caterpillar crop, or the height of the pussy willows.--Aspen Hall of Fame inductee bio

: Elizabeth T. (Brandiger) Balliger; She was born in Hesperus, Colorado. She was a secretary and a bank teller. Wife of Louis Felix Balliger.

: Elizabeth Tharp; Contributor to "Singing the lines of place: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Singing the lines of place: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: Ella (Boyd) Kinternecht; She was born in Cravens, Oklahoma to George Earl Boyd and Birdie Mae (Weir) Boyd. She moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in November of 1930, when she was 19. The 1931 Grand Junction City Directory shows her living in what was most probably a boarding house at 1315 North 7th Street, and working as a maid. She graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1931 and went to Mesa College for a semester in 1932. She worked as a housekeeper for Walter and Kathie Walker from 1932-1936. During this period, she attended the Nazarene Church. She worked in Silverton in the Grand Imperial Hotel as a housekeeper from 1958-1965. She was twice married. She had two daughters, Virginia and Patricia, with her first husband, Robert Brown. Her second husband was Jake Kinterknecht.

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