People

: Lorena Alta "Lorene" (Tatlow) Roice; She was born in Kansas to William Walter Tatlow, a farmer, and Alta Clara (Becker) Tatlow, a homemaker. US Census records from 1920 to 1940 would seem to indicate that she was an only child. According to Roice, she ran off to get married shortly before her high school graduation (possibly to a Mr. Brooks). The 1940 Census record shows her living with her parents at the age of 22, listed as single, and waitressing in a restaurant, but according to Roice, she was widowed when her first husband died during World War II (In one interview she says that he died in the Philippines, and in another, during the attack on Pearl Harbor). Around 1943, she went to San Diego to work in a Convair factory, building airplanes. There she met her future husband, Joe Alvin Roice, a “Hotchkiss boy” who was in the Navy. They married in 1946, and later relocated to Grand Junction, Colorado, where he worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railoroad and in construction. She attended some college classes at Mesa College and worked at Woolworth's. Together they had one child. They also helped to found the Roice-Hurst Humane Society. When they first moved to Grand Junction, they lived at 901 North 1st Street in a trailer.

: Lorene Gruenler; Lorene was a member of the Gray Ladies, a loosely formed organization of ladies who helped at the Denver & Rio Grande Hospital.

: Lorene Jayson; Contributor to "Just One More Day: A Gunnison Valley Journal," Storyteller and 'magical mythmaker' from upstate New York who has summered for years near Powderhorn. (source: Just One More Day: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: Lorenzo Dow Reed; A Palisade, Colorado resident who volunteered to fight in World War I. He served in the Navy on the USS Nevada, which at that time was one of the most modern battleships the United States possessed. His ship patrolled the Eastern Seaboard. Reed put in for transfer to the Melville, a ship on the West Coast, but the ship’s boiler blew up crossing the Panama Canal, and by the time a replacement part had been received, the Armistice was declared.

: Loretta Hickman; She worked as an interviewer for the Mesa County Oral History Program.

: Lori Heusinkveld; Contributor to "The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: Lori Spence; Contributor to "Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: Out Of Many, One: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

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