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- Sarah Maolone
- Student at Colorado Christian University, graduated May, 2015.
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- Sarah Margueritte "Bobbie" (Alley) Wood
- She was born in Waynesboro, Tennessee to Amos H. Alley and Mamie Eve (Neett) Alley. She grew up in Haskell, Texas, where she attended high school. She then went to speedwriting school. She later went to Mesa College. She married Robert Garland Wood on March 21, 1942. They had three children. They moved to Loma, Colorado in 1961. They lived in Fruita from 1968 to 1969, then in Grand Junction from 1969 to 1980. They settled in Clifton after that. Her husband worked for Blackline Asphalt (Husky Oil) for many years. Beginning in 1966, she worked as a volunteer in the Lower Valley Hospital in Fruita. When the hospital added a nursing home, she became the director of programming, a position she held for six years and four months, overseeing mental and physical therapy, arts and crafts. She managed twenty-two volunteers and worked seven days a week, leaving only when the Federal government began funding the program in 1973. In 1975, she was given the Ruth B. Wyper Award for outstanding volunteer service. She began work on a Master’s degree, but health problems prevented her from finishing.
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- Sarah Melissa (Robinson) Gillespie
- She was an early resident of the Aspen area, and considered a pioneer Christian Scientist on the Western Slope. With her husband Henry Gillespie, she owned the El Jebel Ranch near Basalt. "Melissa Gillespie was an educated and cultured woman, having attended an Eastern finishing school. She became Aspen's first school superintendent and set about rounding off the rough edges of the frontier settlement and introducing urban refinements. She formed the Aspen Literary Society and published a literary periodical while raising three children. She helped establish a church mission and the forerunner of the Aspen Community Church, plus a sabbath school. Melissa was known for creating elaborate meals from the meager supplies available. She organized musicals and dances, and served as vice-president of a local temperance union, which waged battle against demon rum."--Aspen Hall of Fame video
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- Sarah Myrtle (Bissell) Monnahan
- She was born in Aztec, New Mexico. Her young life was filled with instability. Her father left when she was two, and so that her mother Myrtle Josephine Pyeatt could work, she was left to live with her grandparents in Farmington until she was four years old. When she was five years old, her mother married again and Monnahan moved with her mother and stepfather to the San Luis Valley in Colorado. She then went to live in Paiute, Idaho with her great-grandmother, then to Boise where the family’s house burnt down and they lost everything. Things “began to go wrong” then, and Monnahan and her mother moved to Kansas, where her mother boarded her with a family that neither of them knew. After a medical emergency, her mother came back and took her to a convent, where the sisters gave Monnahan medical attention. She was nine at that time, and her mother left her in the convent for a year. The mother married again and was living in Oklahoma, where Monnahan contracted malaria. After she was cured, her mother sent her to live on a ranch near Craig, Colorado with her grandmother and uncle. There, she finally lived something like a normal life. She received schooling and had her own dog. She married Charles Raymond Hamlin on December 20, 1912. She worked for a while cooking for a construction crew near Craig. U.S. Census Records for 1920 show them living in Randlett, Utah, on the Uintah Reservation, with Charles employed as a garage mechanic. Monnahan was also a homemaker, working with livestock on their farm and making and storing butter. They moved to Grand Junction in 1933, where her last child was born. Monnahan and Hamlin divorced and she later remarried, this time to Charley Robert Monnahan, a cowboy and heavy equipment operator. She also embarked on a nursing career. She worked at Community Hospital, then called Mesa General Memorial Hospital, and retired in that career.