People

: Merian Lillian (Sedalnick) Rosenthal; She was born to Sam Sedalnick and Bessie (Cook) Sedalnick in Denver, Colorado. Her parents were merchants and native Denverites who moved to Grand Junction in 1930, when Merian was about 9 years old. There, her parents owned and operated the L Cook Jewelry and Sporting Goods Company. Merian attended Grand Junction High School, where she was a member of the Orange and Black yearbook staff. She married William B. Rosenthal of Salt Lake City on January 13, 1943. They owned and operated the L Cook company for many years. *Photograph from the 1938 Grand Junction High School yearbook.

: Merle McClintok; She was what Al Look called a "mighty good society reporter" for the Daily Sentinel and a good friend of Dorothy (Hiskey) Evans. Despite being diagnosed with cancer, she continued working until her death.

: Merle Miller McClintock; A former employee and society editor of The Daily Sentinel, who left and started her own newspaper. She was described by fellow journalists Isabella Cunningham, Ruth (McQueen) Smith and Al Look as an excellent editor. She suggested the title “On Guard” that Look took for his column. According to former Sentinel reporter Bill Nelson, she may have left the Sentinel when it was decided that Preston Walker would succeed his father has publisher. She played cards with Mrs. Krohn and Mrs. Buthorn, whose family owned the LaCourt Hotel. Mrs. Krohn owned a funeral parlor and apparently had a large coffin set aside for McClintock as she was apparently a large woman. According to an interview with Cunningham and Smith, Merle McClintock once became stuck in her bathtub and the fire department had to be called in order to dislodge her.

: Merle Winters; He was born in Oklahoma. According to U.S. Census records, he was living in Kiowa, Colorado by 1920, when he was twelve. He came to Western Colorado in a Model T, staying first in Rangely and then moving to Fruita. He worked as a cow puncher and ranch hand. In 1921, he survived a flash flood in a canyon of the Diamond Creek that claimed the life of Laura Turner (of the Turner Ranch family). After he married, he leased the Turner Ranch on Cottonwood Creek in Utah.

: Merliss Mackley; A musical performer to the music of Emerson Cox on the KREX radio play True Epics of Western Colorado, which aired in the late 1950's and/or early 1960's.

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