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- Wilma Lorene (Terrell) Brubaker
- She was born in Grainfield, Kansas to Jessie E. Terrell and Mabel F. (Embree) Terrell. Her father was a farmer and trucker. Her mother was a homemaker who had attended Nebraska Wesleyan University. US Census records show that the family was living in Hugo, Colorado by 1930, when Lorene was 13 years old. She married Kermit C. Brubaker on April 1, 1936 in Pueblo. The 1940 and 1950 US Censuses show them living in El Paso County, where she was a homemaker. They came to Mesa County, Colorado in 1961, when Kermit was appointed pastor of what was then called the United Presbyterian Church in nearby Loma (now the Loma Community Church). They lived during this time at 422 Belford Avenue in Grand Junction. She gained employment at St. Mary’s Hospital in nearby Grand Junction, where she worked for fourteen years before retiring.