In 1907, the graduates of Ber-thoud High School were Myrtle Stockwell, Emma Bennett, Ma-

bel Bein, Mable Curtis, Ina Hankins, Tena Waggen-er, Clifton Mc-Glothlan and Fred Hartford. The Stockwell name is still well-known to local residents. Myrtle, one of the 1907 graduates, had a younger sis-ter named Ivy. A local elemen-tary school was named for Ivy, who was a teacher in the

community for over 50 years.

Myrtle was born east of the present-day Campion area in 1889. Her father, Elijah Stockwell, was a farmer who relocated from Illinois to Colorado after the death of his fi rst wife, Mary. Stockwell brought his second wife, Fanny, and two daughters from his fi rst marriage to Colorado in 1883. In Colorado, two more daughters, Myrtle and Ivy, were added to the family. All four of Stock-well’s daughters attended the Sum-mit School that was located on Derby Hill south of Loveland.

When Stockwell’s second wife died during childbirth in 1898, he was left alone to raise his daughters. The oldest daughter, Mollie, was a young woman by that time, and she played a key role in the upbringing of her half-sisters, Myrtle and Ivy.

In January 1903, Elijah began building a home at 906 Fourth St. in

Berthoud. In April 1903, when the house was still under construction, Stockwell died suddenly from ap-pendicitis. He was buried in Love-land’s Lakeside Cemetery and his ranch was sold. Mollie, Myrtle and Ivy rented rooms in the home of a local minister until their late father’s house was completed. At that time, in the spring of 1903, Myrtle was ap-proaching high-school age.

Myrtle graduated in a class of eight students from Berthoud High School in May 1907. For a few years she was employed as a clerk at the Davis-Brown-McAllaster mercan-tile store that was located at the northwest corner of Third Street and Massachusetts Avenue. One of her friends and a Berthoud High School classmate, Emma Bennett, was the daughter-in-law of Irving Davis who owned and operated the store. Myrtle eventually took a retail job in Denver where she met and married Clyde Shockley. The couple did not have children.

Myrtle and Ivy lost their mother in 1898 while they were children. Their father passed away suddenly in 1903 before either of them had entered high school. They were raised by an older half-sister, Mollie, in a home on

Fourth Street in Berthoud that was occupied by Mollie and Ivy for many years.

When Myrtle graduated from Berthoud High School in 1907, a woman’s prospects were generally limited to clerking jobs or marriage. Myrtle entered into marriage while her younger sister, Ivy, became an el-ementary school teacher. In the early

1900s teaching was almost exclusive-ly the domain of women.

The Stockwell girls persevered de-spite many adversities in their early lives. Many readers of this column will recall Mollie, and particularly Ivy, who lived in the Stockwell home on north Fourth Street into the early 1970s.

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A LOOK AT BERTHOUD

1907 BHS graduate faced adversity early in life

Judith Ann PearceJune 14, 1938 — April 15, 2014

Judith Ann “Judy” Pearce of Wind-sor, Colo., passed away unexpectedly April 15, 2014, at the age 75.

Judy was born to Pete and Maxine Baller on June 14, 1938, in Long-mont, Colo. Her ancestors were early pioneers to Longmont and her great grandfather, Amos Millice, joined the Chicago Colony helping to form Long-mont and was part of the survey crew helping to lay out the town. She was

preceded in death by her parents, husband, grandparents and other relatives.Judy is sur-vived by her children: San-dra Pearce of Fort Collins, Colo., Mike Pearce (Becky) of Laramie Wyo., Linda (Ben) Bobbitt of Middleburg, Fla., and Jason Pearce of Dodge City, Kan.; granddaughter, Ashley Pearce, of Middle-burg, Fla.; brother Jim (Gen)Baller, Walden, Colo.; two sisters, Sue (Rick)Ulrich, Kingman, Ariz., and Nancy(Ron) Knaus, Fort Morgan, Colo.; an Aunt Jeane Law

of Longmont, Colo., and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of friends.Judy was raised in rural Colorado, attending schools in both Berthoud and Walden, Colo., where she graduated high school in 1956. She was both a majorette and a cheerleader. She attended college at CSU in Fort Collins, Colo., where she met and married Leonard Pearce on Jan. 7, 1961. They

lived in Dodge City, Kan., and later divorced.

Judy lived in Vail, Colo., for sev-eral years where she was a medi-cal transcriptionist at Vail Valley Medical Center. She loved skiing and all sports.Recently Judy moved to Windsor, Colo., where she was a crossing guard for the Windsor Police Department at Grandview Elemen-tary School. She loved the children and being called “Miss Judy.” She was also employed by the Budweiser Event Center in Loveland and en-joyed being around people.Judy was an avid fan of the Denver Broncos, Colorado Rockies, Colorado Eagles and the Avalanche. She enjoyed go-ing to sporting events, concerts and horse races. A private memorial ser-vice will be held later this month in Walden, Colo. Cards and condolences can be sent to Pearce Children, c/o Sandra Pearce, PO Box 273184, Fort Collins, CO 80527.

Then & NowSurveyor Columnist

Mark French Photo courtesy of the Ludlow Collection, Berthoud Historical Society

Ivy Stockwell (left) and Myrtle Stockwell (right) were faced with adversity early in their lives. Myrtle graduated from Berthoud High School in 1907. Her sister, Ivy, was a Berthoud graduate in 1912.

OBITUARY

Judy Pearce

Photo courtesy of the Ludlow Collection, Berthoud Historical Society

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