People
Collection for person entities.
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- Cheryl Ward
- A volunteer with the Mesa County Oral History Project
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- Cheryl Ward
- A volunteer with the Mesa County Oral History Project.
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- Chester B. Nichols
- He and his wife Cora Nichols moved their family from Philadelphia to Mesa County in 1909, and established a fruit farm on Orchard Avenue near the Fruitvale area. He also owned and operated the New Method Laundry and the Armory Building, which were side-by-side on Rood Avenue. For a time, he operated the L&M Fruit Packing Company. He sometimes sprayed crops for the Goodwin-Latimer Company.
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- Chester Dooley
- Chester was a student at H Street School in the late 19th century.
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- Chester Earnest
- He was born in Nebraska to Hugh Burton Earnest, a farmer and rancher born in Colorado, and Ella Christina (Will) Earnest, a homemaker whose parents were German immigrants. The 1910 US Census shows Chester living with his parents in Warren, Wyoming, and the 1920 Census shows the family living in the Sunlight area of Garfield County, Colorado, when Chester was 13 years old. Chester grew up on a ranch there. Following an apprenticeship in Greeley, he became a builder with his own construction business. He married Gladys Bradley in Denver in 1937.
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- Chester Elias Jaynes
- Early 20th century Mesa County carpenter. Uncle of Velma E. (Borschell) Budin. Brother of Edith Jaynes and son of Ezra Jaynes.
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- Chester Fred "Chet" Crowley
- He was born to Chester F. Crowley Sr. and Gladys K. (Haynes) Crowley in Birmingham, Alabama. The family moved to Western Colorado in 1936, when he was about seven years old. The 1940 US Census shows Chet, his younger sister and brother living alone with their mother in De Beque. She later remarried. He attended the Palisade School and later obtained his US Army GED. He served in the US Army from May 19th, 1948 until 1968. He enlisted in Denver, Colorado. He attained a rank of SFC (E7) and served at duty stations around the world including California, Panama, Korea, and Vietnam. He served in the Korean War. He served as an intelligence analyst, 1st Sergeant, in the 1st Infantry Division during the Vietnam War, from June 20, 1966 to June 12, 1967. He was shot in action and served in rear detachment duty for the remainder of his tour. He was awarded a Bronze Star. He obtained a Bachelor’s in sociology, and in travel & recreation from Mesa State College in 1974. He married Imell Lee Finkenbinder on July 5th, 1952 in Grand Junction, Colorado. She was a cook. They had four children. Aside from Army service, he worked as a peach harvest hand, a security guard, an employee for the Colorado Highway Department, and a restaurant manager. He lived in Grand Junction, Palisade, Fruita, DeBeque, Rifle, Meeker, Mt. Harris, Bear River, and Gunnison. He was a member of the DAV. He died in Rifle at the age of eighty-nine and is buried in Grand Junction’s Memorial Gardens cemetery.