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S 4 i r S 3 Mr and Mrs Worthy Gibbons I Celebrate 65 Wonderful Years I PEOA- PEOA Saturday March 23 23 will mark hark ithe Cho sixty fifth anniversary for one of Summit or-Summit Summit County's loved best-loved couples Mr and Mrs Worthy Gibbons of t Peoa The day will willbe willbe willbe be spent quietly with ith their daughter daughter daugh daugh- ter Lois Lola and her husband R Russell sell Marchant with dinner in Salt Lake City and visiting relatives in the city Met l at Skating Party Elizabeth and nd Worthy Wor Worthy IV thy Gibbons met at at a skating party part when h he was 13 and she was 12 Tm Im going to marri marry that tha girl some day i he remarked remarked to a friend And he did I i They were married at t the Sid downy away residence e at Rockport with the wedding later later solemnized In inthe Their the th Salt Lake Temple first home was on the tha Moore farm near near Peoa and to put it frankly they did their best to live on I love Our r best source of income was wasI I in the bounty on squirrels Mrs Gibbons laughs They were an awful pest and the county p paid id three cents per squirrel tall j Worthy would go out at night and I spread the poison and Id I'd go out with him early the next morning morningto Ito i to PIck up the bodies We made I quite a game of It There were rabbits and trout I Ito to eat There was one spring where you could flip out all the big trout you wanted with a pitchfork pitch pitch- fork Mr Gibbons reminisced ed They had half a dozen hens as asa asa asa a wedding gift and at one time they saved up the eggs until I I there were here 2 24 2 and h he took too k t the the- heI I eggs to the store etore and came home I I with one can of ot sorghum It was quite a treat Lived In Park City qty I Things were better when they j I moved oved to Park City He worked as' as a a teamster hauling ore or from th the tho mines manes always always' J four horses I sometimes sir H He made per day top pay then then and they saved I most moet most of it It I T Theres eres a lot of talk about the wildness and the wickedness in early day Park City says saye Worthy Worthy Wor Wor- thy Gibbons But I II I. I saw none ot ol Il ih I think you you had had d' d to be looking for it it I 1 l dearly loved Park City says says Mrs Gibbons Gibbous The people were just wonderful and w we were e every very happy there Wo We always always I I took The Park k Record and we westill westill still enjoy It if I For ohe one short period Mr Gibbons Gibbons Gib bons earned five dollars per day That was when he was digging graves witha w with tha a pIck and sI shovel fora Tora for Tor a number of miners killed in an underground explosion After Alter 12 years Yeara they returned t to Rockport and nd went went to farming dairying and raising sheep and cattle cuttie The f farmhouse was about In n the center of the present I Rockport Lake They were there until 1951 when the heartbreak of ot giving up the home for the lake sent Bent them to Peoa It was much the same as trying to transplant two giant oaks Well never get over It they agree They have only one child Lois and no grandchildren Mrs Gibbons Gibbons GIbbons Gib GIb- bons dose does l her own housework Both are in good health although J neither sees too well and they watch television a good deal Their home f Is le a perfect reflection of ol the tremendous charm which both possess and of ot the mutual happiness in each others other's com corn IJan pany Recipe for Happiness A recipe for 65 years happiness happi happl ness nags This Is typical Never both 1 get mad at the same time And for good health Hard lIard work and fresh air 1 Elizabeth was born to Robert and Ellen Clark at Sugar House She will be 86 on Oct 2 JK s. s Her father was a a. handcart hand hand- cart pioneer a carpenter and they I I i I moved loved to Rockport while Elizabeth Eliza Eliza- beth was small email She has three brothers and two sisters Richard Rich ard and Salt Lake City i George Oakley Clark Roy Mrs Mia Belle Delle of ot Twin Falls Fald Idaho and Irene Vernon Stephensville Montana She has been very verT very active in tn the I Church seere secretary ary of ot the Relief Re lief lIel Society secretary of ot Sunday y S School hool president of ot I teacher and ward clerk Mr Gibbons was born at Rockport Rock Rock- I port to Thomaa and Sarah Lack Gibbons bot both early day pioneers He Ue was one of bt 17 11 children and only two others survive a a. brother Willard and a sister Mrs Mamie Mamle Workman He Ue was 87 81 years year old ola on I Feb 25 Both are extremely popular in tn their COID community Ul unity well known as asgood asgood good gool neighbors and helpers in time of ot need The Peoa community ity offered to hold bold a big anniversary aunt anni party for tor them but Mr Gibbons is i recovering from toD b k I. I recent recent recent re re- cent illness tune s and the couple de de- dined May they eT have bave av just Jua exactly as may n 44 they ther with wish Ji aalt il f c iv s. s 4 c. c 11 S' S 1 a |