People

: Lois Marie (Long) Buniger; She was born in Kansas to Roger Henry “Rog” Long and Lora (Shigley) Long. Her parents farmed. Lois states in her oral history interview that her father came to the Loma area of Mesa County, Colorado in 1917, to homestead. The 1920 Census shows the family living in Loma, when Lois was 4 years old. She attended the Valley View School. She married Leland Jacob Buniger on July 2, 1935. They farmed potatoes, beans, and hay in Loma. The 1950 Census indicates that they lived north of the intersection of Highway 50 and Colorado State Highway 139. They had a paper route for the Daily Sentinel for five years. They had two daughters. She was a member of the Jolly 16 Pinochle Club.

: Lois Spann; Lois Spann was born in Gunnison, graduated from Gunnison County High School in 1925, and attended Western State College for four years. She married Virgil Spann in 1930 and had her son Lee. The I.V.X. was the Spann's first cattle ranch, bought during the Depression. The community would host get-togethers at Hillside Hall. Lois Spann's family continued to work the ranch.

: Lois Steinbeck; Cattlemen's Days Queen 1972 (source: Cattlemen's Days 1972 Souvenir Program) Cattlemen's Days Princess 1971 (source: Cattlemen's Days 1971 Souvenir Program)

: Lola "Dora" Eudora (Price) Meserve; The first white child born in Grand Junction. She moved to Los Angeles around 1942. She was the daughter of newspaper publisher Edwin Price and his wife Lola.

: Lola (Kennard) Price; She came in on the first train to Grand Junction with her husband Edwin Price in 1882. She was one of the founders of the First United Methodist Church of Grand Junction. She was also an important early social presence, and involved in many of the town's community groups. Together, she and her husband lived in the Price Terrace, a home built by Edwin Price at 7th Street and Colorado Avenue. When Edwin quit the newspaper business, they moved to Chicago for his new job. After his death, she returned to Grand Junction to live out the rest of her life.

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