People

: Mabel Jane (Purcell) Hart Johnson; She was born in Baggs, Wyoming. She grew up in Meeker, Colorado and in the Powell Park area of Rio Blanco County. As a child, she was diagnosed with St. Vitus’s Dance, but was cured of the illness. She worked as a dressmaker and held other jobs. Her first marriage was to Charles W. Hart on April 27, 1923. Together they homesteaded near the White River. She briefly worked as a traveling sales lady, and then married Murl Hazen Johnson on September 20, 1925. They moved together to Grand Junction, where they raised a family.

: Mabelle (Gardener) Clymer; She was born in Kansas and was an early Twentieth century resident of Palisade and Clifton, Colorado. She married Fred Clymer in 1915, the owner and operator of Indian School Dairy. Together with Fred, she operated Clymer's Rose Glen Dairy on Orchard Mesa. Their dairy was one of the earliest (if not the earliest) adopters of pasteurization in Mesa County. On the occasion of her wedding, she and her husband were shivareed in Clifton (tin cans attached to their horse and buggy were involved).

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