People

: Anna Pearl (Cable) Cunningham; She was a frail child who could not play outside much. Her family moved from Connecticut to Meeker, Colorado in 1915, where they lived on a ranch. They stayed in a small house built on a homestead that her father and two brothers had taken out. When she was old enough, she wanted to get away from home, and so moved to Grand Junction. She lived in the Lennox Hotel, a boarding house. She worked in the cannery, at a restaurant, and as a housekeeper at Watson’s florists.

: Anna Peugh; Early resident of Whitewater, Colorado. Her husband, George Peugh, owned the general store in Whitewater.

: Anna Ranta; Anna (Erma?) Maki Ranta was born in Finland on October 12, 1886; she immigrated to the United States in 1905, to join her sister that lived in Telluride. Jacob and Anna were married in Telluride, and were an integral part of the town's Finnish community during the early 1900s. A son, William "Bill," was born on October 26, 1906, and another son, Elmer, was born on August 5, 1917. Anna took in washing from the miners and different businesses in Telluride and was also a housewife. Anna passed away July 30, 1957, from cancer.

: Anna Rebecca (Bowman) Rogers; She was born in Virginia to David Bowman and Susanah (Hedrick) Bowman. Her father was a Baptist minister and her mother was a homemaker. According to her son, Donald “Don” Rogers, she taught school for many years before marrying Lucas Melvin “Luke” Rogers in Mesa County, Colorado in 1907. They farmed in the Appleton area before moving to Fisher, on the Redlands just across Black Bridge from Orchard Mesa. They ran their ranching operations there and on Pinon Mesa. She died in 1933.

: Anna Scott; A reverend and minister in Grand Junction’s Center for Spiritual Living. Prior to that time, she worked as a Prayer Practitioner. She attended Western State College (now Western Colorado University), where she met Wendy Robinson, the mother of Mesa County Oral History Project interviewee Shannon Robinson. She helped care for Shannon after she was pulled from elementary school due to racism and bullying.

: Anna Steenlage; Contributor to "The place they like best", a "corn-and-potatoes Midwesterner" who found her way to Colorado via Oregon where she fell in love with the climbable rocks, raft able rivers, and opportunities for poetry. (source: The place they like best A Gunnison Valley Journal.)

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