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- Lucille "Lucy" (Carlson) Hartman
- She was born in Colorado to Charles Carlson and Bertha (Davis) Carlson. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a homemaker. She grew up in Loveland, Colorado and attended the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. There, she met William Fredrick Hartman Jr. They married in 1937, when she was 24 years old. She and William moved to Grand Junction in 1938, where William taught journalism at Mesa College and Lucy worked as a substitute teacher in the public schools. She also tutored students in English and was a homemaker. They later returned to Weld County, where they raised their children. *Photograph from the 1931 University of Northern Colorado yearbook
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- Lucille (Hunter) Mahannah
- She grew up on the Hunter Ranch, established by her grandparents in 1880 near Fruita, Colorado (this area later became known as the Hunter District). She pursued a college education at different institutions over many years, and received her AB Degree from Western State College. While her husband served in the Army during World War I, she improved on their mining claim in the Gateway area. She also assisted her father with the management of the Hunter Mine, a coal mine that he developed in the Bookcliffs near Mt. Garfield. She also taught 7th grade at the Fruitvale School prior to 1932. Following her service with the Civilian Conservation Corps as a Public Welfare Director, charged with caring for the welfare of participants, she was made the first female caseworker in the U.S. Army. She trained with the WACS and stayed in the service for two years as a Technical Sergeant, living in troop barracks in Oklahoma and Texas. After the war, she received her Master's Degree in social work from the University of Denver. After teaching for several years, she became the Mesa County Superintendent of Schools for fourteen years, from 1948-63. She was one of the first women in the local chapter of the Izaak Walton League, and was an active member in ecological and conservation causes in the area. She also served as Director of Public Welfare in Mesa County for five years, beginning in 1939. In 1947, she mediated a dispute between livestock ranchers and the Forest Service Department which required federal hearings in Grand Junction.
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- Lucille B. (Cox) Schultz
- She was born in Colorado to William Cox and Maude (Jackson) Cox. Her father was a dry goods merchant in the general merchandise business in Mack and Fruita. He later became a farmer. Her mother was a homemaker. US Census records show that Lucille grew up in Fruita, where she worked in her father’s store. The 1930 Census shows her living in Grand Junction at the age of 19, where she worked as a store clerk. She married Edward Schultz of Kansas on March 14, 1933. He met her when he lived in Mack and worked in her father’s store at the age of sixteen, after leaving home. They had two chidren. They moved to Cedaredge, where they ran a general merchandise store, the Cedaredge Mercantile. The 1950 census shows them living in Los Angeles, where she kept house and Edward worked as the owner of a retail produce business. She died in California at the age of sixty-six.
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- Lucille Harrison
- Lucille married her Junior/High school sweetheart, Merwin, in 1937 and they had two children. Lucille spent time on the Lafayette library board in the 1960s.