People

: Roy Edward Dinkins; He was born to Charles "Chalk" Dinkins and Margaret (Hyatt) Dinkins in Salida, Colorado, and grew up there. According to US Census records, his father worked as a steward for the Elks Club for many years. His mother was a homemaker. He became a machinist for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad as a young man. He moved to Grand Junction sometime in the 1920's or 30's, where he was the co-owner of Costanzas Liquor Store. He married Bernadine Goe in Cripple Creek on May 28, 1933. They lived in Grand Junction during the 1930's, though the 1940 Census shows that he returned to Salida to live with his father for at least a time. He witnessed the death of J.W. “Big Kid” Eames during the armed robbery of his gambling parlor, The Biltmore.

: Roy Foster Leininger; Roy Foster Leininger was born in Mason City, Ill. on Oct. 21, 1890. He was a brakeman for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and was killed by a runaway train at Pando, Colorado on January 22, 1918.

: Roy Frederick Schumann; He was born in Montrose, Colorado to John Schumann and Anna Katherine (Weidenkeller) Schumann. His parents were Germans from Russia who had immigrated to the United States in the 1890’s. Anna’s family lived in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood and were also farmers in Eastern Colorado. John’s family purchased land in Eastern Colorado. Anna and John married in Loveland in 1906. The 1910 US Census shows them farming in Weld County with their first two children, William and John. They then moved to Montrose, and the 1920 census shows the family farming there with their seven children, when Roy was five years old. By 1930, the family had moved with their nine children to a farm in Garfield County, when Roy was fourteen. The 1940 census shows the family living on Cache Creek, with Roy having attended two years of college at the age of twenty-five. He attended the Colorado State College of Education in Greeley (now Northern Colorado University). Sometime after 1940, he married Wilma Elizabeth Segebartt of Mesa County, a hospital nurse. The 1950 census shows them living with their three children in unincorporated Mesa County, with William working as a “city school” teacher and principal. City directory’s from that time indicate that he was the principal at the Riverside School. He died at the age of eighty-seven and is buried in Grand Junction’s Orchard Mesa Cemetery. Photograph from the 1941 Colorado Teacher's College yearbook.

: Roy French; A cousin of Robert Grant who was a linotype operator for The Daily Sentinel newspaper in the 1940’s in Grand Junction, Colorado.