People

: Margaret Loretta (Langen) Look; She was born in Ohio to Thomas and Mary Langen, both the children of Irish immigrants. Her parents were farmers. She became a school teacher, and taught school in Kremling, Ignatio and Tiffany. She married Al Look, an employee of the Durango Herald and a homesteader in Dove Creek. They married on June 30, 1922. They relocated to Grand Junction in the 1920’s and lived there for many years. There, she became a homemaker and raised three children. According to Al Look, she was never too busy to listen to her children, and taught him to do the same. She survived an advanced case of breast cancer under the treatment of Dr. Everett H. Munro. She died in 1975 and is buried in the Masonic Cemetery.

: Margaret Madeline (Sullivan) Lorenzen; She was born in New York to Jeremiah Joseph and Anna R. Sullivan. US Census records show that her father was an airbrake inspector on a steam railroad. Her mother was a homemaker. She married William Lorenzen in Iowa in 1943. They moved to Palisade, Colorado after purchasing the Palisade Tribune in 1953. With Lorenzen, she ran the Palisade Tribune newspaper for twenty-six years (beginning in 1953). She helped William sell advertising and split reporting duties with him.

: Margaret McConnell; Teacher at the Emerson school in the early 1900s. According to Angela (Audino) Simonetti, who spoke no English upon her arrival in Grand Junction, Colorado from Italy, McConnell was a fellow Catholic and very patient teacher who stayed after school to help Simonetti learn English.

: Margaret McGinley; Early Grand Junction and Fruita resident. Her father, William McGinley, was one of the founders of Grand Junction.

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