People

: Hazel Hogsett; Teacher of the younger grades in the Star School near Fruita, CO. She left that school in 1925 and went on to teach in Fruita itself. She became the superintendent of schools in Mesa County. She had a younger sister named Margarite Beard.

: Hazel W. (Durham) Murphy; She was born to Samuel Robert Durham and Lillian Jane (Lee) Durham in Piedmont, Missouri. Her father was a lawyer and a postmaster. Her mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Pueblo, Colorado toward the end of her childhood and she graduated from high school there. She then went to Colorado State Teachers College in Greeley and to Western State College, where she obtained her teaching degree. She married U. Earl Murphy on May 21, 1917 in Pueblo. They moved to Loma, Colorado, where her brother Fay Durham was already living. He had purchased the D.B. Bird Store, which he ran from 1916-54. Mr. Murphy also worked in the store. She was a homemaker who raised two children. Upon the accidental death of her husband, she took up teaching. She taught at the Loma School from 1941-45. She was a member of the Loma Presbyterian Church. She returned to Pueblo in 1956, where she attended the Central Christian Church. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star (Fruita Chapter). *Some information came from an obituary for Hazel Murphy published in January 28, 2987, p. 6B, Daily Sentinel.

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