People

: Howard Delmar Brouse; The one-time District Foreman of the Mesa County Road and Bridge Department (circa 1950). He was born to Elwood and Edith Brouse on a farm in Glade Park, Colorado.

: Howard Finch; A member of the Fruita Union High School class of 1927. According to peach grower Marion George Bowman, Finch was a Mesa County Agricultural Extension Agent during the early 1940’s and worked with the Mesa County Peach Administrative Board.

: Howard Goff; One of the key players in the origins of the Salida-Aspen Concert Series.

: Howard H. McMullin; He was born in Colorado to Samuel G McMullin, an attorney, and to Rella (Hall) McMullin, a homemaker. He attended Grand Junction schools and spent his childhood in Mesa County. He became the President of the Home Loan & Investment Company of Grand Junction, a company founded in part by his father. He married Naomi Lilja in September 1933. *Photograph from the 1916 Grand Junction High School yearbook of Howard McMullin as a sophomore.

: Howard Hafey; An engineer for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. His father, William M. Hafey, was a rancher who came to Colorado in 1883. Howard Hafey was born in Grand Junction, Colorado and went to school at Loma Elementary School and Grand Junction High School. He worked for Kress Department Store in Grand Junction for $8 a week until he graduated. He also worked in local Civilian Conservation Corps camps until graduation. After graduation, he worked in a pool hall in Grand Junction, where he received $12 a week. In 1935, he began working for the railroad as a carpenter’s helper building bridges. He quit the bridge gang in 1940 and joined the rock gang. He was laid off and went to work as a fireman on a steam engine. After returning from a stint in the army, he was promoted to locomotive engineer. He retired in 1975.

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