People

: Marion Moore; Dudley Mitchell's great-great grandmother, mother of Phoebe Ann Robinson.

: Marjorie Agnes (Raber) Likes; She was born in Indiana to Eliza E. (Dawald) Raber and Larkin L. Raber. They came from Indiana to Alamosa, Colorado in 1905, when she was two, and she learned to walk in a large barrel because the floors were too cold for her to play on. Her family then moved to land southeast of Fruita in 1905, where they briefly farmed apples. Her father was a pharmacist, and she became a pharmacist after attending the University of Colorado School of Pharmacy and the University of Utah. While at CU Boulder she was involved in the Washburn Pharmaceutical Society and the Freshman Commission. After graduation, she returned home to work in her family’s pharmacy. She married Earl W. Likes in 1936 in Grand County, Utah. He was a salesman in the grocery industry. She also taught in Atchee. *Photograph from the 1928 University of Colorado yearbook

: Marjorie Elaine (West) Crow; She was born in Twin Falls, Idaho to Loren D. West and Eva Margaret (Nessler) West. At the time of her birth, her father was a stock farmer in Idaho. Her mother was a homemaker. In 1927, when Marjorie was six years old, the family moved to Palisade, Colorado, where they owned and operated fruit orchards. Marjorie’s grandparents on both sides of the family had come to Palisade with their families in 1906, where they farmed fruit, and her parents had lived there previously. Marjorie attended the Palisade School and Palisade High School, graduating as valedictorian in 1938. She attended Grand Junction Junior College on scholarship from 1938 to 1940, and then went to the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1940 to 1942 (also on scholarship). She also took summer courses from other colleges. She returned to Palisade, where she taught at the Palisade School from 1944 to 1958, and Taylor Elementary School from 1958 to 1980. She was two-time president of the CD Chapter of the P.E.O. International, was a member of the Mesa County Historical Society, the Center for the Arts, and the Museum of Western Colorado. Her most memorable event was making a hole-in-one in golf on June 28, 1982. *Photograph from the 1939 Grand Junction High School yearbook.

: Marjorie Estellene "Sissy" (Morrow) Thomas; She was born in Russell, Kansas to John Burnell Morrow and Margaret Adelphia (Gibbs) Morrow. She attended first grade in Coway Springs, Kansas before the family moved to the New Liberty area of Mesa County, Colorado, where her father began homesteading in 1918. She was 8 years old at the time of the move. She attended the New Liberty School from 1919 to 1925. She graduated from Fruita Union High School in 1929. She began attending the Ross Business College in Grand Junction in 1929, but quit so that she could help her parents on the farm in 1930. She married Floyd Rush Thomas on December 20, 1930. They had five children. She farmed with her husband and also worked for five years at the Colorado State Home and Training School. They sold the farm in 1955 and moved to Grand Junction. She belonged to the Silver Belle Rebekah Lodge 115, the American War Mother Chapter 27, where she served as treasurer, and to New Liberty’s Go or Die Club. She was secretary of the KJOL Christian radio committee.

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