People

: Lebrado Serna Sr.; He was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. According to his son, Lebrado "Lee" Serna, he did not have much education, but could speak good English. He worked for the Target Smelter and Refining Company, and was also a track foreman for the railroad. Died of heart trouble in 1928. A member of the Knights of Columbus.

: Lebrado “Lee” Serna; He was born in Durango, Colorado to a Mexican-American family. His father died when he was a teenager. An Irish immigrant, a fellow Catholic named James D. Gorman, took him under his wing, teaching him the plumbing business. Serna helped him install plumbing in the Durango Post Office. He later did the same for the new Montezuma County Courthouse in Cortez. When Gorman became ill, Serna drove him to San Antonio and served as a kind of caretaker for him. Serna passed the journeyman plumber’s examination in 1933. He later went into the plumbing and heating business on his own. He spoke both Spanish and English.

: Lee (An Alcoholic); Described as an "alcoholic," Lee had a tough childhood. He seems to have been born around 1943. He first lived with his grandmother, who tried to kill him. After leaving her, he enlisted in the National Guard, got arrested for being drunk and disorderly at 14 years old, and was booted out. He moved state-to-state with his father, always changing their names and identities as they went so that they could avoid the law, because his father had a warrant for his arrest in Oklahoma. A Mormon family in Utah adopted Lee, but he continued to get into trouble. He next moved back to Grand Junction, enlisted in the National Guard again and moved over to Germany at 18 years old, where he continued to get into trouble. The next seven or so years were a blur of straightening out, drinking again, jail visits, breakups, and a couple divorces. He finally reached sobriety, for which he thanked the Grand Junction Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). He became a counselor for trouble folks at the Fort Logan Mental Health Center in Denver, and the organizer of an AA for youth in Grand Junction, Colorado.

: Lee Burford; The son of Darwin Burford and a resident of Whitewater, Colorado.

: Lee Hampden; Lee Hampden/Hampton was the superintendent of Glade Park School District 14. She was an early Fruita, Colorado schoolteacher who taught eighth grade. Darwin Burford, a former student of hers, remembers she was strict.

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