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- Glenn W. McFall
- Glen McFall was born in Nebraska to Elmer McFall, a rancher, and Clara (Jordan) McFall, a school teacher and homemaker. He attended grade school in Nebraska and then moved to Clifton, Colorado at the age of six, after Clara McFall separated from Elmer. He attended eighth grade at the Clifton School, and then bicycled to school at Grand Junction High School until his family moved into town. In his youth, he worked in Clfiton's Hornbecker Store, measuring out and sacking the flour and the sugar. Additionally, he measured, ground, and sacked the coffee. He was a nine-year employee of McConnell-Lowes, a shoe store on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado. McFall was against the Ku Klux Klan and faced a great deal of pressure from what he thought were “friends” to join the group. After pressure from the Klan caused sales to drop at the store where he worked, which was owned by a Catholic, Glenn worked for the Western Oil Supply Company for a short time before being fired, then moved on to sell stock for a couple months. Soon after he bought a garage on Main Street in Grand Junction which he owned for two years. After the garage went belly up during the Depression, he took up fixing airplanes for Eddie Drapola’s flight school. He also owned a garage on North Avenue at 5th Street for a time, and sold auto parts for a Denver parts distributor. He often bailed cowboys out of jail who had been arrested for various acts of rowdiness. He also helped prostitutes in the community with errands and money, because of kindness a madam gave him when he was stranded without money and food while a teenager. He belonged to the Elks Club.
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- Glenn Wesley Berry
- He was born to Joseph Scudder Berry and Matilda Cora (Hummel) Berry in Leonard, Colorado. His grandfather and father were both Army Indian scouts, and settled in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). His mother was a homesteader in her own right, and had also settled in Indian Territory prior to moving to San Miguel County. She was also a teacher who, according to Glenn Berry, taught the Eisenhower boys in Kansas. Joseph Berry died when Glenn was 1, and his mother remarried to Henry H. Bates. US Census and directory information show the family living in San Diego and Los Angeles from 1908-1910. Glenn Berry began working in a vanadium mine in Nevada when he was twelve years old. At fourteen, he moved to Sacramento where he apprenticed as a machinist in the Union Pacific railroad shop. The navy sent a team of recruiters to find men to staff the USS Huntington, an armored cruiser, and they talked the entire class of Union Pacific apprentices, 41 people in all, into joining the Navy. At the age of fourteen or fifteen, Berry lied about his age in order to join at the onset of the United States’ involvement in World War I. When the ship’s captain found out about his age, he was made a runner for the skipper, and then promoted to petty officer and quartermaster. After injuring himself in New York while shoveling coal, he was left by the Huntington and taken aboard the USS McCall. He was discharged in Charleston and shipped to Denver for final discharge. He went to night school to finish college and received a mining engineering degree. He worked as a master mechanic in the uranium mines at Uravan before and during World War II. He married Norva Louise Welsh and they had three children. In 1990, at the age of 89, he was the youngest surviving World War I veteran west of the Mississippi. He was a president and member of the Last Squad Club, a group of World War I veterans in Grand Junction, Colorado.
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- Gloria Bucco
- Gloria Bucco (1947- ) was an editor and reporter for nearly 30 years in Colorado. She has co-written one book and edited two others. Her first stand-alone book is Precious Cargo: A Collection of Stories from the Italian Immigrants of Matawan, New Jersey. She is an animal lover and tree hugger extraordinaire.