People

: Ian Van Zonneveld; Contributor to "In Our Own Write," (source: In Our Own Write: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: Ica M. (Cox) Click; Ica Click was born in the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County, Colorado to John W. Cox, a cowboy, and Clementine C. Fox, a homemaker and the daughter of French immigrants. When she was 5 years old, the family moved to its own homestead, near the city of Grand Junction's water intake on the creek. There, they had a ranch, orchard, and small farm. She married Fred Click, who was a rancher.

: Ida (Bourg) Peep; The daughter of a French immigrant mother and an American father who settled in the Aspen area. There, she grew up on a cattle ranch. Worked for Dr. Orr in Fruita for twelve years, and was given training by him to be a nurse. Then she moved to Grand Junction with her husband Mike Peep, where she began working for Dr. Everett Munro.

: Ida (Hempler) Jaenicke; She was born in Kansas to Herman J. Hempler and Anna K. Hempler. Her parents, both the children of German immigrants, were farmers. She married Robert Jaenicke of Logan, Kansas on January 19, 1926. The 1930 US Census shows them farming in Logan. They had moved to Westcliff, Colorado by 1937. At that time, they came to Loma, Colorado along with several other families as part of the US Farm Security Administration’s resettlement program, which relocated refugees from the Dust Bowl. She belonged to the Jolly 16 Club, a Loma women's organization that raised money for local causes. The Jaenicke’s had two children, Kenneth James and Larry Lee, that died shortly after birth.

: Ida B Brown; Born in 1882 in Mt. Aire, Iowa, Ida and her family first arrived in Lafayette, CO in 1920. Ida married Glenn Garfield Brown in 1909 and they had two children.

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