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A wealth of life and love: Byron and Jo Linden

Byron and Jo Linden on their Meeker area ranch.
MEEKER I Thomas Jefferson once said, “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Byron and Josephine “Jo” Linden are perfect examples of Jefferson’s statement.
Byron was born in Meeker in 1922 to Ralph Byron Linden and his wife Thelma Francis Fairfield, a first cousin to Freeman Fairfield. They had a ranch outside of town…