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- Myrtle L. (Sill) Seamens
- She was born to farmers John Henry and Mary Sill in Lincolnville, Kansas. According to US Census records, her father later became a dry goods merchant. She played childhood games such as Dare Base, Run Sheep Run, Pom Pom Pullaway, Duck on a Rock, and house. She went to the Emporia State University Teacher’s College (she does not say in her interview if she ever became a teacher). She worked as a seamstress for a dressmaker and was active in the fiber arts all her life. She married James Huber in Centralia in 1908, with whom she had a son. Huber passed away in 1910. She married Joseph W. Gift in 1919. Kanas State Census records show Gift and Myrtle Seamens living together in Monroe, Kansas with Myrtle’s son from her previous marriage, Robert, and with her mother Mary Sill. Joseph Gift died in 1926, when Myrtle was about 49 years old. She moved to Grand Valley, Colorado (now Parachute) in 1927, where she lived with her son Raymond in a hotel that her father John Henry Sill had purchased. She later ran the hotel. She married Darrell Lancelot Seamens on December 1, 1928 in Rifle, Colorado. The 1930 US Census shows them living in Grand Valley, and lists him as the hotel proprietor and her as the manager. They managed the hotel and a boarding house for several years. In Grand Valley, she was active in church work. She made and sold over 200 sun bonnets to help pay for a new roof on her church. She was an avid quilter, and still quilting into her hundreds. According to an article from the Daily Sentinel (November 20, 1983), she was for a while the oldest woman in Grand Junction. She is buried next to Darrell in Rifle’s Rose Hill Cemetery.
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- Myrtle May (Webb) Hetzel
- She was born on a farm in Kansas and able to go to high school. As a teen she was a waitress in Oberlin, Kansas. She married three times, with her first at the age of 19 in 1929. She was divorced from Bert Williams in 1933. She then worked on a ranch in Nebraska, where she gathered eggs and “cooked for hard men.” She enjoyed the work. She then met and married Robert Dugger, who had been a soldier, in 1934. She came to Clifton, Colorado in 1939. Her last husband was Ross Hetzel. They married in 1956. In Clifton, she attended church at the Assembly of God, quilted, embroidered and kept house.
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- Myrtle Shoemaker
- Nurse at Plateau Valley Hospital.
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- Nadine "Peggy" (Oberto) Lippoth
- Nadine "Peggy" Oberto was born in 1932. She attended Grand Junction High School and Mesa College, where she became a stenographer. She married Edward (Ed) M. Lippoth on June 2, 1956, and became Peggy (Nadine) Lippoth. With exploration for uranium falling-off in the early 1960s, Peggy and Ed decided to start a new business that eventually concentrated on the fabrication of mine ventilation tubing. The business, Grand Junction Machine and Plastics, prospered and they sold the company to Schaunberg Industries which still operates a plant in Clifton. Peggy and Ed had two sons, David Lippoth of Grand Junction and Richard Lippoth of Reno, Nevada; and one grandson, Ben Lippoth of Denver. --Information taken from https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gjsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=edward-lippoth&pid=175119916 And from: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31072393/the_daily_sentinel/ Links accessed 8/23/19.