People

: Ethel Jane (Hutton) Keleher; She was born in Butler County, Kansas to John Baxter Hutton and Mary Ellen (Bradshaw) Hutton. The 1900 US Census shows the family living in Otter Creek, Kansas when Ethel was eleven years old. Her family farmed there. She attended school through the eighth grade. When she was nineteen years old, in approximately 1907, the family moved to Colorado, near Trinidad, where they ranched. She met William Patrick Keleher and married him in Trinidad on March 17, 1909. They had four children. The 1910 census shows them living in Holly, Colorado, where they farmed. They then moved to Cimarron before relocating to Fowler, Colorado, where they lived on a homestead claim for ten years. In Fowler they raised chickens and turkeys, and sold eggs, butter and cream. They moved to Fruita in 1923, joining her brother and friends who already lived there. The 1930 census shows William working as a farm laborer. Ethel was a homemaker and also canned fruit. She lived at 167 N. Mesa in Fruita for over 50 years (the home had previously housed the Fruita Post Office). She attended Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Fruita, belonged to the Sacred Heart Altar and Rosary Society, the War Mothers, and the VFW Auxiliary.

: Ethel Leslie; Early Glade Park teacher. Sister of George Vernon "Vern" Wood.

: Ethel Lowe; Ethel Lowe was a school teacher who came from Kansas to work in Mesa School District 25 in Mesa, Colorado in the early 1900's.

: Ethel May (Bear) Hotchkiss; A member of the Grand Junction Women’s Club and a past president. She was born in Nebraska to Orange Bear, who served in the Illinois cavalry, and Rebecca Bear, a homemaker who later worked as a hotel cook. US Census records show Ethel growing up without her father, who had apparently passed away. Her sisters were Edna and Lulu Bear. She graduated from High School in 1911, spent two years in college at Greeley Normal, and then moved to Hotchkiss, Colorado to teach the second grade. She married Adair Hotchkiss in 1915. They moved to Grand Junction, Colorado so that he could assume the position of district judge. She was a member of the Past Presidents Club, the First United Methodist Church, the Sunshine Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, the Past Matron’s Club, and the Monday Study Club.

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