People

: Glen Edwin Brunk; He was born in Missouri to Charles Assa Brunk and Minnie Alice (Weaver) Brunk. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Mesa County, Colorado and settled in Orchard Mesa in 1908, when Glen was six years old. There, the family farmed fruit. Glen attended Grand Junction High School. He then received education in highway engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and geometrical drawing from his positions with different road departments. He worked with the Mesa County Road Department from January 2019 until March 1929. He worked primarily in Fruita until his family moved to De Beque in 1929. He worked for the Colorado State Highway department from March 1929 until February 1971. He retired at the age of 68. He married Atha A. Wallace on July 23, 1921 in Mesa County, when he was 19. The 1930 US Census shows them living in De Beque with their two children, where Glen worked as a highway foreman. They stayed in De Beque at least through 1940. The 1950 census shows them living in the Fruitvale area. Atha passed away in 1978. Glen remarried to Mona Faye Hester on January 8, 1980. He was a member of the Odd Fellows, the Masons, and the El Jebel Shriners. He was a pilot and counted as one of his best memories his first solo flight.

: Glen Schrader; A musician who ran the orchestra at the Avalon Theater in the early Twentieth century, and who played in band concerts at both the old Mesa County Fairgrounds (now Lincoln Park) and for dances at Margery Hall.

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