Vesta Elaine Lange

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Vesta was born to Lewis Almon and Lorena Myrtle (Crew) Lee on December 7, 1924, during a blizzard near midnight at her parent's farm, eleven miles southwest of Limon, Colorado. She was the youngest of seven children. She grew up always playing school with a dog named Jack as her playmate. She passed the first and second grades and the sixth and seventh in their respective years. She rode a horse 3 ¼ miles to and from grade school, then walked about two miles to catch a bus to go to high school in Limon, or worked for her room and board in town, as well as working for the band master and glee club director for her tuition because her home was in Elbert County just one-half mile from the Lincoln County line.

She married Richard Kenneth Lange in 1942 and they worked in Limon that winter, then moved onto a 14,000-acre ranch owned by Richard's parents where Richard worked for his father and had his own Hereford cattle. After six years there, they sold all their cattle and Richard and Vesta worked in Limon for two years before buying a 320-acre irrigated dairy farm near Loveland, Colorado. They sold their farm in 1958 and moved into Loveland. Richard worked for Westinghouse's Allied Laundry Division selling laundromats in many states for several years. During this time, they had a new house built in Loveland, but he got transferred to Salt Lake City, so they sold that house and were only in SLC over the school year and were transferred back to Denver.

Vesta worked at many different jobs including McDonalds Clothing Store, Rexall Drugs and Sullivan Greenhouses before going into office work. She worked for a big machinery company in Denver and when there was a big flood that ruined their offices, she then was employed in the finance division of the University of Colorado Medical Center, where she worked for 26 years before retiring. Richard expired in 1984, so she continued working until 1990. In 1992 she bought a home in Mountain Home, Arkansas and sold her home in Littleton, Colorado. She and her older son both moved to Arkansas and he bought his home near Gassville. Vesta always had lots of flowers and a big garden, so she worked out in her yard if weather and health would permit.

Vesta was the mother of Sandra (Gene) Jensen, Gordon (Miriam) Lange, Sheila (Gary) Stapleton, Charles (Anita) Lange, and the grandmother of eleven, great-grandmother of twelve and the aunt of numerous nieces and nephews.

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