People

: Edwin Weckel; Father of Anna (Weckel) Peck. His family arrived in Fruita in the 1890's. He played flute or piccolo in the band that performed in the Fruita city park on summer evenings. He also owned interest, with Ute Osborne, in a cattle-ranching operation in Eastern Utah. He may have worked for a time as a ditch rider in Mesa County.

: Effie (Fanning) Capansky; A woman who ran a filling station and lunch counter in Cisco, Utah. She made some additional income from an interest in uranium and natural gas. She once salvaged a petrified turtle from the I-70 building project and gave it to the wife of William Cunningham.

: Effie (Johnson) Silzell; Born in Whitewater, Colorado. Her parents, August and Olga Johnson, were Swedish immigrants who farmed there. Upon first attending Whitewater School as a child, she did not speak English. She was able to finish high school, and had one year of business college. She worked as an agricultural worker, as domestic help, and in various other positions. She trained as a nurse in 1917 at St. Mary's Hospital on Colorado Avenue in Grand Junction, but was unable to finish due to the death of her father. For a time, she was the chief operator for the Whitewater switchboard, hired by Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company. She married Charles Silzell, who was also from Whitewater.

: Effie Amicarella; Effie was born in Denver, CO and graduated from Colorado Women's College in 1934. In 1944 she married Claude Amicarella and they had two children. She moved to Lafayette from Denver in 1951. She was a librarian at the Lafayette Library for 23 years, retiring in 1982. Effie also helped to start the Miner's Museum in Lafayette.

: Egan O'Connell; Contributor to "The place they like best", (source: The place they like best A Gunnison Valley Journal.)

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