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Show Mittscs Bonitor APRIL 28, 1995 PAGE 2 prompting from that same spirit that had guided him through the war years, he changed his homeward plans to include a visit to his sister in Ogden. He arrived on Thanksgiving Day, just as the family was sitting down to dinner. However, it was their guest that caught McCoy’s eye. “The minute I saw her, I knew she was the one,” he said about Jackie, who was attending nurses training school in Ogden with McCoy’s niece. Before their third date he bought an engagement ring, which she accepted. Forty-eight years later they are still sweethearts. Jackie soon took an employment position at Milford Hospital which would last for the next forty-six years. McCoy went to work farming his 240 acres on the Milford flat, working around the mines, and building their home. “At that time, there was no reason to build a house this big,” he said. McCoy and McCoy and Jackie Williams Life Is Full Of Miracles McCoy Williams was ten years old in 1926 when he came to Milford with his family. The journey from Gunnison, in two covered wagons loaded with household goods and other possessions, took five days. He remembers Cove Fort as a dilapidated rock structure. “Keslers had just put a service store in there,” he recalled. With the exception of one year when he stayed with a sister in Idaho, and the World War II years, he has stayed pretty close to home. _ After graduating from high school, he bought a 1% ton Chevy truck and went to work hauling posts, wood, coal or Jackie applied to adopt a child and were told that there was quite a backlog of people wanting children. If they were fortunate enough to get one, they should not expect a second. Their miracles continued, and they adopted four children. Over the years they provided a home for thirty-five foster children Milfors Monitor Editor/Publisher Alice Smith Staff: Sara Smith Jason Fisher Lola Bridge Ad Deadline: 5:00 p.m. Tuesday Ph: 801-387-2676 Fax: 801-387-5521 450 North 100 East P.O. Box 224 Milford, Utah 84751 and six exchange students. “In the 40 years we have lived here, -this is the first time we have been without young children in the house,” Jackie said. McCoy says the last few weeks, during Jackie’s illness, they have experienced the “greatest thing” about the community. “Milford must be recognized for loving and caring,” he explained. “That just happens universally in Milford. The people are just always there when they are needed,” Jackie added. Milford School Lunch ey ..- Monday, May 1. Chicken Noodle Soup Hot Roll Chocolate Cake _ Peaches/Milk - Tuesday, May 2. Baked Beans Green Salad Hot Roll '_ whatever needed to be moved.He and Lester, his brother who. also had a truck, soon advanced into the house moving business. They acquired some 18" square timbers about 30' long from the recently retired Mr. Foutz. The brothers rigged the timbers on rubber-tired axles for the rear, and positioned their trucks side by side to haul the Houses. They moved the _ Apple Pie/Milk.. LANA’S NAILS Wednesday, May 3 Taco Rice Casserole Acrylics © Manicures last house out of Frisco all the way to Beaver, the depot from Green Beans Newhouse, and the hotel from Roosevelt Hot Springs to Cove | One of their more ambitious ventures was movinga 2story lath and plaster home from the east bench above Fort. - ._ Wiseman’s to the current location on 500 West, a distance of approximately 4 miles. The brothers needed help. They hired a man with a larger truck to be positioned in center. Now, the brothers, with matching trucks, had developed a coordination and technique which was not shared by the other driver. “He -kept killing his eng whenine we tried to move. After4 or 5 tries we told him he had bet keepter it running or we might run right over the top of him,” McCoy reminisced. The move was successful, and after additions and remodeling, the house stands proudly as the Symond residence. _ In 1940 McCoy enlisted in the U. S. Navy. Sliced Pears Hot Roll/Milk By. Appointuent - Thursday, May 4 Hamburger Gravy Whipped Potatoes Buttered Com. — Fruit Salad Hot Roll/Milk . : | Look Who's Graduated gd .Friday, May 5 Sloppy Joe Tator Tots FiTuited Jello w/Cream/Milk — - Inthe Child Nutrition Program: no person shall on the grounds. of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or handicap, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination. If you believe you have Over the been discriminated against because of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or handicap, next six years his faith and belief in miracles was strengthened. _After graduating in the top ten of his class, he was scheduled to write immediately to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250. be assigned as a tail gunner aboard a carrier, An acquaintance, who desperately wanted the assignment, talked him into trading. Beaver County Sheriff's On Saturday, December 6, 1941 that carrier was just outside of Pearl Harbor, and McCoy was in Milford on leave. As defense against Japanese war ships, the planes were launched, but ran out of fuel before their mission was complete. Rather than risk capture the planes rammed the ship ina maneuver later dubbed. “Torpedo 8.” There were no U. S. survivors. - By the fall of 1946 it was time for McCoy to part company with the navy. . At an LDS. Fireside in Oakland, California, he had a private conversation with Harold B. Lee. “T asked him if I should,at 31 and bald, go on a mission, His advice was to go home, find a nice young lady, and raise a family,” he said. “After being gone five years, I was anxious to get back to Milford, and had no thought of any detours along the way,” McCoy recounted. ‘Surprisingly, with a little Report For Week of April 17-23, 1995 *Burglary and_ theft from a garage in Milford is under investigation. _ *Sixteen - Happy 0th, Adit were made assistance. responses to request for Of these calls, _ Seven were to assist other agencies. ns *Twelve traffic. stops were made by the Sheriffs Department during the week — with six citations issued. si |