People

: Crandall Howard; Parents LaVerne & Clarence Howard. Grew up on Powderhorn family ranch and rode horse or drove a team and sleigh to school four miles away. Attended junior college on a rodeo scholarship (bull and bareback riding). Water Commissioner for 26 years, President of Cattlemen's Days Committee 1972-74, member of Gunnison County Stockgrowers. Resides in Olathe. (Source: Cattlemen's Days Brochure 2009 & "Silver World" (newspaper) obituary 09.18.1987, pg. 3 (housed in Gunnison County Library, Gunnison-Family Histories, Howard, William C.)

: Creston Ralph Bailey; He was born to Dwight B. Bailey, a grocery store owner, and Etta M. (Spicer) Bailey, a homemaker, in Boulder, Colorado on December 10th, 1906. The 1910 US Census record shows that his family had moved to Grand Junction by the time Ralph was three years old. There, his dad ran the D.B. Bailey grocery store. Ralph attended local schools, including Grand Junction High School. He married Ethel Sheppard on July 3rd, 1925 in Grand Junction, Colorado. The 1930 Census shows that the Bailey family moved from Colorado to Los Angeles, California, where Creston worked as a salesman at a grocery store. He was later the proprietor of a grocery store in Burbank. Sheppard and Bailey divorced. He married Bessie E. Divine in Los Angeles on October 18, 1937. They also divorced. He married Vera K. Nichols of Palisade in California on November 17th, 1943. He died in Danville, California.