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- Floyd Rush Thomas
- He was born in Towner, Colorado to Leonard Thomas and Ida (Field) Thomas. He attended grade school in Towner and went to Holly for high school, graduating in 1913, when he was seventeen years old. He served in the US Cavalry from April 17, 1917 to November 11, 1919, and was stationed in Calexico, California and in Arizona. He arrived in Western Colorado on November 15, 1919. He found work as a farmhand. He came to Mack on February 20, 1920. He married Marjorie Estellene “Sissy” Morrow on December 20, 1930. They had five children. Together, they owned a farm in the New Liberty area. They sold the farm in 1955 and moved to Grand Junction. He was a member of the New Liberty School District 37 school board and of the Fruita Union High School board. He enjoyed the mountains, fishing, and picnicking.
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- Fonda Paterson
- Charles Paterson was born Karl Schanzer in Vienna, Austria. After Hitler’s 1938 annexation of Austria, Charles’ family fled to Czechoslovakia. After Hitler invaded Prague, Charlie and his sister were forced to escape again, through France to Brisbane, Australia, where they were adopted by the Paterson family. After WWII, the children rejoined their father in NYC where Charlie finished high school and began engineering studies at CCNY. While in New York, Charlie’s early ski memories from the Alps called him back to the slopes. He headed to Aspen in 1949 where he fell in love with the town and its residents and decided to stay. He soon built an 8’ x 16’ cabin, the beginnings of the Boomerang Lodge. In the 1950s, Charlie served two years in the US Army’s Mountain & Cold Weather Training and added three hotel lodge units to his log cabin. In 1958 Frank Lloyd Wright accepted Charlie as an apprentice at Taliesin East in Wisconsin, whereupon Charlie returned to Aspen from Wisconsin the next three winters to run the lodge and teach skiing. He continues as a board member of Taliesin Fellows and an underwriter of the Taliesin School of Architecture revitalization effort. Fonda Dehne was born in Mason City, Iowa to an itinerant minister and a teacher. Fonda’s social activism began in high school with a citizen's challenge to unenforced state liquor laws and two years service as a Page in the Iowa legislature. A year after graduating from the University of Iowa, Fonda married Charlie in 1969 and joined him in Aspen, where they raised their two daughters Charlie designed and remodeled a handful of houses in the Aspen area but running the Boomerang kept him from pursuing more of a career in architecture. Following his retirement, Charlie co-authored his memoir with his daughter Carrie “ESCAPE HOME, Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss.” Charlie served on the boards of the Aspen Chamber and Visitor’s Bureau, the Aspen Music Festival & School and the Rocky Mountain Ski Instructors Association. In 2011, the City of Aspen named him Volunteer of the Year in recognition of his 40 years serving on the Board of Adjustment - the longest serving citizen volunteer in Aspen history! He has also been recognized by the Historic Preservation Commission for his contributions to Aspen architecture. Fonda has also left her mark on the Aspen community, volunteering at the Aspen Thrift Shop, and serving in leadership positions with the Aspen Music Festival & School, the Aspen Valley Medical Foundation, the Aspen Country Day School, and Aspen Community Church, where she spearheaded the remodeling of the Aspen and Snowmass parsonages, as well as the church’s exterior restoration. Fonda also advocated for the creation of Triangle Park, worked on a ballot initiative to support the acquisition of open space and trails, worked to protect the Midland Trail right of way, and served on the Board of Trustees for Aspen Center for Environmental Studies.--Aspen Hall of Fame bio
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- Forest Roth
- Pioneer and rancher in the Fruita area.
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- Forrest L. "Frosty" Tilton
- Frosty Tilton was born in Des Moines, Iowa to E.L. Tilton, a farmer, and to Sarah L. (Gerard) Tilton, a homemaker. Because of a bad heart, he was unable to do farm work. His brother Archie Tilton, who had homesteaded in Eastern Colorado, contacted him regarding a position at a bank in Holyoke. So Frosty moved to Holyoke, Colorado in 1917 when he was 16 years old and began working in the bank as a janitor. On top of that, he did any other job that needed doing, and so by the end of his first year at the bank, he knew every job there. While in Holyoke he met Ruth Zingg. They were married in Boulder in 1920 and moved to Palisade in 1924. In Palisade, they raised peaches and Frosty worked at the Palisades National Bank, which was opened in part by his brother. In 1933, the Federal Government ordered the bank to close and liquidate its assets due to the depreciation of its bond account. Frosty was appointed conservator of assets by the bank's board of directors. After a year, he succeeded in liquidating the bank's assets and paying off depositors. The bank then reopened, but Frosty went to work as the cashier and trust officer for the First National Bank in Grand Junction. Tilton and his brother later repurchased the Palisades National Bank. In 1958, Frosty became a member of the Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association board and later became its president. He also became the president of the Mesa County Bankers Association, a position he held for several years. *Photo courtesy of the Palisade Historical Society.
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- Forrest Livingston
- A cattle rancher in the Gateway, Colorado area.
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- Forrest M. Carhartt
- He was born in Iowa to Elsie Verness (Forrest) Carhartt, a homemaker, and James Seth Carhartt, a farmer. He moved to Ogden, Utah in 1914, where he lived with his grandparents. There, he joined the Utah National Guard. He received a scholarship to the University of Denver and was classmates with Wayne N. Aspinall. While on tour with the DU Glee Club, he received a telegram ordering him to mobilize for the Guard. His guard had been converted to an artillery unit and was deployed to the Mexican border in response to Pancho Villa-led raids into the United States. He received officer’s training during the ramp up to World War I. He also played football on the battery football team. At the end of the war, he quit the army so that he could resume his studies at DU. He received his B.A. and M.A. in theology. He worked as a teacher, a high school principal, and as a deputy coroner. He was the commanding officer who brought the CCC camp to Grand Junction’s Lincoln Park in 1936. He served in World War ll (Reserves and National Guard), and later worked in Military Retirement and Investments. He married Helen Johnson in 1922. They had two children. *Photograph from the 1922 University of Denver yearbook.