Gloria Lenore Pollard

Born in Cripple Creek, Colorado, to Wm and Lenore Kyner, she was raised in Colorado; first in Cripple Creek, then Denver and at age 14 she and her mother moved to the oil field “boom town” of Rangely, on the western slope, where Lenore started The Rangely Times. At the end of WWII Gloria met Troy Ross “Buck” Pollard, who had just returned from war, whom she married a year later at the age of 16. Buck and Gloria were constant companions, raising three girls and owning and running several businesses in the Rangely area and In later years they owned and operated Pollard’s Ute Lodge, a 700 acre guest ranch on the edges of the White River National Forest.