People

: Lora Elizabeth (Sleeper) Collier; She was born to John Frank Sleeper and Louise Amelia (Sieber) Sleeper in the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. Her father was a cattle rancher and surveyor. Her mother was a homemaker. Her ancestors were Glade Park pioneers on both sides of the family. Her father’s family owned the 2-V Ranch with the Elas, and her mother’s family, the Siebers, owned the S-Cross Cattle Company. She went to Grand Junction High School. She married John Jay Collier, a fellow Grand Junction High School graduate and rancher, on May 29, 1935, when she was 20. The 1940 US Census shows them living in Grand Junction, where he worked as a public school teacher and she was a homemaker. The 1950 US Census shows them living in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where John worked as the district representative for a recreational equipment firm.

: Lora Starkey; Lora was born in Clinton, Missouri and she moved to Lafayette, CO at age seven to a home on East Emma St. Lora married Lewis Starkey of Erie in 1934. Together, they ran Starkey Plumbing and Heating.

: Loran Glenn Stukey; Referred to, in error, as Glen Stuco in photo caption in the article "John Fetcher: an inspiration for our time."

: Loren Dwight West; He was born in Iowa to John O. West and Julia Ann (Fry) West. His parents were farmers. The 1900 US Census shows the family living in Polk, Iowa, when Loren was seventeen. They moved to Palisade, Colorado in 1906, where they farmed fruit. He married Eva Margaret Nessler in Glenwood Springs on September 14, 1913. She was also from a Palisade fruit farming family. They moved for a time to Castleford, Idaho, and the 1920 US Census shows them running a stock farm there. They returned to Palisade in 1927 and once again farmed fruit.

: Lorena Alta "Lorene" (Tatlow) Roice; She was born in Kansas to William Walter Tatlow, a farmer, and Alta Clara (Becker) Tatlow, a homemaker. US Census records from 1920 to 1940 would seem to indicate that she was an only child. According to Roice, she ran off to get married shortly before her high school graduation (possibly to a Mr. Brooks). The 1940 Census record shows her living with her parents at the age of 22, listed as single, and waitressing in a restaurant, but according to Roice, she was widowed when her first husband died during World War II (In one interview she says that he died in the Philippines, and in another, during the attack on Pearl Harbor). Around 1943, she went to San Diego to work in a Convair factory, building airplanes. There she met her future husband, Joe Alvin Roice, a “Hotchkiss boy” who was in the Navy. They married in 1946, and later relocated to Grand Junction, Colorado, where he worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railoroad and in construction. She attended some college classes at Mesa College and worked at Woolworth's. Together they had one child. They also helped to found the Roice-Hurst Humane Society. When they first moved to Grand Junction, they lived at 901 North 1st Street in a trailer.

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