People

: Leola Willa (McGarvey) Wiswell; She was born to William C. McGarvey and Elizabeth “Lizzie” (Kuhnle) McGarvey in Colorado. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Fort Collins, when Leola was four, with her father working as a chauffer for the sugar factory. Her mother was a homemaker. By 1920, the family lived in Greeley, where William worked as an auto mechanic in a garage. She married Lea Allen Wiswell in Greeley, Colorado on June 16, 1926, when she was twenty-one years old. The 1930 census shows them living with their two-year-old son in the Burns area of Eagle County, where he worked on a ranch. The family lived in the Meeker area before relocating to the Mack and Loma area of Mesa County in 1941, where Allen worked for the Brown, Mogenson and Deacon ranches (census records indicate that Allen was already working and living in Mack by 1940). They lived on the Weaver’s place. Leola worked as a homemaker, as a school cook, and was also the food service manager for Fruita Junior High School. She was a member of the Jolly 16 Club in Loma and of the United Presbyterian Church of Loma. She also served as the PTA board president, (presumably for the Loma School and/or Fruita Junior High School), and helped to put on the play “Wild Nell, Pride of the Prairie”. She died two months before her 100th birthday and is buried in Fruita’s Elmwood Cemetery.

: Leon Reed; He was born in Nebraska. US Census records show him living in Cedaredge, Colorado in Delta County by the age of 19 in 1910, and that he worked as a ranch hand. He later managed a fruit farm. He married Sturlie Wallace in 1910.

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