She wrote hundreds of letters to individuals seeking information about all who had served. Hebard communicated with military officials to initiate a list of those who served and died.

Ivinson had built brick buildings on three corners there, and for years was the president of the First National Bank, on the fourth corner. Ex-mayor Ivinson rejected that suggestion and insisted the monument be placed in the center of the intersection of Second and Thornburgh streets Thornburgh was later renamed Ivinson Avenue. Hebard suggested the memorial be placed at the university she felt it would be likely to get damaged downtown. Ludwig-Svenson Studio Collection, American Heritage Center.

Edward Ivinson, who owned brick buildings on three of the corners of the intersection and had served as president of the bank on the fourth corner, paid for the monument. Laramie's World War I memorial stood at the intersection of Second Street and Thornburgh-now Ivinson Avenue-downtown. Experienced Italian-born war-memorial sculptor Giuseppe Moretti of Pittsburgh, Pa., was selected for the design. A contract was signed in February 1924 for the large eagle atop the memorial and the bronze plaques that would bear the names of those who served. Ivinson agreed to pay for a much larger memorial the Laramie City Council accepted the offer. As they conferred, however, the project grew to include all UW and Albany County veterans of that war. They discussed placing a plaque on the university campus commemorating the 11 UW students who lost their lives in the war, which ended Nov. Beginning in June 1923, University of Wyoming Professor Grace Raymond Hebard and Laramie banker Edward Ivinson began corresponding about building a memorial for local veterans of World War I-the Great War, as it was called at the time.

Rediscovering the Ivinsons by Kim Viner