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- Lucy Boody
- Lucy is from Staten Island, New York and came to Telluride, Colorado in 1972. She worked as a real estate agent in Telluride from 1982-1989. Please listen to Lucy's KOTO Radio show, called Grape Moments, from 1983, to hear more about Lucy's life. She currently resides in Vermont. --Taken 7/9/21 from Lucy's Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-boody-30244728
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- Lucy Brainerd (Ferril) Ela
- Early Twentieth century Glade Park resident. Wife of Wendell Ela. Sister of Denver poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril. She was born to William C. "Will" Ferril and Alice (McHarg) Ferril in New York State. According to US Census records, her father Will was a journalist from Kansas whose own father had been a preacher. According to Lucy, Will was well known as a journalist, was the owner and editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald (the oldest weekly newspaper in Colorado), and also the curator of the State Historical Society from 1896 to 1910. Her mother Alice was a homemaker from Rome, New York whose father was a fishing tackle manufacturer. US Census records show that the family was living at 2123 Downing Street in Denver, Colorado by at least 1900, when Lucy Ela was eight years old. She had two siblings: Harriet Ferril, who was born in 1892, and Thomas Hornsby Ferril, who became a prominent Colorado poet and the Colorado Poet Laureate, born in 1896. She attended Colorado College, where she was a member of the Contemporary Club, the Girls Glee Club and the Vesper Choir. Her junior yearbook photograph appears in the 1912 Colorado College yearbook. It appears that she graduated from the Colorado Women's College in Denver in 1914. It is likely that she met her future husband, Wendell Dennett Ela, while she was in college, as he was a senior at Colorado College while she was a junior. Wendell was from the prominent Ela ranching family of Western Colorado. They married in Mesa County on June 15, 1914. Lucy and Wendell soon moved to the Glade Park area of Mesa County, where the Elas were co-owners of 2-V Ranch. The 1920 US Census shows them living at 1061 Ouray Avenue in Grand Junction, where Wendell worked as a bank teller and Lucy was a homemaker. They had moved to 1006 Main Street, in the house where Wendell had grown up, by 1930. The 1936 Grand Junction High School yearbook was dedicated to her with these words: "Because she has played her part well; because she has encouraged every enterprise sponsored by the high school; because she has an important role on our Board of Directors - but most of all because we like and admire her - we dedicate the 1936 Tiger Revue to Mrs. Lucy Ela." She was on the Grand Junction school board from 1921 to 1950, was one of the first presidents of the Colorado State School Board, a president of the Grand Junction Garden Club and a lifetime member of the Colorado State Federation of Garden Clubs and of the National Federation of State Garden Clubs, a Delta Kappa Gamma honorary member, a Western Colorado Humane Society member, and a member of the Unity School of Christianity. She was a longtime member of the Reviewers Club, one of the first women's organizations in Grand Junction and one of its longest-lived organizations. She was elected the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce Woman of the Year. She died at the age of 100. *Photograph from the 1936 Grand Junction High School yearbook.
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- Lucy M. (Huntley) Gaddy
- She grew up in Illinois near present day Chicago on land her father bought after getting injured in the Civil War. She met and married John Gaddy in Missouri in 1907, then moved to Montrose, Colorado in 1908, where the two of them had family.
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- Ludwig William "Lud" Rettig
- According to livestock auctioneer Howard Shults, Rettig ran the Modern Market on Main Street, and his Rettig Packing Company owned a slaughterhouse south of town in the early to mid-Twentieth century. While his business ventures were never very successful in Grand Junction, he later became involved in a lucrative deal with Mr. King, owner of King Soopers stores in Denver. He also began the Save-A-Nickel grocery store, presumably in Denver. According to Shults, he could butcher a cow in 18 minutes. While Al Look and Shults say Rettig was a Dutch immigrant, US Census records show that he was born in Colorado to German parents. The 1900 and 1910 US Censuses show Lud living with his parents Adam and Johanna and his siblings Gretchen and Adolph in the Allen area of Mesa County. It shows that Adam was also a butcher who owned his own slaughterhouse yard. His mother was a homemaker. He married Emma Grace Ireland on May 31, 1916. In 1920, the Census shows Rettig living at 1115 Grand Avenue with Grace and their daughter Evelyn. It lists Rettig's place of business as the Modern Market. The 1928 Grand Junction City Directory shows his place of business as the Rettig Packing and Provision Company. By 1940 the family had moved to 2046 Kearney Street in Denver. There, Rettig operated a meat market and grocery store. He continued in this business at least through 1950, when he was 48 years old. He died in Denver at the age of 81.