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IN HER OWN WORDS: Rosie Tozer

By Rosie Tozer

Published July 15, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

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'I just hate even talking about it,' says woman who could lose home. Rosie Tozer moved into a small bungalow on 42nd Avenue between Clayton and Fillmore streets, backing up against the Union Pacific tracks, in 1953. She's still there, and worried that RTD's FasTracks East Corridor train to the airport will force her out. The Rocky chatted with Tozer in her backyard on Monday about life in Denver's Swansea neighborhood and the prospect of losing her home of 55 years.

I hate it. I just hate even talking about it. This is a beautiful little house.

We even bought the one next door and my daughter and I tore out the entire inside and redid it ourselves.

Now they're talking about putting me out, and I don't like it.

My husband and I got married after World War II. We moved to Denver and the Welcome Inn, over there by the Platte River, needed some cooks, so we both cooked there.

The passenger trains went behind our house all the time back then. We would see all the soldiers coming and going. We were afraid the kids would get too close to the tracks but they never did.

All the neighborhood kids would be in here when my kids were growing up.

I always knew where they were.

So this house means a lot to me.

And all of a sudden I got this letter and my daughter called RTD and they said I better come to this meeting this week.

I don't know what I'm going to do. Where would I go at 81? I like it here.

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  • July 16, 2008

    9:01 a.m.

    Suggest removal

    SteveFesch writes:

    Rosie I suggest you contact www.thecprc.org

    There are good people at the Colorado Property Rights Coalition who will help you understand all the lies you are about to be told.