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- Raymond Edward Myers
- He was born to farmers Sylvester Myers and Carrie Schepp Myers in Kirkview, New York. He attended Minoa High School in Minoa, New York from 1914-1916. He served as a private in the US Army during World War I, and his draft record shows him working as an inspector for a railroad in New York in 1918. According to the US Census, he was working as a stenographer for a steam railway in New York by 1920, when he was 21 years old. He married Nellie Schaffer Myers in Syracuse, New York on February 25, 1922. They moved to Western Colorado for health reasons in 1924. By 1940 they were living in the Fairmount area of Mesa County, Colorado, with the US Census listing Myers’ job as carman. He held this position with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. He was working as a carman on the ammunition train that caught fire on June 27, 1943. He had been sent to Rifle by the D&RG to repair a car on the train that day. In riding the train back to Grand Junction, the crew noticed a hotbox on a car in the middle of the train. He repaired the car, but fire broke out by the time they got to Grand Junction. The fire exploded munitions and sent shells flying all over downtown Grand Junction. He was a precinct committee man for the Democratic Party for fifteen years. He belonged to the Railway Carman of America #122, the Knights of Columbus, the Eagles Lodge, and was the Social Secretary of the Rio Grande Veterans Club. He and his wife had two children. He enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, hunting and fishing.