Guardian Angels Catholic Church in Mead, Colorado was founded in 1911, five years after the town of Mead was established. In 1910, Mead claimed 114 residents, including twenty-five Catholic families living in and around the town, who bought the old Mt. Zion United Brethren Church located at Highway 66 and Weld County Road 7. They hauled this church a mile up county road 7 to its present crossroads location, refitted and rechristened it as Guardian Angels Catholic Church, and celebrated their first mass there on January 1, 1911. At that time, Guardian Angels was a mission of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Longmont. The first pastor was Father Bernard Hamburger, who traveled from Longmont to Mead on alternate Sundays....