People
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- Lois (Beeson) McKinley
- A member of the Fruita Union High School class of 1927.
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- Lois (Davis) Mitchell
- Wife of Dudley Mitchell, married in Grand Junction 1938. Lois and Dudley met in Glenwood Springs. Lois passed at age fifty-nine in 1964.
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- Lois (Hollinger) Saunders
- She was an early resident of Fruita, Colorado, and later lived in Loma and Mack, where she met her husband Rowland Fowler “Roe” Saunders. They had a small farm near Mack.
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- Lois Distel
- Lois Schofield was born in Lafayette, CO in 1919 and married Joe Distel on June 22, 1939.
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- Lois Flagg
- Sister of Alfred Flagg.
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- Lois Jane (Southward) Quimby
- She was born to Charles Russell Southward and Emma G. Southward in Ohio. By 1930, US Census records show her living with her family in Meeker, Colorado, when she was three. She grew up there and in Rifle, Colorado, but moved to Grand Junction, Colorado sometime before or during high school. She attended Grand Junction High School. There, she was active in the Girls’ League, band, orchestra, mixed chorus, Tri-S, Dramatic Club, Student Council, and the senior class play. She graduated in 1944 and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she was in the school of Arts and Sciences. She married Robert Louis Quimby on June 10, 1947. They had six children, five boys and one girl. US Census records show them living in Rifle with their first child in 1950. He served as a Colorado representative from Garfield County, and was also the vice-president of First National Bank in Grand Junction. He died in 1984. She studied medical technology, but never practiced professionally. She was a housewife and homemaker who took care of her six children. She also taught flute and gave piano lessons. In 1967, she became a substitute teacher, a job she kept until 1971. The challenge of substitute teaching gave her the courage to pursue a political career, which she did in 1973. She ran for and won a seat on the Grand Junction City Council. She served two eight-year terms, with the last twelve years as Mayor. Although she described herself as a politician and not an activist, she was the first woman to serve on the city council. She served on the Western Slope Energy Impact Assistance Advisory Committee, the local planning committee, the Energy Coordinating Committee, the Block Grant Advisory Committee, and the Grand Junction Symphony Board of Directors. *Photograph from the 1947 University of Colorado at Boulder yearbook.