People

: Margaret Elaine (Beede) Guccini; She was born in Brighton, Colorado to Thomas Wayne Beede and Marguerite Elizabeth (Miller) Beede. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a homemaker. The family moved to the town of Loma in Mesa County sometime between 1930 and 1940. The 1940 US Census shows them farming in Loma when Margaret was twelve years old. She attended a country school near Loma with 28 students. Margaret attended Fruita Union High School. After graduation, she attended the Colorado State College of Agriculture for one year (now Colorado State University), where she was a member of Delta Zeta. She married Louis Frank “Lou” Guccini on January 15, 1947. They had three children. They farmed in Loma. The 1950 US Census shows them living northeast of the intersection of US 50 and Colorado Highway 139. She was a homemaker who, according to her obituary in the Daily Sentinel, prized being a mother. She once won a statewide competition for homemaker of the year (March 23, 2017, p. 5A). She died at the age of 89 and is buried with her husband in Fruita’s Elmwood Cemetery. *Photograph of Margaret Elaine Beede from the 1946 Colorado State College of Agriculture yearbook.

: Margaret Gallagher; Margaret Gallagher was a school teacher in Lake City before she met Hugh Gallagher and moved to Grand Junction in the late 19th century. She was a member of the Grand Junction Public Library Association, which was instrumental in starting the Grand Junction Public Library in 1898, and in building the first dedicated library building, at 7th Street and Grand Avenue, in 1901. Mother of Hubert R. Gallagher.

: Margaret Galley; With her husband, she ran a grocery store in Nucla, Colorado for many years. After his death, she earned a college degree at Western Colorado University (now Western Colorado University) in Gunnison. She then taught school in Nucla. In 1979, she was still working as a substitute teacher at the age of 92.

: Margaret Gibson; Margaret (Moon) Gibson was born and raised in Lafayette, CO. She was married to Lawson H Gibson on July 1, 1944.

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