People

: Raymond Weber; He was a peach farmer in Palisade, Colorado, and the first one to use a peach washer in his operation. The washer, which he bought in the 1940's, cooled the peaches and helped to preserve them for shipment.

: Raynel "Ray" Bernal; Ray was born in Sante Fe, New Mexico and moved to Grand Junction, Colorado with his family in 1911 when he was three years old. His father was a sharecropper for Mr. Matchett, among others. Ray worked a job as a "gandy dancer," or section hand on the railroad, laying and maintaining railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines. He also worked the tomatoes at Kuner's Cannery, worked as a miner, and worked in the steel mills. He taught himself how to read (but never learned how to write), landed in jail a few times for intoxication, and was said to be a "Jack of all trades."

: Reba E. (Lester) Ball; She was born to Joe Lester and Clara L. (Tilton) Lester in Palisade, Colorado. Her parents were fruit farmers who had moved from Iowa. She attended the Mt. Lincoln School through 8th Grade, graduated from Palisade High School, and went to Western State College in Gunnison from 1924 to 1926. She married Harvey Ball, who had recently moved from Kansas, on July 20, 1926. He was a grocery store manager. She was a homemaker. They had four children. They followed Harvey’s career as a manager, living in Grand Junction from 1925 to 1946, Rifle from 1946 to 1951, Grand Junction from 1952 to 1956, and Palisade from 1956 until their deaths. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Palisade, the Good Sam Travel Club, and volunteer for Gray Gourmet. She died at the age of 89 and is buried in Memorial Gardens.