Edna L. (Wilkinson) Chambers
Marriages
G. Moulton Chambers - June 17, 1914
in Leadville, Colorado.
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 4 - June 28, 1956
Edna L. CHAMBERS was born in Eagle Feb. 4, 1891 to George W. and Minnie McKenzie WILKINSON and passed away in Grand Junction June 11, 1956.
Mrs. CHAMBERS was educated in the Eagle area, attending elementary school first on Brush Creek and later in Eagle.
Both her parents were musicians, and Mrs. CHAMBERS was sent to Grand Junction for her piano and voice training. The family organ or "melodian" was brought from Red Cliff to Eagle on the back of a mule and for many years the Wilkinson family supplied the music for the early day residents of the Eagle River valley by loading the organ in the back of a buckboard and taking it to the point of entertainment with Mrs. Wilkinson playing the organ and her husband the violin. With Mrs. CHAMBERS inherent talent and professional training in music, she was well qualified to teach piano to the many young people of the Eagle vicinity.
In Eagle she met Moulton CHAMBERS, a young rancher, and June 17, 1914 the couple was married in Leadville. They returned to Eagle, farming the old Len SCHUMM ranch on the Eagle River, just west of the town, at the mouth of Brush Creek. Later Mr. CHAMBERS had a grocery store in the now burned-down Nogal building on Main Street, then bought the building where the Stanley Grocery is today, and operated a grocery store and butcher shop there.
The couple then moved to Durango, where their first son, Clarence was born in 1918. Two years later they moved to Leadville, living there a short time, then returned to Eagle to help the Wilkinsons build their home on the present 7-Up Ranch on Brush Creek in 1922. Mr. and Mrs. CHAMBERS lived on the Wilkinson ranch until Mr. CHAMBERS took over the Conoco bulk plant in Eagle, later selling to Gerald Rice, when Mr. CHAMBERS was elected county assessor in 1924, an office he held until 1933.
The son, Clarence died at the age of 3 and a half years, and the couple's only other child another son, died at birth.
Mr. and Mrs. CHAMBERS returned to the Wilkinson ranch when Mr. WILKINSON died in 1929, and remained there until 1941, when they sold the ranch and moved to Grand Junction to buy an apartment house.
Mrs. CHAMBERS joined the Eagle Chapter of the Eastern Star in 1911, and was one of two surviving charter members of the organization.
Funeral services were held in Grand Junction June 17 at Martin's Chapel where John GLUVERS sang "The Rosary," favorite singer and music of Mrs. CHAMBERS. June 18 services were held in the Eagle Methodist Church by Rev. T. B. McDIVITT of Greeley for whom Mrs. CHAMBERS had been church organist when the Reverend was pastor of the Eagle church. Burial was in the family plot in Sunset View Cemetery, Eagle.
The funeral quartet included Bill and Charles STANLEY, Melvin EATON and Chester MAYER, accompanied by Mrs. Lola CHAMBERS. Pall bearers were Ray E. CHATFIELD, J. D. ALLEN, E. J. BINDLEY, Ralph E. BELDING, Gene K. LUBY and Duane LARSEN.
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 4 - June 28, 1956
Edna L. CHAMBERS was born in Eagle Feb. 4, 1891 to George W. and Minnie McKenzie WILKINSON and passed away in Grand Junction June 11, 1956.
Mrs. CHAMBERS was educated in the Eagle area, attending elementary school first on Brush Creek and later in Eagle.
Both her parents were musicians, and Mrs. CHAMBERS was sent to Grand Junction for her piano and voice training. The family organ or "melodian" was brought from Red Cliff to Eagle on the back of a mule and for many years the Wilkinson family supplied the music for the early day residents of the Eagle River valley by loading the organ inthe back of a buckboard and taking it to the point of entertainment with Mrs. Wilkinson playing the organ and her husband the violin. With Mrs. CHAMBERS inherent talent and professional training in music, she was well qualified to teach piano to the many young people of the Eagle vicinity.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 11 - June 13, 1956
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 4 - June 12, 1956
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 - June 14, 1956
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 9 - June 15, 1956
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 6 - June 17, 1956
