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- Raymond Edward Myers
- He was born to farmers Sylvester Myers and Carrie Schepp Myers in Kirkview, New York. He attended Minoa High School in Minoa, New York from 1914-1916. He served as a private in the US Army during World War I, and his draft record shows him working as an inspector for a railroad in New York in 1918. According to the US Census, he was working as a stenographer for a steam railway in New York by 1920, when he was 21 years old. He married Nellie Schaffer Myers in Syracuse, New York on February 25, 1922. They moved to Western Colorado for health reasons in 1924. By 1940 they were living in the Fairmount area of Mesa County, Colorado, with the US Census listing Myers’ job as carman. He held this position with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. He was working as a carman on the ammunition train that caught fire on June 27, 1943. He had been sent to Rifle by the D&RG to repair a car on the train that day. In riding the train back to Grand Junction, the crew noticed a hotbox on a car in the middle of the train. He repaired the car, but fire broke out by the time they got to Grand Junction. The fire exploded munitions and sent shells flying all over downtown Grand Junction. He was a precinct committee man for the Democratic Party for fifteen years. He belonged to the Railway Carman of America #122, the Knights of Columbus, the Eagles Lodge, and was the Social Secretary of the Rio Grande Veterans Club. He and his wife had two children. He enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, hunting and fishing.
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- Raymond Lester "Ray" Boggs
- He was born in Kansas to John Boggs and Daisy (Lester) Boggs. His father ran a grocery and mercantile store in Martin, Kansas that was begun by Ray Boggs’s grandfather. His mother was a homemaker. By 1920, the family had moved to Burlington, Colorado, where they farmed. After high school graduation, Ray and his brother leased 640 acres of land that they farmed until Ray left to attend the University of Colorado. He attended school for two years and received a teaching certificate before returning to work the farm and to teach school, which he did for three years. He then went to work for Midwest Oil in the oil fields north of Custer, Wyoming. There, while playing for a company baseball team, he met a friend of baseball player Rogers Hornsby, and was invited to work out for the Boston Braves as a left-handed pitcher. He trained with the Braves and played games in 1928, when he was 23. He was paid $250 per month. He was then sent to a minor league affiliate in Independence, Missouri, but suffered a shoulder injury that ended his professional baseball career. He joined the International Harvester company, an implement dealer. He opened a hardware store while in their employ. The 1940 US Census shows him working as a blockman for the company while living with his wife and child in Alamosa, Colorado. Eventually, he was sent to Grand Junction, Colorado to sell harvesting equipment. The 1950 Census shows him living in Grand Junction, where he worked as a farm implement and truck dealer. He was made manager of the International Harvester store there in 1952. He married Etta Ruth Ellis in Alamosa, Colorado in 1934. They had three children.
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- Raymond Lester McBeth
- He was born in Utah to Melvin O. and Ann McBeth. 1900 US Census records show him living with his parents in Payson, Utah at the age of two. He grew up on a farm in Payson. He served in the Utah National Guard during World War I, and was stationed in Europe from June 1918 to May 1919, when he was honorably discharged. He married Veda Roberson in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1921. Together they homesteaded in Westwater Canyon, about forty miles from Mack, Colorado. He was a sheep rancher and machinist.
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- Raymond Lines
- Salida, Colorado resident Ray Lines was drafted into the Army to serve in World War I. An explosive shell killed him on September 18, 1918 and his burial took place in Salida, Colorado in 1922. Salida held a military funeral on April 23, 1922 in honor of Ray Lines. It was a grand affair, complete with band, color guard, pastors and pallbearers, military veterans and enlisted men, army nurses, a firing squad, and of course, mourners. There were American flags posted everywhere. The entire town gathered at Riverside Park, then marched up to the undertaker’s on 1st Street to collect the casket. A service was held at the Presbyterian Church (which was then on the corner of 3rd & F) and afterwards, the casket, with escort, and the huge crowd proceeded to Fairview Cemetery. Ray was given full military honors, complete with the playing of Taps and a firing squad salute at his graveside.
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- Raymond O. Hosford
- Founder of Salida-Aspen Concert Series, one of the key players.