https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/087894e4348a02e6a999b1b38f6adb11.pdf 53262a4db9c2759021f941dfb62a4a6c PDF Text Text . l �ROY WllLIA.MS Roy Hancock Williams was born in a teepee in the Florida River Valley near the present site of the La Plata Airport on. August 8th, 1899._. His parents were Price Williams, a Southern Ute, and Marie Capote from the Nortnern Ute Tribe. 11 My parents kept sheep, hoI"ses and some cattle _ , and moved around to find good pasture. We always came back to the Florida. The river bottom was_ a good place to raise potatoes and corn •. . The whole area had d_eer and other game. There was no hetter river than the Florida. It ~as clear and full of fish and turtles. While I was still young, my parentsbuilt a two-room frame house in the river bottom. We had good neighbors. Nicholas and Peter Eaton lived nearby. It was a very good life. No boundaries and no fences. We could go to the high mountains or to the valleys to find pasture or to hunt without anyone to tell us no. 11 11 When I was ten years old , my parents sent me to the bearding schocl at Ignacio. It was pretty bad there at first. I snake only Ute. After a while l began to learn English from the other chiidren. I liked the holidays when I could ride our horses and be free. In the suI!'.l!Ilers I herded the sheep fpr my Dad. 7here was goo~ hunting around the sheep camps. I shot my flrst doe when I was 16. Borne of the bucks we got were so heavy we had to cut them up or carry them on a horse. 11 11 I donrt go to powwows any more, but I liked them when I was young. The tribe used to put on a real show. There were different styles of dancing, more than now. The Bear Dance was always the first dance of the season. In the 1920 1 s the Sun Dancewas started here. I think it came from Oklahoma.'! ur went only to 5th grade at the boarding school. When I quit, I enrolled at the country school at La Posta for a while to learn Spanish. 11 "In 1918 I was ready to enlist in the army to go to the war in France, but before I got in, the war ended; so I traveled around working at different jobs for a while. In 1920 I got to visit rny grandfather, ~ames Capote, in Ft. Duchesne. He told me many things about the Utes, but I have forgotten most of it. My father died in 1921. Soon afterward we built a house north of Ignacio. I ~orked at the Indian Agency for many years plo...:ing and running the thrashing machine." Roy married Labrara Radea. They had one daughter, M~ry Suazo.. Later Roy married Mary Bean. Their children are 1-fary Santisteven, Vonnestine Eerrera and Eileen Weaver. Roy remembers seeing automobiles around Ignacio as early as 1913, but h~ never owned his own car until 1939 when he bought a Mercury. He says, 11 We had a good life after the Second World War. I had a good job and also made money raising sheep and cattle. We owned seven different cars and did some traveling around. 11 · Mary died in 1961. The only one of Roy's brothers or sisters still living is Belle Cutthair. Recently Roy moved from his home north of Ignacio to one of the apartemts at the senior center. He 1s now 79. His vision is f air and his hecring' is excellent. He says, 11 I never thought I'd live this long, but here I am. 11 ' Shelby Smith �~ ?t'~: ~~; ~: ~~'l;l'1?T ~~ 1:1:,~~ ~-~ - R~lr~ ~~ - f f ~ ~ ~~~ f;d,L,/41JW--c,-_~ ,:u:.. ,J.,ul,u - 'r"f./#.~ - f r ~ ~ ~ 0~ ~ -·.r- •. -~- .. ~ _...... ,-.J -~~ ~ L.J ~ �Mrs. Lousia Hartig had company during the Labor Day Holidays . &re from Denver were her gra.nddaughter, Marsha and her husband, John Johnsen and his pa.rents , Mr . and Mrs . Joe Johnsen. Thursday and Friday predeeding Labor day Mrs. Hartig ' s daughter, Lucy Ainsworth, Franes Shaffer and Virgi~ia Staun~on stopped enroute to Telluride to spend Saturdz.y and Sunday over Labor Day 1.1.'1.th the Burbridges. Martha Burbride is Nrs. Ains worth 's daughter and 1•!arsha's twin sister. The 7isitors als o had t he ciiance to admire Mrs. Hartig's new home in t ~e Senior Citizen Center . September visitors from Hamburg, Germany are having a wonderful time. They arrived on August 30th for a month in the U.S.A. The visitors are Mrs. Giesla Self's sister and her husband, their daught er and her husband and 18 months old son. Besides visiting the Leroy Selfs and families the visitors also went to California to tour Disneyland . The only one who does speak English 1s Gisela's niece and she had s o~e difficulties with native expressions. Don and Rosalie Knight are ~oving to Rangely, Colorado. The Rangely gas fi eld i s a l arge one and Northwe st Pipeline Corp. has transferred ¥...r. Kni ght f r on t he I gnacio Gas field to Rangely. The Kni ghts moved to I gnacio 13 years ago. The Ignacio Gas field was then El Paso Na t ural Gas Co. and the Knights lived in one of the El · Paso homes. When Northwest bought out El Paso the Ifnights bou2ht t heir home whi ch_ i s now for sale. - The Knights 01.m a farm near .J:Sayf ield and they :plan to come back so~eiay and live on this farm. For t he pa s t five years Hrs. Knight has been the Ignacio High ,School secretary . She· bas also been a member of the Ignacio Presb-,terian church sess ion and t he secretary. Yi.r. Kni ght was an active member of the Ignacio Lions Club and during the 60 1 s served as Club President. The Knights two older daughters have married, but their two children attending t he I gnacio Schools are movingwith ~hem to Rangely.· They will be missed, but best wishes go with them to their new home . •- ---------------------------}!:rs. Olive Dillon left Tuesday, ·August 22 for Red Cloud, Nebraska as her brother W. B. Blain was seriously ill. He died a short time later. Mrs. Dillon then visited a f ew relatives in the Nebr. Kansas area before going to Boulder. She stayed a few days with her son Clinton and family., coming home on Sunday, . the 17th. �5 ~ club tor assistance with the State Convention. was in Cortez this year. The State Conventio:;-.. Guests present at the Sept. 11th meeting were: .A:m.y and Larry, Pat deKay, Del.la Quintana, Natt1e Silva and her son, Mr. and Mrs. Du~e Schiarad. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Gardner and Charlotte Jones. The Sept. Salad Supper. 25th meeting program will be the Guest Night and A shower honoring bride-to- be, Beverly Manzanares, was given SUnday afternoon, the 17th, in the church annex . She received a number of . attractive gifts for her new homP. . Refreshments were served by the hostesses Della, . Ha.ry, Lena, and. Barbara Atencio Beverly is the dauther of Mr. and Mrs.· Frank Man2:anares of Durango. She is to marry Raymond Atencio, the son· of Hr. and Nrs. Freddie Atencio.· The wedding will be in the St. Ignatius Catholic Church. Spending a couple of week s here in August withb.is daughter, Ann and family, t he John Forem.ans , was Henry Herron of Vandalia~ Missouri. The Fore.mans daughter Mary Lou, also came home with Hr. Herron. Shehad spend t h e sumn:er with her g randfather and worked for the same · construction company tbat he once did. Mary Lou is now busy with j unior year studies at the University. Kathy and Jane Foreman are students at CSU · of Missouri in Colm:ibia.. in Fort Collins . ,. Ignacio young peop~e go in various directions as they take off fo~ college. Larry Wiseman who worked most of the past year at LaPlata Air Field is now enrolled in the college at Rangely, Colorado planning to continue in aviation. Andy Duran was :in San Jose, Ce.lifornia for two or three weeks with his son, Chris bett er known as Corney. As he was on his way home by bus his wife Lucy was on her way to California on the plane. She is now back home after a couple of weeks visit with the California Durans. It r~ally would be an unpleasant surprise to come home from the postoffice and the store and find a couple of young girls busy putting things in a sack, now wouldn't it? �Mrs. Irma Calico from Verona Missouri is here v.1sit1ng her sisterin-law Lois Hazleton and other relatives. Chairman Leonar d Bur ch and Council members. Eddie · Box Sr. , Neil Cloud, Guy Pir.necoose j r. , J oe Mestas and J ohn Bake r t ogether with Se cr etary Vida Peabody, Renee Baca : Ma r tha Myor e, Annabell Eagl e , Jeffery and Jin Jeffer son are all a t tending t he National all American I ndian Con.f erence at Pineridge, South Dakota . Chris B2ker stayed behind to man the Office. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lucy Dura.p Bradly Smith Joe Williams ·Vickie Ri der Pauli ne Rodr i que z Cresildo Pacheco Christine Hunoz Be~1E..b. Bison Bertha Sandoval ·· Maria Manzaneres Natividad Martinez Henry Re-v era Fred Lucero Charlotte J ones Margaret Sil va Alberta Bis on On Friday evening September 15, 1978 , Shel by, Liva, Editb.:".Burch, Mar gar et Wi seman , Ruby Hailey, Char lottee Jones and Flor ence Self a ttended the dinner at the new 55 plus center in Dur ango . After dinner Mar garet ~ B"Jby were pr esented with awar ds as volunteer wor kers of the Title VII nutriti on progr am. . . Ca therine Ma ster s is cooking at t he Senior Citizens Center this week, while Freddi e i s gon·e to Carlsb -:.d t o be with her sick sister. Cat herine is doing an excellent j ob. Helpi n g her wit h the cookiµg is Ce cil Pi nnecoose another new empl oyee at t he center. ·- -------------------------Get Well Wishes Toby Valdez A1vin Knight Emily Taylor . Allen Smith Adeliqa }<(...a.n..z anares Charles Hunter Carmelita. Casias Rosemary Red Roy Groves �7. The Happy Homemakers Extension Club members met Friday, Sept.8th 1n the new home of Thelma Wright. The ladies attending vere taken on an admiring tour of the Wright ho,me. The business meeting was conducted by the Vice President, Nadine Ford. Guests present were County ~ension Home Demonstration Agent Phyi.lis Lee, Tribal Extension agent, Eileen Wasserbach, Virginia Schoser and Renee Coffee. Members were reminded to brin~ cotton quilt blocks to the October meeting so vork on a quilt can begaE... Carmen Rea reported she still had JO Extension High Altitude cookbooks' fo.r sale at three dollars apiece . The cookbooks were on sale during the county fair and received many compliments. The art work in the cookbooks wcls al1 designed by Ignacio Club member, Laverne Klusman. I The . pr ogram was arranged by Mrs. Ford. She introduced Mrs. Schoser, l ongtime Durango elementary teacher. Mrs .Schoser and her husband, .?rank, traveled in E~r ope , for thecost part in Germany and Austria. !-tc. Schoser located the town in Austria where his father had lived. It was quite interesting and Mrs. Schoser was thanked for giving the program. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Wright assisted by Mrs. Coffee. The Coffee family had recently moved here from Arizona and Mr. Coffee is employed on the Wright ranch. The October meeting, the 1 3th, will be at the home of Modene Mayfield. Roll Call topic is - What is your favorite g1£t to give? ----~----------------The tirst fall meeting of the Pah-Chu-Chu-Wa Club was Monday evening, September 11th in the Presbyterian Church annex. Club president Violet Sams conduc ted the business meeting. The bpys and Girls state delgates, Larry Quintana and Arr1.y deKay gave reports of their week of stud7 of C'i ty, state and n a tional government·. Both said these ex,eriences were ~ery worth while. Larry was honored at Boys State by being elected Planning Connnissioner - this included the Banquet and Talent Show. Amy said 360 girls attended Girls State, she was elected dog catcher .and was also S~'t of Arms in the Senate. . J The progra~ ~~s arranged by Heinie Gardner. Duke : Schiarad, _ candidate for the nomination in the primary runoff for sheriff, spoke to the group telling of the work of the sheriff's off ice and his quali.fications. Thank you letters were read from the District President, Mauriel Luellen anq the state president , Vivian Christensen thanking the Ignacio �. Mr. and 1-f.rs. Lester McCoy and son moved the last of August to a place s.ome 10. miles east o.f Ignacio. They bad been living · 1n the termer Paul Shannon house. Both McCoys are employed in the lgnacio School System.• -Two of the employees at the Sen:!.or Citizens Center have recently resigned and moved away. EY~ 0 1 John who lived in one 0£ the cluster homes and helped aut answering the phone andother rece~tionist duties is now living in Denver with her two children Cecilia and Cavanaugh Jr. Eva is confined to a wheelchair since an auto accident a number of years ago. · She has enrolled at Denver Corrmrfmity College taking secreterial courses. Eva also made place mats and did other craft work. She moved to Denver the last of July and her many friends wish her well. Margaret Silva's last day at work at the Center was August 18th. ¥...argaret was the Secretary for the Southern Ute Se~ior Citizen project since the begiru:d.ng in l972 in a~wn town Ignacio on-Goddard avenue. It is an orchid to Ea..rgaret as she now only did the secreterial work, but also doubled in outreach, with the cooking, driving the van to Durango and where ever needed. Her cheerful nersonality is Eissed around the center. Hargaret and her t~,o daughters have noved to Montrose. She reported home that Hope was in school and liked it fine. The new girl at the desk with that pleasant voice on the phone is Phoebe Cloud. She too can be found helping with the cooking, delivering meals and driving the van to Durango. It is nice having her around. ------------------------- The Thoughtful Years, the senior citizen newsletter does travel. Dick and Heinie Gardner sent the August newsletter to Betty Briggs Clifton and her husband, Jud in ?ortland, Oregon. The Cliftons wrote now much they enjoyed reading it and especially the story by Shelby Smith on Rev •• R. J. Hasstedt. The Briggs far:nly lived in Allison and attended Sunday school and church while Rev, Hasstedt was their oasto:r. Betty sent the newsletter to her- sister Alice Briggs Knitter husband Jim and their children. Both Betty and Alice wrote the Gardners how much they enjoyed the hoI'1etown news. Both the Cliftons are teaching. Alice planned to send the newsletter on to her sister Jessie Briggs Cornwall and her husband Forest in Billing, }Io!ltana. Jessie is e~ployed in a Fabric Shop and Forest is very busy with the Billings Symphony and private lessons. Before moving to Montana they lived for a nll!llber of year.s in Gunnison. The Knitter family live in 1'-tllwaukee, Wisconsin. So it was 11 Hello"11 from the Briggs sisters to family and friends in Ignacio. ------------------------ �" l That is what happened earlier this month to Virgin!:! Russell. The two girls had gotten in through a win(low and had taken ice cream and carrots out the rerrigerator as well as a stapler, a hos of sta~les, · 11tt1e notebooks, flashlight , a fluffy kitten decoration and put them in saak • . The girls around nine or ten ~ad skipped school. Mrs. Russell asked them to put things back where they found them and the girls did and left. Later the to'Wil marshal ~~s notif16a and started investigating •• Mrs. Virginia Lunsford was in Denver in August and stayed with her daughter, Kay and her husband, the Serights. She returned home August 28th. The new Cluster ho~es at the Senior Center, one and two bedroom units have been conpleted and the new residents have been moving in. E~ar Parrett and his daughter, 1•.:Z-s. Hildred Leonard moved into one of the new two bed.room units in August. They are not newco~ers to Ignacio, although, they have made their home in Farcington for na.ny years. Toe Parretts moved to the Southern Ute Agency in Ignacio in 1930 when they were transferred from Fort Bidwell, California. Mr. Parrett was the Agency Farner for some 11 ,-· ears. He is now getting reacquainted with some of his fo~er Ut e far.ner friends. ~·frs. Parrett , Lillian,. was t he seamstress. Back in the 30s the Indian children coming in fro~ the reservations to attend the Ute Vocational School lived in the dor!:!.itories. Their clothes - shirts, dresses etc.were !:lade by Hrs. Parrett and her helpers. When a new blue ciress was sewed for one of the Dorm girls they all wore new blue dresse3. ~he Parrett 1 s daughter, Hildred attended Ignacio grade school and __ high school. In 1933 after her marriage to Jack leonard t hey moved to Farmington. The Leonards are parents Qf three sons - Teddy a lieut. Col. in the army in Hawaii and Bob and Jack both living in Albuquerque . Edgar and Lillian were transferred to the Navajo Agency at Shiprock around 1941. In 1949 Hr. Parrett re t ired froo the Indian Service and they moved to Farmington. Hrs. Parrett died in 1959. The past few years Hildr.e d has oade her home with her father. Now they are back in Ignacio to live and enjoy seeing former friends. Mrs. Freddie Narti.n moved in Sentember into one of the new one bedl'oom homes in Center Cluster ho~es~ Hrs. Hartin is the Capable cook for the 1itle VII ~eals served by the Center. She. was called away Friday i5th to be with her sister who is seriously ill. J �:tJ Albuquerque visitors Saturday, September second were Ruth and Bob Ne her and F'rances Lacy. Along with Bol>• s uncle Jack !foher they spent t he day fis hing Lake Capote without much luck. The Bob Nehe~ st-ayed with Charlot t e Jones. They left e-arly ~unday morning to return to their homes . Bob drives for ifavajo truck line·s and had to repor·t back to work early Sunday afternoon. · The fi~st fall meeting for the Fr~endship Circle arter July and August vacation was on the sixth at t he Presbyterian Church annex with seven circle members present. Circle president ~'..rs. Heinie Gardner opened the meeting. The lesson was from Luke with Mrs. Ann Forecan as moderator. The meeting on the third Wednesday of each month is a work meeting and plans are to start working on a quilt on the 20th I Following the lesson refreshments Patrick. were served by Mrs. Grace _ Helen Hoy, daughter of the for~er Agency residents, Ben and Frances Hoy, graduated from high school this past spring in Cortez. During t he summer she worked on the archaeological site on the Ute Mt . reservation . She plans to continue with this work for a year the~ ~o to college . She plans to become a.n archaeologist. Helen was visiting friends in I gnacio the latter part of August and saying goodby to Carol Ellison. Ev erette and Audrey Ellis on left the week of August 20th to take their daughter, Car ol, to Dul uth, Minn .) Where is s he now attehding college. The Ellisons also visited relatives i n ~-rinn. befor e returning home . Carol expects to study toward becoming a Medical Records Librarian •• Mrs. Joyce Brown and her two daughters, Traci and Stenhanie drove from ~heir home in Dallas arriving her ~ugust 20th to. visit her mother, r~s . Christine Callison for a few days. They left the 24th tc r eturn to Dallas ¥.rs. Callison going with them. Mrs. Brown's husband, Don , was in Evansville, Indiana where he had accepted a position and was looking for a home for his family Joyce and the girls left for Indiana and Mrs. Callison went. to Las Vegas, New Mexico to visit relatives. Then she went to Albuquerque ,;rnd wes met by a number of relatives and they all enjoyed a good visit. Mrs. Callison'~ brother, Carl Beis~an and his son, Gary from Las vegas brought her home and stayed a couple of days to visit the Claude Callison and so some sightseeing. ----------------------• � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Thoughtful Years Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1972-1979 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Ignacio Senior Center; Southern Ute; Bayfield; Arboles; Allison; Tiffany; Oxford; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Monthly newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center with various contributors describing local news, events, obituaries, and biographies of prominent community members living in Ignacio, Colorado and the surrounding area. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource English; Espanol Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby; Jones, Charlotte Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Thoughtful Years: September 1978 Description An account of the resource Monthly newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center with various contributors describing local news, events, obituaries, and biographies of prominent community members living in Ignacio, Colorado and the surrounding area. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Ignacio Senior Center; Southern Ute; Bayfield; Arboles; Allison; Tiffany; Oxford; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource English; Espanol Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1978-09 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center