People
Collection for person entities.
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- Mary Linus Harrington
- A Sister of Charity who served at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction starting in 1925. She was an administrator who presided over the hospital during the Great Depression and through Prohibition. When whiskey, then an important stimulant for patients, was in short supply during Prohibition, she arranged with the sheriff to receive confiscated whiskey.
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- Mary Lou Mazzocco
- 1966 Cattlemen's Days Queen's Attendant
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- Mary Lou Nemanic
- Associate Director of Nemanic Documentary, co-author of Cattlemen's Days 2000 Commemorative Photo Book (from Cattlemen's Days 2000 Commemorative Photo Book)
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- Mary Louisa (Hoover) Powers
- She was a farm wife and mother of nine. She was born to James and Harriet Hoover in Carroll County, Missouri. She married Michael Henry Powers of Ohio. They lived in Kirwin, Kansas in what their daughter Mary (Powers) Plaisted referred to as a warm and stable home. After her husband died in 1902, the family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, settling in the Milldale area around the sugar beet factory. There, she trained riding horses for income. She married Theophilus Head in 1910 and the family moved to Delta County. She died in 1946.