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Show Mrs. Miranda Oman Will Celebrate 84th Birthday Mrs. Miranda Seely Peel Omar., one of this city's onymu'i settler.' of 11)139, will be honored Sunday la: her home nt 4ou Wvst Mii.n Ibtrei't in ccieuratiun 01 her eighty 'lour.h UiiLiuluy aiui.vcrsuiiy. 'Aunt Miranda" us sue is uf-.-ci.u.iaU'iy ca.led by her many i w.iiids, is u daughter of Justus ' V. . u,..u Cornea usine Wilcox Sue- 0, .v.,- wcie ulan pioneers ol toil. Sue was burn m San Ber- 1. - u.no, C'al iorn.a, June lb, iuTc K.c lumily lived six i-Mi,. They returned to Utah in i.cvniher 11157 und in 1859 came u.lu uu- i.i.st aru.ers to Mt. l ieasant, linn Fort llambletun. , Umi.hi .i tne last surviving i...inci ui ner latiitii's family u.en .iieludcd tjive sons and daughters. I iu: entile li.e hns been spnt I .!i t.us c.ty, act.ve in church and I civic work, administering as a nurse in many homes and has helped br.ng innumerable chii-... chii-... m n, o lue wo. Id in' her capacity ca-pacity as a nurse. She was one o. the first presidents of the Y. W. lw. 1. A. a. .d la ur scrvtj more t..an fitly years as Kel ef Society teacher. She is a charter member mem-ber ol the Ml. Pleasant Pionec. L-storical A.c.al.on and s.rved many years as a director of the auc.ai.on. she a as married December 29, 1ji7 to Cir slian Fivder.ck Pe. Mt. Pleasant, in the Endowment Endow-ment House in Salt Lake City, and i hey '.v.;e tne parents of! .'-ur children. He died December Decem-ber 17. lM'M anil r,n I.',, i ,r. . -. r 1 1U'J9, she was marr.ed to Aaron (.;. Oman. He died July 17, 1917. L.r on,y daugntcr, Mrs. Arthur: V. Kasmasbi'ii as killed in an1 automobile accident .n 1935. She has a loiter oaughter, Mrs. C. H. Bal of Mann, and three eo.is, P. A., O. Fred, and John H. 1 eel all U Mt. Pleasant; 32 grand-ch.ldren grand-ch.ldren and ten great-grand-ch.ldren. Several of her grandsons grand-sons are now serving with the I lah National Guard at San Luis Ob.spo, Cahlorn a. She was no.-.ored at a pre-b..cnday pre-b..cnday luncheon g;ven for several sev-eral old friends Tuesday after-..uon after-..uon by her granddaughter, Mrs. Stanley C. Petrrsm at her home at 201) West Main Street. With the except.on of failing eye-sight, she is st.U remarkably Acll, able to X ul fill her house-..-.d dut.s ar.d enjoys her flower .arden. Her chief delight is p.ec.ng and mat ng quilts. The fui.OA-.rg -tribute was .w.tien by her granddaughter's .lusband, At.or.-.ey Stanley C. P. ttrson: Folks call her Aunt Mirandy and to tnem she's very dear, L.caus: she's worked and slaved lor them lor many, many a year -.o sacr.iice too great for her, no duty will she s.nun -.l.'il kc-.p on trying day and n ght, u.-.t 1 the job is done. one's :aised a family of her own, Oi tnem shi's wry proud, L ke all true mothers of tne town, she'll pra.se them r.ght out loud ..nu t.iin ieeause o: ner ministra- t.ons, theie are so many others .'. ho honor and adore her so and gladly call her mother. Sne's cooked ar.d darned and scrubbed so much, til now she can not see. But yet ambition drives her on, content she will not be. You'll find her busy, unafraid, a qu.lting every day. Until each grandchild has a quilt to keep the cold away. And there she sits, all soul alone, ned- hair a growing girey. Her friends so rarely visit her and none with her will stay. But st.ll she keeps a plugging on, a doing all she can, She'll keep on striving to the end, dependent on no man. Her love of God and man and !oeait is, oh, so very real, Her place in heaven on God s right hand, from her no one can steal. And when her years upon this earth have been awhile suspended, su-spended, Ker noble spirit with that of God will be completely blended. |