People

: Lola "Dora" Eudora (Price) Meserve; The first white child born in Grand Junction. She moved to Los Angeles around 1942. She was the daughter of newspaper publisher Edwin Price and his wife Lola.

: Lola (Kennard) Price; She came in on the first train to Grand Junction with her husband Edwin Price in 1882. She was one of the founders of the First United Methodist Church of Grand Junction. She was also an important early social presence, and involved in many of the town's community groups. Together, she and her husband lived in the Price Terrace, a home built by Edwin Price at 7th Street and Colorado Avenue. When Edwin quit the newspaper business, they moved to Chicago for his new job. After his death, she returned to Grand Junction to live out the rest of her life.

: Lola Edna Jennings; She was born to unknown parents and grew up in Lewis, Colorado, near Dove Creek. US Census records from 1940 and 1950 indicate that she was born in Colorado. She had a sister that was about 4 ½ years older and a younger sister. She also had at least one brother. She grew up on a ranch and performed work tasks that her father believed were suitable for a child, such as slicing potatoes. She liked to pick mayflowers as a child. When she was eleven, she suffered a severe ice skating accident that saw her spend time in the Oshmer Hospital in Durango, recovering from a broken back, a nearly severed spine, tuberculosis, and other ailments (In her interview she recounts that she spent four years in the hospital). She married Frank Jennings sometime before the 1940 US Census, when they are shown living together in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was a machinist. She later lived in Grand Junction, Colorado. According to the 1964 Grand Junction city directory, she worked as a sorter at Goodwill. She died at the age of 78 and is buried in Grand Junction’s Memorial Gardens.