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- Raymond Lester "Ray" Boggs
- He was born in Kansas to John Boggs and Daisy (Lester) Boggs. His father ran a grocery and mercantile store in Martin, Kansas that was begun by Ray Boggs’s grandfather. His mother was a homemaker. By 1920, the family had moved to Burlington, Colorado, where they farmed. After high school graduation, Ray and his brother leased 640 acres of land that they farmed until Ray left to attend the University of Colorado. He attended school for two years and received a teaching certificate before returning to work the farm and to teach school, which he did for three years. He then went to work for Midwest Oil in the oil fields north of Custer, Wyoming. There, while playing for a company baseball team, he met a friend of baseball player Rogers Hornsby, and was invited to work out for the Boston Braves as a left-handed pitcher. He trained with the Braves and played games in 1928, when he was 23. He was paid $250 per month. He was then sent to a minor league affiliate in Independence, Missouri, but suffered a shoulder injury that ended his professional baseball career. He joined the International Harvester company, an implement dealer. He opened a hardware store while in their employ. The 1940 US Census shows him working as a blockman for the company while living with his wife and child in Alamosa, Colorado. Eventually, he was sent to Grand Junction, Colorado to sell harvesting equipment. The 1950 Census shows him living in Grand Junction, where he worked as a farm implement and truck dealer. He was made manager of the International Harvester store there in 1952. He married Etta Ruth Ellis in Alamosa, Colorado in 1934. They had three children.
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- Raymond Lester McBeth
- He was born in Utah to Melvin O. and Ann McBeth. 1900 US Census records show him living with his parents in Payson, Utah at the age of two. He grew up on a farm in Payson. He served in the Utah National Guard during World War I, and was stationed in Europe from June 1918 to May 1919, when he was honorably discharged. He married Veda Roberson in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1921. Together they homesteaded in Westwater Canyon, about forty miles from Mack, Colorado. He was a sheep rancher and machinist.
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- Raymond Lines
- Salida, Colorado resident Ray Lines was drafted into the Army to serve in World War I. An explosive shell killed him on September 18, 1918 and his burial took place in Salida, Colorado in 1922. Salida held a military funeral on April 23, 1922 in honor of Ray Lines. It was a grand affair, complete with band, color guard, pastors and pallbearers, military veterans and enlisted men, army nurses, a firing squad, and of course, mourners. There were American flags posted everywhere. The entire town gathered at Riverside Park, then marched up to the undertaker’s on 1st Street to collect the casket. A service was held at the Presbyterian Church (which was then on the corner of 3rd & F) and afterwards, the casket, with escort, and the huge crowd proceeded to Fairview Cemetery. Ray was given full military honors, complete with the playing of Taps and a firing squad salute at his graveside.
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- Raymond O. Hosford
- Founder of Salida-Aspen Concert Series, one of the key players.
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- Raymond Taylor
- Along with his brother Samuel W. Taylor, he was a player in the Western Slope’s uranium boom in the 1950’s. The brothers authored a book called Uranium Fever, published in 1970.