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- Bea Holden
- A beautiful waitress in the Rio Grande Lunchroom in Grand Junction, Colorado (nicknamed “The Beanery”). She was known for “playing the field” with regard to her many admirers and also known to keep company with suspicious characters. She became involved with Jake Fleagle of the Fleagle Gang after the Lamar bank robbery, and traveled around with him for a time. She eventually left him and returned to Grand Junction. According to Dudley Mitchell, it is possible that she offered information to the police concerning Jake Fleagle’s whereabouts.
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- Beatrice "Bea" (Bailey) Underwood
- Longtime teacher in Parachute, Colorado. She was born in Denver, Colorado to Thaddeus C. Bailey and Prudence (Broquet) Bailey. She was an only child. The 1910 US Census shows her living with her parents in Huerfano County when she was one-year-old. There, her parents ran a general store. They moved to Battlement Mesa in 1917, where they had purchased a ranch. Bea attended Battlement Mesa Grade School until 1921, Grand Valley High School from 1922 to 1926, and the University of Northern Colorado from 1926 to 1930. Her mother died when she was nineteen. She married Cal Underwood of Grand Valley on August 3, 1937. The 1940 census shows them living with Bea’s father and step-mother in Grand Valley (now Parachute), with Bea working as a school teacher and Cal as a section foreman for the railroad. They lived in Utah in the early 1940’s, with Cal working as a section foreman there and Bea as a teacher in Green River. In 1943, they moved to De Beque, Colorado, continuing in the same careers. In 1948, they moved to the Bailey Ranch, where they stayed until Cal’s death in 1968. They also lived in the Sawyer house in Parachute during the winter. In 1950, the census shows Bea working as a teacher at Grand Valley Public School and Cal farming. She taught first grade from 1930 to 1973, and Bea Underwood Elementary School in Parachute is named for her. She sold the Bailey Ranch to Rolly Gardner in 1969. She followed her stepmother to Grand Junction in 1975. Bea died at the age of 89 and is buried in the Battlement Mesa Cemetery.
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- Beatrice Farnham
- She was the wife, briefly, of Colorado National Monument trailblazer and found John Otto. They married in the Monument in a ceremony near Independence Monument. They separated then divorced shortly after, after Otto refused to live in any kind of shelter.