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- Ella Warren Burnett
- Ella Burnett was born Ella Marie Warren in Gypsum, Colorado on October 17, 1926. Her family moved to Gypsum, Colorado when she was young. Her father owned a saw mill in Red Cliff; her father supplied wood to the mine in Gilman, Colorado. Her family was large with many brothers and 2 sisters. After graduating from high school in Red Cliff, Ella enrolled in a nursing program at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver. Since her nurses training was occurring during World War II, she was expected to enter the armed services upon graduation, if the war were still being fought. She graduated from the nursing program in 1947 and her first job was at the clinic at the New Jersey Zinc Mine in Gilman. She worked at the clinic in Gilman until the mine closed the clinic in 1971 at which time she started working for the medical clinic in Vail, Colorado until her retirement. She and her husband, H. Pete Burnett, lived in Minturn, Colorado.