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14161) Robert Clement "Bob" Klenda
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A saddlemaker in Plateau City, Colorado. He was born in Kansas to Clement and Emma Klenda. His parents were farmers. The 1920 US Census shows Bob living at home with his parents and working as a “Farm Boy” at the age of thirteen.
He learned leather crafting in the US Army. He learned saddlemaking in a shop in Yakima, Washington, where he acquired the basics and his teacher stressed quality. He moved to Utah in 1957, where he ranched and learned...
14162) Leta Ruth (Funk) Benson
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She was born in Russell, Kansas to Bertha Luella (Brown) Funk and Carl Funk. Her father was a farmer and her mother a homemaker. US Census records show that the family had moved to a farm in West Cheyenne Wells, Colorado by 1920, when Ruth was ten years old.
She graduated from the University of Colorado Normal School in Boulder, where she was involved in the Girl Reserve, Glee Club, Denver Chorus, Trio, Chimes of Normandy, Pinafore, Ermine, and...
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He was born on Parachute Creek, in Garfield County, Colorado, to Arcadeous Benson and Bertha (Gardner) Benson. His father was born in Kentucky and his mother in Wisconsin. They had both moved to the Western Slope by at least April 28, 1895, when Colorado marriage records list their marriage. They were farmers.
When Charles was ten years old, his father acquired a homestead “on the mountain” (possibly on Battlement Mesa). Charles grew up in...
14164) Philip Louis "Dutch" Griebel
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A longtime Fruita Monument High School teacher and coach. He was born to Louis Griebel and Annie (Reikauff) Griebel in Warrensburg, Missouri in 1889. Ships passenger lists show that his father arrived in New York from Germany on June 25, 1868, when he was 25 years old. His occupation was listed as shoemaker. His mother was an immigrant from Switzerland and a homemaker. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Warrensburg, Missouri when Philip...
14166) Helen Gladys (Rambo) Hyde
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She was born in Whitewater, Colorado to William H. Rambo and Charlotte (Baer) Rambo. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a homemaker. Her family often sang songs together until the death of Helen’s brother when she was twelve. US Census records show that they lived in Kannah Creek in 1920, when Helen was eight years old, and on California Mesa in Delta County in 1930.
She married Fred L. Yates in Moab, Utah on February 24, 1935. The 1940...
14167) Alexander R. "Alex" Bauer
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He was born to George Bauer and Katherine “Katie” (Hosseiler) Bauer in Morganthau, Russia. His family belonged to a community of Germans living there. Fearing revolution, his family immigrated to the United States in 1913, when Alex was four years old.
His father found work as a blacksmith in Kansas and then with the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Idaho in 1917. His mother was a homemaker. Alex and his siblings could not speak English when they...
