10 10 216 https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/0f1518c4411e60c7c46aed5619379f9e.pdf 6a972345b80f2394197d26651096a294 PDF Text Text '1 ~ ~ 'J l EDNA (Russell) BAKER "I ,,..) l ·, ) ) ) 1 J ) 1 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) About 10 miles south of Durango the Weazel Skin Bridge crosses the Animas River. Since the main highway runs up on the Florida Mesa and mostly local travelers use the bridge, it receives little attention. Perhaps a few of the old-timers of that area remember how it got its name. Weazel Skin was a Ute who settled on a tract of land in the Animas Valley in the 1880's. He raised sheep and goats and developed a profitable farm and ranch operation on the river. Weazel's English name was Hickey Williams. One of his daughters who grew up on the ranch was named Marsalino. The Russell's lived on the Weazel Skin Ranch and had four daughters: Daisy, Maggie, Edna and Sara. Edna remembers going to Durango in a buggy to see the fair and for shopping. "We liked to ride the street car from one end of Main to the other. Once my mother left a diaper bag on the car and we had to wait till it made a complete round before we could retrieve it." When Edna was still a young girl, her family moved onto the Spanish Fork Ranch where Spring Creek enters the Pine River near La Boca. Edna went to school here for a few years, then was transferred to the Indian School at Santa Fe. Then she was sent to Sherman Institute at Riverside, California to finish high School. There she met Indian students from all over the country. "We were given a choice of pre-vocational training at Sherman. I tried nurse's training and dry cleaning. I liked both of them and both have been useful since then. At first I didn't believe I'd like the nursing. A nurse sees so many sad and stomach-turning things, but soon I began to see the other side of it. Sick and injured people are just people who need help and the feeling you get from helping them is just great." ) J ') J ·_) _) __J ,. ) .J __J ..J __J __J Edna's years in California were great, too. California in the 1920's was a beautiful, uncrowded place with its clean air and tropical plants and mountains by the sea. From Riverside to Los Angeles were large open country areas, not all city like today. ''We went to Catalina Island and rode the glass bottom boat. Sometimes we went to the amusement Park at Long Beach. I remember how I screamed when we rode the roller coaster over the ocean. We went to Tijuana to see the bull fights. At that time the arena was a beautiful log structure." When Edna finished her nurse's training, she worked at Dulce, then at Towaoc, then at the Taylor Hospital in Ignacio. Minnie Cloud and I were some of the first ones hired . We cleaned and cleaned the building and made towels and baby clothes until it was opened. Soon afterwards Edna married Cassimero Baker. They had two sons, Archie and Dusty. When the army started building up Ft. Carson, Cassie and Edna moved to the east slope. Cassie worked on construction projects on the base and Edna became a welder ..J ..J .J J J ..._) 7 �in an airplane factory operated by Universal Electric at Colorado Springs. She enjoyed the work very much. Finally. she and her boys came back to Ignacio and she worked in the Taylor Hospital until ii closed in 1955. "Even when we moved back to Ignacio, I sent my boys to the public school because I wanted them to learn to get along with all kinds of people." After the Taylor Hospital closed Edna worked in Denver and in Colorado Springs for a while, then she returned to Durango where she worked at Mercy and Community Hospitals until she retired. "I always liked my work in the hospitals. Such nice people to work with. It was a new world every week -- always in training or going to nurse's workshops and conventions and having dinners. I worked side by side with all kinds including foreign students and trainees. I really miss my many friends in Durango and Colorado Springs whom I visit whenever I can." Archie worked hard and went through training for auto mechanics. He worked several years in California and now lives in Durango. Dusty has had mechanics training and also training as an X-Ray technician in the hospital. He was working in Durango hospitals until the opportunity to apply as manager of the new Shell Station opened up, and when he got the job, he and Edna moved back to Ignacio. After being gone so long, it seems a little strange to be back in this area, but Edna has quite a few relatives here and just as she has made new friends wherever she has lived, she will surely be able to do the same here again. We wish her and her children the best of good fortune and wish lo welcome her back to Ignacio. November, 1975 - Shelby Smith 8 � 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 Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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 Edna (Russell) Baker Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1975-11 Subject The topic of the resource Baker, Edna (Russell) Description An account of the resource Biography of Edna (Russell) Baker based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the November, 1975 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baker, Edna (Russell) Language A language of the resource English Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/36fd309450e71441576d8ee1a9b87512.pdf 2333adb530fa82980f5e8646a3af94d4 PDF Text Text ROSELIA (Munoz) BACA Though Spanish-American people had lived in the Rio Grande valley for years, few except prospectors and fugitives from justice had ventured into the San Juan basin to stay until about 1875 when a wagon train of Spanish-American settlers from Culebra moved across the passes to homestead in this area. About the same time families from EL Rito near Espanola moved in to the San Juan valley near present day Blanco. One of these was the family of Presentation and Mercedes Munoz. Their first child was a daughter whom they named Roselia. Mr. Munoz farmed a well-irrigated farm in the river valley. Except for sugar and coffee and patent medicines, the family produced almost all their food and other needs on the farm. Since no refrigeration was available, it was difficult to keep meat in the summertime. They made jerky with some of the meat. The rest they ate or shared with the neighbors. For fun Roselia and her younger brothers and sisters loved to swim in a large hole in their irrigation ditch. Any toys they had they made themselves. Roselia remembers making her own dolls and doll clothing. "Usually," she says, "there was not much time for fun, since all work was hand work on the farm, all of us, even the children had work to do everyday. " Life became more difficult when Roselia was 13. Her mother died that year. Immediately Roselia became "mother" to her 6 younger brothers and sisters. Roselia has since had 12 children of her own and has a major hand in caring for some of her grandchildren. ) ) J J _) J _) J J _) j ...) J J J J J -.J -.J J J Now 80 years old,Roselia says, "I feel like I have always been a mother. "Occasionally Mr. Munzo allowed the children to attend dances in the area. At one of them 17 year old Roselia met a stranger named Simon Baca who had recently moved from Colorado to work on construction of the new citizens ditch. Roselia was 17 Simon was 31. When asked why she chose to marry someone this much older. Roselia says, "Simon was a very nice guy and 1 wanted someone nice to take care of me. "Marriage soon meant more people to take care of. She and her husband moved into her father's house. When the first of her 12 children was born she was still keeping house for her father and caring for her brothers and sisters. Each week she used 251 bs. of flour to make light bread for the family. During the warm months she supervised the drying and canning of the winter supply of garden produce, fed her family and her father's family plus any hired hand on the farm. For five years Simon drove a horse and buggy on the mail route between Largo and Aztec. When her younger brothers and sisters were old enough to take care of them selves, the Bacas moved to a farm on the Mesa, south of Ignacio. Simon worked for the tribe as well as caring for sheep and goats. In the evenings he enjoyed calling for square dances and was very talented on the violin. Most years the children had to stay out of school till at least Thanksgiving to help put up hay and to harvest the potatoes and beans. For fun the boys liked to go rabbit hunting. During good years all the children gathered pinon nuts. The family kept what they wanted and sold the remainder for cash. 5 �One summer day, Simon and Roselia were away from home. One of the children must have been playing with matches for the farmhouse burned to the ground. Manuel who was the oldest one at home-was barely able to get the younger ones out of the house. In five minutes the whole place was a roaring inferno. Roselia was sad not only because they lost all their clothing and household goods, but also because she had lost family mementos from previous generations. The family had to start all over again to acquire the possessions of a life time. Seven of Roselia's boys were in the service during WW II and the Korean War. She recalls being very worried, fearing what news might come in the mail, but all of them came back. Simon died at the age of 87 in 1969. All of Ros.elias' 12 children are still living. They are scattered every where across the west from Denver to Seattle. Roselia who is still healthy and very active spends a Great amount of time traveling and visiting kids and readily admits how much she enjoys it. "I'm on vacation all the time," she states, "I have to keep track of my children and grandchildren." by Shelby Smith 6 � 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 Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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 Roselia (Munoz) Baca Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-12 Description An account of the resource Biography of Roselia (Munoz) Baca based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the December, 1973 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baca, Roselia (Munoz) Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/1e71fd10b9fccce5b752979ece1d6405.pdf db0c131195e3830189486bf23aaba783 PDF Text Text ALBERT & ETHEL MAY (Chambers) ANCELL Albert G. Ancell was born in Collinsworth, County, Texas, south of Shamrock on October 17, 1902. His father, Thomas M. Ancell had been born in Howard County, Missouri in October of 1871, and moved to Dallas, Texas with his parents when he was an infant. After he was old enough to work, Thomas got a job laying ties and rails on the Ft. Worth and Denver Railroad which was building a line from northwest Texas to Denver. While working near Harold, Texas, Thomas found a farm he liked enough to settle down and raise wheat and cattle. "While dad was on the farm near Harold, he married my mother, Lettie. I was the third of four children. Shortly after I was born, we moved to Gaines County Texas on the New Mexico Line near Seminole. It was flat empty ranch country where I grew up. Our nearest neighbors were 8-10 miles away. My first schooling was at a little ranch school. Later I attended 6th and 7th grades at Lovington, New Mexico. During the drought of 1918 I quit school to help my dad drive his 1200 head of cattle to Colorado. He sold the cattle to buy a farm, but later lost it on a mortgage. I started working for wages on the Butler Ranch. In 1926 I headed for California in a Model T Ford. The route I took went through Trinidad, Albuquerque, Silver City and Lordsburg. Then I went to Tucson, Phoenix and Yuma, to San Diego and Santa Barbara. West of Yuma I had to follow the old plank road across the sand desert. The whole trip took 13 days. There weren't any motels so I camped along the way." . ) J ) ) ) _) .J J J .J ,..J J "I soon got a job working for the Bixby Ranch, one of the biggest ranch companies in California. They owned land in several parts of California and Arizona. Their headquarters was in Long Beach. We ran cattle through the area where Disneyland is now located. I stayed with the ranch for about 6 years. My wages were $60-75.00 per month plus room and board." "My brother at Presidio, Texas, asked me to come down there and help him operate a filling station. At that time there was a small boom going on in that part of the country with the building of the railroad from San Antonio to Chihuahua, Mexico, and on to the Pacific. In 1936 I moved to Como, Colorado in South Park where I worked in the hay and cattle business for 11 years. Then I came to Ignacio and bought Glen Rouses's place. I raised grain and hay and did combining and other custom farm work for neighbors. In 1965, I married Ethel May Arnspiger." Ethel May was the seventh of eight children born to Henry Walls Chambers and Susan Louise (Lee) Chambers, Susan's dad was a relative of Robert E. Lee. Henry and Susan were both born in Texas, but after their marriage moved to Globe, Arizona and then on to Colorado in 1902. .J ..J· .J .J J J J ·J ...J "My dad helped build the Cascade Flume north of Durango. In 1904 they moved to Bayfield and took a homestead on Spring Creek where I was born on July 4, 1904. Mother died when I was 5 years old. I attended the Mason School east of town where the Lieses now live, for 8 years, then came to Ignacio for 2 more years. That was all the school offered here. In 1924 Ernest Arnspiger and I were married. Ernest worked in a 3 �butcher shop in Ignacio for a while, then got a job at a coal mine north of Bayfield. Finally, we bought a farm over on the Florida Mesa near Falla where we raised our children. We had one son, Randall, who died in 1957 and one daughter Lorraine, who is now a Registered Nurse in Tucson, Arizona." "My dad's second wife died in 1939, leaving him with 2 young daughters. Since one of the girls was only 10 years old, Ernest and I decided to move over to the farm on Spring Creek to help dad with the work and to help take care of the girls. In 1961 when Ernest became ill, we moved to Bayfield where he died in 1963." "Two years later, I married Albert Ancell. He had a place on the southeast corner of Holt's farm where we still live. Albert has 3 children of his own. Lettie June lives in Littleton, Colorado; and Lyle and Dennis live in Abilene, Texas." The Ancells have both lived a good many years and Albert has lived a good many places of different climate and elevation. In Albert's opinion, Southwest Colorado has the most pleasant climate of all, otherwise he says he wouldn't have stayed here for 30 years. Of all the various periods of time Albert has lived through, he feels that today is the best and the easiest time to be living. Taken in August 1979 August, 1979 -- by Shelby Smith 4 � 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 Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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 Albert Ancell and Ethel May (Chambers) Ancell Biography Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1979-08 Subject The topic of the resource Ancell, Albert; Ancell, Ethel May (Chambers) Description An account of the resource Biography of Albert Ancell and Ethel May (Chambers) Ancell based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the August, 1979 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ancell, Albert; Ancell, Ethel May (Chambers) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Extent The size or duration of the resource. 2 pages https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/0c08648100dde84e78802ad7f3a3c30d.jpg a94f3779402d785dc235c862e388c543 https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/1dc649fa0d868843b6ade31b12c0ef0b.mp3 9f77b32883848b30663d8089f297ffcb https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/70a47da9812904c7b1c6c730b4a1eaf3.pdf c101742867a216578c30071b67c12272 PDF Text Text Voices of Ignacio Oral History Project Interview with Glen Walker April 2nd, 2025 Conducted by Daniel Frauenhoff and Cheyenne Munns Transcript by Daniel Frauenhoff �1 Preface ​ The following transcript is based on an interview conducted at the Ignacio Community Library (ICL), 470 Goddard Ave., Ignacio, Colorado, on April 2nd, 2025, at 1:00pm. It details a conversation between Ignacio resident Glen Walker and ICL staff members Daniel Frauenhoff and Cheyenne Munns. Mr. Walker discusses his efforts to establish Ignacio’s first library, career as the owner/operator of the hardware store, and other local history topics. It has been produced as part of the Voices of Ignacio Project, administered by the ICL, which aims to assemble and curate a collection of oral histories from residents of Ignacio and the surrounding area to preserve for community members, researchers, and future generations. Timestamps are based on the original recording, which is to be cataloged on the Voices of Ignacio Digital Collection website. Contents [0:00] - Introduction/The Walkers Come to Ignacio [1:48] - The Origins of Ignacio’s First Library [3:40] - Arranging Funding for the First Library [4:40] - The First Board of Directors [5:40] - Additional Funding for the First Library [6:10] - History of the Original Library Building [7:05] - Passing the First Mill Levy and Establishing the Library District [8:30] - Background of the New Library Building [8:50] - Financing the New Library Building [10:09] - Acquiring Land for the New Library Building [12:30] - Past Library Employees/Directors [15:58] - The McClanahan Connection [17:00] - Changes to the Library Over Time [19:15] - Other Community Members to Speak To [21:00] - Changes to Ignacio Over the Years and the Southern Ute Tribe [23:00] - History of the Ignacio Hardware Store [25:40] - Lawrence Wiseman [27:39] - Final Thoughts ​ �2 [0:00] - Introduction/The Walkers Come to Ignacio Frauenhoff: ​ It is Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025. This is Daniel Frauenhoff speaking and I am joined by [gestures to the right]. Munns: ​ Cheyenne Munns Frauenhoff:​ We are here on behalf of the Voices of Ignacio project, administered by the Ignacio Community Library, and to that effect our guest of honor today is Mr. Glen Walker. Mr. Walker, if you would briefly introduce yourself, where and when you were born? Walker: ​ My name is Glen Walker. I was born in Louisiana on June 25, 1942. My wife and I moved to Ignacio in 1974 and I still live here. Frauenhoff: ​ What was it that brought you out here? Walker: ​ We didn’t want to live in Denver anymore. We were both from small towns and it was sort of accidental that we ended up here. I had a longtime friend that moved to Durango to teach at Fort Lewis and he said ‘well why don’t you move over there,’ [Ignacio] so we did. It turned out to be a good choice for us. Frauenhoff: ​ So you’ve lived here ever since? Walker: ​ Yes, well, we lived briefly in Costa Rica for a couple of years. [1:48] - The Origins of Ignacio’s First Library Frauenhoff: ​ Was there any library in Ignacio when you first came here? Walker: ​ Nope, nothing. Frauenhoff: ​ And, as I understand, you were pretty closely involved with getting the first library up off the ground? Walker: ​ Yeah. I worked for the town of Ignacio, back years ago. I had a couple of jobs, I was the Assistant Town Manager and Recreation Director. The town had a business incubator over where the Southern Ute Adult Education [Center] is now. And I got sort of saddled with that after a while. We were trying to attract businesses to town and didn’t have much luck at it. But one day, where the deli is �3 at the grocery store now, there was a small cafe called Jerry’s Cafe. [To Munns]: Do you remember that? Munns:​ Yea. Walker:​ So one day I went over there for a coffee break, and there was only one other person in there, a gentleman by the name of Wayne Whiteman, who had just retired from being president of the Bank of Ignacio. So Wayne and I were talking and I asked him what did he think would help Ignacio grow, be a better place? And he said ‘what we really need is a library.’ [3:40] - Arranging Funding for the First Library Walker:​ Some years prior, he [Whiteman] and a few other people had raised some money to start a library, but they just couldn’t do it. And they still had $2500 in the bank. He said ‘probably the only entity that could do this would be the town, and we’d be willing to give them that $2500 to kickstart things.’ So when I went back to town hall I asked the town manager what he thought about that and he said ‘write up a proposal and we’ll take it to the town board.’ So I did, and did some checking on other funds, took it to the town board, and they all were in favor of it. [4:40] - The First Board of Directors Walker:​ So, [I] recruited some board members that the town appointed. They were: a gentleman named Larry Corbin, a lady that was on the town board, Elizabeth (Cindy) Gallegos, Donna Young, who at the time was the director of the Southern Ute Community Action Program, Dorthy Zahrt, who was actually finishing up a degree in education at Fort Lewis, her husband had been principal at the junior high here, and myself. [5:40] - Additional Funding for the First Library Frauenhoff: ​ And I guess you’d call that the first Friends of the Library or? Walker: ​ Well, no, we were the board, Board of Directors, or whatever they called us. I got a $5000 grant from the State Library Board and we started doing fundraisers. We had raffles, bake sales, cause we had no tax base. The town was supportive of it, but they weren’t gonna fund us very much, even though they bought the first building that was here. �4 [6:10] - History of the Original Library Building Walker:​ It was an old building that was, I think built in 1908 if I remember right, and it had been several things over the years, a furniture store, I don’t know what else. But at that time it was a woodshop, and the gentleman, unfortunately, was not able to make it here and the bank took the building back and they sold it to the town for a very, very good price. We started remodeling that building and we had lots of donations of materials, free labor, a few community service people [laughs], and we built the library basically from scratch. [7:05] - Passing the First Mill Levy and Establishing the Library District Walker: ​ ‘91 is when we became an official district, and I think that spring, the spring of ‘91, we had an election [that] established a very small Mill Levy and defined the Library District as being the School District boundaries. We opened with mostly donated books, of which the majority were Reader’s Digest condensed books [laughter], everybody in Ignacio and the surrounding area had a set of those and they brought ‘em, and, of course, we had to haul them to the dump. But that’s how we got started. I don’t know what else you’d want to know. Frauenhoff: ​ So you said that all happened around ‘91, give or take? Walker: ​ We started working on it late ‘87 or early ‘88 and we opened the library in ‘91. [8:30] - Background of the New Library Building Frauenhoff: ​ Now, as far as the building we’re sitting in today [present library], it was constructed in 2007, is that correct? Walker: ​ That’s correct. Frauenhoff: ​ So its on, or at least the court yard is on, the site of the old library. Were you closely involved with getting the funding together for this building we’re in? [8:50] - Financing the New Library Building Walker: ​ Yea, I was still Chairman of the Board at that time. We had two questions on the ballot. One was to increase the Mill Levy to, I think it was five mills, and I’m probably wrong on that, but it was a big increase over what we had. The other one was to approve the district issuing bonds to build the building. The bond issue �5 passed fairly comfortably, [but] the increase in the tax only passed by about five votes. I didn’t understand that because if we didn’t get an increase in the tax we couldn’t do the bonds, cause we couldn’t repay them. And this was all the easy part, way easier than getting this thing started originally, cause somebody else was doing all of the work. We hired an architect, and then, obviously, a contractor. [10:09] - Acquiring Land for the New Library Building Walker: ​ But there was still lots of stuff that had to be done, acquiring enough land was part of it. Where the parking lot is there were two small houses, real small. [To Munns]: Do you remember that? Munns:​ Yea, I remember. Walker:​ They became very expensive pieces of property [laughter] once the library wanted ‘em, but we bought those. We’d already purchased the [other] land, it was old, old apartments. They were built out of adobe and they were very small units from back in the ‘50s, I believe, when there was an oil boom here [and] somebody quickly put [them] up. And the town had purchased that. We applied for and got a sizable grant. I don’t remember how much it was, but one of the requirements was that we had to own the property. We had been leasing the property for a dollar a year from the town and they did the maintenance and provided insurance. Naomi Jones and myself went to the town board and pointed out how they’d save lots of money if they just gave it to us, wouldn’t have the liability, maintenance, etc. We weren’t gonna build this building if we didn’t own the property. So they deeded the property to the library and we got started on building.I left before the building got completed. My wife and I were spending as much time as we could in Costa Rica and when my term was up I did not feel that it was fair to be a part-time board member. So I left. [12:30] - Past Library Employees/Directors Frauenhoff: ​ Of course, Debbie Winlock, Dorthy William’s [present library employee] sister, was a director for a time in the old library? Walker: ​ Debbie started as a volunteer. We had a librarian, but we didn’t have a qualified librarian for what we could pay. To be honest the library just barely existed, but it was open and we had customers. When Debbie Winlock came along she had lots �6 of energy, she loved libraries, and I still believe she’s the reason we had to build this building. She just got more people to use the library. Frauenhoff: ​ And from conversations with Dixie [Cook] it sounds like there was an interesting director that succeeded Debbie, kind of a businessman type? Walker:​ It was after Debbie. The gentleman’s name is on the plaque where you come into the building. His first name was Jerry [Gracy], I don’t remember the last name. But, yea, I didn’t help hire him. He was not a librarian, he wanted to redo the Dewey Decimal system. They spend lots of time re… [trails off]. It doesn’t matter now you know. But, yea, he was a business person. ​ And after him they hired a librarian from Colorado Springs, but [she] wanted to move to Durango and unfortunately she didn’t work out either cause she didn’t want to be in Ignacio. ​ And then they hired a lady [correct name unclear] and she was very good for several years till she retired. I don’t remember if we had anybody between her and Marcia [Vining - present library director]. [To Munns]: Do you know? Munns:​ We had a few part-time ones, Mr. Meunier for a little bit, but I don’t know if they were ever officially director. Walker:​ Yea I don’t think so. Marcia has been here a long time and has done a lot of good. But Debbie was the first real librarian that we had. I don’t know what her degree was in but she started working on a master’s degree online in Library Science immediately. As a matter of fact probably before we hired her. [15:58] - The McClanahan Connection Frauenhoff:​ Now, the original library was named for Mr. Butch McClanahan, and how did that come to be? Walker:​ [Laughs] I probably shouldn’t say this, but there was a town board member who had worked for years for the McClanahans at the grocery store. And he was wanting to buy the store after Butch had passed away. Butch was a generous man, you know, did lots for the community. But he wasn’t involved in the library and neither were any of his family members. It was sort of a PR thing. When we built a new building the board thought it shouldn’t be named for any one person. So they named one of the rooms for Mr. McClanahan [instead]. �7 [17:00] - Changes to the Library Over Time Frauenhoff:​ [To Munns]: anything I missed that you can think of? Munns:​ [To Walker]: Since you’ve seen the building from the get-go, what have been one of your favorite changes or things that you think are important that have grown so much in here? I mean, I remember being little and my mom Dixie working here and we were still writing due dates on bills and had the fun stamps to put on the books. Now its all just online. Walker:​ Obviously the biggest thing is technology. I don’t think we had a computer when we started. But, like it or not, most people read books online. We will always need books, I hope. Improvements in technology opened it up for more kids, I think. Cause kids are, well, they’re technologically driven. If they don’t have a computer they don’t know what to do. [laughter] When we opened I think we had some computers that were open for the patrons to use, but there were only two or three of them as I recall. And now you guys got quite a few. The board at that time, I don’t think none of us was really computer literate like you guys are now. I could use a computer - sort of. [laughter] [19:15] - Other Community Members to Speak To Frauenhoff:​ Well, is there anything coming to mind right now that we didn’t cover or you think would be important for us to know? Walker:​ Uh, I don’t know. I would hope that the original board members could somehow be recorded or something. Frauenhoff:​ This is more future steps, but as we would like to interview more community members, and you’ve been in the community for so long, is anyone coming to mind that you think might be good for us to try and talk with next? Anyone who’s really got a good story we should hear? Walker:​ You know a person that has a lot of knowledge of the history of Ignacio is Laura Witt at the Style Shop. She would be a good person to talk to. There's not many of us left that have much knowledge of how Ignacio has grown, what little it's grown, and the change in the community. [Its] different than it was in the 70’s, the makeup of the people, the type of jobs, you know. �8 [21:00] - Changes to Ignacio Over the Years and the Southern Ute Tribe Frauenhoff:​ What’s the nature of the change, as you’ve seen it since ‘74? What was it like then compared to now? Walker:​ Well, there were very few good paying jobs in Ignacio at the time. Probably the best thing that has happened to Ignacio was the Southern Utes and their growth. As they built, they created lots of jobs. I'm not a casino person, but the casino [has] actually been good for the community as far as creating jobs. There's still not a lot of really good jobs in town, you know there’s the grocery store, but at least there are lots of jobs close by with the tribe. In my opinion the tribe never gets enough credit for what they have done for the community. Frauenhoff:​ Oh yea, certainly, the growth fund has been able to do some pretty impressive stuff. Walker:​ They have, they have. Frauenhoff:​ I mean, there was certainly oil and gas before the tribe, but it was generally on the decline? Walker:​ Yeah, it was. I don't know how much the tribe had to do with the boom in the gas industry here, but at least they managed it and you know created lots of local jobs with it. [23:00] - History of the Ignacio Hardware Store Walker:​ I don't know if Marcia or somebody asked me if I could do a brief history of the hardware industry here. I owned the hardware store for 31 years, after I left the town that’s what I did. And if you want to be bored by it, I would tell you what I know about the hardware store in Ignacio. In 1912 a gentleman by the name of H.C. Biggs from Pueblo opened a store here. He owned a hardware store and lumberyard in Pueblo and he opened one here. It was at 1776 Browning Avenue, 1,200 square foot store. In the 50’s, a gentleman by the name of Lawrence Wiseman, who was working for Mr. Biggs, bought the store. And he doubled the size of the store to 2,500 square feet. Then in 1970, his son Tom Wiseman bought the store from Lawrence and became affiliated with True Value. �9 In 1992, I bought the store from Tom Wiseman. That was about the time things were starting to happen with the tribe with the gas industry and lots of building. At least for a while the store was just too small for the demand. So we built a new store at 1,100 Goddard Avenue, the very south end of town in ‘99. I retired when I was 80 years old and we sold. The Lee family owns it now, it's a hardware store and irrigation supply company. That’s a brief history, the only history I know about Ignacio is what happened with the hardware store. [laughter] [25:45] - Lawrence Wiseman Frauenhoff:​ Well we appreciate you keeping it going for as long as you did. Now, do you remember much about Mr. Wiseman. Walker:​ Yea, I know some. Frauenhoff:​ If you could, tell us one story about him. Walker:​ Lawrence Wiseman, if I remember correctly, moved to Durango from South Carolina. Then he moved to Ignacio when he started working at the hardware store and Tom grew up here, grew up in the store. He really loved Ignacio, but he didn't want it to ever change, you know. When I bought the store they still used an old-fashioned cash register, wrote bills out on a receipt, and stuff. He told me, ‘I never would have computerized, but I'm glad you did, brought us into the modern era.’ He was a good business man I think, but a little stubborn and hard-headed. Frauenhoff:​ Set in his ways it sounds like. Walker:​ Yea, set in his ways. There's nothing wrong with that. Frauenhoff:​ [To Munns]: Well, unless you have anything Cheyenne? Munns:​ Nope. Frauenhoff:​ [To Walker]: We really appreciate you coming in and chatting with us. Glad you were able to clear some things up, at least with my understanding of the library. Thank you very much. [27:39] - Final Thoughts �10 Walker:​ Okay, thank you. I'm glad you let me talk because lots of people, even Marcia, didn't really know anything about how the library got started. It was actually sort of accidental, me running into Wayne Whiteman, and there was no one else to talk to, so sort of had to talk to him. [laughter] But basically from that was how the library came about. Lots of people think it started when this building was built, but it was way before then. It was a struggle, way bigger struggle than this, (referring to present library). The big increase in funding from the taxes and other things made it much easier to do. I mean, I know it's much more complicated to run. Frauenhoff:​ Just to get it going compared to the original? Walker:​ Yeah [28:52] - End of Recording � 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/. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Frauenhoff, Daniel; Munns, Cheyenne https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/215ff4a536d3e511215729acfaadce6b.pdf 100570373dcfe57668cbd7709dc785a9 PDF Text Text -- ... ~ - / _'!_J_!I_ .. --- ----- -:-:-- ____ ~ - ---- ------ ------ J u - .,.......,,. - - -- - - ... -.-...... ----- ..., - --. - - --- ... - -:--- · . -- ~-~_-_----:--· -·· - ..-- I . ,J - -.... ~-- -- - ~-- _;_ .:..-.-:-:~ . - --- ···----- �~ /1/79 EUGENIO VALDEZ 11 I -was born in Chama, Colorado, (1+ miles east of San Luis) in the San Luis Valley on ifovember 1 5, 1 895. ~{l~ parents, Serafin and Toni ta Valdez were farmers, raising wheat, peas and livestock. }fy father's parents were originally from Los Ranchitos, N.M. near Espanola, but migrated into Colorado before my father was born. I have four brothers and two sisters. That does not count several others who died before they were gro;m. ·when I was 7 years old I started to school at Cha.r:-,a. Durlng the school tE;rm I stayed with my mother's parents, Trinidad and Juanita. Sanchez, whose farm was close to school. Every !::'.;.orning the sc_hool janitor fired up the pot-belly stoves in each of the three rooms. At the end of the day each teacp.er .had to sweep the classroom. Mr. David G~ul was my first teacher~ All of us were Spanish speakers. They tried to teach us English, but it didn 1 t work too -:.iell. Every text book was in English._ We would sound out the words and Hr. Gaul would translate; It was slow work and not too interesting. But we enjoyed baseball ganes and ether activities at noon and during recess. Also, we helped pass the ti~e of day with mischievous pranks during the school day. 11 11 After seventh grade I stayed home to help may father with the farm work. I did this until I was 25 years old. If I had any extra time, I worked for wages on other farms. When I 'Has about 16 years old, ffiY father hired Albino Baca and his facily to herd,sheep, Little did I know I v.·ould .some d.ay marry his daughter, Earia Inez, who at that time was only a 7 year old girl. I never saw Maria again until 9 years later two c.ays before our wed.ding. 11 11 When I was 25 years old, rr!Y parents decided. it was tj_ce for me to get ~arried. They thought over the possibilities and remembered .Albino Baca 1 s daughter must be about old enough to □arry. The custom of parents arranging their children's n:.arriages was a very old. and traditional way, bu-c I had no objections. A little after Christt:e.s my mother and father hitched up their buggy to pay Albino Baca a visit. He lived on a farm near Red Wing, Colorado, a two day journey across the mountain,3 t.hxough La Veta ?ass. The ,.~ed.d.ing was arranged. I went to San Luis to buy a ~ed1ing dress, shoes and other clothing as a gift to -r:,y bride. ·1.'his was also an old tradition for the groon to present the bride with a trunk full of beautiful clothes just before the wedding. Cn the 16th of January, 1920, r2y parents, ny grandparents an aunt and an uncle and I loac.ed up two buggies and began the trip tn Red Wing. About half way over the ~ountain was an abandoned sa~ mill -where we ca~ped for the_ night. The next day , ',,;hen we arrived at rte a. °\,'ling, the facilies were introduced and my ur..cle took his buggy on to the ho~e fo a friend several miles away-to stay the night. I went to our buggy to bring the trunk to lfaria, but found it was missing. !·:y dad headed back to the saw mill, thinking we had left it there. After he left, my uncle retu~ned because he had found the trunk in his buggy. I got on a horse to catch rny father. By the time I overtook him and returned to Red Wing it ..,,as midnight. 11 11 I was very pleased with rr.y parent's choice. Maria was very pretty and was well trained. Even though she was young, she cou+d cook and sew and everything else a i,life needs to do. We were married in church on January 20, 1920. We took her two little brothers who were ages 3 and 7 home to raise. Maria had taken care of them since their m.o ther died." ) �-s:,, 3 "At first we lived in a house p r ovided by the farmer I worked for . Two years later I built a two -room adol;le house on my fathe r' s land. Pi.aria and I h ad seven children . They are: Leonardo, Rudolfo, Eugenio, Ad L :1.'la, Ignacio and Ben . Her little brothers were Isaac and 1 Fr~t~; 0 • In 1 940 we moved to Florence where I ·,10rked on the turnip and on:1.on farms. Just as soon as one crop was harvested , we planted tber a.s long a s t he season lasted . Earia died in 194 3. I :::1oved 0 c~nter and liv~d the r e until 1958 . In 1958 I r:arried Rose Green ~d w e mo ved to her farm. east of I gnacio where I r aised cattle and oats · until I r etir ed Rose d i ed in 1977. I stayed on the farm until 9?8 when I moved to the senior citizen aparti!lents north of Ignacio 'Where I still live . f f Shelby Smith GENL."tu\L MEETING A general meeting of the Southern Ute Tribal :r:1embership will be hela.. at the Community Center on Dece nber 14th at 9 : 0G A.;.f. Pah-Chu-Chu-Wa Club met Honday, November 26th at the Presbyterian Church annex . The Chris t mas party .will be held Monday evening, De cembe r 10 th at tho Presbyterian Church . . Each roereber is to br ing _a $1.00 gift for exchange and the gifts for the rest home. Each member is to bring a chri stmas goodie of some kind. Roll call will be g i ven with so~ething pertaining to christrnas. Olive Dillon introduced Virginia Lunsford, who gave a very interest11 in r ;gr a!Il on "Can-Sur- Nount • g p Sheryl lfayf i eld and Violet Sarr.s served ref r e sh.men t s . 1 "-..J The county Ex tension Christrr:as Party was held Tuesday, December 4th at the ext ens ion build ing in Durango . It was potluck . He1!lbers from Hapoy Homer.:iak~rs __l!.xte ns~o.r:i Club attending ~~e!'e: 011 ve Dillon , !Tona _ Roberts Jannie Kinf , Cnristine Ca llison , Lul a Preston, Carmen Hea , Vivian aici1anond Virg inia Richr:!onci , and Th el J:,a Wri ght . V �Remember December 25, 1960 the first year of the decade of the 60s. Here are a few items from the Ignacio Chieftain and Bayfield Blade for December 23 , 1960. Charlotte Jones Santa Claus was to arrive that Friday evening and distribute gifts to the children of I gnac io and surrounding col'.!'.!!!lunities. The arrangements were being made by Town Harshal, Frank Davis . The ne:-:i~e rs of the Lions Club had spent a busy week sacking the candy and nuts. The annual Chr ist□as party of the Southern Ute Tribe was being held at the junior high s chool gy:r,nasium. The party would include singing by tribal groups, a visit from Santa and a dance under the sponsorship of the Ute 4-E club . A group of young people went caroling at the Valley View Nursing Home at Bayfield . The Ignacio Bobcat·s beat Dulce in a prelea-gue season basketball game 75-'56. The Ted Graves family adopted the small puppy, who had been abandoned. The pup had been put in Ted's car. *********** Christmas Eve services were held in the Ignacio Presbyterian Church with the Rev . Don I..yday bring5.ng the t!essage. The Ignacio l-~us ic Club ~embers at their Dece::rrber meeting voted to buy additional unifor~s like the Ute Vocational School band unifor0s. Garth Gaylord was t:ie music instructor. La Plata Elect~ic failed to elect new directors at the 1960 annual meeting~ La ?lata Electric had recently purchased some land near KIU? to build a new RE._4 building . U~ s. Rep. Wayne Aspinall and H. Re~ Lee, deputy Co:!l!!lissioner of Indian Affairs, 1.,1ere guests of honor, at a luncheon at the Tribal Re creation Hall during their official visit to the tribe. Buffalo meat was served. Congressman Aspinall compli~ented the tribe on the outstanding progress that has been ~ade in recent years under the Rehabilitation Progran , and. said he often held up the two Ute tribes of Colorado a s examples of tribes, which are naking unusual achieve!nents in handling their affairs • . Isaac ?eacock, his daughter Lydia and two c,f the dorm girls, Vivian .Jack a..rid l 1artha Begay baton twirlers and :precision marchers 1.-1ere going to 21 Paso, Te::as along with other r.:er:bers of the Navajo Triba:._ Band were to be in Zl Paso, Dece.r:ber 30 to take part in the Sun Bo·...rl football ga~e paTadE. Tne Peacocks, Viviar-. and. ::artha ·Here tc be in ;,'ashi~gton, D. C. Januery ~7 t o =a r c~ in t he Inacgural ? a raa e a s Jack Kennedy is ins ta:led as uresidr!1t of the Unite(~. :3tatc s. - The January 1st Chief tain noted it snowed nost of Christmas Day. The power was off for nearly an hour Christn:as morning. The entire weekend was one of bad -weather. Arboles was shut off from the ·world - s now and also a power line fell onto the telephcne wire Christmas morning. No radio either. James Walker of Arboles drove tc Durango on Christnas night to inform REA of the plight of the co:r.munity. On that happy note best wishes are extended for the 1979 holiday season . • •••. 1 �TRIBAL CHRISTH.i".S EVENTS This year the Tribal Christnas Party will be held at the Co~nity Center on Wednesday, Decel:ilber 19th at 7:00 P.M. and Christmas Dinner will also be at the Corn:unity Center frox 3:30 to 6:30 on Saturday, Dece'.":lber 22nd. All menbers of the tribe are invited. *********** Thanksgiving dinner at the ho~e of Bob and Zelta Hott was enjoyed by the family, the Hot ts two sons , he r r:::other , l·!rs . Freddie Newton and his parents, Emmett and Je ssie Hott . Corrii.n g ho~e for the Thanksgiving holidays ~as their daughter, Ca.my. Camy a nd a friend ca~e fro~ Arlington, Texas. She graduated l ast spring fro~ Ignacio High and is now attending the Schoool of Design in Arlington which is near Fort :.forth. *********** ) Driving to Phoenix to spend Thanksgiving week were 1-frs . Ruby Hailey and Earl and Ruth Fisher. The famly Thanksgiving dinner was at the ho:i:ie of the Fisher 1 s daughter, a...n.d lJ>s . Hailey's granddaughter and fa!:lily, Kent and Earline J. Carlson and t wo children. J._ls o nm, living in Pho"enix and. being -with them was the Fishers son, Dale and his far::iily. They returned Tuesday morning, the 27th. *********** Mrs. Hary Patrick who has been living at the Patrick ranch with her grandson Gary ~as in Gallup for Thanksgiving with LEe and Jean Patrick. She planned to stay with. them until the first part of Decemqer. *********** Frank and Leona Everett began their Thanksgiving holiday season early. They left on the 17th and flew to Detroit to visit a nephew and his facily. It was their first trip to Detroit. Then it was back to Denver anc a week of visiting relatives in Denver and Idaho Springs before returing home. *********** The World Co□munity Day program prepared by Church WoCTen United was the thet:1e of the Thanksgiving Praise Service Wednesday afternoon, November 28th in the Allison Community Church. The wo□en of the Larger Parish were invited to join the Allison women in this vJorship service. RefresluJents were served in the annex following the service. Attending from th~ Ignacio church and the Friendship Circle were: Llizabeth Riggin, Bessie Pennell, Olive Dillon, Grace Patrick, Heinie Gardner, Ruby Hailey and Ann Fo~eman. �V.rs. Jannie King joined family members for Thanksgiving Day events in both Bayfield and Ignacio. For the noon dinner, she was with her daughter, Beth and husband, Jim So~er and their two sons at their ho::1e in Bayfield. la'. Sower's parents, Cecil and Gertrude Sower were also guests. In the evening the To~..rr:.y King fa~ily me~bers were at the home of Jannie King's granddaughter, Brenda and husband, Leland Landsverck. The Landsvercks had been living at Fruita, Colo., but recently moved· to the former home of the Melvin Rodriques family on south Browning avenue. *********** Thank.sg1.ving d5:nner at th€ home of Mrs. Onal Price was in the evening as her daughter, JeriLee Kavelman and~a friend were driving from El Paso Thanks g i v-ing Day to be home for the Thanksgiving dinner. They left Sunday to return to El Paso. Charles and Sheryl and baby Jessie Price were also Thanksgiving dinner guests. *********** For thirteen vears Melvin and Joanne Roclriaues lived 5.n the 600 block on Browning avenue in a house 0'8ned b}: 1-:rs. Jessie Hott. This was for r:any r::any years the hor:e of i-:.rs. Hott I s parents, l·Ir. and Hrs. Jess St.aufi'er. For nearly two years thE: Rodriques farr.ily have been building a ne,1 home on the hill north of Ignacio on 172. Althot:.gh there is still wor}: to be done on this ho::e the Rod.riq_ues f ar:::iily which includes four daughters moved. this fall to their new location. *********** Mrs. Harie Brm-m was in Ignacio Monday, N'ovwer 26th. She visited in the norning at the ho~e of the R.H. Gardners. Coming -with 2-'.rs. Broim was her daughter, !frs. Jeannette Valdez and daughter Beth. Jeannette 1.-,as here for a dental appointr:ient. She has enlisted for a terr::? of four :'ears in the Air Force. Following her basic training she e:-cpects to be as signed to the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Her ~aining will be in the field of electronics. The Brmms, Marlon and l•:arie lived in Ignacio for a number of years. 11,.r. Brown was an e!1ployee cf El Paso Natural Gas. They r:10ved to Lindrith when he was transferred to the Lindrith Gas Field • . The Brmms also o•.med a....'1d ope:-a ted the Ignacio Furniture Store, after buying the business fros Lester Lunsford. Hhile :-:rs. Valdez is taking her basic training- the Bro~•ms -,.,111 have te~porary custcdy of ?aul an~ Beth. They ~ill be with their ~ether L.:.tf;-r e.t :=-2.e: l:l2n.:. Robert Toledo has been in Germany on vacation visiting friends. He also spent a few days ·with Tim Pacheco who is stationed there with the air force. �John & Bettye O I Ccnnell and ·fa~1ly of Ala1:iosa visited Freddie Newton over the 7, 8, & 9th of Dece~ber. They attended wrestling at Ft. L!::~·.'is C::.:llege. John ·is as3ista.i.7.t coach of ,,:restling at ~~a~ State College. Jennifer Suzanne is a new addition to Freddies grandchildren, her parents are Brad and Barbara aewton. Freddie plans to fly off soon to ~akE her acquaintance. l *********** Thanksgiving this. 1979 was a snecial tiI:.e of far:iilies and friends being together. In . spite of cold weather, snow, icy roads !:!any cam.e ho2e or joined.. families in other areas for the day or the week. Along with re5em.brances of things past or future pla.."1.s the ·highlight, no doubt about that, was the traditional dinner with the roast turkey, chicken, ha~ or roast goose along with the stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberries anc pu~pkin or mince pie, perhaps served.later in the day. Football ga~es were on and viewed with mixed emotions depending a lot on the vie~er's interest in football. Canadians too celebrate Thanksgiving. For a good many years the holiday ~as Eoved around to various dates in the fall season. It is now set by law for the second l{ooday in October. *********** The Patrick.s - Grace a..r1d. Pat ·were hosts at the Thanksgiving Day dinner at their hor.e. Thc:ir guests included their daughter, granc.d.a~ghter and great granddaughter, George and Laura ·whi tt and Justa, l{rs. Patricia ~rease, Dick and Heinie Gardner and l·~~. 1•1axine .Anderson. *********** l•Irs. Christine Callison spent Thanksgiving day with her son anci family, Claude and Trudi Callison and three children, at their home on the Florida ~esa. *********** The Karl Hauerts entertained on Thanksgiving Day in their new a ttrac ti ve home. Enjoying the dinner with them were l·Ir s. Virginia Russell and. Ers. Hazel :arake. *********** Three of th£ Egger sons and their families were home for Thanksgiving with their parents, Chuck and Donna Egger. They were Charley and Dawna Egger fro~ Salt Lake City, Utah. Donnie and Cindy Egger and their son and daughter from Bloomfield and Kenny and Roxanne Egger and their two sons fro□ Bayfield. With all of them on Thanksgiving Day was Hrs. Egger's mother, Mrs. Olive Dillon. *********** ~ Dan and Mary Shaughnessy joined Raymond and Pat deKay and children for Thanksgiving Day in their new home on the Florida. l•'.esa. Sno',\ kept the Shaughnessys from their original plans to be with John and Marianna Glass in their new hone in Colorado Springs. 1 �HoTI'.e for Thanksgiving and it was a r ·e al surprise as Bob and LaVerne Klus::::1a.n didn't know thei:- daughter, Twila ·would be here until they arrived. 'i~-lila and her husband, Ror::a Haiver came for Thanksgiving fro □ their ho:::e in Eldorado Springs, 1{l.ssouri. They visited with the Bob and Charley iuusnan families until heading back to Missouri on the sixth of Dece=ber. *********** Thanksgiving was a day oostly of driving for Don and Lida Kl'atz and no turkey either. They left here Nove~ber 18th going first to St. Louis. 1han..lr.sgiving Day they were driving to ~fashington, D. C. In Washington the rtev. Kratz officiated at the wedding service for l,frs. Kratz's son and his bride. The wedding was out door as it was a sur:nery day. ServicEs in the Parish churches on the 25th were conducteQ by the Rev. Willia!!l Hassler. ;,.:r. Hassler is the .Associate Synod Executive for the Presbytery of ·..res tern Colorado. His hose is in Pueblo -:•.rest. *********** Larry h"iseman ca'.I!e ho!2e fro!:1 his so'Jhor::ore studies at college in Rangely to spend. the Tt.a..'1ksgi ving weskena. with his parents, the 'Ic12 Wisereans and_ other relatives. He left Su:iday to return to Rangel~r. *********** The Christ::ias party for the r-'riendship Circle ~~eTI:.bers and guests was in the Ignacio Church ar..ne~ with a silver tree and cedar greens and red tablecloths. The festivities began with a salad luncheon followed by the installation of Circle officers for 1980. They were installed by :=ula Preston.. The new offi-cers are: President -Dorothy· Olbert - Vice-9resident - Heinie Gardner - Secretary Elizabeth Riggin and Treasurer - Zvelyn Cra .-1ford. ~"Ts. Gardner was the MC for the progr~"-J. ;,,hich included Christr::as m.usic, stories~ :poems and recollections of Christ~as ~ast. The Gifts around the silver tree were then exchanged. The nroject for the Christcas gifts this year by the Circle was making polyester lapro bes for the bro Bayfield. :rursing Ho~e s. The first :rr:eeting in January will be on 'Jednesday, the ninth. 0 1 *********** The C. F. Pachecos had their Thanksgiving dinner in the evening as their son Lrnest his wife Rose and daughter Andrea were driving from Colorado Springs to spend the weekend with then. They had to shovel 4 feet snow drifts fron their drive way that oorning to be able to get the car out of the garage and getting out of to~n ~as bad because of snow drifts, the rest of the ~ay the road was snow packed but driveable. They left Sunday to drive back home. �. . . - 9 George R. Hams 93, died Honday, November 19th in l•~ercy Medical .-,center. He had been in quite good health until in recent months. He had cancer surgery this fall. Nr. Hams had many friends in this area. One thing he especially liked to do was to come with his daughter for lunch at the SEnior Center an6 see the people he knew. George and his wife, Amy Belle moved to Ignacio to a ranch north of tmm in 191+7. Previously they lived in Hager~an, tfow Mexico. Hr .. Hams was a pharnacist in Hagerman. After ~oving to Ignacio he worked for a time as a pharmacist in the Ignacio Drug Store ·while }frs. Haybelle Britt was the owner. He -was born in Hastings, Hichigan October 22, 1886. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. Hrs. Hans died in 1970. Hrs. Viola Lip comb of the fa."nily hcI!!e, survives and one grandson and li.s f am.ily in New l·~t:xico and other relatives. Services were held Wednesday, Nove~ber 21st from the Hood 11,ortuary Chapel with the Rev. Donald Warner officiating. Interment was in the Ignacio Ce~etery. Hr. & 1-~s. Abenecio Hunoz and daughters Lillie, Crissie and Berna went to Reno, Nevada to spend Thanksgiving -with Abe's brother Manuel and family and his sister Cornia and facily. *********** ) Leroy Salazar the caretaker at the Senior Citizens complex and his little son Tracy were guests of Shelby S~ith and fa~ily for ~hanksgiving dimmer. Leroy's wife Dorothy ·was in the hospital. RAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE FOLLOWING: Dee Dee Garcia Louie Valencia Concie Cruz Mary Shaughnessy Russell Shock ~uice Ifaranj o Christine Callison Dan Shaughnessy Manley Hott Roger Cloud Leonard Burch Jessie Hott Emmet Hott Harvey Joy Elliott Cloud Ruth Snooks Buelah Miller Zelta Hott Edgar Parrett �11) ~~ ! 3_ - / 4 c i - a f ~ ~ It;~ . '1~"$()A./r1. . _j_ . - 5f"tnnl ~~ d ) ~ ; J ) ~ Ga-~...u-~.;v1 ~ ) ft - - W d . R . ~ ~ !_!_ - 'l,'t}J> -11,·~1 A.fa\. lttJ/J -~/l!J P.M, ~ ~~ 111~ 1-A.v~ ~~P~r~~~) 3 L - ~ ~ ~ d ) ~ J / ~ c;;p~-11/~vA,//J. 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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 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document EUGENIO VALDEZ 11 I -was born in Chama, Colorado, (1+ miles east of San Luis) in the San Luis Valley on ifovember 1 5, 1 895. ~{l~ parents, Serafin and Toni ta Valdez were farmers, raising wheat, peas and livestock. }fy father's parents were originally from Los Ranchitos, N.M. near Espanola, but migrated into Colorado before my father was born. I have four brothers and two sisters. That does not count several others who died before they were gro;m. ·when I was 7 years old I started to school at Cha.r:-,a. Durlng the school tE;rm I stayed with my mother's parents, Trinidad and Juanita. Sanchez, whose farm was close to school. Every !::'.;.orning the sc_hool janitor fired up the pot-belly stoves in each of the three rooms. At the end of the day each teacp.er .had to sweep the classroom. Mr. David G~ul was my first teacher~ All of us were Spanish speakers. They tried to teach us English, but it didn 1 t work too -:.iell. Every text book was in English._ We would sound out the words and Hr. Gaul would translate; It was slow work and not too interesting. But we enjoyed baseball ganes and ether activities at noon and during recess. Also, we helped pass the ti~e of day with mischievous pranks during the school day. 11 11 After seventh grade I stayed home to help may father with the farm work. I did this until I was 25 years old. If I had any extra time, I worked for wages on other farms. When I 'Has about 16 years old, ffiY father hired Albino Baca and his facily to herd,sheep, Little did I know I v.·ould .some d.ay marry his daughter, Earia Inez, who at that time was only a 7 year old girl. I never saw Maria again until 9 years later two c.ays before our wed.ding. 11 11 When I was 25 years old, rr!Y parents decided. it was tj_ce for me to get ~arried. They thought over the possibilities and remembered .Albino Baca 1 s daughter must be about old enough to □arry. The custom of parents arranging their children's n:.arriages was a very old. and traditional way, bu-c I had no objections. A little after Christt:e.s my mother and father hitched up their buggy to pay Albino Baca a visit. He lived on a farm near Red Wing, Colorado, a two day journey across the mountain,3 t.hxough La Veta ?ass. The ,.~ed.d.ing was arranged. I went to San Luis to buy a ~ed1ing dress, shoes and other clothing as a gift to -r:,y bride. ·1.'his was also an old tradition for the groon to present the bride with a trunk full of beautiful clothes just before the wedding. Cn the 16th of January, 1920, r2y parents, ny grandparents an aunt and an uncle and I loac.ed up two buggies and began the trip tn Red Wing. About half way over the ~ountain was an abandoned sa~ mill -where we ca~ped for the_ night. The next day , ',,;hen we arrived at rte a. °\,'ling, the facilies were introduced and my ur..cle took his buggy on to the ho~e fo a friend several miles away-to stay the night. I went to our buggy to bring the trunk to lfaria, but found it was missing. !·:y dad headed back to the saw mill, thinking we had left it there. After he left, my uncle retu~ned because he had found the trunk in his buggy. I got on a horse to catch rny father. By the time I overtook him and returned to Red Wing it ..,,as midnight. 11 11 I was very pleased with rr.y parent's choice. Maria was very pretty and was well trained. Even though she was young, she cou+d cook and sew and everything else a i,life needs to do. We were married in church on January 20, 1920. We took her two little brothers who were ages 3 and 7 home to raise. Maria had taken care of them since their m.o ther died." ) -s:,, 3 "At first we lived in a house p r ovided by the farmer I worked for . Two years later I built a two -room adol;le house on my fathe r' s land. Pi.aria and I h ad seven children . They are: Leonardo, Rudolfo, Eugenio, Ad L :1.'la, Ignacio and Ben . Her little brothers were Isaac and 1 Fr~t~; 0 • In 1 940 we moved to Florence where I ·,10rked on the turnip and on:1.on farms. Just as soon as one crop was harvested , we planted tber a.s long a s t he season lasted . Earia died in 194 3. I :::1oved 0 c~nter and liv~d the r e until 1958 . In 1958 I r:arried Rose Green ~d w e mo ved to her farm. east of I gnacio where I r aised cattle and oats · until I r etir ed Rose d i ed in 1977. I stayed on the farm until 9?8 when I moved to the senior citizen aparti!lents north of Ignacio 'Where I still live . f f Shelby Smith GENL."tu\L MEETING A general meeting of the Southern Ute Tribal :r:1embership will be hela.. at the Community Center on Dece nber 14th at 9 : 0G A.;.f. Pah-Chu-Chu-Wa Club met Honday, November 26th at the Presbyterian Church annex . The Chris t mas party .will be held Monday evening, De cembe r 10 th at tho Presbyterian Church . . Each roereber is to br ing _a $1.00 gift for exchange and the gifts for the rest home. Each member is to bring a chri stmas goodie of some kind. Roll call will be g i ven with so~ething pertaining to christrnas. Olive Dillon introduced Virginia Lunsford, who gave a very interest11 in r ;gr a!Il on "Can-Sur- Nount • g p Sheryl lfayf i eld and Violet Sarr.s served ref r e sh.men t s . 1 "-..J The county Ex tension Christrr:as Party was held Tuesday, December 4th at the ext ens ion build ing in Durango . It was potluck . He1!lbers from Hapoy Homer.:iak~rs __l!.xte ns~o.r:i Club attending ~~e!'e: 011 ve Dillon , !Tona _ Roberts Jannie Kinf , Cnristine Ca llison , Lul a Preston, Carmen Hea , Vivian aici1anond Virg inia Richr:!onci , and Th el J:,a Wri ght . V Remember December 25, 1960 the first year of the decade of the 60s. Here are a few items from the Ignacio Chieftain and Bayfield Blade for December 23 , 1960. Charlotte Jones Santa Claus was to arrive that Friday evening and distribute gifts to the children of I gnac io and surrounding col'.!'.!!!lunities. The arrangements were being made by Town Harshal, Frank Davis . The ne:-:i~e rs of the Lions Club had spent a busy week sacking the candy and nuts. The annual Chr ist□as party of the Southern Ute Tribe was being held at the junior high s chool gy:r,nasium. The party would include singing by tribal groups, a visit from Santa and a dance under the sponsorship of the Ute 4-E club . A group of young people went caroling at the Valley View Nursing Home at Bayfield . The Ignacio Bobcat·s beat Dulce in a prelea-gue season basketball game 75-'56. The Ted Graves family adopted the small puppy, who had been abandoned. The pup had been put in Ted's car. *********** Christmas Eve services were held in the Ignacio Presbyterian Church with the Rev . Don I..yday bring5.ng the t!essage. The Ignacio l-~us ic Club ~embers at their Dece::rrber meeting voted to buy additional unifor~s like the Ute Vocational School band unifor0s. Garth Gaylord was t:ie music instructor. La Plata Elect~ic failed to elect new directors at the 1960 annual meeting~ La ?lata Electric had recently purchased some land near KIU? to build a new RE._4 building . U~ s. Rep. Wayne Aspinall and H. Re~ Lee, deputy Co:!l!!lissioner of Indian Affairs, 1.,1ere guests of honor, at a luncheon at the Tribal Re creation Hall during their official visit to the tribe. Buffalo meat was served. Congressman Aspinall compli~ented the tribe on the outstanding progress that has been ~ade in recent years under the Rehabilitation Progran , and. said he often held up the two Ute tribes of Colorado a s examples of tribes, which are naking unusual achieve!nents in handling their affairs • . Isaac ?eacock, his daughter Lydia and two c,f the dorm girls, Vivian .Jack a..rid l 1artha Begay baton twirlers and :precision marchers 1.-1ere going to 21 Paso, Te::as along with other r.:er:bers of the Navajo Triba:._ Band were to be in Zl Paso, Dece.r:ber 30 to take part in the Sun Bo·...rl football ga~e paTadE. Tne Peacocks, Viviar-. and. ::artha ·Here tc be in ;,'ashi~gton, D. C. Januery ~7 t o =a r c~ in t he Inacgural ? a raa e a s Jack Kennedy is ins ta:led as uresidr!1t of the Unite(~. :3tatc s. - The January 1st Chief tain noted it snowed nost of Christmas Day. The power was off for nearly an hour Christn:as morning. The entire weekend was one of bad -weather. Arboles was shut off from the ·world - s now and also a power line fell onto the telephcne wire Christmas morning. No radio either. James Walker of Arboles drove tc Durango on Christnas night to inform REA of the plight of the co:r.munity. On that happy note best wishes are extended for the 1979 holiday season . • •••. 1 TRIBAL CHRISTH.i".S EVENTS This year the Tribal Christnas Party will be held at the Co~nity Center on Wednesday, Decel:ilber 19th at 7:00 P.M. and Christmas Dinner will also be at the Corn:unity Center frox 3:30 to 6:30 on Saturday, Dece'.":lber 22nd. All menbers of the tribe are invited. *********** Thanksgiving dinner at the ho~e of Bob and Zelta Hott was enjoyed by the family, the Hot ts two sons , he r r:::other , l·!rs . Freddie Newton and his parents, Emmett and Je ssie Hott . Corrii.n g ho~e for the Thanksgiving holidays ~as their daughter, Ca.my. Camy a nd a friend ca~e fro~ Arlington, Texas. She graduated l ast spring fro~ Ignacio High and is now attending the Schoool of Design in Arlington which is near Fort :.forth. *********** ) Driving to Phoenix to spend Thanksgiving week were 1-frs . Ruby Hailey and Earl and Ruth Fisher. The famly Thanksgiving dinner was at the ho:i:ie of the Fisher 1 s daughter, a...n.d lJ>s . Hailey's granddaughter and fa!:lily, Kent and Earline J. Carlson and t wo children. J._ls o nm, living in Pho"enix and. being -with them was the Fishers son, Dale and his far::iily. They returned Tuesday morning, the 27th. *********** Mrs. Hary Patrick who has been living at the Patrick ranch with her grandson Gary ~as in Gallup for Thanksgiving with LEe and Jean Patrick. She planned to stay with. them until the first part of Decemqer. *********** Frank and Leona Everett began their Thanksgiving holiday season early. They left on the 17th and flew to Detroit to visit a nephew and his facily. It was their first trip to Detroit. Then it was back to Denver anc a week of visiting relatives in Denver and Idaho Springs before returing home. *********** The World Co□munity Day program prepared by Church WoCTen United was the thet:1e of the Thanksgiving Praise Service Wednesday afternoon, November 28th in the Allison Community Church. The wo□en of the Larger Parish were invited to join the Allison women in this vJorship service. RefresluJents were served in the annex following the service. Attending from th~ Ignacio church and the Friendship Circle were: Llizabeth Riggin, Bessie Pennell, Olive Dillon, Grace Patrick, Heinie Gardner, Ruby Hailey and Ann Fo~eman. V.rs. Jannie King joined family members for Thanksgiving Day events in both Bayfield and Ignacio. For the noon dinner, she was with her daughter, Beth and husband, Jim So~er and their two sons at their ho::1e in Bayfield. la'. Sower's parents, Cecil and Gertrude Sower were also guests. In the evening the To~..rr:.y King fa~ily me~bers were at the home of Jannie King's granddaughter, Brenda and husband, Leland Landsverck. The Landsvercks had been living at Fruita, Colo., but recently moved· to the former home of the Melvin Rodriques family on south Browning avenue. *********** Thank.sg1.ving d5:nner at th€ home of Mrs. Onal Price was in the evening as her daughter, JeriLee Kavelman and~a friend were driving from El Paso Thanks g i v-ing Day to be home for the Thanksgiving dinner. They left Sunday to return to El Paso. Charles and Sheryl and baby Jessie Price were also Thanksgiving dinner guests. *********** For thirteen vears Melvin and Joanne Roclriaues lived 5.n the 600 block on Browning avenue in a house 0'8ned b}: 1-:rs. Jessie Hott. This was for r:any r::any years the hor:e of i-:.rs. Hott I s parents, l·Ir. and Hrs. Jess St.aufi'er. For nearly two years thE: Rodriques farr.ily have been building a ne,1 home on the hill north of Ignacio on 172. Althot:.gh there is still wor}: to be done on this ho::e the Rod.riq_ues f ar:::iily which includes four daughters moved. this fall to their new location. *********** Mrs. Harie Brm-m was in Ignacio Monday, N'ovwer 26th. She visited in the norning at the ho~e of the R.H. Gardners. Coming -with 2-'.rs. Broim was her daughter, !frs. Jeannette Valdez and daughter Beth. Jeannette 1.-,as here for a dental appointr:ient. She has enlisted for a terr::? of four :'ears in the Air Force. Following her basic training she e:-cpects to be as signed to the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Her ~aining will be in the field of electronics. The Brmms, Marlon and l•:arie lived in Ignacio for a number of years. 11,.r. Brown was an e!1ployee cf El Paso Natural Gas. They r:10ved to Lindrith when he was transferred to the Lindrith Gas Field • . The Brmms also o•.med a....'1d ope:-a ted the Ignacio Furniture Store, after buying the business fros Lester Lunsford. Hhile :-:rs. Valdez is taking her basic training- the Bro~•ms -,.,111 have te~porary custcdy of ?aul an~ Beth. They ~ill be with their ~ether L.:.tf;-r e.t :=-2.e: l:l2n.:. Robert Toledo has been in Germany on vacation visiting friends. He also spent a few days ·with Tim Pacheco who is stationed there with the air force. John & Bettye O I Ccnnell and ·fa~1ly of Ala1:iosa visited Freddie Newton over the 7, 8, & 9th of Dece~ber. They attended wrestling at Ft. L!::~·.'is C::.:llege. John ·is as3ista.i.7.t coach of ,,:restling at ~~a~ State College. Jennifer Suzanne is a new addition to Freddies grandchildren, her parents are Brad and Barbara aewton. Freddie plans to fly off soon to ~akE her acquaintance. l *********** Thanksgiving this. 1979 was a snecial tiI:.e of far:iilies and friends being together. In . spite of cold weather, snow, icy roads !:!any cam.e ho2e or joined.. families in other areas for the day or the week. Along with re5em.brances of things past or future pla.."1.s the ·highlight, no doubt about that, was the traditional dinner with the roast turkey, chicken, ha~ or roast goose along with the stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberries anc pu~pkin or mince pie, perhaps served.later in the day. Football ga~es were on and viewed with mixed emotions depending a lot on the vie~er's interest in football. Canadians too celebrate Thanksgiving. For a good many years the holiday ~as Eoved around to various dates in the fall season. It is now set by law for the second l{ooday in October. *********** The Patrick.s - Grace a..r1d. Pat ·were hosts at the Thanksgiving Day dinner at their hor.e. Thc:ir guests included their daughter, granc.d.a~ghter and great granddaughter, George and Laura ·whi tt and Justa, l{rs. Patricia ~rease, Dick and Heinie Gardner and l·~~. 1•1axine .Anderson. *********** l•Irs. Christine Callison spent Thanksgiving day with her son anci family, Claude and Trudi Callison and three children, at their home on the Florida ~esa. *********** The Karl Hauerts entertained on Thanksgiving Day in their new a ttrac ti ve home. Enjoying the dinner with them were l·Ir s. Virginia Russell and. Ers. Hazel :arake. *********** Three of th£ Egger sons and their families were home for Thanksgiving with their parents, Chuck and Donna Egger. They were Charley and Dawna Egger fro~ Salt Lake City, Utah. Donnie and Cindy Egger and their son and daughter from Bloomfield and Kenny and Roxanne Egger and their two sons fro□ Bayfield. With all of them on Thanksgiving Day was Hrs. Egger's mother, Mrs. Olive Dillon. *********** ~ Dan and Mary Shaughnessy joined Raymond and Pat deKay and children for Thanksgiving Day in their new home on the Florida. l•'.esa. Sno',\ kept the Shaughnessys from their original plans to be with John and Marianna Glass in their new hone in Colorado Springs. 1 HoTI'.e for Thanksgiving and it was a r ·e al surprise as Bob and LaVerne Klus::::1a.n didn't know thei:- daughter, Twila ·would be here until they arrived. 'i~-lila and her husband, Ror::a Haiver came for Thanksgiving fro □ their ho:::e in Eldorado Springs, 1{l.ssouri. They visited with the Bob and Charley iuusnan families until heading back to Missouri on the sixth of Dece=ber. *********** Thanksgiving was a day oostly of driving for Don and Lida Kl'atz and no turkey either. They left here Nove~ber 18th going first to St. Louis. 1han..lr.sgiving Day they were driving to ~fashington, D. C. In Washington the rtev. Kratz officiated at the wedding service for l,frs. Kratz's son and his bride. The wedding was out door as it was a sur:nery day. ServicEs in the Parish churches on the 25th were conducteQ by the Rev. Willia!!l Hassler. ;,.:r. Hassler is the .Associate Synod Executive for the Presbytery of ·..res tern Colorado. His hose is in Pueblo -:•.rest. *********** Larry h"iseman ca'.I!e ho!2e fro!:1 his so'Jhor::ore studies at college in Rangely to spend. the Tt.a..'1ksgi ving weskena. with his parents, the 'Ic12 Wisereans and_ other relatives. He left Su:iday to return to Rangel~r. *********** The Christ::ias party for the r-'riendship Circle ~~eTI:.bers and guests was in the Ignacio Church ar..ne~ with a silver tree and cedar greens and red tablecloths. The festivities began with a salad luncheon followed by the installation of Circle officers for 1980. They were installed by :=ula Preston.. The new offi-cers are: President -Dorothy· Olbert - Vice-9resident - Heinie Gardner - Secretary Elizabeth Riggin and Treasurer - Zvelyn Cra .-1ford. ~"Ts. Gardner was the MC for the progr~"-J. ;,,hich included Christr::as m.usic, stories~ :poems and recollections of Christ~as ~ast. The Gifts around the silver tree were then exchanged. The nroject for the Christcas gifts this year by the Circle was making polyester lapro bes for the bro Bayfield. :rursing Ho~e s. The first :rr:eeting in January will be on 'Jednesday, the ninth. 0 1 *********** The C. F. Pachecos had their Thanksgiving dinner in the evening as their son Lrnest his wife Rose and daughter Andrea were driving from Colorado Springs to spend the weekend with then. They had to shovel 4 feet snow drifts fron their drive way that oorning to be able to get the car out of the garage and getting out of to~n ~as bad because of snow drifts, the rest of the ~ay the road was snow packed but driveable. They left Sunday to drive back home. . . . - 9 George R. Hams 93, died Honday, November 19th in l•~ercy Medical .-,center. He had been in quite good health until in recent months. He had cancer surgery this fall. Nr. Hams had many friends in this area. One thing he especially liked to do was to come with his daughter for lunch at the SEnior Center an6 see the people he knew. George and his wife, Amy Belle moved to Ignacio to a ranch north of tmm in 191+7. Previously they lived in Hager~an, tfow Mexico. Hr .. Hams was a pharnacist in Hagerman. After ~oving to Ignacio he worked for a time as a pharmacist in the Ignacio Drug Store ·while }frs. Haybelle Britt was the owner. He -was born in Hastings, Hichigan October 22, 1886. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. Hrs. Hans died in 1970. Hrs. Viola Lip comb of the fa."nily hcI!!e, survives and one grandson and li.s f am.ily in New l·~t:xico and other relatives. Services were held Wednesday, Nove~ber 21st from the Hood 11,ortuary Chapel with the Rev. Donald Warner officiating. Interment was in the Ignacio Ce~etery. Hr. & 1-~s. Abenecio Hunoz and daughters Lillie, Crissie and Berna went to Reno, Nevada to spend Thanksgiving -with Abe's brother Manuel and family and his sister Cornia and facily. *********** ) Leroy Salazar the caretaker at the Senior Citizens complex and his little son Tracy were guests of Shelby S~ith and fa~ily for ~hanksgiving dimmer. Leroy's wife Dorothy ·was in the hospital. RAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE FOLLOWING: Dee Dee Garcia Louie Valencia Concie Cruz Mary Shaughnessy Russell Shock ~uice Ifaranj o Christine Callison Dan Shaughnessy Manley Hott Roger Cloud Leonard Burch Jessie Hott Emmet Hott Harvey Joy Elliott Cloud Ruth Snooks Buelah Miller Zelta Hott Edgar Parrett 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: December 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. 1979-12 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 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. 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: 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 https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/6ba671719a59d987e70b07f025ea0d74.pdf 1b4b699b13c3f5ebff1f4ae9a8be749d PDF Text Text ·~. I ~~ ! ~ I OcXifu_) IC/?'! ~ ~~.,.J..,u._ 't!Jc~ ,,f"o/ ~ O c.A~)A°~ ~.::;_' r ~ ; -~ ) r!.,~;-,""l,,;~ SU.t!.,fp ) 7 - .I ' �LEE & BESSIE PEN"NELL 1879. "Hy Dad , Rob.ert Lee Penne11,·was born at Van Wert, Ohio, in He moved west for his health in 1907 or 1908, settling in Rocky Ford for a while, then moving on to Ft. Collins, where ee was employed by the Rocky Mountain Bee Company. My mother, Caroline Wood, was born in England in 1889 and moved to Ft. Collins with her parents whe n she was 14 years old. My parents were married in Ft. Collins in 1909 and moved over to Ignacio in 1912, when I was 2 years old. Dad rented a box car to transport his co~q, his horses and several bee hives. ~e lived in town several years while Dad built up his bee business. I attenced the old grade school located on the same site as the present Ignacio Grade school. By 1917 Dad's business was doing well enough for him to buy a Kissel Truck. It had no windshield and no top. We built a box bed for it about twice as lortg as a pick-up bed for hauling the bee hives. Dad started teaching me to drive while I was very young. I soon thought I was a hot driver and liked to drive fast. Driving, however was only a warm weather pleasure. Before winter Dad drained the radiator and put the truck up on blocks. Harry He Junkin, Clyde Galwyck and I had single speed bicycles with small tires which we used to ride all over the place. In the su~.!!ler we were often down on Ignacio peak digging caves. I could go whereever I wanted except down town. Dad had the notion I would get into trouble if I hung around there. So unless he sent me on an errand or mother sent me on an errand with a note to prove it, downtown Ignacio was off li~its. This order kept me away most, but not all of the time. I can still re~ember the day I ~as playing a ga~e of pool in the pool hall, a definately forbidden place. I heard Dad 1 s voice at the front Just in tiI11e to make a very rapid exit out the back door. Dad and I &ecided I should go to the school of mines. In order to meet the entrance requirements I had ~o enroll at Ft. Lewis School the last two years of high school to take physics and other courses not available in Ignacio. However, none of this worked cut because about the ti~e I ~as to leave for Golden, I got appendicitis. In those days an operation was aserious thing and r2covery took a long ti::ie. By the time I was feeling good again it was too late to go to school. I started doing auto repairs for Bill Liese 1 s Garage. I got $1 .25 per day working from 7:00 A.M. till 8:00 P.M. 3oon after this ~Y Dad 1 s health began to f2il and he turned the bee business over ~o ~e. Also about this tiJ:;1e I began to notice Bessie Briggs. She lived at .Allison but sometimes visited her sister in Ignacio and attended some of our dances." · Bessie Brig.g- 1 s Grandfather Briggs moved from England to Canada ~d then to the 1;,nited States. Her father, .James Briggs, was born at H?zelhurst, }'.ississippi, and lived in Illinois and Kansas before moving to Rocky Ford. James was a canp cook for a ranch. He □arried Martha Ella Miles at Rocky Ford. They moved to Allison, Colorado, and homesteaded the Rainwater Ranch. Bessie's Grandfather Briggs hocesteaded the; place where Krs. Little now lives. Bessie was one of nine children. Her oldest brother, Elmer, and her youngest brother, Ji~ Jr., are bo~h deceased. Ethel lives in Durango, Isabel in Albuquerque, Vali in Dura~o, Lester in California, Ruch in Bayfield andO pal lives at Red Mesa. Wh~n Bessie was five years old, her mother died. The older children _helped James take care of the younger ones. �"Dad was a good gardener ," Bessie remembers. nHe raised all kinds of fr uits and vegetables. We had plenty of meat except in summer whe n there was no way to keep it. I attended school gt Allison 10 years then boarded with the J.R. Ball fa~ily in Durango to fini sh high school. I worked for r::iy beard and r oom, but was treated like a rneober of the family. I was about to enter college at Ft. Lewis when Le e Pennell and I decided to get married. 11 11 Lee and I packed our bags the morning of December 1, 1933t and took off in his 1928 Chevy coupe for Durango. The road was muday and the ruts were so de ep we almost bogged down several times. We were married by the Rev. Schur::iacher at his ho!:le . After the cere □ony, we left for the Grand Canyon . Our route went through Gallup and Holbrook to Flagstaff where it was sno·,ving hard . When we got to the canyon, :~e stayed at Bright Anbel Lodge for $ 2 .50 per night. The El Tovar was S11 • 00 per ni gnt . :'here was a road across the ?Tavajo Reservation _ through Kayenta , but we were warned that the roao.s were ungraveled and sometimes i□passaole and also that gas ~ight be as high as 50 cents per gallon . Since we were accustoced to pay 15 -25 cents, that sounded a,,,fully high. ·:te car::1e back through Flagstaff . 11 "Back in Ignacio we rented an apartnent fro~ Ray 1-alls in what is now the Peaceful Suirit Center. Later we ~oved into Carlson ' s house and finally into Lee's parent's house after they moved back to ~t . Collins. In 191+5 we traded our house in town for !{rs . Payne's place on the hill where we still live. In the old days we got only 4 or 5 cents a pound for honey . Lee used. to have 600-700 hives, ':)ut no·,., r:ai!ltair..s only about 60. H4 was the local Bee inspector for 20 years . Juring ~he ~o•s :ee served two tel'ns on the to-....m board and. in the 50's was on the school board. 11 The Pe~nels have four children. Robert is a teacher in ~as Vegas. A.,_.,_71 lives on a r anch in Oklahoca. i:·no:r;::a s ';Forks at a missile tracki:ig station near Barstow, California and Charle s is a counselor at 3ertnoud High School in northeast Colorado . They have 9 grana children. Bessi e re!:arks, •1~-le so~eti~es ·' ,vish we lived closer to sor:e of O'J!' children, but what othe r place would be as nice as southwest Colorad.0? 1' ."( Shelby Sr:ii th -~~( . -w~-J?~J:/~ -oa.;;.te,11r7q- ?1/Avi "'. ~ ! -W.R., /r1-Ud., ~,/ ~ ~ , / ) ~ ~-; i · ~ ~ J / » - ~ l;tz, :z.: {)() ~ OA7tti" ~ ~ - ~ "-a,~ - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~-~~~Q~ ~~ f./,W 0 't-~~ - ~~ ~~ C7/J'.e-~ . , , 4 , / _ ~k ✓'Lkl ~-~ ~ ) �l·a-. Edgar Parrett and Hildred Leonard entE=,rtained guests from Westernville, Chio last •1,eek. Er. ,.: !{rs. Ralph Rell and son BobbJr. Hrs. Roll is a niece of ~·1-r. Pa:-retts. They enjoyed the train ride to Silverton and the beautiful aspens. Hr. & µ_rs. Bob Leonard were overnight guests on their way to Phoe,ni:;,: fron Denver, they plan on a nove to the war~er climate soon. £ob is ~-:ildred Leonards son. ********************* The blessing at the new Catholic Church (St. Peter and St. :Rose combined) in Arbol.es "tock place St.md.ay the ll+th of October by the !!lost Reverend Charles Bus·,.;ell.(:::)ncelebra-:ing the high !.'!ass ui th him was Fr. Don Castonguay fro:'.:l Ignacio, Fr. Anthony Romar from Sacred Heart Church in Durango, Fr. Joh..ri Bo~•,e fro'.':'.! ?agosa &.nd Fr. Gallegos fron Denver, also assisting were brother David and Brother Robert. Other clergy present were Fr. Friel froI!l St. Colombus in Durango Fr. Bernardo ·who was :-F.stor in Pagosa for na:.'1.y ye a rs and now is l - . .., ~ d o ,err -1:ro-:ner '. n ":) .P ] p1.ng . 11e .. .l?r. An.ge_o i. n ·S an 1.:u1s, co.1.ora :J • .D . . . . r o:n Pana:::a who na s ·oeen staying '.>Ti th Fr. Cas-':: ongu~:,: i n I g::iacio helping wi th the ne w church a:id with C. C. D. classes . A l•~e thociist 1•:inister from Pagosa was also present. Honored guests ,;,;ere Fr. Bowe' s r:r.other fu'1.d sister and :.frs. Sta·co and her daughtsr fro □ Denver. Joseph Larrbrecht i•:elco~ed the peo~;le a..11d gave a short hi.story of both churches, St. Peter was the church ~n Arboles and St. Rosa de lhia '.,:as the clrnrch in Rosao l•:any of the old tb:ers, ~hat used to live around there before the ~favajo !Ja:-J. was built were Dre se:nt . Everybody enjoyed a delicious Pot luck dir..n.er and f ello,\'Ship after the nass. · ********************* Visitors fro:c ':lillia~s Lake, British Colu::bia have their ca:-;pe:r- :parked alongside the .ho:r.:.e of Albert a.'1d L'eP.J1ie l.if'trsen. '.i'he 1.foores once :longti5e Ignacio area residents ~cved to Canada so~e years ago, The . Lars ens are ;.lice t-:oore' s parents md they are visiting the::n, her siste::-s, .Alberta and 1,;ary Par gin and brochers Bud am.~ Ra.y;::ond arid their fa!!!ilies, ********************* .t.gency Sup;t. Ra~ond deKay and f a.r:ily ~oved the first of Ccto ber fror:1 their agenoy house to property they recently bought. The new deKay home is on the Florida Mesa some 17 miles west of Ignacio. In their years in the Indian Service the de:Kays h-3.Ve owned their O\m homes, rented homes and now once more bought a home. r'il's. Pat DeKay was honored with a moving out of town luncheon at the home of Mrs. Mary Shauglmessy on ~ednesdny the 10th. A few Agency friends a..Y1d Shaugru1es sy neighbors enjoyed the get together. �Cliff [.: 'I'helr:ia Bruffett have had a busy su::::..~er. They . have been vacationing at Gr~nd Lake nearly all surrJuer •. It was not all leisurelyJ however, as they painted all the red trim on their cabin as well as varnishing all the logs on the outside. They had several friends visiting therr.. there as well as their daughter Joan S□alley and her husbano JRck. The last week there, their granddaughter Laurie and her hi..lsbar..d. Bill Steward came. They went hiking, nountain clinbing and fishing, also took a trip over to Estes Park. 7hey all ca=e back home Saturday, September 29th. The Bruffetts are again leaving to go to Brandon State Park in the area of San Francisco, California. They will leave October 6th, meeting cousins there on October 12th and they will be staying at the park a few days then go to Lake Tahoe and from there to Reno, Nevada. Their daughter Sharon lives in Buena Vista California and their son David lives in Glendale. They will also see them before returning to Ignacio. On November 1st they will go to Brighton, Colorado house-sit for friends, while they are in the Ignacio and Pagosa area elk hunting. ********************* On October 12th, Shelby Snith took eight33nior citizens to pick They left the center about 9:30 a.m. and went to ) pinon nuts. r,,; u"rlle ,-E ~a ' --:...l. --· ,'::) place. .,·.-,c,.,...e -:;i~.107'encc, Sel 1-· 7; -~es ~·,,e 1 "' ...L, .;..;,.,,::,.,.,., ~-; '1"'.,.. .-. .Jo..... . . . ~ ~ c~,- C"' .:.t neon t/isy had a nice !]icnic 2.unch a..116. ;-2.cl:ei ::::.ere ::,._,ts .L. - .:.J - - _._ - ..... .!. J. \ ...... .,_ L,..:, .. . _ . •• ... • • ,,,,_ ,._, - so..,~Yi ..;; f•,:l ,:,"-i"c1.~e7'~ "h-. :_,,:0,r'. ".", _ u~-- OI1....,.__. \..... .,__, ~- • ~-· •- • but they also hac. a lot of fu!1 and. so::e :11.1ts to rcast a~c. enjc:-~. ~7_-_1 -f'-;-crncor: ~ c:. ..... v'-.j_. .r.. J • .L, eue,-,·-·ocC."-• •·as v _ ,J ,;: ii 1 'C ~-........ ~ o.._1 "-' ·- ~ - Bertha Sandoval is back ho~e after a LDn~h in Denver visiting her daughter and f arr.ily :-x. & :-~s. Robert l:ontoya and her· niece and. fa.!2!ily :.;r. 0:. 1-:rs. :Sdd.ie· Rivas. ********************* Theodore Pacheco and f a:i.ily froB Grand Jur. ction, Colorado were here over the weekend visiting his parents l,:r, &. !>~s. C. F. Pacheco. Tim Pacheco is also ho!!le for a :r.ionth visiting and doing so:ne hunting, he was stationed at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and is on his way to Germ.any for 2 years. The P·a checos also have a brand. new granddaughter born to t,x. a !-~s. Ernest Pacheco fro~ Colorado Springs. ********************* l ! �Visiting the ~verett ?restcns the f irst ~art of Gctober was : ~s . Pr.csto:1 1 s ::1otl1E:r, : '..I's. Grac e Colville a n_d borther, Leonard. Colville frora t heir home in CheyEnne. ********************* John and Ann Forrc!!:.a.n with a Labor Day va cation J.roVE:": to Fort Col l i!ls to v i s it t h~i:;:- ~au ghte:rs , ~:a thy ar.d. J2.~c . Both girls are s tl:C.e!:. ts at Colorado Gtate Unive rsity . ******************** '.::he John Clber ts houseguest is the ir gr2,n:ldaughte:- , 3ecl::r Clbc :rt ::ec~~:' is ~he c.aufhte:- of Jen a~ C:. SaT2(!'a "Cibr.,...... .-•,.. ~c: .&" ;:,-·il--:- r €"'" "1-7·· ... c,·c:•i -'-o --~ -;::,-. 7"':::,_ -r,c:, .,_r\ _ _ l, . ..... .1.-•••--..: \... ,,.. __ l , _ ,..1 •• ~ -Lr _,, r.,.,..__ ,....,., an •.&._,,._ -c: cl,,,••l• a ttc n\-:. co:!.lege i1-; ':ucson CE gi!1nir:g .-,:i t h the 1.' intE :r quar ter . fror:1 'iucso~ , .:..:rizo1;a . _1..4\,.,, .:>- ..o..a ~: J..;_ _ _ _ .._; 1..,,_ 0 ********************** It i s a sure sign t hat it ~ay sno~ one of these days ~hen the Harry ::cJunkins and ::rs . :,:)T tle Bowers rr.ove f r o:::i the Eo•.-:ers su::-.::er :place back to the i r hor1e in ~l Paso . l:r . VicJunkin assis t ed by Charle s Price t ook a load of belongings back to their ~c~e in ~l ?aso. ·:::-2:v c.1 1 ;l-2~2.~..-~ei -:.c '¥":.c-.re ·2a. c~: 7~::e ~ 2.s-:, o: Ce:. ~-~t,€.~ . C. .., : :r . Flo:,-u t•;ho -..;as ~ui tE i ~ 1 £ 0 ~ so:--_:_e ti:-:e a~S. -:-:_: .:: :'~ti : ::~ :.~i: a ~2 ~~ ~:c :' ~ 8 s ·::2. :.c.l ~ s .. :..:-·-~:~ c":r:. ~g . t c· l1is ~-:-:::-.:e: oi:. ·.::'1s- ~--·2-cr i~.a ~ _2. sa c:~:·:~ ~!:!. S s-::~s, ;):ic!_~fi t ~'1i:-:\ l~c:-~.e . i e.: s-ta.::·e.:. ;:i ~i ii :: f2 t:::c~ cf the yea~ i s i thel ?urc ell . 3~:tf i e l·i ' 3 tte ~£ar l-.:.cn.c:'e2. a 2 by~ ~~ -~s. :~rcE 1 2. -..-2..s fi ~~ ~ive ~ G~2 nf e e~l ~rr sents~ ~- l o::' ...... E~ t cr..c!'ie~ i :2 t l"";.e =~2.:.,..:::1:"'."~ Sc C.oc:!.. s:.:ste--. , ::rs . ~=-~~r ccll ~!c. s Ce e!:. c:.c-'~2. ·7r i~ cc -~--~~~!'!it;:.. c r~2.~~i. ~--P..-:::_c~ ~:.1.-:-i:--ig :!e:-· ::c 2.!"'s in ~ :;:-~.·:" i::.l ": . ..-. - --~-h~""" ,__~ ~-i ..... -:-: - ;"!..... ._ .... .,,.,-- ---:: .~,,.. ...._ -s~~2 i s r:c.-: s~-~,:.. i:ir.: 2-.2 :_~3 C C :r i :1 5 C.ii~:z f C :' ·-!.~-:I c:t~ ': s l r~ c~c -: i -.·z: ·:.~c . ~~c~ of tl1c: ~ a.:tfi >:. l~i ;3ti..: :::;'.'" C2. ub, ::,:~~~c :)c ~.-:cn3trr:. t:. c:n -2~ ~~:~, . - .. ~~- ~~~ :_=._ ~c~r7.:- 2.~"' ·:. C=:.~!~ r C·~[ Cni:::.a:~i:~s t .~'1r~_ C:{°_U:'C :1 f:.,C ~1~-:- • i;:::;~ ~~=-~; . '-· -~-:-:;--;.,_;_ t '~.; ~-t ;;; -~ ~-;t- ~1~-:: .!... ' ... ,. - . , . ... 1 1 .. �7 It was a beautiful Se~te~ber Sunday on the 23rd a s well as a gettoge ther dinner a:id. bir thday celebration :for several far:;ily me::1t..~rs . . t ·ne a.i . . nner a t "tne . -::i . 2.no.. At ...vcna. ing ;10:-.e 0 1 ~J's •. .y-:r tl e ...,O':ffr s, J. · ::._~~ie iiarr:,' : :cJun:d:1 ~-: er e : 2-.::era l:i a !1~. (-!'ace ~~2t:-ick, t ."::ri:- ·5.aughts :-, ?2.t t :... se a:1:: g:rc.. ~ ~ ~2.Uf~~te :' , !-a'..:r a ,ii t~ , h:..: s ba::.:: Gccrge ~::C. c aughtcr Justa , GEc r ge a!11 Ciarl €~e 3rya~, chil~r e!'l ~r eva an5 ~o~i an:l ::.augnte :- 3cc~y :,or ::.e~'!'? , he r husoar:d , Jan anc. their tw o chilir e:1 fro r:l }~ontrosc. 1-:rs. Opal ?ri ce .anc c.aug:-itE. r, Carol a:ln ~'.cJu!1kir: , son Charles ?rice , ShEryl an~ the ir ~au£hte r J sss ica . Cut-cf - ~o~~ t.. I,.. ~ " " -=-~~~ gu est s ;-;sr2 :::'s ••~..:-:n.c. . ~ c~ f.: s c:: cf _:cac. a.-.. ~-~ f.Ls r c~~1e.gl:te.r, ~~cr:--a. ~c.nce fro:~ ::c:iticsllc . It ;1~-i tee ~ sc:-.s 5~ :-..e e.rs s i:1.ce tb.e ccusi1~s :~arr~r ::cJun~dJ. ani :1cr!:a Lance hr.a. bf,en toge t.h2::. Those hcnc-re::. by havi r:g 3e:;> te=be r birthda.:.,·s ·,.=sre Cpal ? ricE, :l:rEVc. Bryan and ? at Patrick . ********************* The Friendship Circle ~eeting on Wednesday, October third opened with the song by all pres -= nt no Beautif ul fo r Spac ious Skies," The Circle p!'esident , ~~s . E2inie Garc.ner en 1'?rGsbyterial 1' in J1.; r2..ri go ~hich she attent ed on Thu~sday ~he 27th. ) It ~as suggests~ that Tete 3ags co uld be ~ade by t~e Circle ~~ ~c E~s ,- -- r- -.,.. . .... - ........... - - ----- ,. -;:.,..... . -......... ,r, -: ~ . -~E t~ ~~~&s 2 ~ ~E ti~g i~2:u~if ~a~i~g ;:2~s fo r th~ ~aks !er :~u=3~ay, 2c~c~e ~ 25ti. =~0 : Esso~ ~~e se nt~ ~ ~? ·::·:.- G~:: . :· ·..'it~1 tj_e .f irst S?En ~i~g the latter :Jls. ?2.tric~~ 1 s e..u!lt, .... .. - .. J2.~ E :;::_-_ : ... :; __ 7_·_ :·~:2:-ri:.?G~: A ~:-.:.:. ·.:~ :::-~.:.. i·~-~-_.., ~~ ~st c~27~£~ 2f G0 ~~ ~i ~ . .,-, ~ . • r'"• r.., . ' -.:;_ ;.~ ::rs . C-::-al ?ri ce· an~·- Carol ;.,,~n '--:!'ovs to Grand. Ju!l.c:~ie;n the 27t~ cf 3epte~b er and r Et u~~ e6 the f ollcwing day. The7 ~e re with JanicE Price to help h e r c elebrate her birthday. Cn the f irst cf Octobe r, Carol -~n '.-1~0 had been here ,.~ith he r fa r.:ii l y for a couple of months lef t to re tur n to her ho~e in Culver ci t y , J , California. . Her 1:iothcr , :·xs . ?ric e, ',vent with Ca.rel and er. joye d. sightseeing a long ocsan front anti other p l ace s of interes t . She returned ho~~ on the 12th. �Throurhout the sur.uner and earl y fall Ignacio seni or citi zens i:1volv0a . in the nutrit:i.on p r o 6 ra:n went on a variety of o?:e day o·!.1:.i:.~s shop :"'i nr, , movies , out to a d inne r, one -chree day trip to t he Gr r~:v: Cnn:,cn 1:.n(~ t hc !1 the las t t!':!..:) 0: th<.> $C aso71 , Ji·)tc be: !' 2!+ . : ; : :._' ~:: . L,_ ~ ... ..... : ·:\.,. cu~:.~c n, ,: .:c3 ·_.. 0.:.s =..·J l f~r .. .. ...· ;.. ·, - ..... -,"' ., . ~., . . -~. ... .· . . --::.·. · . :i.-:~ ... <lc v cn ,(C':. i-r:c::J· :;_,!· 7,1·. : !' ~. ·..· ·: ~ . .!.:,: src :,:: : C Ot:":;·c :-: · i:-: :_:_~ :..,'. . -··,...... Ci ti · ...::1- ·,·a~ . =-~ John Steinbeck once wrote a book on "Travel s Wi th Charley.•• So this last trip of the season could well be titled, 11 Txavels With Shelby. 11 The s ightseers on this s cenic tour were: Paris and :~a deline Engler, Alcario and Jennie Vigil, Floy Valdez, Edith Burch, Charlotte Jones, Clive Dillon, :::>aisy Ea gle and Eary Swanemyr, and Shelby S □ith. The group left ear ly on a Monday morning , the weather was perfect, and cirove to !·!ontrose for lunch at the Steak House. After checking into t~e Rec. Arrow :-:ot el and 30 minutes rest , it '.vas off to the overlook out of l:ontrose t o ·the Black C8J.'1yon of the Gunr1ison . P.ere t he travelers sa•., one of the world ' s deepest an ~ightiest gorges . The canyon 40 feet wide reaches a depth of 3200 f eet . It di d inspire awe. Dinner at Mary ' s Cafe and as it t urned out was where ~argar e t Silva Baugm:ian's husband was a cook . Later soree of u s s aw !farga re t and her t wo ch..ildr en and she sent greetings to all Ignacio friends . ~far garet is now imrki!lg at a Rest no::e in :,! ont~o.£:e : :11a ?lack is in that Rest Hol:!e arni :-:argaret sees h er of ten. To sake a l ong s tory shorter , Tuesday morning it was on to }~ab. ?!' ::im Grand. Ju nction the d.ri ve ·.,12.s through 1-:onucient Canyon on th2 Ri::irock road c or::ir.g out at r'ruita. It ~as a picni c lunch in the Triangle Park. for~erly liveG i~ Fruita. The Vi gil s and !~s . J~nes Aft er the short vi sit in Fruita it was on to ~oab via Cisco Utah. Cisco once a booc sining to~n wi th a first r ate Ho t el, is now a fe~ shacks and they are being torn do'.m. In Moab , a gain 30 =inute s r est in the Ramada ~otel roorns and then pff to Dead Horse Point. It was hard to leave all that spl endor. · T-uesday evening l•~rs. J one s a te · supuer with Lou l s and Frances Far ce:: and phoned ~~ily Si sley . All are fine and sent greetings to Ignac~o friends. Wednesday r:iorning off -to another scenic wonder, the Arches for a drive, s 0?;1e strolling around and t aking picutres . Then the tour h e aded back toward I gnacio , One stop enroute fer a picnic lunch at the l i t tle park beside t he Hole in the Rock, Here thG H.i.gh.light ,1as sone r eal Co·11 Ca□p Coffee ( or was i t sheeuhe r ders ' coffee) anyway it was great . Then came a tour of the roo:-ns and shoo in the Hole in the Rock. Another Highlight, Eade line found her long l ooked f or s r.1all s i ze T Sl1irt. I t was a very sp€'cial e::cur s ion for all, we enjoyed it so much. ~ 1ow , because I was the r e . I �l Charley Hunter, longtime Soil Conservationist with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is retiring this October. For the past 20 years the Hunters have lived at the Agency and Hr. Hunter worked with the Consolidated Ute Agency person..~el. A good deal of his work was with the Forestry department. The Hunters have lived on a number of Indian reservations and the 20 years in Ignacio was the longest for them in any oIBplace. They are moving to Socorco, l'rew Mexico to live near l·~. Hunter's father. The Hunters were .honored with a Retirement Din...'1.er at the Strater Hotel. Mrs. Hunter took the Key punch training program in 1969 and since then Dorris had been employed a.t the Bank of Ignacio. ) A Farewell Coffee was given for Hrs. Dorris Hunter or. Wed..l"le sc.ay morning, the 17th at the home of 1-:rs. lfary Shaughnessy. Guests were Dorris I bridge club friends and othE:·r frie::ids and neighbors" Also present was the Hunter I s daughter, Faye :,firabel of Far::li:ngtc~. ********************** To~ t.farq_uez, well-known San Juan Basin livestock dealer, died suddenly Thursday, October llt~. Funeral services ·were 1•:onday in the Sacred P.:eart Catholic Church in Durango. Burial was in the Rosa Cemetery at Arboles. Tom lfarq_uez was born July 4th at Rosa, ?re•.., l-1exico in 1906. He had lived in this area all his life, since 1935 the fa~ily ho=e was in Durango. He began buytng and selling livestock as a young man and contiuec.. this profession the rest of his life. Besides his wife, Aurora, he is survived by a son, Tom of Dallas, Texas, two daughters, Helen l furcurio of Midland, Texas, A.n.na s-:ari e Seidel of Seoul, Korea, three brothers, two sisters and a nunber of other relatives. 1 J �ID J.: icnf the sw:-2-,E:r people are the :r:elsalls :.;ho will b e leavi:.ig soon for Hou ston for the viinter months. Whil e living hBre thE:ir hor:e is tast of Ignacio across !ro~ tie fo~~er Don Gosney ranch. They now o;.m this pl ace . ·~ G--;~•en Gosney r~elsall is a sister of Don Go sney. , 1~s . Eelsall ~a s a gu est at the October 17 meeting of the Friendship \ Circle. · \ The Go ~nE ys for s o~e years have ~ade their ho~e in Albuquerque a~d ~a.nage a succes sful cake decorating business. I \ Hilda co~2enced decorating cake s and ~aking Easter eggs for rela tives while living in Ignacic and fro~ that branched out into an outstandi ng profession . \ \ ********************** sponso~e~ b7 t~e-Frien~ship Circle •.,;ill be at t he Ignacio B •' ~ 3ake Sale ...,.. 1 ,, l • • . h r L:;>'tn ,.. ~. , .::>1:.ur-·va_u ..e.r~e ~. ,.._ueg-2!'..!;l.ng aL, .1.'-..1 a.::. • ..L·11u:-s.::ay , C,~L,oue . I , -'t " e siaes .. bake goods for sale t~ere ~ill also be a nunber of houseplants. ~- Fourteen lac.ie s a tte.;1dec. the Thurs day,_ Cctcber 17th work r:eeting of the Circle a nd thE af t ernoon was spent in ~orking on ?olyster lap~obe s fo:!: t:ie. 3est Ec:-:ss f c:- Cl!.:'is~::2.s . :ie:-: t :-~ear 's offic e:::-s ~7.C:. c~J.ai::-~~·o:::::er: ~,e:.·e. elected 2•. r.1: will take of.f ic ,:; ~ J--,,...,.... ..,. -!?,· .... _' '.•.·,...-_ ~,...~~ ~ e Gr-~r:r-.c'1'-, ...L..!..! C..l..::...ra_ .~. . . . _ ;:;. ·- .... ~ ___ •• .:Jv.1.0~2~~ ....-~ ~c·e~ L-! r~~~-•-E.:.Jl,' :1.E.,..!...i!l. -0. .L\.-. - ' - - , ~,·i~e ~~~s:-~'2::-ti ~7~ =:: 2~ t~ ~=.;;:_~, : ~·??:~=-=-~ ·~ , . E·~-:2-J-:: ~~ ~~...p~~=:=:.~, -::~~~-~:-E=! Olive lill...Lon, se ,,:in g, .:-..r.!,n i'0re-::2.n, .!::'loJ.e S1:;1..:-:-.y le ss ons ana. C.'."'~ar1.o:.~e Jones, cards for =e~~ers ~~o are i ll e~c. ""r'"t .L.1 ~.-- : ;_._- f'\"' L - .... , · "' .,."I" - • 0 ~~fres~.!...-:ent~ ,,.;ere 3ec~=-~r C·l bs~t. ~ouis .:·a~~-sr o~ a bee~: n -P Olbert ass is ~e~ oy hir .. ,. __ ab ·. ..:;u,,~nc 7 --s+ · ,ir1 .:...~~• s c: ...... "-·' g re..nd.C.a.-:J. zhter , ~ bG.ca~e a.:1 aut:1:-~ E!1~iti;f ~S;c;~i;u;; {~~;;;-~~i~-;~;fiEs an ~ cthe ~ t~ue s!..,cr t stoTie s. l! :r:c ?e..r :-:-.s2~s li;:-sd sc-~. e fi--=-e. :\-ee.~s in Ifnacio T.~i,;s ~.·r.1~i:-..... ~ ~h e -=-fl",7"-·--~s ~u .. _ " - - ·-C'.., ___ . c,. ____c;- _ _ 1 ""'.f;;-.Q _ _ J ,...,,., ~•C c.1.., __ _ , cf _ c: ,,-.,_1,..:..1--: ..,_'-"v-l ;hile "!•. -Tlhis ..._.,..O""",,....T'.!.."'r - ··::,,"- -!-'c- l,,J Tcn~cio -c...--C. _ • ~.-!as m-;nsd by n.a y1:1cnd Far::;e:r a.:.'1d Al::en .?a.r:;e:r. This inte:rssting bock tells a~o ut the cerly l90Cs 1:hs ~ t~ss s ~ar~e~ b~c the~s we:-e in t he f~c= ~ran~ Ju~ctic~ ta ~spe~ . ?ictu ~es a:re albu:::. ~-1ith nu::e~ous skEtc1-:es by ~oui s. 7here is a lot of sncw a lot of sheen and a lot of tha t she~~her~s r 1 s Co.i.."'fce • 4 ,...._·1.-i __c _s;, hc"">C.1 ' 7• ,,., -pc:. -~ -----ri ,..., .... er' ; l - -c• V - h"t:~.• .!-._,~ )_,!'"'.,.. h r--1 ~-c: Tn ,.··c.. ,-€.,.., ..~:.n~- -; ,., J,·u_ 1,_,,•..• c .... -· _,._,_.., "··- . • \,,;Cl, ... • - •• . J. -- <, - -- .3::.:-:e 10 cc Dies ·,.;E.:' ·? en sale this 2onth at the Shur- val u ::2.rket aad sol~ ou t i~ short o~~sr. \ I �• Seven candidates are running for the two positions on the Ute T~ibal Council. Election Day is Friday, Novecber second from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Coni~unity Center. Voting age for tribal members starts at age 18 and they CTUst be registered to be eligible to vote. Candidates for the two :positions are: Jal!".es Jefferson, Lillie Frost, Ray Sage, John E. Baker, Sr., Ivan Red, Gayla Rae Snith, and Guy Pinnecoose, Jr. There. will be a Candidates 1 :light at seven o I clock, Tuesday evening, October 30th in the Co::;::'.lunity Center Building. Tribal menbers are invited to cowe and neet t~e candidates. ********************** ~•~elvin aJ1d :2loise Fe.ust, for::.er resider..ts of Colora-:.o 3:;irings have IJ.oved to Ignacio, The ?austs recently p1.:rchased the house built by C2.ay1Jo:-n Ur::berf ield. c~ the- hi2.2- ~e:·t to t:.1£ C:1.s.-.-~:: ~:::.2.cs. Hr. Umberfield was a band instructor and later an English teacher in the Ignacio school syste~ in the early 60s. The Ucberfields sold the uro-oertv to Fort Le,-1is I'.:..Usic instructor ?..ic!lard 3tra-:-m. The Strawn family lived there a few years befcre moving away. ) !•frs. Faust is the daughter of Ord an.d Viola Halsted a...'1.d she gre•-1 up in Ignacio, g~aQuati~g f~o~ IHS~ The Faust children are grmm and live away fro~. ho!::.e. Don, the eldest son graduated fro~ Fort Lewis. He is now a ~usic director • .._, ' "] a t .,a j:) t 'T , r • - • • -, • - l + .._ver,:::.ec. - . in vne scnoo_ en, .,e':l i·.e:,:ico. ·i-neir son, .::nl.. :r a,., coJ.lege at Greeeley, the Police Acaci.e!:'ly and is now in the Greel8y area with the Colorado State Patrol. Cind.y, their o:1e girl, is a !T':usic teacher i!l the school at ';e:r::-i.al, Utah anci the youngest son, B::ili)r is a stuc.ent at the University ' of Utah. The ::rusical r2e:::bers of the family co:::ie by it naturally as -:::~E ir grand~other, ;~s. Halsted gave pia~o lessons for many years i~ Ig::1.acio. �The Pah-Chu-Chu-:•fah Club hel d their annual uotluck salad lunch€on, Nonday, Septer,,ber 28th in thG hone of Eula ?:res ton with Carrr,en i.iea co-hostess. All the ~e~bers brought a favorite salad and Car~~n made home-made rolls. was a guest. The evening was spent visiting. llina Smith Pall-Chu-Chu-Wah hostess a Parent 8: Teacher Tea at the Ignacio Hig-h Scnool caf,ztr:ria, Eonday, Oc tober l:ith at 3:30 p.m. Arrang e-- [ilents were ~aci.e by Ruby Hailey and Virginia Ric~ond. Douglas Layton, Re:~ .RichI'.!onds , Jim Richr~ond and family sur prised Alton Robs~ts on his 80th birthday, Tuesday, Oc tober 2nd. Visitors brough~ lecon pie, ilton's favorite pie, cake and coffee and ap)le cider . ~vening was spent visiting. ********************** Happy Honemakers Extension Club raet Friday, October 12th in the home of Ann Foreman with Nona Roberts and Charlotte Jones co-hostesses. Members dressed tacky· or in Halloween cos tunes. Roll call was given answering sorr:sthing pertaining to Halloween . Aftel' the business meeting, Virginia nicru.;.cnd read a sto!'y about Halloween and Char!otte Janes read a couple of poe~s . A contes t ~as hel d with ~s~bers ~aking Hallo~een ~ask ou t cf pa~ sr s ack. Car~en Sea received a nrize for the best ~ask an1 Lavern Kh,s::an rscei·:ed. e. n:::-i ::.e for best Hallows en costur-,e. Hai l-:;-;,,e,311 :reires.r.i.r::.ents were served, Eew.b~r .3 a tte:.din;;.: a.n all d.s.J District E:~t.ension r::.~eting in :)uranga - . ·t . l ,_ ,., , r- .... ~- -,.... ..... -~ 'rt t ~ - - ,. . .. c'.J, ,Jc uO ,.,,::- .i. 0 • .!. ,·Jcr'= :1or2a rtooer s, :..u_2. .:-rssuon, Gar:-.::en .;.·:e2. , h:r. ::cClendon, Chc..rlotte Jones, Virginia ?.ich.."!!cna. and I:ul.a 1 s cctl:cr, l-f.rs . Gr&cE Coi ville. ~ .. /,,.... ri l • ._,!1 ..... ********************* The magni f ice~t colors of fall were evident as Freddie ~lewtcn tra7eled this •"·ee~end to Pagosa, Del Norte ll.nd Alar::iosa Colorado In Ala~osa she visited her da~ghter Eettye 0 1 Connell and f&cily . They live. at .1~dar:s State College where John 8: Bettye ar e :>orr'.l. Ad.visors, also Jcr.,_.'1'~··. ssi stant ·..-restling coach there . They all att e nded a fcctball ga~e, Ada~s State vs ~estern State . Ca~ing ho~e Sunday eveEing , she stop;,ed. in Del ~rort e to visit ?at i-fewtcn & faw.i ly. ********************* � 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: October 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. 1979-10 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 https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/95edc25fc4a18d81394f6e4d5f561371.pdf c400b4315265ca8b23946e40e250fb06 PDF Text Text . .. .... , , ..... - ~ 'f ~~ ) ~;l'17'1 ~ ~J. Q PIX3~t,-~ /~ - �FRANK PADILLA Frank Padilla was born at La Jara, New Mexico, (near Cuba) in 1903. His parents, Jose R~fael Padilla and Alcaria (Mestas) Padilla, had three older children when Frank was born. They are Beatrice, Amalia and Cleotilde. The Padill~ •s moved to Arboles, Colorado, when Frank was one year old. His father worked for the D. & R.G. Railr.oad building track~ His foreman was a. Japanese man~ The 11 extra gang",as the Japanese crew was known, created quite a stir of interest since most of the local people had never s een Orientals before and had certainly never seen anyone eat so much rice. · Frank says he attended school at Arboles f'Jr one year, then went to college at the sheep ca~p. Sheepherding was Frank 1 s life work. Many of those years he was employed by Salvadore Rodriquez, an uncle of Fred Rodriquez. Except for a few trips to Grand .Tunctio11 and Utah and one memorable trip to Los Angelos, during which he missed a bus connection and toured all over Pueblo and Denver, Frank has spent his whole life in the Arboles/Ignacio area. Frank has never been married. During the interview we teasingly asked him -whether he had ever had any girl friends. He set us in our· places by replying the only lady he is i11terested in is the Virgin Mary. Frank's devoted religious faith is well kno~m in this community. If the people of Ignacio were asked to name the person who is the best neighbor in town, I a.Iil confident Frank would be one of the winners. For many years Frank has taken care of the grounds at the Catholic Church. Since moving to one of the senior center apartments, he has watered and hoed all the flower beds and swept and cleaned the walks and the parking lot. Every spring Frank visits both the Catholic and the non-Catholic ) cemetaries to search for any untended graves. He removes the weeds and cleans every grave which appears to be neglectedo In his daily walks bet-ween Ignacio and the senior center he picks up and disposes of the litter a.long both sides of' the highway. All these tasks are perfor~ed without thought of pa:rment and apparently without any resentment that others do not hel p. For the se r easons 1~e are pleased to honor Frank Padilla as our senior citizen of the month. He is a responsible, dj_gnified resident and has set an admirable example for the rest of us to be a friend and neighbor to our whole community. ~ Shelby Smith �Don and Jayne Lyday and son Chris spent a couple . of weeks in this area the last of August~ They were overhauling their cabin property north of Durango and their cabin and trailer below the Vallecito. Monday evening they visited the R.H. Gardner home and a few friends who came over to say, 0 Hello 11 • They spent the night with Vic:tor and Dolores Atencio. With the Lydays was their daughter Pam and her h~sband Sal Paduano. The Paduanos left early Tuesday morning for their home in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. The Lydays attended services in both Allison and Ignacio and greeted friends. Labor Day afternoon they visited at the Ignacio Presbyterian Church annex with friends. Tuesday they left for their home in San Clemente, California. Both Don and Jayne are teaching and five year old Chris started kindergarden. A young couple from Indiana was going to try roughing it at the Lyday property north of Durango which is reached via the Durango Silverton train. The Lyday family lived in Ignacio from October 1959 until 1967. Don was the pastor of the Allison and Ignacio churches of the Larger Parish during these seven and a half years. Jayne taught in the Ignacio elementary school. It was while the Lydays were here that the new Manse was built. From Ignacio they moved to Salt Lake and then to Ca.lifornia. ********************* First time grandparents this August are Tom and Beverly Wiseman& Their granddaughter, Jennifer Elizabett, was born early in the morning, Sunday, August 26th to David and Gretchen Gremer of Arvada. Mrs. l,J'iseman left later that day for the Gremer home to spend ten days with the new parents and Jennifer. ********************* It was moving day this Septe:nber for John and Marianna Glass fron their home in Durango to their new home in down to~n Colorado Springs. On Saturday evening, September 15th, Mr. & Mrs. Glass were honored with a f areu.1ell party at the home of Dan and Mary Shaughnessy. A few of their longtime friends were invited to come and wish them well with their new venture. Mr. Glass, who retired several years ago, was a Soil Scientist, with the Bureau of Indian Affairs for 30 years. The last 18 years before his retirement, were with the BIA at the Ignacio headquarters. ********************* �The George BryGn family added a- new member to their family this fall, who will make her home with them. this school year . She is Rosa Hinojosa, a Rotary exchange student , from Los 1:ochis, l~e;-: ico~ Rosa graduated from high school in Los r-Iochis and is now a senior in the Ignacio high school and will braduate with the class of 1980 . She is 19 and had never been in the United States before coming here to learn Lnglish. Rosa 1 s plans are to a t tend law school after graduating from I . H. S . George and Charlene and Treva who is also a senior, and Tod are all en joying getting acquainted with Rosa. ********************* Virginia Richi~ond had a birthday cook - out dinner Friday, September 7th for her husband, Jim. It was suppose to be a surprise and was until the evening before. Hamburgers, hotdogs and the trimmings with salads and b alrnd beans with a birthday cake fr om Baskin Robbins was served to about 30 people. ******************** The Pah-Chu-Chu-Wa Club met for their first meeting of the year Monday, Sept ember 10, 1979 at the Presbyt erian Church annex. Heinie Gardner gave a reading abou t teachers and presented each teacher and s ubstitute teacher present . an apple. She ·then introduced guest speaker for the evening Eula Ma e Morris who gave the history of music , which was very interesting . Nina Smith joined the group. Olive Dillon and Heinie Gardner served r efr eshment s . ********************* Happy Homermakers Extension Club met Friday, September 14th in the home of Gail Klusman . Members a nswering roll call answered by g1V1ng a canning hint. 1'•-femb.ers · will be attending_ the Di s trict meeting in Durango October 8th. Phyliss Lee, County Extension Agent gave an interes ting program about canning. Refreshments were served by Ga:l.l Klusman and Nona Roberts . ********************* State Old Age Pension for Persons 62-65 If you are 62 63 or 64 years old, you might be eligible f or Old Age Pension becaus! of a recent court ruling. Th~ co~rt recently ruled that the 35 year reside~cy requirement is u~cons~itution~l. _Welf:re departments at county court houses may star-c taking applications ... or 11 early" pensions in October . ~f you think rou are eligible send us your name and addres s and we vn.11 keep you 1.nforr,:ed about developments• Our numb~r is .i.~J-4561 . . . t Or you may inquire at the La Plata County Socia.L Service Departmen in Durango. 247-3224 �The Fr:i.endship Circle meet:i.ng ·wa.s Wectnesda.y Afternoon~ September ;th in the P:.:_"esbyterJ.aT, Church a.t~1ex~ Circle p:resident M~s. He:i.nie Gardner~ was in charge of the bus:Iness meeting,, · 11 If God, The Healer, uas t.he lesson topic p:;.~esented by Mrs .. Ann Foreman under Family Illnesses an.d Hectling a,s decri bed in the many instances listed t!:lroughout the B::Lbleo Probs.bl;~r the best knmm is the story of Lazarusn Refreshments were scl"ved by the hostess~ Hrs~ Elizabeth R:i.gginG The meeting on the J.9th was sched1Jled for a. Wor•l;;: meeting and the project is sewing laprobes which w~ll be given to patients in the Rest Homes~ Mrs~ Riggin and Mrs~ Gardner• attended the group plar,ning sess:1..on for the year on Thursday the 13th i.n Dt1rango Presbyterial ·will be in the Durango Presbyterian Church on T!:iursday afternoon and all day Fr.iday with the Igns.cio Circle assist1ng~ 0 • It was a }fapp;y- Birthday to Mrs~ Hazel Brake the afternoon of August 30th as a few of her friends and neighbox·s called with cards and gifts to wish her well~ 'f.he surprise l'Jarty was a:;:':ranged by :Mrs" Thelma Wright a.nd. she brought along the birthday cake., ) Hrs,. Brs.~!'.:e who had been hospitalized in Aug1Jst with a broken hip fi.,om a fall is cont:Lzming to recover 2,nd glad to he home e :,Jed:end. g1Jest;J at tt:e horns of t✓.crs ~ Char.lotte Jones were Dcuglas ar:6. Agnes Go1~man fi•or:J_ J,f1ssion, Ks,nse.s ~ After S0!:10 sightseeing a:::--~mnd t01m ancl the Vc:,J.l.ec::i.to Lah':e area they left l;~onday, August 27th to contim1e thejr ea!lrpi:'.'.lg trj_p to Boi:se 'J Idaho ~ Nine yea:r·s ago the Gorman family 1;·acationed at th-2 V2.llecito, so t hey saw a .few cb.a.nges ther·eo In Bo::i.se they went on a camping trip ·with thei1' daughter, .Teariette Gorman~ J"eanEitte works with the senior citizen progr:s.m in Boise" ********************** Mrs$ Olive Dillon \-ras a:-.,.-;ay from home three vmeks in August~ Her first stop was in Boulder to visit her son, Clinton 2.nd family She then visited fr:tencls 2 ..nd relatives i.n Kansas and Nebraska~ Wh:Lle in Kans:-'s she attended the class reunlon of h.eI" high school graduating n elass in Esbono In Neb2:aska one of her stopping places was in Red Cloud with rela·:.:J.1~:,;s~ Red Cloud \78.S the home of Willa Cather:i Pu1:1.tzer Prize winning novelist~ M:rsG Dillon i.ncJ.uded t!'le Wi1la CE-.\ther Museum on her list of places to see~ She returned rwm,~ Saturday~ September lstQ HAPPY********************* BIRTHDAY Lucy Duran Pauline Rod.I'iquez ijatividad Martinez bil viano Luce:20 Brad Sr.Ji th Be:i."thB. Sv.ndoval Henry Rivera Charlotte Jo1:1es ,;oe Williams Maria Manzaneres Fred Luce:co Jt.:l:'Lan Garcia �Houseguests \•7ednesd.ay :i1ght at the home of Mrs o OLtve DilJ.on were Ruben and Dor othy Rinker from the Sunrise Trading Post A:rizonao The Tradi ng Post is near W5.nslow. Mxs. Rinker 5.s i-1rs. DiJ.lo=i!s daughte r. -Jo:tn:i.ng them for d5.n.ne:r · Wedne sday evening at the D:Lllo?J. home were Mrs . Roxanne Egger and two boys from Bayfield and Chuck a nd Donna Egger. The Rinkers left Thursday to return to J~h ej_r home~ Quite a f ew, Ignacio, Allison area residents attended the 39th annual meeting of La Pl ata Electric Saturday a f' t er1'loon 5 September 13th in the Exte:isi on Build1ng in Durango. Joh..'1 Murphy was sccretm. / of the m.8eting and the 1978 minut es showed 156 co-op members attending and ove r 14,000 consumers for the yea!'. · For the Sept0mcer 1 5th meeting 200 even were pres ent and the number of consumer services for the::- ]979 yeFJ.r was 15,572 as of September. \rfayne Lunt and Bruce Fassc•tt represen t La Plata El e ctric Beard of Directors on the Board of Colorado-Ute lUectric . Bob Brown of Montrose a director of Colorado-Ute was present . Harvey Catchpole 1•1as c l1airman cf thE· mee t ing A number of reJ:orts were presenl9tnd Hugh Chastain , r::.ana.ger of La Plata Electric, gave a repor·c on the yea r's actiYitiese He n.cted t.hat the new headoue.rters in the Bodo Industrial Park we:"e under construction . REA members were invited to vis:i.t t he ne1:1 site. Wi"1en co~plete d the n e~•1 REA building ·will be n uch larger than t he presE'nt one which is ou tg~o~n. t:·1 e::c t~d to ccr~re f-·0·1 'v~ · t.,p (~..l.;J <.... f··q, J.tJ l"T'•'C T r ~3y -!, .,..,_,,, .. l.., .., ' .; . L (''-,... ,.l, , ~., L·~ .i,-c, .:: ./~. ..v ,, ~.::.J:.~:, ·11 :·. r• .:. Tr.- ..:.:.~• 1 Jacl:i: L-"i.n-,tt '7!i r-c" r, ·ra,-,·-cv Catch P~·1"'" ~n,1 P~r-ry Co ., 1~ • pi:elr-"' u ' .!... _ .... ' '..IV _ (..I. ...:, ' " " · - ~- \- ....... .;. • • _r.. _ .. ~· ,, ~:"\...' - ... c.l.,,, _'... _.__c;...., ,I - .. " It .ms a bu5J '!.;i• ·e tl:'..!.8 lc:ts·t. t:•·o :•:eeks of At;ft.1st ~-t the TJcell C&.rtJ.o:~ and Wal te:r Carlso:-l h~:..1es. ''.hc.' C;;~rc;.cn~. son~ J ay, z.rri vcd hor::c _:;.ugust 1 5•!_;~1. Hi s ;>arcnts "1 et h i :r: i!'l De!!VC·:' on thc-· ~.Lfth o Jay ,-ms returning fr01.n a t ... o year L. D. S. Mi ssion in Uortacr~ Ital yo Du~ing h~s t!~e in Ital y he ~ade a lot of new f :'i2nd.5 ~ he rGalJ.y liked the I talian people and thr: clima te. His se.::ond year he ,;-ms a ssiened ·co the lii ssicn ho:ie for six n:onths and the last two ::1ont J.1.s of his stay he was a ::-issionary i n t he field . Cor.iing hoIJ<=.; . to vis it 1.,ihile Jay was home Ha. s his br·ot he r, Ca rl a nd wife, Vern and the:1. r thre e ch:tl dren from Canyon. Ci ty and his s i s t·er , Joanne :;Jh· · t e I he:r h usban d , Bob a ;:id the:i.r three gj_rls from Buena Park , Cal i f orni. , · Also a niece o:'.: :t.rs . Carlson's from Was:1ington Sts.te was he:l.' e for a visit w:l th all cf th.er.'!.. She was ?!:rs o Doris Finch the claug~ter of Geo:·ce and J.fo.ry Brown, fcrm8r Allj_s on res i dents. It [,1a.s been 35 years since she had be~n in tr..<;; ;:•_:,:·eB. a.nd s he had a l•1ondc:?.' fu l time. The ,ve..l ter C'a':'lsons a.n<l Udell Gardens had seen ter in i·lashington. State on tc0ir 1975 trip. Before g>ing on ;;m L.~.s . 1li~sor1.; J a y, a I grn:1.c·~o h jzh gradl."'.a.te, attend€ci one year ut J.Y.U. in Provo. Sep-cemb~r f:i.r3t he 1-.1ent haclc to Provo to ~-m.roll for h:1.s so~1hom01·e year where he is majoring in ~l e ctrical engi ne ering. � 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. 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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: August 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. 1979-08 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 https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/08d1be00ce42c2c1205b0bb064d5a49f.pdf 7f0e489e537d029aec164faeb750cd26 PDF Text Text J l't ') . ( ' "'' ___, 'J f~_,,1 ,A._ (_ /_ ~ ,~~ ~ . e-,...~~ ~ ~tr. u ~ . ; IJ ~-. o ~ « f 'GUC!AP f"&.3 ....'1-,t. / h~ . __ ~~ . ------- ·- . .~ r~ �DAISY HOUSE EAGLE I "My mother was Fannie House, a relative of the House far:iily at Towaoc. .Jack House, the last chief of_ the lite . ]fountain Utes '.va.s my cousin. ; !•~Y father was John Cheetah from Northern Ute. I do not r emember him since he died shortly after I was born, but my mother told me he was a blacksmith at the old Indian Agency north of town. Before my □other married John , she was married to Julian Buck. My half-brother, Daniel Buck , attended the Sa.nta Fe Indian School, but died while he \-;as still a young man. My two half-sisters were July Turner and Ellen Watts. July was kicked by a horse and died while she was a young girl . 11 "I was born February 22, 1901.t-, at the Southern Ute Agency. The long white building where I was born is still there. The first place I t..:an remember living was a canvas wigwam l<;>cated just across the bridge east from Ignacio . Since· my mother was a widow, she worked very hard making beadwork and beaded rtoccasins and l eather saddles to sell. She taught I!le to do beaded belts and moccasins . 11 "When I was 5 years old she sent me to the Southern Ute Boarding School. Dolly Watts, Edith Burch and Ollie Tyler started at the sar::e time. We all cried. We were afraid and we didn 1 t want to go . It was just as bad as we thought it would be. The big girls pinched us and teased us . The next year I got to go to Spring Creek School. It was a small country school with a lot of Anglo children. That's where I learned English." "In 1918 was the terrible flu epidemic and my mother died from pneumonia. I went to live with my cousin Page Hright at La Boca. I helped herd the sheep and do other work. It was at La Boca School I finished 8th grade. A few years later I met Amos Eagle. Amos liked to do farm work. He had worked as a farm laborer at Rocky Ford . We were married at the court house in Durango. Our first ho::ue was a 3 room aqobe house on my mother 1 s Spring Creek Allotment. It was a warm house and big enough for us at that tine. Amos was a good farmer. He raised hay and gr ains and sheep and cattle. He sold cows whenever we needed money . In the winter he sold hay from a big haystack to the white people. We had many good neighbors. We helped them and they helped us. I can remember helping the white ladies can cherries and other food for winter. Amos had a buggy with a top which we drove to Ignacio on Saturdays to buy food and see the people." 11 Sometimes today at the store I see people which I remember from those days, but they are old ladies now and I have forgotten their names. I remember the San Ignacio Fiesta many years ago. The Spanish people put up little stands to sell fruit and tortillas and there were foot races .and horse races. 11 11 • Amos and I had 4 children and adopted one. Ivy is the oldest, then Mildred, who died when she ·was a baby, Lenora, who died of fever when she was 12 and Judy. Also we adopted Beverly." "We sold my mother's al.lottment to the tribe and moved to town about 1956. Amos died 6 years ago." "I always liked the Bear Dance and used to cook food for the feasts . With one hand stiff, I can't do my beadwork and I can't cook very easily, but I still like to - go to the powwow to .listen and watch. 11 interviewed by Shelby Smith �·• L anan Bryan , now in the U. S. Na,;.ry, has completed recrui t training at the 'iaval Training Center in San Diego, California . :i:n his 8 weeks training ccurse he was being prepared for fu rther traini ng _as a !iavy Cons t!'uction~an, c ne -0f 85 basic occucational fiel ds of the Navy,· Timothy R, is the son of George and Charlene Bryan, a 1978 ~gnacio High graduate. ********************* ) The first Rosa-Arboles Reunion brought a 1,000 people to the ?{as s , barbeque, music and other enter tainment under the cottonwoods at the Navajo State Park on Sunday, July first. Those present were forrr.er residents and descendants of forme r r esidents who had lived in the area before they had to move to make way for trewaters of the Nava jo Lake, Ar boles move its headquar ter ~ west dO\•m the road a little ways, but Rosa once r a ther fa~ous, is no more , But for t he reunion they came frorr. Alaska, Connecticut, Caliornia and some 25 other states to gree t cousins and. one time neighbors . It was such a successful affair, pl ans are to hold a reunion again next sum...~ er, . :Hass under · the giant cottonwoods was conducted 'by the Rev, John Bowe from the Pagosa Springs Catholic Church. Narth Quintana was chairper son of the Reunion . Angie Marquez was i n charge of the noon meal -- fabul ous food , from all accounts. Stell a (0.lintana, a longtime teacher, was introduced to the Crowd . Music was furnished by the Nontoys Brothers and Tom Givon and the Cat Creek Band. Some 600 a ttended the Reunion dance on Satur day night a t Pino Nuche . ******************~** Happy Homemakers Extension Club held their yearly pot luck picnic Friday, July 14t h at 7:30 p. m. in the yard of LaVern 1uusman with Gail Klusman as co-hostess. Members and their families and gue st attended . Fried chicken, pork chops, ~eatloaf, salads, beans , homemade r olls , homemade ice creari and· pies and cake s wer e enjoyed by all~ Men enjoyed the evening playing horseshoes and visiting also with the women spending the evening chatting, Members attended a day in Cortez, Tuesday, July 19th, getting cookies ready for the country store to sell during the County Fair. ******************** Mr. & Mrs. Virgil Clark are spending a few days in Lakewood , Col o , with their son Ronnie and family, Their daughter Virginia Richtlond is babysitting the rabbits and dog while they are gone, Stephanie Richmond from West Cevina, Calif ornia is spending the s ummer with her dad J erry Richmond . a nd visiting the r est of the Richmond family. ******************* • J " I �- --- .... . l �The first of July Don and Opal Potter moved from Durango to Pagosa Springs. The Potters lived in Montrose for many years before returning to this area to live. ********************* Criselda and Liva Pacheco had all their sons visiting them the first two weeks in Jul:& Robert his wife Beatrice and children Robert Jr, and Brenda fro□ Hawaii were here as were Ernest and his ·.;ife Rose, from Colorado Springs, Teddy his wife Mary and son Mario from Grand Junction, Colorado, Timothy from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and Chxis who lives here in Ignacio. Christina enjoyed her brothers, nephews and niece also. Liva's sisters Hr. & Hrs. Paul Jacquez and family from Blanco, New Mexico and Nr. & Hrs. Bill Fields and family from Santa Fe, New Mexico also visited the Pachecos. ~******************** Fifty years ago on J"uly 5, 1929, Velma Clark and Fred Robinson went to Ouray to be married and then returned to Ignacio. The past 50 years they have lived in Ignacio. The Robinsons celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with Open House at their home north of tmm from five o'clock until seven. Open House was Saturday evening, the seventh. An earlier celebration that afternoon was the birth of a great granddaughter. The seven pound, seven ounce girl was born at 1:51 to Daven and Janet Reinhardt. The wedding cake cut during the Open House ceremonies had been baked by Janet Reinhardt a little ahead of time, just in case. The Bob HcCaws and Gilbe1·t Reinhard ts became delight grandparents. Besides relatives and friends from the area present to honor the Robinsons other relatives here were a sister of Hrs. Robinson, Mrs. Bertha Munholand from Chili Vista, California; Hr. Robinson 1 s brother Orville Robinson and his wife from Calit:ornia and Wyoming; Gus and Thelma Robinson from Leadville and the Robinsons' daughter, Verna Horsely and her husband Brian from Albuquerque and their daughter-inlaw, Janice and sons from Gallup. The Robinsons became parents of three daughters, Verna, Shirley Reinhardt, and Jackie Robinson. Verna now lives in Albuquerque and Shirley and Jackie live in Ignacio . . The Robinson family lived in the ?fontrose-Ridgeway area and then moved near Farmington. vlhen Fred· was 17 he moved to Ignacio and has made his home here ever since fo~lowing the life of a rancher. Velma Clark came to Ignacio with her parents around three years of age. In the beginning of ;the Tm•m of Ignacio around 1910, her father, William Clark, was the first '.barber in the township of Ignacio. Later he sold out to Jess Stauffer :who moved here from Cortez. Some four years later the Clarks returned and Mr. Clark was a barber in Ignacio for the remainder of his life. Before the Robinsons were married Velma clerked in the store owned by L. M Wayt. '· Both the Robinsons are very much a part of the history of the Ignacio Community--its growth and mariy of its ups and downs. It is a Happy 50 years, Golden Anniversary to Fred and Velma Robinson. ********************* �... i Claude and Irene Har~on took the plane to Tulsa, Oklahoma to attend a Harmon far:i.ily reunion. They left here June 29th and returned fhome the first. They had a wonderful time greeting some 6~ Harmon ,family r ela ti ve s • The youngest one present was less than one year old and the oldest 1,~er.:ber attending was 82. 1 I ******************** / ~ex and Jacqueline Rea and f i ve children arrived Friday fro~ Arvada! for a visit with Ers. Rea I s :nether, :,J>s. Charlotte Jones. They attended Re:z' s class reunion on July 1st and returned home July 2nd. The two youngest corning with the Reas were fost~r children, two year old Lloyd and two weeks old Jeremy. The Reas took hir.:i when he was one day old. ******************** Bertha Sandoval had her ,r,.daughter:--1 and r'i fa~ily (Isabel) I·J-. & Hrs. r • • • .J.._ B o b .,oy .,~,on-toya anc..., c.augnvers ~.is sy a.rl•- 1•.anv.y ,~ son fro□ Denver, Colorado .J,... "l,r visiting her over the 4th cf July h0liday. 'I':1.ey went visiting in F'arnington Saturday the 7th and we.nt hou:e the 10th. They are plan.:.~ing to cone back for the San Ignacio ~ays. l-:rs. ?.uby Hailey was 2.way during the r:.onth o.f Ju!le in :Sncini tas, California ·with .b.er sister, 1Ts. Ruth Stein. She also visited ·with other relatives a.nd friends. -=-1 While Ers. Hailey was a-,rny Hrs. Hartha Secler stayed in her ho-:ie during June. 1-:rs. Stein returned with her sister on the second of Jtly ·fora month 1 s v5.sit here. Stop ever visits were also enjoyed. in ?hoeni:: with ths Kent Carlson and Dale Fisher fa::rriliEs. ********************* The l+th of July Ignacio residents scatts::red for the lakes a!1d picnic areas here a..~:: s o!:.:6 stayed ho::1.e and. then there was the big and successful celebration in Bayfield . l·J'S . J annie King spent the 4th with her daughter and family, the James Sowers and t ook in the breakfast and Barbeque in the tmm I s festivities. ***********~********* The Spring Creek birthday club which meets once a month to celebrate the birthday of rr.embers in that month and a pot luck dinner on July 11th at the home of Delbert and Callie Baird. Approximately 35 people attended and the huge birthday cake was in honor of Callie Baird. He~birthday was on the 11th. ********************* . . 1 �~)pending a day in Ignacio the last of June saying nHello 11 to i0~mer longti~e friends ~ere ~~s. Virginia Turner of Ignacio, her husband, l-:orrill 1 s sister, ~:rs. :Iettie Castle and her son Johnny fro:o. Long Beach, California and 1-'.rs. Turner 1 s daughter and granddaught~r ~-:rs. Phyllis Woodworth and Robin from Denver. Robin planned to spend part of the sumner here with her grandmother. ********************* ! 1 ne visitors in the area included lfrs. Clara Eayfield Carter and her d ghter 1:rs • .Sharon Willia::1s fro:-G Prescott, Arizona. ::-irs. Carter, a lon ti~e Ignac io ele~entary s c hool teacher, later taught in Kingman, Arizona. She c..idn't care !::.uch Ebout being retired so is now teaching in a religious school in Prescott. They spent 2ost of their tise here with 1~s. Carter 1 s ~other, ~~s. Pearl Barnes and other relatives, retur~ing ho~e June 29th. ~ { ********************* Several class reunions were scheduled for this su~er of 79. The first class to =set and talk over old ti~Es was the Class of 1969. The Class of 1559 scheduled a 20 year class reunicn and later cancelled it as not enough for~er students said theyIDuld attend. However, later, the people who were CO!Jing anyway got together for picnic at the 1favajo__ Stat? ~a:~ :pic!}ic_a:ea 3unday,_Jul~~ ~~t ~nd had a_wonde!'ful tir::e. Attenc.ing wi tn ~n.eir 1 a~"":llies Kere ~9:e.ten 0:-:.i -ch .i:-'hel ns ar1a. her husband ·;·1'n"'c.·'-L, '"'Il·" ,....,i l 0.-Y':::0."1 cl,-.,"1·"7 c:, a.,..... '"'· ,-< J~=c s 1\---.u-'cu~~i-n '"hey C aa.ce ....., .co.,., ~, 1~' -'...IVs-~-.... D vC h i ! V - - - s. .,___ .L .. 0,:.i their horJes at Aztec and ?ar:::1ington up the :ravajo by boat. Coming with the!!l. was Helen's brother, Allen S:J.ith, Jr. and his family. Ronald 11 Corky 11 Preston and. fanily .were at the picnic fror,1 their hone ) in Eaton, Colorado, To!2.>ny Pennell and fa□ily fro~ Barstow, California, Rex Rea anci fa~ily from Arvada and David Engler 2nd fa:nily fror:1 Allison. Also visiting with these classmates for a while before the dinner . were Pat and Grace ?a trick an.d ~,:rs. Dick Gardner. The Pa tricks 1 daughter Donna, a class :nembers, was unable to be present as ,-,as !,~. Gardner, for□er high school principal. -'--'- c:., <:; .... - ,. ~---~ - .... C.....c. .... ********************* Hr. & Hrs. Joe B. Hartinez, daughter Doreen & grandson Richard fror: Redwood City, California were in the arsa visiting relatives and frie~d~ they visi tee. h&r sister 2nd husband ::r. cc Ilrs. Joe 1. :-:cDaniel his aunts :~ry Ro~ero and Bertha Sandoval, They also took in the big reu~ion picnic at Arboles. On the 4th of July· Joe and Doreen visi tea Er. cc :-: rs. C. F. Pacheco and far.:ily. ~·-·~**~************* SRn Ignacio Days will be celebrated the 28th and 29th of Julv. It ·will start with a para,de on Saturday· at ten a. ::!1. and a dance at the Community Center that night. Sunday parade at ten a.m. then the mass at the Ute ~~rk "!ill be at 11 a.m •. with dinner, games, 1~azaax, , ba~e sale Inaian aances etc. following the rest of the day. Everybooy is welcome. u ******************** Edgar Parrett had a short visit from his great niece Dr. Janet Smalley who had just finished her internship at St. Lukes in Denver. Her home is in Ohio, and after a short vi~;i t there she is off to Alaska for three years with the Indian Health Service. �IIs anyon e mis s i ng? Th e clas s of 1964 graduates from the Ignacio High School i s hol di ng a r eunion in August. , It's amazi ng how fa r a gr oup of young people finishing high school just 15 years a go can s catt e r acros s the country. ·· F riends , rel a tives and f o rmer t eachers have joined in the search t hese' pas t months to tra ck dmm and serve notice to these former IHS kids of their first class reunion. Reservations are co□ing in to . Ruth Etta Garner for this event and it is hoped no one is missing. *****************~*** Gary Patrick is back living in Ignacio on the home ranch north of town. Since moving to Gpllup with his parents; Lee and Jean Patrick, he has worked a t a number of things, including railroading. Now he is trying ranching and liking it. ******************** A vacation plane trip took Emmet and Jessie Hott, Rod and Hary Pargin and Hazine Anderson to several out of the way places. Islands and a couple of continents. First stop was the Fiji Islands.· Then they went on to :1ew Zealand and Australia for nore interesting sightseeing. The Hotts and Pargins returned home after arriving back in California. Hrs. lLr:i.derson stayed a week first visiting with a friend since their childhood then with her niece Leneva Tiedesan for a couple of days at her hc~e in San Francisco. Leneva is a psychiatric nurse in a Sen Franc isco hospital. She works part of her tine in the e~erge~cy section. ivliss Tiecie:rrnn was born in Ig::.1acio, the daughter of George and Dorothy Tiede~an. ******************** The Lee Patricks and grandson Scott, have been up from Gallup a few times recently. Sunday, July 8th. Hr . Patrick 1 s nether, 2•'.:r s. Hary Patrick went with them to Basalt to stay f or a ti:.::e with her daughter and family, the Jim Stansburys. ********************* Two elders were na~ed to served unexpired terms at the Congregational meeting e.t the Presbyterian Church, Sunday the 15th. Named were Lyle Crawford and Helen Campbell. Hr. Crawford and 1•::rs. Campbell will coonlete the terr:is on the session of Everette bllison anc. Juanita I,:ackey. *~***-***~*~~***-****** The following people that are having JULY BIRTHDAYS are: Bisue English Liva Pacheco Lorraine Duran Veronica Cuthair Ruth Shock Bertha Valdez Julian Baker Virginia Russell Bernadette !•~unoz Cavanaugh 0 1 John, Jr. Erwin Taylor Raymonct Valdez Sympathy Martha Myore and Kaare Evensen & family �,, .. . Tod Grant has been named as an alter native to the Childrens Advisory Panel of the ·National CorJID.iss i on on the International Year of the child, Washington , D. C. This i s quite an honor for Tod 15, a former I gnacio resident. His parents are Charles and Esther Quintana Grant. The Grants now live in Antonito. ********************* Jtfte r getting their yard l ooking like polished velvet Dan and Mar y Shaughnessy decided to vacation for a time. They flew to Seattle , Washi ngton and visited with their son Ala~ and his son, Harty. They, went on to Anchorage, Alaska and visited another son, Mike and family for 12 days. The highlight of this stay was a camping trip. They didn ' t see any bears, but they did see noose mothers and t heir babies . On t heir return to Seattle a nother short visit and then home. Harty r eturned with t hem t o s tay until in August and schooldays . Marty has kept busy with swimming, baseball, summer Rec . and helping his grandparents. . They celebrated the 4th of July by going out to dinner in the evening in Durango with John and 1farianna Glass . They all attended the Abbey Theater play , 11 80 you' re Irish11 and enjoyed i t very much. It was also to celebrate l.:rs . Glass ' s birthday coming up on the seventh, ********************* ) Stanley and Leora Potter were in Ignacio about a week and stayed at his motber 1 s home. Stanley' s mother, Martha Potter has been quite ill in recent weeks a.nd is in the hospital . They also visited other family membe rs while here , before returning to their horae in Ocean, New Jersey. Af ter a career in the service he is employed as a Nuclear Physici st at a pl ant in New Jersey . ************~********* People usually l ook for cooler spots if leaving on vacation, but not the Brewer family. Jane and her pa rents, Mr . & Mrs. Brewer left early in the morning of the 12th to drive to Florida. They planned t o be back home the 24th. ********************* A Fifth Sunday Rally of ·the -San Juan Basin Parish churches is scheduled for Sunday, July 29 at the Selfs .picnic grounds on the Florida Hesa . The morning service will be followed by a pot luck dinner . There will be no regular' services in the Parish churche s on the 29th , all are i nvited to enjoy the Fifth Sunday Rally together with the Rev. Don Kratz in charge of ½he service. **~****************** �.JI f\'-Xrd'l--.:c;//ici 1~ !"--~ d e } ~ lJC..~e~..,,~/Ma~ JJi/-hnil 14v _de~~ Cu1-1-h___,. ·-- . 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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: July 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. 1979-07 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