People

: Minnie Ann (Andress) Roberts; Minnie Ann Roberts discusses moving from Iowa to a homestead in Montrose County, Colorado in the early 1900s. Minnie explains the social scene near Bedrock, memories of her wedding, and baby showers and shivarees. She also talks about canning meat, preserving other foods, doing the wash, making her own clothes, and taking care of her family at the homestead. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.

: Minnie Chatfield; She was a teacher at Pear Park Elementary School in the Pear Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. She was very influential in her field, and was visited by teachers from around the state who wished to observe her methods. Chatfield Elementary School, on D ½ Road near 32 Road, just next to the old Pear Park Elementary School, was named for her.

: Minnie Foster; She was born in Nebraska on a farm, and moved to Missouri, where she attended school and college. She became a teacher, and taught in a country school in Missouri. She then went to one year of nursing school, and became a practical nurse in Seattle, Los Angeles and Denver, administering to elderly people and children. She died in Fruita, Colorado. She never married.