People

: Genny Willson; 1993 Cattlemen's Days Queen's Attendant. Daughter of Don and Sue Ann Wilson. Participated in the 1993 Arabian Youth Nationals in Oklahoma. Member of 4-H. (source: 1993 Cattlemen's Days Newspaper Insert)

: Geno Saccomanno; A pathologist brought to the Grand Junction area by the Grand Junction Cancer Society. He was born in Utah to Francesco and Mariannina Saccomanno, Italian immigrants. US Census records show him growing up in Carbon County, where his parents were farmers. The 1940 US Census shows him living in Salt Lake City, where he was an assistant professor. After being brought to the Grand Junction, Colorado area in 1949 by the newly created Grand Junction Cancer Society, he established a laboratory at St. Mary’s Hospital that allowed local doctors to have biopsies tested in town, instead of in Denver. He became a prominent local citizen. In 1958, he ran a study for the US Public Health Department on lung pathology in hard rock miners. He instituted the St. Mary’s Hospital school of cytotechnology in 1968. The Saccomanno Research Institute at St. Mary’s is named for him. He founded the Saccomanno Higher Education Foundation in 1999. According to the Foundation’s website, he dedicated his life to researching lung cancer. He pioneered a technique, referred to as the Saccomanno technique, for its diagnosis. He married Virginia Corsetti in 1937.

: Gentry L. Key; He was from Tennessee, and settled two miles west of Clifton in 1906 on the advice of his doctor, who told him to move west for the health of his lungs. There, he planted a peach orchard.

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