People

: Dorothy (Armstrong) Littler; She was born near Ft. Collins, Colorado to Annie Lavinnia (White) Armstrong, a school teacher, and John Lewis Armstrong, an Irish immigrant and the water commissioner for Colorado's Eastern Slope. She attended Colorado College. After her graduation, she taught school in Ault, Colorado. She later married Paul Le Brock Littler in Ft. Collins, in 1922. Shortly after, she moved to Montrose to join him. There, she taught school. They moved to Grand Junction in 1945, where she continued to teach. She was also part of a sewing club, and took on Mesa College students as boarders. She was a member of the Methodist Church in Montrose. She and her husband had two children.

: Dorothy (Bryant) Hart; She was born in Nebraska to John Edward Bryant and Anna (Soule) Bryant. US Census records indicate that they moved to Mesa County, Colorado sometime between 1900 and 1910, when Dorothy was between 1 and 11 years old. There, the family homesteaded and raised cattle. She attended college and was a nurse. She married fish and wildlife game warden John Duncan Hart on June 7, 1934 in Glenwood Springs. According to John Hart, Dorothy was an accomplished Hunter. Her brother was the artist Harold Bryant.

: Dorothy (Garrison) Black; A member of the Fruita Union High School class of 1927.

: Dorothy (Hiskey) Evans; She was born in Collbran, Colorado and graduated from Collbran High School in 1928. Soon after, she graduated from the Ross Business College. At 18 she got a job as a legal secretary at Tupper, Smith and Holmes, Attorneys at Law in Grand Junction, Colorado. During the Depression, the firm let her go and she moved to Texas where she worked as a secretary for the CCC. On a visit home, she applied for a position as a secretary for the Denver and Rio Grande (D&RG) and was hired. After that, Dorothy began dating Robert Evans, who played as a semi-professional baseball player for the D&RG, and they were married in 1940. Around that time, she was forced to leave the workforce because the D&RG did not employ married women. *Photograph courtesy of the Palisade Historical Society

: Dorothy (Martinez) Martin; A member of the Fruita Union High School class of 1927.

: Dorothy (Nichols) Kittle; Her family moved from Philadelphia in 1909, when she was nine years old. They settled one mile east of 12th Street and Orchard Avenue, where her father established a fruit farm. She went to school at the Hoel-Ross Business College, and worked for her father in several of his businesses. After she married Thomas Sherman, they bought land near the Highline Canal and ran a peach orchard there. After Thomas died, she married James Leslie Kittle, an organ player.

: Dorothy (Welles) Green; She was born in Melville, North Dakota. Her father, Simeon B. Welles, was a teacher and a minister. Her mother, Anna W. (Matthews) Welles, was a kindergarten teacher. As a child she moved often because of her father’s different positions as a Congregational minister. Toward the end of her schooling, they settled in Wisconsin. There she finished college with a major in public school music, and then taught school for nine years. She married Roger Prescott Green in 1936. He was also a school teacher, but soon became a Congregational minister in South Dakota. They had four children. Upon their move to Grand Junction, Colorado, she became a substitute teacher for Mesa County Valley School District #51. She also tutored for the district, and worked especially with children who had missed a large amount of school due to illness.

: Dorothy Alveretta (Gordon) Mahoney; She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to George Washington Gordon and May Alveretta Foy. Her grandfather, his wives, and children settled Grand Junction soon after its founding. Her uncle, John Gordon, built and ran Gordon’s Ferry across the Colorado River, and Gordon’s Toll Road up to Pinon Mesa. Her father was a cowboy and rancher. Her mother was a homemaker. She grew up in Grand Junction and on Glade Park, where her family owned the Picture Gallery Ranch. The ranch was close to the Utah state line, and she attended a Utah school for two years as a child. She also attended the Coates Creek School until 8th grade. She attended Grand Junction High School. She married Thomas Jackson Mahoney on February 23, 1926 in Grand Junction. They had four children. After marrying, they ranched near Telluride before returning to Mesa County, where they ranched at the 2-V on Glade Park, a ranch that her parents purchased in 1910. *Photograph from the 1935 Grand Junction High School yearbook

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