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- Agnes Luke
- She was born in Orchard Mesa, Colorado, and worked as a nurse.
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- Agnes Redden
- Born August 24, 1896 in Hester, Missouri. Came to Colorado at the age of 21 to teach at the one room school at Wagon Wheel Gap. She came to Gunnison to attend summer school, and married William Redden on December 23, 1923. The couple had four children; Wilbur, Thomas, Paul, and Margaret, and nine grandchildren. (source: Cattlemen's Days 1974 Souvenir Program)
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- Agnes Ruth Kiefer
- She was born in Mack, Colorado to Charles Casper Kiefer and Mary Frances (Kopf) Kiefer. She was one of five siblings. Her father worked in real estate and later as a farmer. Her mother was a homemaker. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in downtown Grand Junction, when she was one year old. In 1920, the census shows the family living in Fruita. In her oral history interview, she recalls growing up primarily in New Liberty. She graduated from Mack Grade School in 1925 and Fruita Union High School in 1929. She moved from Mack to Grand Junction in 1932, where she worked as a waitress until 1934. She worked as a babysitter and as clerk in a department store in Chicago in Indiana between 1934 and 1936. From 1936 to 1942, she did practical nursing work in Fruita, Grand Junction, and Cripple Creek. She graduated from the Seton School of Nursing in Colorado Springs in 1945. She worked as a registered nurse in Grand Junction from 1945 to 1955, and as a nurse in Indiana from 1955 to 1958. She settled permanently in Grand Junction in 1958, where she worked as a nurse until 1977. She was a founding member of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Grand Junction. She was a member of the American Association of Retired Persons, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, the Colorado Right to Life, the Council of Catholic Women, and the National Right to Life. She was treasurer for the District 5 Colorado Nurse’s Association. She died at the age of 103 and is buried in the Orchard Mesa Cemetery.