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Show Mining Official I Miles P. Romney, President Presi-dent of United Park City Mines Company died Tuesday, Tues-day, December 9 at his home in Salt Lake of Natural causes. He was 77. M Romney served as the mining company's chief executive ex-ecutive officer from 1970 to present. A well-known geologist. Mr. Romney was associated with all phases of the mining industry throughout through-out his lengthy career. A past chairman of the Western West-ern Governor's Mining Advisory Advi-sory Council, Mr. Romney also served on the State Water Pollution Control Board for ten years. Mr Romney was born October 8, 1903, in Colonial Dublan. Chihuahua, Mexico, to Gaskell . and Anna Pratt Romney. In 1912 the family was forced out of Mexico by revolutionary authorities. The family settled in El Paso, Texas, and later, Mr. Romney Rom-ney married Janice Cahoon in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. He was an amateur arche-,ologist arche-,ologist and avid scholar of prehistoric Anasazi Indian cultures. Mr. Romney is survived by his widow in Salt Lake and brother, George, of Bloom-field Bloom-field Hills, Michigan, a sister, Maryl Ward, currently current-ly residing in California. Also by two sons and three daughters; son, Miles P. Romney, Jr., daughter, Wendy Romney-Hassibe-Make, and daughter, Hannah Han-nah Romney-Whitney, all of Salt Lake City. Also by son, Leonard Romney, Boulder, Colorado, and daughter, Rosanne Romney-Dapsau-ski, Nampa. Idaho. He is also survived by 14 grandchildren. grand-children. Funeral services will be held at noon Friday at Eastman's Evans, and Early in Salt Lake. Burial at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park. ' CHIT CHAT BY BEA Mr. and Mrs. Gary Dean Boyle announce the marriage of their daughter Shelly Ann to Vernon John Duarti, the son of Mr. Juan A. Duarti and the late Juana D. Dios Duarti of Miami, Florida on December 19, 1980. The marriage will take place in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. A reception will be held that evening from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the LDS Church on Highway 1-80 between Gor-goza Gor-goza and Kimball Junction. The Summit County Daughters of Utah Pioneers Christmas party was held at 1 p.m. in the Wanship Cultural Hall. Women from each of the six camps enjoyed a very fine lunch and some fine entertainment. Those attending from Park City were Arlene Black, Emma Ruggles. LaRue Carpenter, Car-penter, Carolyn Grose, Fannie Fan-nie Williams, Jessie McAlevy, Rintha Burns, and Marcella Street, and Bea Kummer. |
