Pioneers of the Year
Honoring Our Past Pioneers
• 2023 Duane Dailey, Hot Sulphur Springs, Virgil & Terry Fisher, Fraser
• 2022 Chuck Alexander, Granby, Susie & Cody Docheff, Parshall, Kayo Scholl, Kremmling
• 2021 Deane Murphy, Fraser, Martha Wall, Kremmling, Jim Yust, Kremmling
• 2020 Elaine Busse, Fred Garrett, Leigh Murphy, Geneva Sherman
• 2019 Lois Lynch, Drowsy Water Ranch
• 2018 Barbara Mitchell, Hot Sulphur Springs, Ida Sheriff, Hot Sulphur Springs
• 2017 Jim Chase, Granby, Bob Chase, Granby, Lorene Linke, Granby
• 2016 Paul Stuart, Granby; Alan Wheatley, John Colburn, Jim Heeney, Kremmling; Gert Young, Silverthorne
• 2015 Yvonne Knox, Hot Sulphur Springs; Jim Lynch, Kremmling; Joyce Engel, Fraser
• 2014 Ilene Heeney, Kremmling, Therese McElroy, Kremmling
• 2013 Lee Morrow, Fraser
• 2012 Hilda Hale, Granby; George Edwards, Kremmling; Dale Childers,Kremmling
• 2011 Toots Cherrington, Granby; Laurayne Davison, Kremmling; George Culbreath, Heeney
• 2010 Mary Baumberger, Grand Lake; Grady & Gail Culbreath, Kremmling; Duane & Pat Scholl, Kremmling
• 2009 Richard & Marilyn Curry, Jack McElroy, Kremmling; Jack Orr, Granby; Peg Toft, Kremmling
• 2008 Alta Orr, Jerry Hale, Edwin Hill, Clinton Hill, Richard Hill, Granby
• 2007 Clifford Clayton, Fraser; Jack& Carol Horn, Jim Daxton, Granby; Harold (Smitty) Smith, Fraser
• 2006 Laura & Verne Weimer,Parshall; Don Acord, Granby
• 2005 Eddie Linke, Granby; Patty &Ernie Shearer, Parshall; Gary Breeze, Kremmling
• 2004 Rose Cox, Cedaredge; JackieBoyd, Granby
• 2003 Edna Palmer, Kremmling, Bill Curran,Kremmling; Tom Giberson, Summit County
• 2002 Joe Marte, Thelma Hill, Granby; John Sheriff, Hot Sulphur Springs; Margaret Burger, Kremmling
• 2001 Lloyd Palmer, Kremmling
• 2000 Bill Taussig, Jim Taussig, Jack Taussig Parshall; Laureen Myers, Kremmling; Carl Enyeart, Melvin Long, Summit County; Dick Thompson, Granby
• 1999 Stella Wheatley, Kremmling; Jean O’Neill, Fraser; Merritt Esmiol, Kremmling
• 1998 Eunice Marte, Granby; Fred Palmer, Bernice Overholt, Kremmling; Howard Giberson, Sue Chamberlain, Summit County
• 1997 Wilson Howe, Parshall; George Mitchell, Parshall; Elsie Ruske, Grand Lake; Dave Thompson, Hot Sulphur Springs
• 1996 Ken Wheatley, Kremmling; Frances Long, Blue River Valley; Ted McMahon, Parshall
• 1995 Aurielle White, Marjorie Underwood, Kremmling
• 1994 Bud Linke, Granby
• 1993 Lillian Taylor, Ruth Phillips, Leo Marte, Granby; Laura Russell, Parshall; Rose Wagner, Kremmling/Fairplay
• 1992 Grace Blayney, Granby; Elsie Clayton, Fraser; John Murphy, Granby; Edna Tucker, Fraser; Thelma Watt, Parshall
• 1991 Tillie Gingery, Granby; Violet Frye, Fraser & Granby; Charles Free, Kremmling
• 1990 Helen Bumgarner, George Knorr, Karl Knorr, Joe Myers, June Swanson, Kremmling
• 1989 Kate Bannock, Kilker, Kremmling
• 1988 Harry Jones, Kremmling; Patience Cairns Kemp, Grand Lake
• 1987 Rudy and Clarabell Just, Tabernash; Allyn H. “Tine” Wood, Herman and Arvid Christensen,
Kremmling
• 1986 Horace Button, Hot Sulphur Springs; Margaret Murphy Short, Granby; Con Ritschard, Kremmling
• 1985 William Ainsley, Granby; Sarah Orr, Kremmling
• 1984 Marie Craven George, Ted Ritschard, Kremmling; Carolyn Stone, Granby
• 1983 Oris Hayworth, Kremmling; Harold Reini, Parshall
• 1982 Elizabeth Culbreath, Kremmling; Fred McMahon, Parshall
• 1981 Marie Robbins, Granby
• 1980 Glenn Pharo, Granby; Kenneth Wood, Kremmling
• 1979 Ernest P. Rundell, Joseph McElroy, Olga Hill, Kremmling
• 1978 Helen O. Curry, William Roy Leroux, Kremmling; Joseph A. Mitchell, Parshall
• 1977 Gertrude Olson Pickering, Clyde B. Pickering, Kremmling; Earl Johnson, Kremmling
• 1976 Ralph Pickering, Granby; Frances M. Shearer, Rachael Nun, Nella Tucker, Kremmling
• 1975 Mary Lindsey, Fay DeBerard, Kremmling
• 1974 Robert Selak, Granby; Robert Scholl, Parshall; George Selak, Granby
• 1973 Ed Selak, Granby; Lillian Edmondson, Kremmling
• 1972 Glen and Adeline Sheriff, Hot Sulphur Springs
• 1971 Chester McQueary, Mary Miller, Granby; May McClung, Kremmling
• 1970 Martha Weimer, Lilly Reini, Parshall; Rhea Esmiol, Ed Yust, Kremmling
• 1969 Fritz Linke, Barbara Leatherman, Granby
• 1968 Emil and Mamie Reinhardt, Hot Sulphur Springs
• 1967 Clyde Eslick, Grand Lake
• 1966 Nancy Engle, Kremmling; Albert Selak, Granby; Charlie Palmer, Blue River Valley
• 1965 Bessie Wheatley, Maude Mugrage, Carl Ritschard, Kremmling
• 1964 Leah Morris, Granby; Clyde Edmondson, Kremmling
• 1963 Laura McLean, Hot Sulphur Springs; Mortie Pinney, Kremmling; Mary L. Cairns, Grand Lake; Frank Carlson, Fraser; Elnora Smith, Fraser
• 1962 Myrtle Everhar, Willow Creek; Willie Infanger, Kremmling
• 1961 Nina Austin, Kremmling; Ed Linke, Granby; Peter Benson, Fraser
• 1960 Ella Matheson, Jake Fetters, Kremmling; Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Harsh, Grand Lake
• 1959 Marie Eastin and C.C. Eastin, Kremmling; Francis Jesmer, Kremmling
• 1958 Elizabeth Free, Hot SulphurSprings; Helen King, Oscar Pickering, Kremmling
• 1957 Daisy Jenne, Hot SulphurSprings
• 1956 Lillie Curtis, Granby; Thomas McGeer, Kremmling
• 1955 Jennie Jameson, Fritz Ritschard, Kremmling
• 1954 Mary Walter, John Atmore, John Mather, Kremmling
• 1953 Milly R. McQueary and Earl McQueary, Parshall; Lelah Ault, Allice Stafford, Kremmling; Olive McGlochlin, Hot Sulphur Springs
• 1952 Anna M. Reubgardt, Granby;George Selak; Grand Lake, Sarah Mather, Sheephorn; Adolf Ritschard; Kremmling
• 1951 F.C. Jones, Stela Pickering, Kremmling; Josephine Button, HotSulphur Springs;
Rose E. Selak, Granby; Albert Scholl, Parshall
• 1950 Laura Pettingell, Grand Lake, R.O. Throckmorton, Hot Sulphur Springs
• 1949 Delia M. Just, Tabernash; Fred A. Field, Parshall