People

: Mary Louisa (Hoover) Powers; She was a farm wife and mother of nine. She was born to James and Harriet Hoover in Carroll County, Missouri. She married Michael Henry Powers of Ohio. They lived in Kirwin, Kansas in what their daughter Mary (Powers) Plaisted referred to as a warm and stable home. After her husband died in 1902, the family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, settling in the Milldale area around the sugar beet factory. There, she trained riding horses for income. She married Theophilus Head in 1910 and the family moved to Delta County. She died in 1946.

: Mary Louise (Chiaro) Colosimo; She was born in Mesa County, Colorado to Giuseppe S “Joseph” Chiaro and Rosina “Rose” (Paola) Chiaro, Italian immigrants. She grew up on the family’s truck farm along River Road in the Pomona area. She went to school through the 12th grade and graduated from Grand Junction High School. She married Charles J. Colosimo on December 17, 1934. The 1940 US Census shows them living in Fruita, where Mary was a homemaker and her husband managed a theater. She and Charley intended to move and operate a theater in Helper, Utah, but Charley’s parents asked that they stay with them to help out. They did so, and ended up living with the Colosimo’s at 201 Hale Avenue, in the Riverside neighborhood, for eighteen years. She describes times as hard, and both she and Charley had to work multiple jobs to make ends meet and raise their five children. Charles later worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.

: Mary Louise Giblin; She was born in Colorado to John Giblin, an Irishman who was born in England, and to Eva Giblin of Nebraska. She attended Mesa College in the late 1930's, where she worked on the Criterion student newspaper under faculty advisor William Hartman. She began working for the The Daily Sentinel newspaper in 1941 and worked with Walter Walker for 15 of those years. She wrote on women’s issues, something she was not all that interested in, and also on political issues.

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