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- Harold Pabst
- He was a Colorado rancher who purchased the Rader Flying Service in 1950. The service was based in Glenwood Springs. After becoming the company's owner, Pabst purchased the rival Valley Air Service of Grand Junction, and then sent his pilot Clyde Davis to open a branch of Rader in Grand Junction. He also gave Davis an owning share of the company. Pabst and Davis formed Monarch Aviation in 1952 (not to be confused with Monarch Airlines, which became Frontier). The company grew during the uranium boom, and was still in operation in 1981. It was one of the largest air companies in Grand Junction for many years.
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- Harold Richmond Booth
- He was born in Detroit, Michigan. In 1916, he was serving with the 1st Colorado Field Artillery when, after a bout with pneumonia, he became an instructor in ham radio in Colorado Springs. He later graduated from the Infantry Officers Training School. He married Mildred Mirian Young in Denver in 1917. In all, his career with the military lasted 36 years, including his command of Civilian Conservation Corps operations (CCC). He served in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War and retired as a colonel. He worked for the U.S. Forest service for several years and moved to Mesa County to work as the Camp Commander of Forestry Camp F-16. He then became the District Inspector for the Colorado-Wyoming District CCC. During this job he visited every camp in the state once a month, audited the books, and helped out wherever needed.
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- Harold Shults
- He was born, along with his identical twin Howard, in a log cabin north of Loma in 1905. His parents, James F. Shults and Daisy G. (Hosey) Shults, had come to the Grand Valley in 1902 after graduating from a teacher college in Springfield, Missouri. They married in Clifton, Colorado in 1904. They taught in the Pear Park School before moving west in the Grand Valley. His father eventually became involved in the auctioneering business. When Harold was four, the family moved to Cottonwood Creek near Molina and then to Collbran, where they stayed until he was in 8th grade. While living in Collbran, he and Howard became accomplished riders and cowboys, in part by riding mules. The family returned to Grand Junction and he graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1923. While in high school he was a member of the S&L Club, Operetta, and was described in his senior yearbook as “A pugilist of olden days.” He worked as a cowhand for a short time. At some point, probably in the 1920’s, he and Howard owned a second-hand furniture store on 4th and Main Streets in Grand Junction. He joined the Skaggs Drugstore chain in 1929. He worked in Grand Junction, was the store manager in Dallas, District Manager in Ogden, Utah, and a manager in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He may also have been mayor of Rock Springs. He continued to work with Mr. Skaggs until the other man died in 1951. After that, he moved to Tacoma. He returned to Grand Junction and spent his winters in Arizona. He owned and operated more than one store on Main Street, including a sporting goods store that had been owned by a man named Vorbeck (which he sold to Guy Stevens in 1963), and a jewelry store on North 6th Street and Colorado Avenue. They were active pursuits from 1952-1963. He retired in 1963. He died at the age of 84. *Photograph from the 1923 Grand Junction High School yearbook
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- Harold Smith
- Graduated E.H.S. in 1942.