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- Lois Flagg
- Sister of Alfred Flagg.
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- Lois Jane (Southward) Quimby
- She was born to Charles Russell Southward and Emma G. Southward in Ohio. By 1930, US Census records show her living with her family in Meeker, Colorado, when she was three. She grew up there and in Rifle, Colorado, but moved to Grand Junction, Colorado sometime before or during high school. She attended Grand Junction High School. There, she was active in the Girls’ League, band, orchestra, mixed chorus, Tri-S, Dramatic Club, Student Council, and the senior class play. She graduated in 1944 and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she was in the school of Arts and Sciences. She married Robert Louis Quimby on June 10, 1947. They had six children, five boys and one girl. US Census records show them living in Rifle with their first child in 1950. He served as a Colorado representative from Garfield County, and was also the vice-president of First National Bank in Grand Junction. He died in 1984. She studied medical technology, but never practiced professionally. She was a housewife and homemaker who took care of her six children. She also taught flute and gave piano lessons. In 1967, she became a substitute teacher, a job she kept until 1971. The challenge of substitute teaching gave her the courage to pursue a political career, which she did in 1973. She ran for and won a seat on the Grand Junction City Council. She served two eight-year terms, with the last twelve years as Mayor. Although she described herself as a politician and not an activist, she was the first woman to serve on the city council. She served on the Western Slope Energy Impact Assistance Advisory Committee, the local planning committee, the Energy Coordinating Committee, the Block Grant Advisory Committee, and the Grand Junction Symphony Board of Directors. *Photograph from the 1947 University of Colorado at Boulder yearbook.
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- Lois Marie (Long) Buniger
- She was born in Kansas to Roger Henry “Rog” Long and Lora (Shigley) Long. Her parents farmed. Lois states in her oral history interview that her father came to the Loma area of Mesa County, Colorado in 1917, to homestead. The 1920 Census shows the family living in Loma, when Lois was 4 years old. She attended the Valley View School. She married Leland Jacob Buniger on July 2, 1935. They farmed potatoes, beans, and hay in Loma. The 1950 Census indicates that they lived north of the intersection of Highway 50 and Colorado State Highway 139. They had a paper route for the Daily Sentinel for five years. They had two daughters. She was a member of the Jolly 16 Pinochle Club.
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- Lois Spann
- Lois Spann was born in Gunnison, graduated from Gunnison County High School in 1925, and attended Western State College for four years. She married Virgil Spann in 1930 and had her son Lee. The I.V.X. was the Spann's first cattle ranch, bought during the Depression. The community would host get-togethers at Hillside Hall. Lois Spann's family continued to work the ranch.
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- Lois Steinbeck
- Cattlemen's Days Queen 1972 (source: Cattlemen's Days 1972 Souvenir Program) Cattlemen's Days Princess 1971 (source: Cattlemen's Days 1971 Souvenir Program)