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: Warren John Kiefer; He was born to Samuel Frederick Kiefer and Maude Marie (Hummel) Kiefer in Yakima, Washington and grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. His father was a saleman, broadcaster, and broadcast writer. His mother was a homemaker. Warren was working for the railroad by at least 1940, when the US Census lists him as a “wayo maintenance” worker in railroad construction. It also shows that he had attended a year of college. He was hired as a fireman on the railroad in 1941. His draft card from 1942 lists his employer as the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He served in the United States Army. Sometime after World War II, he married Beverly Plummer. The 1948 Salt Lake City Directory shows them living at 378 Cleveland, with Warren working on the railroad. They later divorced. According to Warren, he was hired as an engineer in 1951, but didn’t get to assume the full duties of the position until 1960. He worked the line from Salt Lake to Grand Junction, Colorado. In 1954, he fired the last big steam engine to come out of Salt Lake City. He remarried on August 30, 1966, this time to Dorothy Lorene Hafey in Grand Junction. He died at the age of 92 and is buried in Grand Junction’s Orchard Mesa Cemetery.

: Warren Lane; Owner of the Lane Plumbing Company in Grand Junction, Colorado.

: Warren Lee Turner; He was the son of Albert James Turner (Sr.) and Anna Laura (Brown) Turner, ranchers who lived in Mesa County, Colorado and Grand County, Utah. In 1939, he was caught in a flash flood on Diamond Creek that killed his mother. He graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1944. He became an attorney and, after living in Boulder, returned to Grand Junction to practice in the law firm of Silmon Smith. This firm later became the still extant law firm of Williams, Turner and Holmes.

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