People
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- Holly Kozlowski
- Contributor to "Out of the Blue and Into the Sun," (source: Out of the Blue and Into the Sun: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
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- Homer Baker
- He was born to John and Caroline Baker in New York State. US Census records show the family living in Seneca, New York in 1870, when Homer was 2. Because he was a tubercular, he came to Colorado for the dry climate, living first in Denver and then in Cedaredge. According to the Census, he was living in Denver, Colorado by 1900, where he worked as a wall paper merchant. His niece Eda Musser reports that he came to Cedaredge shortly after, where he had a small ranch on Cedar Mesa. He served as the Cedaredge postmaster.
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- Homer Howard
- He helped his father William "Bruce" Howard on their farm in Fruita, until he was called to service during World War II serving in the Air Force from 1941-1945.
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- Homer James "Jim" Colman
- He was born in Steamboat Springs, Colorado to Samuel McCullough Colman and Nellie Elizabeth (Eckhardt) Colman. His father was a Spanish American War veteran who had served with the Colorado volunteers. Samuel was a forest ranger and later a bookkeeper for the mining industry. The 1920 US Census indicates that he worked as a janitor in a Denver office building for a time. Nellie Colman was a homemaker. The family moved back and forth among Western Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah and Nevada during Homer’s childhood. His parents divorced sometime before 1930. The 1930 US Census shows the family living in Grand Junction, Colorado with Homer’s brother and wife at 638 Rood Avenue (Homer was 13 at the time). He attended some school in Grand Junction and graduated from West High School in Salt Lake. In 1935 and 1936, he took correspondence courses through the Citizen’s Military Training Program, which was administered by the Infantry School at Ft. Benning, Georgia. After finishing, he received a commission as a reserve infantry lieutenant in the US Army. He served on active duty in CCC camps as a reserve officer in 1938 and was called into active duty in 1940, during the US buildup to World War II. He attended the Infantry School in person for a time, and met his wife, Mary McGlaun Parkman, there. They married in Washington D.C. in March 1945. He served as a communications officer for the 57th Infantry, the Philippine Scouts in 1941, and shortly after became the company commander. In early 1942, they were attacked by invading Japanese forces in Bataan. In April 1942, he was taken prisoner by Japanese forces along with thousands of other American and Filipino troops. They were forced to march for several miles to a prison camp at Camp O’Donnell in what became known as the Bataan Death March. Thousands of men died. Colman was held there, in Davao, and in Cabanatuan, enduring near starvation and lack of good shelter, before being rescued by the 6th Army Rangers and Filipino guerrillas in 1945. He was one of only 500-some people remaining in the camp. He retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel in 1960. He then worked in military recruitment for ten years. He and his wife had three children. *Photograph from the 1933 West High School yearbook, Salt Lake City.
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- Homer McCullah
- He was born in Missouri. He was a photographer and veterinarian, and lived with his wife, Elizabeth McCullah, in Yuma, Colorado and Grand Junction. He served in World War II.