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In 1948 and 1949, Martin and Anna Brethower purchased 10101 Dillon. They would own <br />it until 1953. <br />Martin Brethower was born in Nebraska in about 1892. Anna Brethower was born in <br />Nebraska in about 1896. <br />Skrocki Ownership and Overton Ownership, 1953-1962 <br />Walter and Nora Skrocki purchased 10101 Dillon in 1953. The "Marsden" map of the <br />Louisville area dated 1953 (from the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History in <br />Boulder) shows that the Skrockis owned the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter <br />of Section 16. <br />Records show that Robert S. and Helen J. Overton owned this farm from 1958 until <br />1962. <br />Hoyle Ownership, 1962- current <br />Ira Kenneth Hoyle, born in 1917 in Oklahoma, purchased 10101 Dillon in 1962 with <br />Virginia Ruth Hoyle, who was born in 1920. The farm has been in their family for over 50 <br />years. Kenneth Hoyle earned a degree in agronomy from CSU. <br />Kenneth Hoyle died in 1997. According to his obituary in the Rocky Mountain News, he <br />was "a farming expert who blossomed into a banker. He founded the first bank in <br />Broomfield and in April was named to the Boulder County Businessman's Hall of Fame." <br />He was remembered as working a half -day with cattle, then a half -day at the bank. In his <br />obituary, a friend called him "a gentleman and cowman." <br />The current owner of record is the Ira Kenneth Hoyle Family Trust. <br />The preceding research is based on a review of relevant and available online County property records, <br />census records, oral history interviews, and related resources, and Louisville directories, newspaper <br />articles, maps, files, obituary records, survey records, and historical photographs from the collection of <br />the Louisville Historical Museum. <br />7 <br />