Show Bertha Ledingham surrounded by her favorite books and family will honored at a reception and stamp to celebrate her The public is invited on 10 at 2 p.m. to the Golden Years South enter on the lower level at the north THE GOLDEN Years orchestra and choral group will entertain with a musical Jerilyn University of Utah drama will present dramatic readings and light refreshments will be Bertha Muir is the second child of and John S. Ledingham and the eight other children were born in the Bountiful and Woods Cross There were five boys and five She was born in a little white house owned by Aunt Betsy Jane Howard in South THE FAMILY moved to a home on West South when she was 13 years old and lived here until her marriage to Frank B. Muir was a school teacher for 20 a farmer and chief of social security for the Federal government for 15 years before his HA MUIR SHE AND her husband lived in Bountiful except for eight years when they were in where her husband taught in Davis High Her hobbies are entertaining her family and She has three Max L. Marjorie M. Hess and Hatch There are fourteen grandchildren and seven great SHE ENJOYS her home where family and friends gather and her lovely writing and reviewing books for friends and Loves to play bridge and writes letters to family and friends which takes much of her Bertha says she is happy for a big family and now brother lives in her apartment and is a great help to Proud of her pioneer her paternal grandparents came from Scotland and the maternal grandparents from j THOUGH BERTHA has been a widow for twenty-two she has maintained her lovely For 12 years she supervised an 18 asparagus kept roomers and rented an During these years she made a home for her a niece and three They all paid their way which helped her keep the She taught in the Davis County schools for five years and was a substitute teacher for many more SHE WAS a Red Cross executive secretary for 13 years in Davis County and correspondent for the Weekly Reflex and presently writes for the Davis County She graduated from nigh school in was a normal school graduate of the University of Utah in 1912 and had Red Cross training in the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas for the position of executive secretary for Red Also took extension classes from the University of Utah for ten HAS traveled all over the United Sates with her visiting many of the old mining towns of Later traveled to Canada and through Utah for the and for the American Red Bertha was named Woman of by the Davis County Federated Women's Club and of The for Davis by the same WAS ALSO named of The for 1973 by the Bountiful Business and Professional Women and honored by the senior citizen group of South Davis County in for her help in organizing the senior citizens of this after she herself became a senior Has held executive positions in county and state such as Utah United American Red Cross in the county state and nation as well as in the American Legion Auxiliary and Utah Federation of Women's SHE WROTE Pioneer which is published in Pioneer and wrote a for the American Legion Auxiliary state contest for which she received first place in the Her On Trees In took first place in the Federated Women's Clubs of Utah and also took first place in the with Family written for a national contest of that SHE WAS honored by her family when thirty-two members were Thanksgiving day guests of her son and Max and Vivian Muir in Brigham Other guests included her daughter and son-in-law and and Wallace E. Salt Lake City and Vard A. and Merrilyn Dalley and PEOPLE ARE one of Bertha's hobbies and she is loved by the citizens of Davis Her great contributions to humanity during her lifetime have made her one of the outstanding and beloved citizens and friends of the entire We salute Bertha on her kj |