People
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- Luella (Peart) McKee
- She was born in Fairplay, Colorado and lived in Denver, Colorado before coming to Grand Junction, where she married William J. Peacock in 1907. Her parents were immigrants from England.
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- Luella Frances (Muth) Morgan
- She was born in Rifle, Colorado to Martin Muth, a farmer, and Edith Fredricka (Bahr) Muth, a homemaker. Her parents were both the children of German immigrants. When her uncle gave her the opportunity to work in the National Bank of Glenwood Springs at the age of fifteen, she took it, beginning in 1916 when she was fifteen years old (during a Women of Western Colorado Presentation in 1982, she recounted that she was ten years old at the beginning of her bank career). By a young age, she could write remittances, sort checks, and perform other basic bank duties. She moved to Palisade, Colorado in 1918 and worked with the Producers Exchange State Bank until 1922, before the bank bought out the holders of what became the Palisades National Bank. She worked as an assistant cashier, and later the cashier, at the Palisades National Bank for another 57 years. She married Eli Marrion “Boots” Morgan, a fruit farmer, in 1927. They lived at 111 West First Street in Palisade.
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- Luis Bustos
- Contributor to "In Our Own Write," (source: In Our Own Write: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
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- Luisa M. (Durante) Landini
- She was born in Montale, Italy to Carlo and Carmelina Tonelli Duranti. Her Italian birth and baptismal record from the Pontremoli Diocese shows that she was born on May 6, 1900, while later records in the United States show a date of May 15th. The same baptismal record lists her birth name as Virginia Mistica Luigia. She attended school until part way through second grade, when she had to quit so that she could help her family when her mother got sick. She immigrated to the United States after agreeing to marry her childhood acquaintance, Peter Landini. Ship passenger lists show her arriving on the Cretic in Boston, Massachusetts from the port of Naples on April 27, 1921. She was twenty-two years old at the time of her arrival. Her ultimate destination was listed as Fruita, Colorado. She arrived in Fruita on May 3, 1921. She married Peter Aristide (Pete) Landini on May 14, 1921 in Grand Junction. They had two girls and one boy. She was extremely homesick at first and wanted to return to Italy. They lived with Pete’s brother and near her friend Carolina, then briefly in a home built by Pete and his brothers, before moving onto an 80 acre homestead. They grew beans, corn, and other crops, with the beans being sold as a cash crop. They had ten milk cows and sold butter and cheese. She also planted grape vines and ran a herd of 150 sheep. As of 1983, the family still owned all 80 acres. Her son Carlo and grandson Tom carried on as farmers there. Evelyn Kyle, her interviewer for the Mesa County Oral History Project, describes her as “a delightful person.” Landini died at the age of 94. *Photograph of Luisa and Pete Landini.