People

: Bertha Boni; Bertha Boni was an active member of the Home Demonstration Club, Sweetwater chapter.

: Bertha Chockie; Bertha Chockie was an active member of the Home Demonstration Clu, Sweetwater Club. She had two children, Dorothy Chockie and Lawrence Chockie.

: Bertha Edna Clark; Early 20th century Palisade resident and Collbran schoolteacher. Her parents, James Allison and Phoebe Jane Clark, moved from southeastern Kansas to homestead the Palisade area in 1900. Sister of Levi, James, and Harry Clark.

: Bertha I. Schlegel; She was born in Windsor, Colorado to German immigrants from Russia. She was one of eight children. The family moved to Loma when she was a young girl to raise sugar beers for Holly Sugar. Bertha worked in the fields, thinning and raising beets. Their family raised most of their own food and were big into pickling watermelons, apples, and dill pickles. The family later lived on a farm in Pomona, in the location of the current Mesa Mall. While in grade school she was a good speller, and participated in spelling bees. She could attend either Appleton High School or Grand Junction High School. Both charged tuition. She chose Grand Junction High School and graduated even though she could not afford to pay her tuition. She then attended Grand Junction Junior College while working in the Appleton canning factory for her tuition. She became a teacher in various places around Mesa County before getting her Master's degree in Greeley, Colorado at the University of Northern Colorado.

: Bertha McKeehan; Bertha was born in Lafayette, CO and married James Sterling Autrey in 1921. After James passed away in 1937, she married Charles E. McKeehan in 1938.

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