People

: Velma V. (Roe) Knight; She was born in Union City, Indiana to Frank Roe and Mattie (Cobleny) Roe. Her father was a teacher and her mother was a homemaker. Her father intended to move the family to Oregon, but was persuaded by a Grand Junction real estate agent to purchase a peach orchard in Palisade instead. US Census records show the family living in Palisade, Colorado by 1910, when Velma was fifteen. She attended high school at the Mt. Lincoln School, where her classmates included Wayne Aspinall. She went to the Michigan Agricultural College for school, where she met her husband Basil T. Knight. They married in Detroit in 1922. During her adult years she worked as a Home Economics teacher at Central High School in Grand Junction, Colorado. *Photo from 1922 Michigan Agricultural School yearbook.

: Veone Christine (Jensen) Taylor; She was born in Moab, Utah. She was orphaned, and her sisters took her to a Catholic school in Salt Lake City, where she went for ten years until she graduated. Upon graduation, she returned to the Moab area. She married Norman Taylor, a man several years her senior. She was a homemaker on her husband’s cattle ranch in Eastern Utah.

: Vera (Bailey) Shelly; A member of the Fruita Union High School class of 1927.

: Vera (Muhr) Shide; She was a student in the Star School in the early Twentieth century under teacher Dorothy Tindall, who remembered her as a very good speller. She was the daughter of the secretary of the school board. She became a teacher in Rifle, Colorado.

: Vera Foster; Vera Foster grew up in the town of Mesa, Colorado and went to Mesa College in Grand Junction. She taught home economics for several years.

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