People

: Myrtle May (Webb) Hetzel; She was born on a farm in Kansas and able to go to high school. As a teen she was a waitress in Oberlin, Kansas. She married three times, with her first at the age of 19 in 1929. She was divorced from Bert Williams in 1933. She then worked on a ranch in Nebraska, where she gathered eggs and “cooked for hard men.” She enjoyed the work. She then met and married Robert Dugger, who had been a soldier, in 1934. She came to Clifton, Colorado in 1939. Her last husband was Ross Hetzel. They married in 1956. In Clifton, she attended church at the Assembly of God, quilted, embroidered and kept house.

: Nadine "Peggy" (Oberto) Lippoth; Nadine "Peggy" Oberto was born in 1932. She attended Grand Junction High School and Mesa College, where she became a stenographer. She married Edward (Ed) M. Lippoth on June 2, 1956, and became Peggy (Nadine) Lippoth. With exploration for uranium falling-off in the early 1960s, Peggy and Ed decided to start a new business that eventually concentrated on the fabrication of mine ventilation tubing. The business, Grand Junction Machine and Plastics, prospered and they sold the company to Schaunberg Industries which still operates a plant in Clifton. Peggy and Ed had two sons, David Lippoth of Grand Junction and Richard Lippoth of Reno, Nevada; and one grandson, Ben Lippoth of Denver. --Information taken from https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gjsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=edward-lippoth&pid=175119916 And from: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31072393/the_daily_sentinel/ Links accessed 8/23/19.

: Nadine Borschell; She worked as the secretary to the principal of Grand Junction High School in the early Twentieth century.

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