People

: Alice (Glasco) Johnson; She was born in Elk County, Kansas to William T. Glasco, a Civil War veteran, and Mary Jane (Messick) Johnson. She married James Pearley Johnson in Grand Junction in 1910, and together they lived in Gilman, Colorado for two years while James worked in a mine. They then moved to Mesa County and lived on a farm on River Road, partway between Grand Junction and Fruita. There, they raised tomatoes in greenhouses and sold them directly to customers and grocers, and sold plants to other growers. After her husband's heart attack, she took over much of the physical labor in the business until they were able to get hired help. They moved for a time to Grand Junction, where James worked as a bank teller, then moved to Pomona and again farmed. She worked as a bookkeeper in a lumberyard, an abstract office, a country treasurer's office, and was a volunteer at St. Mary's Hospital and the Salvation Army.

: Alice Bickerstaff; Contributor to "The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal)