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: Allie Edith (Burns) Strain; A homemaker and a restaurant owner/operator in Clifton, Colorado. Her parents, William Oscar and Manora Burns, were farmers who moved to Colorado on the chance that it would improve her father’s respiratory health. They lived first in Towner, Colorado, on the Eastern Slope. In 1909, they joined her uncle, Frank Burns, who had moved to Mesa County prior to them. Edith was 18 years old at the time. Her mother passed away sometime between 1900 and 1910, and she appears to have been raised by her widower father and her aunt, Appaulina Silliman. They built a home at the north end of Main Street in Clifton. Her father planted peach and pear trees on the surrounding land, which they also owned. She attended the Allen School. She married Robert Louis Strain on May 22, 1913 in Clifton. They lived in Towner, Colorado before moving back to Clifton. Together they owned a Mobile Service Station and a lunch counter on F Road in Clifton from 1939 to 1961. She ran the restaurant for 13 years. Her husband operated the service station from 1939 to 1961. She was the last surviving member of the Clifton Methodist Church, the church that preceded the Crossroads United Methodist Church. She was a member of the Mount Garfield Rebekah Lodge, the Clifton Garden Club, and the Clifton Lioness Club. She died at the age of 93.

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