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: Eva (Hall) Riddle; She lived in Whitewater, Colorado for part of her youth. She was a school teacher in the Fort Collins, Colorado area. Due to severe blizzards, she and her students had to pick up cow chips for fuel on their lunch hours, so that they would be stocked with fuel should they be shut in by snow for a period of days. She and her husband, Andrew E. Riddle, later settled in Paradox Valley. She played the piano for the Red Church in Paradox, Colorado for many years.

: Eva (Wood) Leslie; A schoolteacher born in Ridgeway, Colorado. She moved to Glade Park with her family in the decade of the 1900's. Her father, who had been a miner in Ridgeway, tried his hand at dry farming in Glade Park but did not have success. The family moved several times during Eva's youth, and she attended school in several locations before graduating from Fruitvale High School in 1917. Immediately, she began teaching school in Glade Park and was charged with 30 students from grade 1 to 8. Later she married Charles Leslie, who ran a sheep ranching operation on Glade Park. Eva was a homemaker who often cooked and cleaned for the ranch lands. Along with Charles, she lived twenty miles from the Glade Park Store near Enoch's Lake. She later helped her husband run the Lighthouse Hotel in Fruita.

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