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- Harold Ionah Motz Jr.
- He was born to Sara Acquila (Ulmer) Motz and Harold Iona Motz Sr. in Clifton or Palisade, Colorado (his obituary shows his birthplace as Clifton, while his draft card shows his birthplace as Palisade). Harold’s grandfather had come to Palisade from Iowa in 1904. The family farmed fruit and lived in the Orchard Mesa area of Mesa County. Harold Motz Sr. was a founding member of the Mesa County Peach Administrative Board, a board governing agricultural practices in the county. Harold Jr. had two brothers. The 1930 US Census shows him living with his parents in west Palisade at the age of one, where the family farmed fruit. By 1930, the census shows that the family had moved to Orchard Mesa. He may have attended the Pear Park School like his younger brother Kenneth Motz. He later drove the Pear Park School bus during high school. He attended Grand Junction High School from 1934 to 1937, where he was involved in the Boys’ Glee Club and Track and Field. The 1940 census shows him living on his parents’ farm at the age of twenty-one and working as a bottler for a bottling company (the Dr. Pepper bottling company). By October of that same year, his military draft notice shows him living in Alhambra, California, where he was a college student at Western Air. He worked building bombers for the World War II effort there. He returned home in 1947 to work on the family fruit farm. He married Evelyn Corene Porterfield on June 12, 1947. They were married for sixty-eight years and had three children. The 1950 census shows them living in Gunnison, Colorado, where they owned a laundry business. He later owned a laundry in Delta before he and his family returned to Grand Junction. There, he ran the Regional Center laundry. He belonged to the Palisade Masonic Lodge. He died at the age of ninety-six. He is buried in the Memorial Gardens cemetery. *Some of this information comes from the obituary of Harold Motz Jr. (Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3D Obituary - August 30, 2015). **Photograph from the 1937 Grand Junction High School yearbook
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- Harold James "Honk" Kissell
- He was born in a coal camp near Glenwood Springs, Colorado to William Kissell and Janet (Gardner) Kissell. His father was a mine foreman for Colorado Fuel and Iron, a company that supplied coal for Pueblo steel mills. His mother was a homemaker. He attended school in Cameo, Iowa, and then finished high school in Palisade. The 1920 US Census shows Harold as a five-year-old living with his parents and siblings along the highway west of New Castle. By 1930, the family had moved to east Palisade, and the census lists Harold as a salesman in a general store at the age of sixteen. According to Kissell, he worked at the Cameo company store from 1929-1932. He began coal mining at the Cameo mine in 1932 and did so for 47 years. According to Kissell, he was accident free this entire time, though he did receive compensation for black lung. He married June Webb of Fruita on May 25, 1938, when he was 24 years old. They had two children. He died at the age of 80 and is buried in the Palisade Cemetery.
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- Harold LeRoy "Lee" Gardner
- He was born to Clarence Clifford Gardner and Francis (Hagen) Gardner in Pine River, Minnesota. His father was a handyman and his mother a homemaker. He graduated in 1958 from Pine River High School, where he was involved in the Vocational Training Club, the Lettermen club, and played football, baseball, and basketball. He then attended the National School of Meat Cutting in Toledo, Ohio in 1960, the Oak Hills Bible Institute from 1970-71, and the Millar College of the Bible in Saskatchewan, Canada from 1975-77. He married Sharon Lee Obrien on November 4, 1961. They moved to Loma, Colorado in August 1979, when Harold was appointed pastor of the Loma Community Church, a position that he held at least until 1982. According to his obituary in the Grand Rapids Herald Review (May 31, 2013), Gardner ministered at five churches in the Western United States from 1979 to approximately 1999. He also worked as a meet cutter and a trucker. He then joined the Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, traveling and preaching. *Photograph from the 1958 Pine River High School yearbook (Minnesota)
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- Harold Linke
- Harold Linke is an artist featured in 2015-2016 ArtaRound Town and who had artwork displayed in the Art on the Corner (AOTC) exhibit in Downtown Grand Junction.
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- Harold Moss
- He was employed by the FBI from 1942 to 1966, and was in charge of the Western Colorado Region upon his resignation. He served as a Mesa County District Court Judge from 1966 to 1983, and then as the Senior Judge for the State of Colorado until 1995. He was also chairman of the Museums of Western Colorado’s Board of Trustees. Information for this description was taken from a Daily Sentinel obituary published August 30, 2016.