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Ariel Kilpatrick
Contributor to "Out of the Blue and Into the Sun," (source: Out of the Blue and Into the Sun: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
Arlene Potter
She grew up in Palisade. She was a wife and mother, but once her children were grown, she became a special education teacher at the Whitman School in 1960. She continued in that line of work until 1980, following the special education program from Whitman (1960-1964), to Hawthorne (1964-1968), and to Riverside (1968-?) at least. She retired in 1980.
Arline (Fellows) Gardner
She married Harry Gardner in 1913. She worked as a housewife.
Arline Mae "Susie" (Spencer) Cantril
She was born in Salida, Colorado to Earl Spencer and Bessie (Ghent) Spencer. Her father was a teamster and truck driver for a transfer company. Her mother was a homemaker. She was one of four siblings. She graduated from high school in Salida. She married James Elliot Cantril on February 18, 1934. They had three children. They moved to Leadville for his work at the Climax Mine. Some time before World War II, they visited the Grand Valley and liked it enough to purchase land there. They moved to Loma after her husband developed pneumonia. Their farm was located in the Starr district, at the intersection of 18 ½ Road and L Road. Their outbuildings and cellar for their house were built from old railroad ties that James tore out when helping to remove the old Uintah Railway lines. They raised hay, tomatoes, cucumbers, and grain. They took the cucumbers to the pickling factory in Fruita and shipped tomatoes to the Kuner factory in Grand Junction. Aline also worked at the Loma General Store. During World War II, Aline reports that her husband was “required” by the US Government to return to the Climax Mine, due to a shortage of labor. The 1950 US Census shows them living in Lake County, Colorado, where she worked as a cleaning woman in a private residence, and he worked as a mechanic in a molybdenum mine. When he retired in 1958, they moved to Grand Junction, selling their farm in Loma. He died in 1976. She enjoyed fishing, hiking, and going on picnics. She died at the age of eighty-five after a residence at the Lower Valley Nursing Home. She is buried in Fruita’s Elmwood Cemetery.

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