People

: Gary Wall; Gary Wall was born in Seattle to Raymond and Wilma Wall; he grew up in Ballard, Washington. In the 1960s, Wall was a patrolman and detective in the Aspen Police Department (Colorado). From 1 February1973 to 8 February 1979, Wall served as Chief of Police for the Town of Vail. After working as a restaurateur and private investigator in Port Townsend, Washington and Tucson, Arizona respectively, Wall removed to Clark, Colorado near Steamboat Springs. He was elected Routt County Sheriff and served between 2006 and 2010. Wall also served as Chairman of the Colorado State Council on Criminal Justice. While functioning as Chief of Police in Vail, Wall worked closely with the US Secret Service and often skied in President Gerald R. Ford’s entourage on Vail Mountain. Wall also befriended “gonzo-journalist,” Hunter S. Thompson, and accompanied Thompson to the National District Attorneys Association Conference on Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. At the time, Hunter was a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine. Wall enjoyed sailing, skiing, long-distance trail running, gardening, cooking, mechanics, and horses. His wife, Jennifer Wilson, described him as a “lifelong political junkie and a science nerd.” Wall had two sons, Theron and Kalon, from his first marriage. Gary Wall passed away in 2018.

: Gay (Chin) Kaga; She was born in Portland, Oregon a third or fourth-generation Chinese-American. Her family was in the laundry and restaurant business. She married Shoji Kaga, a Japanese-American, in Multnomah, Oregon on June 28, 1954. She was a worker in an elementary school in the Chicago area, where she and her husband had moved in search of work. They later moved with their family to Raleigh, North Carolina and then to Grand Junction, Colorado.

: Gayle Gerson; "Gayle has studied under the guidance of many artists in watercolor, oil and experimental workshops. She is a signature member of the Colorado Watercolor Society and the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies and the National Collage Society. She teaches mixed-media classes at the Art Center in Grand Junction, Colorado and does contract workshops. She regularly shows her work in many venues throughout Colorado and her art is in many private and public collections throughout the world." From artist's website. She formerly served as a volunteer interviewer for the Mesa County Oral History Project.

: Gayle Taramarcaz; Parade Marshall, Cattlemen's Days 2014. Grew up in Missouri as a "cottoon-picker", telephone operator in Arizona. Gunnison became home 1964, hospital job, Gunnison Valley Cattlewomen, Gunnison Valley Hospital Auxiliary (source: http://www.cattlemensdays.com/past-cattlemens-days-parade-marshals/2014-parade-marshals/)

: Gaylen Wallace "Gay" Johnson; He was born to Jewett Johnson and Minnie Pearl (Thompson) Johnson in Iowa, and grew up at least partly in Fruita, Colorado, where US Census records show that his parents were farmers. He was a member of the Fruita Union High School class of 1927. For many years he owned a local service station franchise called Gay Johnson's.

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