People

: Marguerite Aragon

: Marguerite E. (Squire) Hogue

: Marguerite Elizabeth (Miller) Beede; She was born in Ft. Collins, Colorado to Charles Frank Miller and Maggie May (Dexter) Miller. Her father was the foreman in a sugar factory and her mother was a homemaker. The 1910 US Census shows the family living together in Ft. Collins, when Marguerite was five years old. The 1920 US Census shows Charles Miller married instead to a Jula Miller and living with their newborn daughter. Marguerite is not shown living with her father at that time. Marguerite reports that her mother, Maggie May, died in 1924. She received a teaching certificate from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley that same year. She was married in 1925 to Thomas Wayne Beede, who was from Iowa. The 1930 Census shows Marguerite living in Severance with Rosa Beede, her husband’s mother. The census lists Marguerite as a teacher. She and her husband then lived in Dover, Colorado. Because their town was on the edge of the Dust Bowl, they were able to purchase a resettlement farm in Loma in 1937, and moved to the Western Slope. There, they farmed on the resettlement farm, but soon traded it for land on 15 Road between P and Q Roads, where they had 180 acres. When her husband died in 1949, she resumed teaching. She returned to UNC Greeley in 1954 and received a BA in elementary education and a renewal of her teaching certificate. She retired from the Loma School in 1969. She belonged to the AARP, the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Rebekah Lodge Number 115.