https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/b05c28f601e9865da9fa383151d44f91.pdf 19be1b14b675f326baeb9c4e42f46815 PDF Text Text . ~ -. ~, ~ �~ ; c; 7 r JACK AND ANNETTA FROST "I was bor n May 27, 1910,"Jack sta tes, "north of the Sout he rn Ute Ag ency j ust above Oscar Strain's place. My fathe r wa s a North ern Ut e named Moav a nd my mot her wa-s Ma r.i.:;i Fro!:.t , a Sou therr. u::.e . Many o f the Utes, like my father~ used to have only one name . I had an old er sister , Mamie , and a younger brother, Curry, b ~t both a re now d eceased. My pare n t s were l iving ina teepee when I wa s born. When I was about four years old, we moved i nto a one r oom frame ho use f our mi les s out..~ o f Bayfie l d on the west side of t h e river. My fathe r was a good farmer . He r a i sed wheat and oates and hay . He plowed with horses and a wa lking plow and t aught me to plow as soon as I was old enough. we we re very proud wh en he bought h is firs t r iding plow. The Al len Day School was l ½ mil es away across the r i ver. l g o t t o r ide a horse t o s c hool , which made it easy t o f o rd the river. After 4th grade the .Zi.llen Day School c l o sed a nd I was sent to Towaoc the next year. Hy Dad got sic~ and that was the end of s chool ior me. I helped with the farm work at home full time until I married An netta Burch. " "My father o ften told me s tories about ho w the Northern Utes used t o live. He said t he never s tayed i n one p lace too l ong. They liked to camp and t ravel and fi'\o,·e about the country, hunting game and picking pinon nuts a nd berries. Th ey roamed fron Grand J unction t o Heeker t o Ver na l and to Hoon Lake. Th ey onl y wen t t o Ft . Duche sEe to p i c k up their rations . That is how he me t a nd ma rried my mother. He car,e wit h a group o f Northe rn Utes to visi t here and met ray mother. After t hey were married , he never went back to Utah except f or vis its. Whe never he got restless o r l onely, he hitched up h is horses and buggy and went to s ee his p eople. When I was s t ill a young ma n , I went to Utah on horse~ack to vis i t my Dad 's pec p l e . It took me 10 days to reach Hyten, Ut a h, (ne a::- Ft. Duchesne) g oing th:::ough Cortez, Monticello , '.'1oab and Green River. Corning b ack I r ode through Grand Junction, Montros e and Silverton ·t o Ignacio in 9 days. I married Annetta Burch i n 1937, when I was 26 y e ars o l d. " "Annetta was born February 2, 1913 . When h er mother, 'Ada Burd,, d ied in 1915, Annetta 's grandparents , Steve a nd Ruth B1.1rch t ook her t o :!'a:i s e, a long wi th tw·o o ther grand-daughters , E~sie ~ent and Cora Jefferson. " We lived in a n adobe house , "Annetta says , "just a s hort wa lk north of the ~.llen My grandfather was a farr:,er . He raised tur keys a nd rabbits for s a l e , bc1t his real interes t was t horoughbr ed race horses . He raised beautiful hor s es, s o~e of which h e raced and o thers he sold . We trave led every where wi t h in a hundred miles c f Ignacio t o r aces ahd hor se sales . I r e mer.'.ber a trip to Ridgway . Ny g randparents hitched up the wagon, l o aded t he ir camp suppiles and h eaded north into the mountaiES. My job was to s it in t he back o f the wagon to h o ld the r eins o f the r ace horses a nd keep t h e.~ calm . Grandfather allowe d five days to r e a ch Ridgway , a v ery slow pace , s o the horses woul d not bec ome too t ired to race. The t rip was a lot of fun . :·ie ' d wc.tch the b eautiful country go by a ndcook out on the open t ire . I was older t han Essie end . Cora and loved to tease and fr ighten the m. Grandfathe r often t o ld us s t o ries , somE of t hem s c ary o n e s a s we r ode along and a s we sat arou nd t he campfir e i n the eveni r,gs. After we had h e a r d o ne of t hese s t ories it was very e asy t o s care the other g irls , especially Essie becaus e she was the yo ungest. I sometimes got spanked f or this . At the r aces there was a lot of noise and e xcitement. People attend ed for the fun of seeing o ne another as much a s f o r t h e races. After t h e r a ces there was a l wa ys a l o t o f horse t rading before the long trip home ." Day School. I attended Allen Day school. That was whe re I firs t met Jack Fros t. At that time the Utes didn't know about most o f• the ho lidays , but we were t aught about Christmas at scho o l. 1 learned "Twas the Night Before Christmas" we l l enough to g i ve i t a t a p rogram . The t e a c her eve n took me to r ecite it at Bayfield." Jack, interrupted a t this point to a dd, " She had a good memory, but I always b eat her at t he s pelling bees!" .. �~ ltJ?f ) Jack and Annetta were married -in 1937. They have nine children. Dorothy is the oldest, then Cl~ent, Ray, Dixie, Darlene, Donna, Byron, Ronnie and Debbie. ~:ost of the children still live near Ignacio, but Ray is in Tucson, Byron is in Washington and Debbie is attending College at Mazola, Montana. For many years the Frosts have lived on a farn, just north of the place Where Annetta was raised. At first they made their living alwost entirely by farming. "We milked 5 Jersey cows, earning $15. 00 per week selling the crean. l•,e had 300 chickens and traded the eggs for groceries. · 1t was not all work, We both loved horses. \,'hen Annetta was still with her gra.....dparents, she was forbidden to rice the race horses, but she sometines sneaked the jockey saddle on one of the fast ones and went for a wild ride. My interest," Jack recalls, "•,;as just as strong. During the 1940's I traveled with a local Cowboy's Polo Tea,-n. One of the horses I rode was a big help. He learned to kick the ball and sometimes made a score. I never got to play basketball or football, but I played base:)all every Sunday on a team sponsored by the B.I.A," Involvement with the business of the tribe has always been important to the Frosts. Annetta served on the Education Committee during the 1950's. Jack has served on the Adoption Committee and has been a newer of the Southern Ute Tribal CoW1cil. Jack has worked at. raany jobs to su~pleraent his fa_'Tlily income(at the John Deere Ager.cy, Headstart, night-watchman, etc.), but his heart and Annetta's heart have always been en t..~e farm and _the land of their. fathers. Shelby Smith ) ~ ~r) 1 ~ - Z / J ; /'179 -,,y~~ ~~- ~-aw..M-~~ft~~~ ~1-~-~~~ ~~ ;/.W'I- ~~ -~~~9-~ CT~~-~,Je~ 3) �b ~ : - 6"4:. -/~;ti. -l3.;t:/: -l'l~ -~(,d- J Georgeanna Etheridge noted in her Allison-Arboles news that Lester HcCoy received the Community Citizen Award from the Mount Allison Grange at the October 27th Harvest Supper. The award was presented by Hrs. Franklin Anderson. McCoy received the award in recognition for his work as instructor of tJ-,.e first aid course at the Mt. Allison Grange and other hel:p in the Community. He is a certified lr!edical Technician for the area. He has worked with the Red Cross for the past five years. The Herbert Beaches ·were home from a short vaca"t:ion trip to Tyler, Texas to visit their foster daughter, Diana, and her husband Bradley Ball and their five months old son, Jacob. Diana Valdez, before her rr:.arriage, was eI:Iployed at the Wise:n.an Hardware. . She ~ade her home with the Beaches since she was a little gi~l. A weekend houseguest at the home of Mrs. Jannie King was She also enjoyed seeing other fa□ily members. She came with a friend who went on to Durango to visit her daughter. The two ladies left Monday morning, the 12th, to return to Tucumcari. · her sister, Ers. Thelma Bennett fror:J. Tucumcari, Xew I·Iexico. Mrs. Olive D1.llon le;ft Tuesday, the sixth, to stay overnight with her friend, ~..rs. Evelyn Harrison, at her home in Fruitland, New Mexico. Hednesday they went to Arizona to visit with Mrs. Dillon's daughter, Dorothy, and family, the Ruben Rinkers at Sunrise Trading Post for a few days. �clJrr ~? ( ~ ~ f w r - : d J ~ ~ J , ~~~) For more than 60 years Ignacio had a newspaper. The Chi eftain in 1969 was in its 59th year of publication and was being put out by the Chieftain Publishing Company. One noteworthy feature of the newspap~r was that news was news and facts were facts and the two went together. Some of the highlights of 1969 - 10 years ago - from the Chieftain issues of February 20, April 10, and June 5 were: Do you re~e~ber? Hain Str eet Paving prospects looked good. The Ignacio Town Board met with representat~ves of the Colorado Highway Dept and discussed the eventual paving of Colorado 172 south from Ignacio to LaBoca at the New Mexico state line. It was hoped the department might be able to help with the cost of completion of the paving through Ignacio itself. James Casey was the district engineer; George McNicholas was the construction engineer; James Romero, Mayor of Ignacio; and Irvin L. Mason, town attorney. 0pen House, 11 honoring Mr. and Virs. Tony Sanchez on their 50th wedding anniversary was set for February 22nd at St. Ignatius Parish Hall. The Sanchez family lived on a ranch a short distance east of town since 1924. Hrs. Sanchez first came to Ignacio in 1907, coming here in a wagon with her parents. She attended the Ignacio school which was then located across from the Velasauez house. All of Browning avenue and where the Ignacio junior.and senior high is now located, was nothing but sagebrush. Mr. Sanchez was born in Farmington and grew up in Blanco. ) When Tony and Maria were married they drove six miles in a two seated buggy over rough dirt roads to be married at the Santa Rosa Catholic Church in Blanco. 11 As a result of the Southwest Data Institute's initial contract with the U.S. Department of Labor, finalized January 31, providing for the training and subsequent employment of 150 persons in a keypunch operation conducted by the S.D.I. division in Ignacio, star t i ng March 14, other avenues of cooperation in several other goverrenent and private projects have presented theI!!.selves. The Jim Petersons operated The Ignacio 11:usic Store in the Horris Building. Besides selling sane instruments and cusic supplies, Ivl".rs. Peterson was also giving guitar lessons. l•J>s. Rodney ?e..rgin attended the :fational Convention of Soil Conservaticn Districts in ~tla~ta, Ga. president of the Colorado Auxiliary. '.·~s. Pargin was the Food dishes native to Austria were featured at the noon dinner and program of the Happy Homemakers Extension Club at the home of Hrs. Jannie King. �In April Congressman Wayne Aspinall paid Ignacio a call sitting in on the Ute Tribal Council meeting and visiting the Southwest Data Institute keypunch training program. He witnessed the signing of the contract between the Tribe and the SDI for the use of Agency buildings and facilities in the manpower training project. Lake Capote was scheduled to be opened to the public for fishing on April 12th. Jeffery Jefferson was chairman of the Lake C9,pote board and announced the Lake would be opened to begin the season on Saturday and Sundays only. The annual Ignacio Cub Scout Pinewood Derby was held March 27th at the Ute Rec. Hall. The Derby track was built by Dan Shaughnessy. The boys in the scout troops built and painted model race cars which they raced in the Pinewood Derby. In the June 5th Chieftain scholarship awards were announced. Receiving awards were Arlinda J. Reeves who planned to attend Adams State College, Linda L. Klus~an who planned to attend Fort Lewis College and Norma Hae Engler who also planned to attend Fort Lewis College. Stanley Carpenter was the prograI!illler of the Ignacio schools' Bobcat Mobile Cultural Bus for the 1969 year. The Tuesday evening Bridge club members were entertained at the home of Mrs. Lena Doyle. James and Beth Sower became parents o·f their first child, a son named Allan Hayne. Thew. L. Wisemans left on their annual Memorial Day weekend with their three grandchildren, Gretchen, Loretta and Larry. *********************** CURRENT NE1•;S Funeral services for .John P. 1:Tashington.., 82, were on Wednesday, October 31st at thi~ Southern Ut e CoI!lmuni ty Center. Hr. Washington, a member of the Southern Ute Tribe, was buried at Dulce, New Mexico. The services were conducted by Verna P. Poncho of the Ignacio Church of Christ. Mr. Washington was a member of the Ignacio Church of Christ. He was born in Ignacio February 15, 1897, and lived all his life in the Ignacio Dulce areas. During his lifetime he ~as a farmer-rancher and sheen~an. Vir. Washington was-a veteran of World War I. He is survived by one stepson, Howard Reval,sr. of Dulce. �The population of the I gnacio area increased in October by the arrivals of several new babies. ?·il' . and l·il'S. Br uce Swanenyr had a girl on October 27 at Mercy Medical Center who weighed in at 6 pounds, 7 ounces. The first ti:.ne grandparents are Bruce and Jean HcClanahan and the Bob Swanemyrs of All ison . The Arthur J ackson Pa:ynes also became parents of a daughter on the 27th at Co..,.,,..unity Hospital . The baby weighed s ix pounds, twelve ounces. In ?fovember on the second Max and Roxanne Calvert becan:e first time parents of a girl born at Co:mJ!junity Hospital. The young lady weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces. David and Alicia Sullivan are the maternal grandparents . Two Tribal Council members were elected Friday, Uo_v ember The election was in the Com::iunity Center from 9 a.m. to 7 p .m. Seven candi dat es ran for the two Council positions . The two incumben t s were reelected . John Baker s r. received 121 vote s and Guy Pinnecoose r eceived 122 votes. Other candi dates and the votes recei ved wer e Ray Sage, 63 votes; Jame s Jefferson, 47 vote s ; Gay~a Rae Soi.th, 39 votes; Lillie Frost, 35 votes; and Ivan Red, 10 votes. second to serve on the Council. Hrs. Christine Callison returned hol'.!le Thursday, the eighth following a month's visit wi t h her daughter, Joyce , the Don Brown family, in Evansville, I ndiana. Ethel Canterbury , a longti~e r esident of the Tiffany area, died October 16 at 1•:t. San Rafael Hos ni tal in Trinidad . Following the death of her s ister , Edith, His s Canterbury moved to Trinidad i.n 1978 to live with her sister Elma Allen . · Funeral service's were in Trinidad and "burial was in the Aguilar Co!I!QUnity Cemetery in Aguilar, Colo. She was born February 19 in Has tings, Colo. and attended schools in Hicks and Aguilar •. She was a me::iber of the Hethodis t Church. tlhile l i ving on the ranch she oft en attended the Ignacio Pre sbyterian Chur ch. Be s ides her sister Elma, she is also survived by a sister, Sudie Clark of Phoenix. Two weeks of traveling around was enjoyed by Mrs. Charlotte Jone s. She spent one week with friends in Palisade and Fruita, then went on to Arvada to s pend a week with her daughter, Jacqueline and family, the Rex Reas. The Reas four months old fo ster child , J eremy, went to the home of new adoptive parents. The next day the Reas acquired a new ) I �foster baby. This infant, naced John Doe on th€ Lakewood police record s, was found on the porch of a fa=ily i n Lakewood. ~~ap~e~ in a towel, he ,,:as judged to be t wo .hours old . Re was taken to St4 Anthony's Hospital wher e he was well careci for and na!iled Anthon)' . When he was assigned to the Reas car e the nurses had a baby sho·,rer , so he ca:::.e wi. th a new ou tfi t, bl?.nkets and all. His picture •,\· 2.s i n the Denver Post; he was on the Channel 7 Denver news in !lis foster hoce. ne was two weeks old , }~onday, November fifth . He now goes by t:ne na:::e of Eric and. is a darling. Letters and phone calls wanting to adopt or provide fos ter care have been rece i ved by the Social Services Dept. and the Lakewood police. The search goes on for some infor~aticn as to his background. Bill Koenig is the new head of the Ignacio police department since the first of October . · Koenig '..:as hired ·oy the Ignacio town boa rd folloiling the resi gnati on of George l•'.anazanares. 1-:anazanares is no.,.. on the police force at Center, Colo . Koenig received his Colorado certification as a Colorado law enforc ement officer in 1976 . :-us background i nclu des cons ider-able training .e..rid background experi ence ir. la:,., enforcement work. The fat1ily now lives in Ignacio . •His ,,1ife, Kathy , is a licensed practical nurse at Mercy Hospital. They have a year . .. d...!.lU 1 .., f" Cl. J..Ld....LJ.. .., ... VJ.U ;:,vJ..L, -- .i.::;4c;1..,; . The Friendship Circle neeting was on Rovenber seventh in the church annex. Circle p res ident, Heinie Ga~dner, conducted the business meeti·ng . The October 25 Bake Sale :<1as reported as quite successful with $132 . 50 taken on the sale . The Circle □emb ers were invited to a n ocr.. luncheon at the ·Hobby Corner a t the Allison Cornnuni t y Church f er noon, Wednesday, the ll+ th . · Al so an invitation was extended to IgnciCic to the Than..'\.c Service at the Allison Church the af.ternoon of the 28th.• Plans were to finish the laprobe s and. gift "t.rrap them. th e afte r noon of the 16th at the church annox . It •..,as voted to give tbe Ignacio Brown~.e Scout troop fi ve dollars · tm•1 ard t;1.e nurchase of needed s u,P)lies . The Bro·.mies now nunber 42 girls . ':.'he t::-oop is headed by- :,~rs. Shirley Snider . The C:..rcle Christ:'..as par ty is to be a ~~alad l uncheon at noon ·.lednesCay , DC'c . 4th . ':here is to be a gift exchange anc. 6ntertain~ent by everyone present . Refreshme nts were served by Hrs. Be ssie ?ennell for Mrs. E,.relyn Crawford . � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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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: November 1979 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 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1979-11 Language A language of the resource English; Espanol Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center