People
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- Floyd Henry Weidlein
- A doctor in Palisade in the 1920’s. He took over the practice of Dr. Tadlock, and practiced medicine all over the Grand Valley.
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- Floyd Rush Thomas
- He was born in Towner, Colorado to Leonard Thomas and Ida (Field) Thomas. He attended grade school in Towner and went to Holly for high school, graduating in 1913, when he was seventeen years old. He served in the US Cavalry from April 17, 1917 to November 11, 1919, and was stationed in Calexico, California and in Arizona. He arrived in Western Colorado on November 15, 1919. He found work as a farmhand. He came to Mack on February 20, 1920. He married Marjorie Estellene “Sissy” Morrow on December 20, 1930. They had five children. Together, they owned a farm in the New Liberty area. They sold the farm in 1955 and moved to Grand Junction. He was a member of the New Liberty School District 37 school board and of the Fruita Union High School board. He enjoyed the mountains, fishing, and picnicking.
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- Fonda Paterson
- Charles Paterson was born Karl Schanzer in Vienna, Austria. After Hitler’s 1938 annexation of Austria, Charles’ family fled to Czechoslovakia. After Hitler invaded Prague, Charlie and his sister were forced to escape again, through France to Brisbane, Australia, where they were adopted by the Paterson family. After WWII, the children rejoined their father in NYC where Charlie finished high school and began engineering studies at CCNY. While in New York, Charlie’s early ski memories from the Alps called him back to the slopes. He headed to Aspen in 1949 where he fell in love with the town and its residents and decided to stay. He soon built an 8’ x 16’ cabin, the beginnings of the Boomerang Lodge. In the 1950s, Charlie served two years in the US Army’s Mountain & Cold Weather Training and added three hotel lodge units to his log cabin. In 1958 Frank Lloyd Wright accepted Charlie as an apprentice at Taliesin East in Wisconsin, whereupon Charlie returned to Aspen from Wisconsin the next three winters to run the lodge and teach skiing. He continues as a board member of Taliesin Fellows and an underwriter of the Taliesin School of Architecture revitalization effort. Fonda Dehne was born in Mason City, Iowa to an itinerant minister and a teacher. Fonda’s social activism began in high school with a citizen's challenge to unenforced state liquor laws and two years service as a Page in the Iowa legislature. A year after graduating from the University of Iowa, Fonda married Charlie in 1969 and joined him in Aspen, where they raised their two daughters Charlie designed and remodeled a handful of houses in the Aspen area but running the Boomerang kept him from pursuing more of a career in architecture. Following his retirement, Charlie co-authored his memoir with his daughter Carrie “ESCAPE HOME, Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss.” Charlie served on the boards of the Aspen Chamber and Visitor’s Bureau, the Aspen Music Festival & School and the Rocky Mountain Ski Instructors Association. In 2011, the City of Aspen named him Volunteer of the Year in recognition of his 40 years serving on the Board of Adjustment - the longest serving citizen volunteer in Aspen history! He has also been recognized by the Historic Preservation Commission for his contributions to Aspen architecture. Fonda has also left her mark on the Aspen community, volunteering at the Aspen Thrift Shop, and serving in leadership positions with the Aspen Music Festival & School, the Aspen Valley Medical Foundation, the Aspen Country Day School, and Aspen Community Church, where she spearheaded the remodeling of the Aspen and Snowmass parsonages, as well as the church’s exterior restoration. Fonda also advocated for the creation of Triangle Park, worked on a ballot initiative to support the acquisition of open space and trails, worked to protect the Midland Trail right of way, and served on the Board of Trustees for Aspen Center for Environmental Studies.--Aspen Hall of Fame bio
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- Forest Roth
- Pioneer and rancher in the Fruita area.