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Show r ' - ' " I . . ; . l . V- v v. "W' "i . . I ! MR. AND MRS. MATTHEW BEZZANT Matthew Bezzants Celebrate Golden Wedding on Next Tuesday, June 1 She graduated from BYU Normal Nor-mal School in 1917 with a certificate cer-tificate in teaching. She taught school for five years from 1917 to 1925 at Central School under un-der the direction of Principal George W. Larsen and at Vineyard Vine-yard Elementary under the direction di-rection of Principal Junius A. West. She has held many positions in the LDS Church, currently teaching social relations in the Grove Ward Relief Society. She is secretary of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Battle Creek Camp, which position she has held for 17 years. She loves flowers and has had many a-wards a-wards in local flower shows. Mr. and Mrs. Bezzant are the parents of six children, Mrs. Robert (Mildred) Sutch, Matthew Keith and Richard L., Pleasant Grove; Reed H., Midway; Mid-way; Brian M., Avenal, Calif., and Mrs. Reed (Lois) Sunderland, Sunder-land, Lehi. They have 32 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Bez-zont Bez-zont will celebrate their Golden Gold-en Wedding Anniversary Tuesday, Tues-day, June 1. They were married mar-ried June 21, 1921 in the Salt Lake Temple. A family dinner and social will be given in their honor by their children. Matthew Bezzant was born Feb. 15, 1898, a son of Mark and Margaret Paulson Bezzant. He attended school in Pleasant Grove and filled an LDS mission mis-sion to the Northwestern States Stat-es from 1923 to 1925 from 1919 to 1921. He served a two year term as Pleasant Grove City councilman from 1923 to 1925 and was instrumental instru-mental in the purchase of PI. Grove's first fire engine. In his youth he worked on his father's farm. His special duty was working with the team of horses hauling sugar beets, hay, etc. He loved and respected a good team of horses. hor-ses. He worked many hours during the spring runoff with his team scraping gravel from the irrigation ditch at the intersection in-tersection of 2nd South and Locust Lo-cust Avenue. He was self employed em-ployed for many years, as a fruit farmer and trucker, trucking truc-king fruit to Southern Utah. He also worked for Kennecott Copper, Cop-per, United Concrete Pipe, Koppers Company, and United States Steel, retiring from the latter in 1963. He enjoys fishing, fish-ing, hunting and gardening. Cora Olpin Bezzant was born Aug. 23, 1896, a daughter of Albert H. and Alvira Smith Olpin. Ol-pin. She graduated from Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove High School in 1915. |