Jean Rutherford Martin
1927 — 2022
Jean Rutherford Martin and her twin sister Jo were born on May 26, 1927 at her family's home in the farming community of Lewis, ten miles northwest of Cortez. The two sisters were incredibly close, riding the same horse to elementary school, sharing an apartment and working at the same soda fountain in Durango as they attended high school, traveling to and living together in southern California near the end of World War II, and even marrying and giving birth to their first daughters within a few weeks of each other. Patty Jean (and Peggy Jo) were born to William Griffith Rutherford and Roxie Elizabeth Lewis Rutherford. Roxie's father William Lewis, a widower, brought his four children...