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- Marge Stein
- Stein, maven of the Music Festival, dies News | June 1, 2004 Eben Harrell 0 Marjorie Stein, a local ranch owner and philanthropist who played an integral role in the early years of the Aspen Music Festival, died at her home in Aspen Saturday. She was 94. Stein is remembered as an adventurer, volunteer and fund-raiser in a community that valued such things and knew her well. Marjorie spent the first half of her life in Chicago. The daughter of steel industrialists, she studied at Connecticut College and in Paris before marrying her husband, Henry Stein, in Chicago in 1935. Allured by the rugged ideal of the West, Marjorie and Henry purchased a second home in Aspen in the late 1940s before moving here permanently in 1952. She and Henry owned and operated the Mill Iron Ranch on McLain Flats Road. Eager to import the culture of her upbringing, Stein worked tirelessly in the ’50s to ensure the survival of the fledging Music Festival. Along with personal donations and fund raising, Marjorie served on the first board of the festival and later as an honorary trustee. Through her work, Stein befriended many of the musicians that came to Aspen. One of the first pool owners in town, Stein held legendary parties at her ranch home. Friends remember a petite, strong-willed woman capable of acts of both extreme generosity and stubbornness. “She was very strong-minded. When she wanted something, she went and got it,” longtime friend Jeanne Jaffee said. “It was like that with the Music Festival.” In 1960, Stein co-founded the “Blue Ladies,” the predecessor of the current Aspen Valley Hospital Volunteers. Inspired by her work in the Red Cross during the Second World War, Stein organized volunteers to work in all departments of the hospital. The volunteers, for years exclusively women, were known as the “Blue Ladies” for their distinct blue frocks. Stein was an avid tennis player, hosting regular Wednesday tennis gatherings at her home tennis court. She was also a skiing pupil of legendary ski icon Klaus Obermeyer. Marjorie was for years a regular attendee at the Aspen Music Festival, struggling against diminishing faculties to attend concerts last summer. A great lover of the outdoors, Stein worked with her family to place a number of conservation easements on the ranch, ensuring that much of the 400-acre property is reserved as open space. Marjorie Stein is survived by three daughters, seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by Henry Stein, who died in 1981. Her family is currently organizing a memorial service. Any contributions should be directed to the Music Associates of Aspen. Eben Harrell’s e-mail address is eharrell@aspentimes.com
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- Margery M. (Eddy) Rowley
- She was born in Osawatomie, Kansas and lived in Palisade, Colorado. She was as a housewife on a peach farm and a grocery store clerk. She bore three children: Betty, Ruth, and Shirley.
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- Margo Bryan-Peterson
- A then-Colorado artist who created public art installations. She received a Covisions grant to create a series of tile murals with Wingate Elementary School students in 1996. She also served as the Fruitvale Elementary School artist-in-residence, and was a teacher at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts (now known as the Art Center of Western Colorado). In 1997, she offered a course on tile making to any parent, teacher or education professional who was willing to pass that skill onto others in a classroom setting. Karen Severson, a teacher at Columbine Elementary School, took the course, and then taught both her fellow teachers and Columbine’s fifth students how to create tiles. The Columbine Elementary School Tile Project emerged from those efforts. As of 2023, Margo Bryan-Petersen lives in upstate New York, where she still creates and displays art.
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- Margo Patton Blair
- Great-grandfather Mergelman started Cattlemen’s Days, graduate of Gunnison High School. Attended Northeastern Junior College in Sterling CO, studied Law. College rodeo team competing in barrels, breakaway calf roping, team roping and goat tying. Involved in 4-H, raises hogs, completes in Rodeo. First women president of Cattlemen's Days in 2016. Cattlemen's Days Attendant 2000, Queen 2001, President 2016 and 2017 (source: Cattlemen's Days Brochure 2000, 2001, 2016, 2017) Cattlemen's Days Junior Miss in 1997, sister of Abby and Patricia Patton (Source: Cattlemen's Days 1997 Newspaper Insert)