People
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- Aspen McNulty
- 2017 Cattlemen's Days Jr. Miss, 11 years old (in 2017), daughter of Ivy and Seth McNulty, sister of Timber McNulty. (source: 2017 Cattlemen's Days Brochure)
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- Asunta Violeta "Susie" (Lanza) Mendicelli
- She was born in Pueblo, Colorado to Italian immigrants. Her father, Domenico Lanza, was a farmhand. Her mother Carmella Lanza was a homemaker. She learned a great deal about farming and homemaking from her parents. At the age of 16, she was married to Eugene Mendicelli, an Italian immigrant, in an arranged marriage. She moved to Grand Junction, Colorado when she was seventeen, on April 29, 1917. At home, she made sausage, bacon, ham, cheese, and many other foods by hand. She also worked nights in the canning factory. Later, she and her daughters ran the Mendicelli Bakery, where they made bread, donuts and baked goods by hand. They supplied Pantuso’s restaurant and Mr. Longo’s store. Her children attended the Whitman School and Emerson School.
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- Aubin Maestas
- Aubin Maestas is an artist who had artwork displayed in the Art on the Corner (AOTC) exhibit in Downtown Grand Junction.
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- Aubrey Fenton "Jack" Smillie
- He was born in Colorado to John W. Smillie and Christina (Trenholm) Smillie. Marriage records indicate that his parents, both born in Canada, were married in Iowa prior to moving to Colorado. His mother studied music in Montreal prior to marrying his father. According to Jack Smillie, his father came to Denver to work as a surveyor on an irrigation project near present-day Eaton. He was paid both a salary and given 160 acres of land for his work. They farmed on the land and Jack’s father planted potatoes. The 1900 US Census shows the family living in Weld County, with Jack, one of seven children, living at home at the age of five. In 1910, the family lived in what had become Eaton. There, his mother spearheaded a church-building project. Jack worked as a cowboy in the area until he was twenty. While census records indicate that he attended through his 2nd or 3rd year of high school, Jack indicates in his oral history interview that he attended one year of college, where he played football. During college, he was made to take military classes. After his induction into the US Army, he was made a sergeant, and worked training inductees. His draft registration in 1917 shows that he was of medium build and medium height, with light hair and blue eyes. He served as a private in the US Army during World War I. After the army, he moved to Granby with some friends, where they worked on a ranch. There he met his future wife, Gertrude Mildred McQueary. They married in Denver on March 26, 1919. By 1930, the US Census shows them living in Granby with their four children, with Jack working as a farmer. They moved to Delta County sometime after 1940. The 1950 Census shows Jack and Christina living and farming on California Mesa. At his wife’s urging, he wrote the book Cowboys are People, about his life. It is available from the Cedaredge Public Library. After Gertrude passed away, he seems to have moved to Denver, where he married Fern Lillian Neal on September 21, 1984. He was a calf roper in rodeos and taught calf roping to children in Cedaredge. He regarded himself as the black sheep of the family, and stated in his interview that his brothers and sisters had all become successful. He died in Denver in 1986 and is buried in the Eaton Cemetery.