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- Grace Hutchinson
- Married to Harold Hutchinson and grandmother of Wendell Hutchinson.
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- Grace Lydia "Gracie" (Baker) Traynor
- She was born in Harper, Iowa to Peter Baker and Amelia (Burkenbine) Baker. In 1900, when Grace was 4, the US Census shows the family living in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, where Grace’s father was a farm laborer and her mother was a homemaker. According to Grace, she attended grade school in Glenburn, North Dakota. By 1910, Peter and Amelia Baker had divorced and Grace was living with her mother in Montrose, North Dakota, where Amelia was a servant in a private residence and Gracie was listed as a boarder at the age of 14. In the same 1910 census, she and her brother Harry are shown living in Montrose, North Dakota with the family of William and Sarah King, with Grace listed as a servant and Harry as a laborer. The 1920 US Census shows Grace married to Herbert L. Wood, a railroad inspector. They lived in Fargo with their two children, Donald H. and Harold B. By 1930, census records show that she was married to David R. Moe, with her two children listed as boarders who lived among several other boarders in a house owned by Moe. Miss Traynor does not mention David Moe in her biographical survey for the Mesa County Oral History Project, but does mention Herbert Wood, and that he died in Missouri in 1935. Grace and her sons moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1930. Her sons attended local schools and Grand Junction High School, then entered the Civilian Conservation Corps before enlisting in the armed forces before World War II. She met Arthur Lee Traynor while working at a canning factory in town in 1936. Colorado marriage records show that they married in Meeker, Colorado on July 5, 1937. The 1940 US Census shows them living in Grand Junction, Colorado. Her son Harold was killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. At the time of her interview, Grace had lost both of her sons and her husband Arthur Traynor.