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- Blanche High Mauro
- Blanche Maxine High Mauro was born on 24 November 1924 to Robert and Bess Mae High near Edwards, Colorado. After migrating from Mississippi with extended family, Blanche's parents homesteaded a 250-acre ranch along Squaw Creek. Blanche and her 10 siblings attended the one-room Squaw Creek School that was taught by Miss Diamond from Leadville. After taming an old wild horse the family called Old Gyp, Blanche and her sisters rode the pony everyday to grade school. When the High children attended high school in Gypsum, the boys stayed in a cabin during the school week, while the girls boarded with acquaintances. While attending school and living in Gypsum away from their parents, Blanche cooked for her siblings on the cabin's wood stove. All the High children graduated from Eagle County High School. Blanche recollects her family dining on venison, elk and produce they grew on their farm. They also collected fresh berries and wild greens along Squaw Creek. As a young woman, Blanche enjoyed barn dances at Avon's Hahnewald Barn and fondly recalls watching Ellis "Bearcat" Bearden "box a bear" outside the only store in Edwards. Blanch High Mauro's oral history interview was performed by her son, Tony Mauro, the "Voice of Vail."
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- Blanche Ivey
- Head nurse at Collbran's first private hospital, Plateau Valley Hospital.
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- Blanche Moon
- Blanche moved to Emma Street in Lafayette, CO with her family from the Englewood-Littleton area in 1941. She married William Howard Moon. Blanche worked at the Lafayette Library for many years.