People
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- William Kirk Bunte
- A local historian in Mesa County, Colorado and a graduate of Palisade High School. He is the grandson of George Bunte Jr., an early farmer, business owner, and county assessor in Palisade, Colorado. Kirk Bunte recently rented the historic George Bunte Jr. residence to the Palisade Historical Society as their headquarters for a low fee. He is the author of “A History of Rapid Creek” (Journal of the Western Slope, Fall 1994, V.9, N.4). *Some information taken from New Palisade Museum in the Works, Bob Silbernagel, Daily Sentinel, December 11, 2019.
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- William L. Billin
- In 1880. William L. Billin managed the North Fork Consolidated Mining and Tunnel Company, which operated the Pride of the West lode.
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- William Lace "Bill" Rice
- He grew up in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado, either on or nearby Third Fruitridge. He often played in the irrigation ditches and went fishing in the ditches with his brother David and their friend Albert Rood. He attended Colorado State University, and later became a teacher in the Grand Valley. He married Margaret Florence Seaman in 1954.
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- William Lawrence "Bill" Reeves
- He was born in McCune, Kansas to John Reeves, a farmer, and Margaret Jane “Maggie” (King) Reeves, a homemaker. His father was an immigrant from Ireland and his mother was the daughter of Irish immigrants. As a boy, he attended a one-room schoolhouse in Walnut, Kansas until 1910, when he was sixteen. He went on to attend an embalming school in Springfield, Missouri while working for Bill C. Lohmeyer’s undertaking establishment. He was the youngest person to pass the Kansas board examination for undertakers. He was drafted into the US Army’s 10th Division at Camp Funston in 1917. He received the rank of sergeant and battery commander before his discharge in January 1918. He was one of several civilian undertakers called up by the army to help manage those who died from the Spanish Flu. He was discharged early because undertakers were needed back in Kansas, where most of the doctors had been drafted and the flu’s death toll was high. His unit was not deployed to Europe during World War I. The 1930 US Census shows Reeves living alone in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he is listed as a widower and working as an automobile salesman. He moved to Western Colorado later that year, but returned to Colorado Springs to marry Minnie Christine Emerson on February 9, 1931. They had one daughter. The 1940 US Census shows them living at 746 Colorado Avenue, with Bill managing a filling station. He was a member of the American Legion, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the Loyal Order of Moose.