SPECIAL VISITORS TO HAIGLER

A very interesting incident happened when Sherri Gregory and I were in the Family Market talking to Violet Relph. Two lovely ladies entered the store having been directed there with the promise that they could find the answers to their questions.

Naomi Over, from Arvada, CO, with her cousin, LeNore (Dollie) Timmer, of Denver (formerly of Wray), had driven here with the express purpose of viewing the location of the printing shop that Naomi's father had operated in the early 1900's.

Violet knew the exact spot and all the ladies walked up the street to the location. All this time Sherri had her video camera and recorder running, getting some valuable information to share. A most exciting moment occured when Sherri, remembering a picture she had seen of the building that housed the printing shop in a 1976 Haigler book, went to her car, found the picture with Naomi's father's name, Z. H. Baxter, among the others who had been operators of the printing establishment. Naomi was overwhelmed with joy and wonder. How could all these individuals converge at the same place at the exact time for this to happen???

Naomi says her father's name was Zenus Baxter, his wife's name was Florence. He was born in Armel, CO. The house in Armel, CO burned down and the two ladies were over there looking for white owls. Naomi was born in Florence, CO.

She says her dad was quite a carousor, but then was saved at the Methodist Church in Haigler. His profession was publishing the Haigler paper. After "getting" religion, he wouldn't print movie and liquor ads in the paper anymore. So, someone filled the stairways at his newsoffice with horse "pukky". He decided he was called to the ministry and went to Pasadena College in California and was a minister for many years. Naomi later went to the same college and got her teaching degree, then taught school for 30 years.

Dollie Timmer, Naomi's cousin, drove her to Haigler to help her find whatever information they could about her father. Dollie lived in Wray, CO., from 1961-64, while her husband was the Nazarene pastor. Dollie owned the Frosty King at the corner of Hiway 34 and Main street in Wray while they lived there. Her son, Gary Timmer still lives in Wray.

-- Submitted by Floy Ruggles and Sherri Gregory