People

: Ella Warren Burnett; Ella Burnett was born Ella Marie Warren in Gypsum, Colorado on October 17, 1926. Her family moved to Gypsum, Colorado when she was young. Her father owned a saw mill in Red Cliff; her father supplied wood to the mine in Gilman, Colorado. Her family was large with many brothers and 2 sisters. After graduating from high school in Red Cliff, Ella enrolled in a nursing program at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver. Since her nurses training was occurring during World War II, she was expected to enter the armed services upon graduation, if the war were still being fought. She graduated from the nursing program in 1947 and her first job was at the clinic at the New Jersey Zinc Mine in Gilman. She worked at the clinic in Gilman until the mine closed the clinic in 1971 at which time she started working for the medical clinic in Vail, Colorado until her retirement. She and her husband, H. Pete Burnett, lived in Minturn, Colorado.

: Ellen (Page) Lannon; She was a classmate of Dalton Trumbo at Grand Junction High School. She also attended the Hoel Business College. She married Robert Lannon and they had one son, James “Jim” Lannon. The 1940 US Census shows her as divorced from Lannon, living in Grand Junction and working as a timekeeper. *Photograph from the 1924 Grand Junction High School yearbook.

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