Edwin "Ted" Winterburn [1898-1984]

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"He was born in Olathe, Kansas to Samuel Winterburn, a carpenter and contractor, and Olive (Mussellwhite) Winterburn, a homemaker. By 1900, when Edwin was two, the US Census shows that the family had moved to Otero, Colorado. He came to Grand Junction in 1905, at the age of seven. During World War I, he worked as the motorman on the night run of the Rural Interurban Line, the train that ran from Fruita to Grand Junction at a time when there were few automobiles in the Grand Valley. He married Lucile Jones on August 10, 1927. Edwin started Winterburn Electric in 1924 and ran it until 1938. He then moved away and worked multiple jobs as an electrician around Utah, Tennessee, Nebraska, and Colorado before settling down in 1974 and moving to Palisade. He belonged to the First United Methodist Church in Grand Junction, Grand Junction Masonic Lodge No. 55, and the Palisade United Methodist Church."

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