https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/9aaba82152e21dd1e44e4b5b0ec1ed7c.pdf 50ca804a5f9b70c8f34cbdecfd8d1c4b PDF Text Text �Bon!lie and Essie Essie Burch Richards, The daughter of Sarah Burch and Bob Richards, was born at Bayfield August 5, 1916. . "We lived in a little adobe house still standing on the place next to Jack Frost's farm. I.don 1 t remember my mother. She died when I was very young, so my grandparents largely raised me. My grandfather, Robert Burch had all kinds of animals, turkeys, sheep, cattle and chickens. The apple trees he planted are still there, but the strawberry pat-ch has died out. 11 Essie started school at the Allen Day School, then went to the Bayfield school for grades 4-7. She finished high school at the Indian School in Albuquerque. "The Albuquerque School was mostly a vocational school to learn farming, home economics, etc. One thing I liked was the military training. We wore uniforms and every morning we had drills. Then on Sundays a lot of people from town came out to watch our dress parades. 11 Essie was one of six students chosen to be sent to Pennsylvania for special nurses training, but about the time she was ready to go her grandfather needed her help at home. So she never got to go. Essie had, of course, ridden horses all her life •. So no one thought 1 t wa.s particularly unus.ual .for her uncle to ask her help to break and . train his horses. Essie was doing just that when she met her future husband. Bonnie Kent was hired to help break the horses, also. The two of them took an immediate liking for one another and were married in 1937. ) . Bonnie Kent was born near Ignacio in 1918. His parents were Graves Stone Kent and Ada Rabbit Kent. They had a home near the Oxford Tract. When Bonnie was too small to remember much,the house was struck by lightn- · ing and everything was lost. Graves continued raising sheep and cattle on the open range until he got a land allottment east of Ignacio where Ada still lives. There were a rew automobiles around when Bonnie was a child but most people still used horses and wagons or buggies. ''The best I can remember, 11 Bonnie says, "a new buggy cost $300-$400. Real nice one cost about $500. There were shops to service and repair buggies just like there are auto repair shops today. You could buy new parts or the blacksmiths could rebui1d the rims and spgkes and other parts that wore out. 11 Work on the rarms was hard 1n those days, but bonnie and Essie both remember that life with good feeling. 11 In the haying time we loaded the cut bay on slips (sled-like platforms pulled by a team) and hauled it to the barn. If it was a grain field, we hired a man with a binder to cut and bind the grain into shocks. Then someone brought a thrashing machine to the field. We threw the shocks into the machine and it separated the gran from the straw. The men held cloth sacks under the spout to catch the grain. Others stood by to sew the sacks closed. Life was better on the farm then. It was hard work,but we enjoyed it. Everybody kept busy and helped one another. ' Right after they were married, Bonnie and Essie stayed with Bonnie's parents for a while. Bonnie worked at irrigating in the summer. He was a line rider over in the Piedra country and then worked on the farm at the Ignacio Indian School. About 1946 the Kents got a farm east of Ignacio where they built the home in which they still live. Bonnie was > �-, the i'ribal Activities Board which was responsible for planning a..i.d organ- izing rodeos. The old rodeo grounds were next to the Ute Park where the ball park is now. This involvement with the rodeo got Bonnie interested in raising stock again, not for th meat market, but for rodeo stock. Before long he had quite a few head of bucking horses and some Brahma bulls. "We really enjoyed the rodeo business. We rented the animals to rodeos around the 4-corners area, Farmington, Cortez, Pagosa, Dulce, Durar,go and Ignacio. Cnce in a while a dealer would take a few of our a..>1imals clear to Texas or Oklahoma for the rodeo finals. Most people think rodeo stock are really mean, but they're not. On their home pasture most of them are as gentle as pets, It's only in the ring they turn into a different animal." The Kents kept their rodeo stock until Richard, their oldest child moved away from Ignacio. They hav~ four children. Richard now lives in Oregon. Eunice died at the age of 17. Phoebe still lives at Ignacio. Their 4th child, Beulah was chosen to be Miss Southern Ute, the Four-Corner's Indian Princess and was a runner-up to Miss Indian America at Sheridan, Wyoming. Beulah represented Miss Indian America at many events in this country and once in Europe. Bonnie and Essie have gone to the Bear Dances and the Sun Dances for many years. "It's still done about the same as always, but in the old days they were a little stricter. No food or drink near the ceremony and no intoxicated people allowed. It was more religious and less social. We liked the old way a little better." Shelby Smith Welcome to our· June 25 Social! DATE: ·where: 25, 1976 June Community Center 12:00, noon When: How: Pot Luck Special Event: Clinic to check bood pressure and urine samples, FREE! Allison-Arboles town of Ignacio Rural areas NW & near Ignacio - please bring vegetables and salads please bring main dishes please bring desserts FREE CLINIC Lorraine Duran, PHS Nurse and one of the nurses from San Juan Basin Health will be at the Community Center during our June Social to offer free blood pressure and urine checks. The urine samples should be taken shortly before arriving at the social. Be sure to remember • .., . ... . ... ( .. . �Headsta~t g~aduation ceremoni es on Wednesday, May 26th, was the bi_g · event of t he year for the 46 children who received their graduation certificates. Parents, relatives and friends were present for thei program at the Southern Ute Children's Center. Among the graduates was Paul Valdez, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Valdez. Coming from Lindri th, New Mexico were his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Marlin .--__-,__ Brown and his cousin, Melanie Olbert and from Farmington, his great grand1 mother, Mrs. Lillian Brown. Melanie also had a short visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Geneva Olbert. Most of the graduates plan on going on to school and will be in kindergarten this fall. La ,g raduaci6n para los ninos de headstart fue el dia 26 de Mayo. 46 ninos :rec1.b.ieu-. Q n sus certificados de gruadacion.· . , ......... Uno de los nines que gruado de headstart, Paul Valdez, Jlijito del Senor y Senora Raympnd Valdez tubo mucha compania para esta ocasion. Los abuelos. El Senor y Senora Marlin Brown de Lindrith, Nuevo Mejico y primita, Melanie la vis-abuela, la Senora Lillian Brown visitaron con la familia. Melanie tambien visito con su abuela, la Seirora Geneva Olbert. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Patrick returned home the first part of June af'ter spending several weeks in Arizona and California. Coming back with them was Wallace Garrison from his home in California to visit and lio some camping and fishing. El Senor y Senora E. F. Patrick han regresado a su hogar de Arizona y California donde pasaron varias semanas. El Senor Wallace Garrison vino con ellos para truchar y campar en las montanas por un tiempo. - - -- -- -- -- - - Happy Birthday Feliz Cumpleanos Thelma Kubler Mrs. Trutt Hudson Victoria Salvador John Griego Steven Garcia Eva Little .Arthur Smith Kenneth Morris took time away from the store and the week of June sixth Mr. and 1-1:rs. Morris were in Colorado Springs vacationing and doing a lot of sightseeing. 1 Kenneth Morris tomo vacacion de su trabajo en la tienda par una semana. Ely su esposa Euela Mae fueron ah Colorado Springs a paseo/en auto para ver puntos de interes. Mr. Ben Lucero from Forthall Idaho is here visiting his sister Mrs. Benerita ~sias and other relitives. El Senor Ben Lucero de Forthall, Idaho esta aqui visitando ah su hermana Benedita Casias y otros parientes. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Karl Hauert last week were her grandsons Robert and Phil Olbert, Mrs. John Carlson, Anna Ma:e-_Cardon and pastor Betty from the Lutheran Church in Durango. Marie Thomas from Bayfield had lunch with them Wednesd~y the 16th • .,..,,,. Visitando ah Senor y Senora Karl Hauert la semana pasada fueron dos nietos de la Senora Hauert Robert y Phil Olbert y sus vecinas las-Senoras John Carlson y Anna Mae Cardon. El mieroles Marie Thomas de Bayf"ield tome la comida con ellos. Mrs. Alice Long of Albuquerque was a houseguest June 10th at the home of Mrs. Margaret Wiseman. La Senora Alice Long de Albuquerque visito con la_Senora Margaret Wiseman el dia 10 de Junio. �· S~end.i.pg tho summer months in the Ignacio area will be Mr. and Mrs . B:a:r·ry'J-1cJunkin, his father, U. G. (Jake) McJm1k in and her mother, }h~s. :Myrtl·e Bowers, from El Paso, Texas. They are living iz:i the Bowers home in the Spring Creek area. · The McJu..'1kins are longtime Ignac:to residents . 1".:r . Mc.Ju.nkin Sr. now ;95, owned and operated a second hand store in Ignacio for ma,ny years and later a grocery and Dry Goods Store which is now Phillips store. F..is s on Harry taught math and science in the Ignacio junior and senior high school i n the 4os and early 50s. They t hen rn.oved to El Paso and he was a math- , . ernatician at White Sands Proving Grounds until his recent retirement. El Senor y Senora Harry HcJunkin es tan en Ignacio por el ·v.erano. Harryes bijo de Serf'or Jake McJunkin y su esposa es hi,ja de la Senora Myrtle Bov,ers de El. Paso, Tejas. La Familia McJunkin esta viviendo en el·hogar de l a Se:nm. . . a Bm•rers en Spring Creek. El Senor Jake Mc.Junkin ahora tiene 95 an'os cu.mplidos y corrio una tienda de seguno..a mano en Ignacio por muchos ancs, • despue ~ corrio la tienda que ahora e s Phillip s Mercantile. Su hijo, Har ry enseno ,es cue.la en Ignacio y despues se mudo p ar·a El Paso. Harry tambien trabajo en \~1ite Sands Proving Grounds hasta ahora que se ha retirado de trabajiar. A pancake breakfast will be the beginning of the Saturday-Sunda.y, July 10-11, Cent ennial· Bicentennial celebration in Bayfield, A group of Bayfield residents headed by chairman Glade Stowell a re planni ng the event. Old-time dress will be in or der and the re will be an exhibit of heritage items. . The activities will also include food and games and music and dancing along the main street on Saturday evening. Featured events will also be arranged for Sunday, J·uly the 11th. · . .,,,. Un grupo de residentes de Bayfi~ld, Colorado dirigi~c's ror e~ Senor Glade Stowell tendran una celebracion de c~ntenario y bicenT,enario el dia 1 o y 11 de ,Tulia. Comenzaron en la manana con un almu~zo de pancakes los dos ftias. Tarnbien se vesteran con traj es pas ados de rn~da y ha bra_ 1 exhibitos de articulos ,.antiguosJ comida, juegos, baile en la calle y muchas otras clase de diversiones. .- _ ___. ,, . .~ .~ .~~AWr·· ~~ :- _. . ~7..@~--:~- . t )·". . . L :::::::- 25 ~~::__..,s~ r-~~~··- )~~ -:~ • ~ •• :--casecr "I 5WC~r !':r. getting younger ond stronger! It'~ a lot easier for me to carr"y $20 worrh of groceries- · .t.han- it ~~as )'.e?!s ago!'' . . . _. _.. . . , ·· ,;·cl· ~ RuiD ~-:.:. ~ e .,~- ~ ~" . L'-.\+=JV\°I ., \ ., - ~ D: ·- 1 ' ~j, ... - ~ . . · ....- ~ : ; __ .__,__~ ----~--lt ~~\1 - ~~ _-=- - •- · 1 ... tJ ·-· ~.,.. · "One jar of peanut butter will 31 sandwiches." .... ·•, - make ·- -·- · - . . . ---- Bishop Charles Buswell from Pueblo, Colo~ado was in Igna.cio Saturday June 5th to administer the Sacrement of Confirmation t'o seventeen young people at St. Ignatius Catholic Church. The beautiful high mass was at I 7 1 :00 o clock P. M. con-celebrated by Father Donald Castengu:ay and Fa.ther Tony Hiner brink. The young people confirmed· were, Debbie Bartley, Issac Lucero, Rodney Burrell, Judeth Jenn i ngs, Marcella Quintana, Danny Jacquez, Tim Pacheco, Dale Valencia, Theresa He rrera, Ernest Pennecoose, Dorthea Valdez, Phillip Mestas, Lillian Mestas, Paul Olguin, Patsy Olguin, Charles Grant and Debbie deKay. Refreshments were served at the Parish hell after the services. �,F The Bayfield bridge club ladies were entertained on. Tuesday 3-ftei~noon, Ji.me. 1 5'th at the home of l{rs. Virginia Lunsford. " ·' · Senora,s del bridge club de Bayfield se juntaron en casa de la Senora Virgjn:1.a Lunsford el Martes por la tarde. e:J. 0 1rs Robert and Ethel Shock celebrated their Golden Hedding Anniversary, Sunday june sisth at their home 829 Fifth Avenue, l}..1rango. Qutte a number of longtime .Allison-Ignacio friends attended the reception given by their son Ernest and his wife, Ruth and grandchildren Nancy, Diane, Bob and Eoil~-. Bob and Ethel were both living at Allison at the time of their marriage at the home of his parents in Allison. The Shocks lived for a few years at Center, Colorado and then moved to Ignacio and lived ·at the Agency while Bob was in· the gove:enment service. 'l'he Shocks then moved to Durango and Bob worked for the Denver Hio Grand.e raiLcoad until his retirement. · ·11rs. ·shock still attends the Thursday bridge club in Ignacio. She has been. a member i'or some l-:-5 years. 1 Robert y Ethel Shock celebraron su aniversario de oro en su casa en 829 Fifth Avenue el} Durango. El Senor y Senora Ernest Shock y hijitos dieron l.9_s refrescos. Los Shocks mayores vivieron en Igna<:io y Allison por ·muches anos don.de. Bob trabajo p0r la agencia ~:Y· DesJ)ues- se m.u do para Durango donde trabajo por el fierro-carril ha.sta qu e~retiro de t~abajar • .,£"~,~£:-~::.~~ ·. mm::~:·::· ·::::m·::~~::·n·t;: - 'tnn t<de: Llttle Mary wa;, visiting on her grnndpa.r1mt!',' farm. Investigating tb~ chicken Jot, t:1,e came upon a pr•.:• ~o:!lr. :Jhe ,·;::n qnickly to U,e house, shouting, " Grann;>', come q nic~\ One of yom· chickens is in bloom !''. , Religjou Is Re·warding A small l>oy cal:'lti' hom<?. from his first day at Snnd~y School and bega:1 empt.yin6 his pocke ts of niekels, d imes, and quar'cs:rs, while his parents gasped. Finally his motlier asked: "Wliere did you r.;c.t ull that moriey? " And the boy replied: "At Si.mday Schoo!_. They have ~owls of it.'.'. · · Seve1·al Arboles residents wl;lo a1.. e usually present at the Senior Citizens dinners at Pino Nuche were missed at the May dinner. The Charley Barclays, L. A. 11'lshers and Roy Etheridges were unable to attend. On Saturday M2.y 22.nd the men attended a county ass embly 1n Pagosa Springs and -were returning home when they met headon a car driven by Waldo Gomez of Pagosa Sprj_ngs who also bad a passenger in his car~ All five men were inju:red. Mr. Etheridge·, driver of the car, received chest injuries and a bruised eye, ]',fr. Barclay had leg and hand lacerations. Mr. Fisher suffered head lacerations and a broken leg. Algunos de los cuidadanos que atienden la comida de los Cuidadanos Mayores no pudieron compartir en el mez de Mayo. El Senor y Senora Charley Barclay, L.A. 1''ishers, y el Senor y Senora Roy Ethridge estubieron en un accidente el d.ia 22 de Mayo. Este grupo habia.n attendido una a.ssemblia del condado en Pago~.1. Springs c.uando se topetiaron con Utl automobj_le.. El Ar•rie1•0 del automobile, Waldo Gomez de Pagosa Springs junto con los otros fueron lastimados~ Esperamos que todos sig~.n bien. Misty Rae Jefferson was home over the Memorial Day weekend 'tisiting relatives and friends. . Misty graduated this J une from Utah State University in Logan with a B. s. degree in Special E1uca tion. She is working this summer for a Specia.l Cb.ildren's Clinic in Las Vegas , Nevada and has .signed a contract to teac:b. spBcial education classes in the Salt La,ke school district this coming year. La Senorita Misty Jefferson estubo en Ignacio durante el dia. de Mem.oria visitando con familiares. La Senorita Jefferson gruado de la Universidad de Utah con el grado de Educacion Especial. Ahora esta trabajando en Las Vegas, Nevada po el verano pero tiene contrato para trabajar en. Salt Lake con ia Educacion Especial. ' I � 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: June 1976 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. 1976-06 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center