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Show Couple Observe Their 55th Wedding Date The fifty-fifth wedding anniversary anniver-sary of Mr. and Mrs. John Hiatt of this city was celebrated on Sunday Sun-day with a family gathering at which twenty-seven members of their family were present. From out-of-town were Mrs. Carl E. Baum, a daughter, of Le Grande, Ore., with her two granddaughters, grand-daughters, Carol Lee and Mickie Rae; a grandson, Melvin J. Hiatt, welder at Portland, Ore., shipyards; ship-yards; and Mrs. W. O. Marshall, who has been with her husband at Portsmouth, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Hiatt are proud of their five grandsons and two grand-sons-in-law, who are now In the service and serving in all parts of the world. They have one son and four daughters, J. W. Hiatt, Mattie Hiatt, Mrs. Rhoda Huff, Springville; Mrs. Carl E. Baum, LeGrande, Ore.; Mrs. Clara Packard, Pack-ard, Kuna. Ida.: also twentv-seven grandchildren and twenty greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. Mr. Hiatt was born in Slater-ville, Slater-ville, Weber Co., Dec. 25, 1865, a son of Samuel Moore and Mary Eleanor Taylor Hiatt, pioneers of the Upper Snake river valley. There he met and married Laura Precindia Meservy. She was born May 14, 1870, in Fishaven, Bear-lake Bear-lake county, Idaho, a daughter of Joseph R. and Laura Southworth Meservy. The couple later received re-ceived their endowments in the Logan temple. From the Snake River valley, they moved to Oregon in 1901, from there they went to Canada and back to Oregon. Later, they went to Idaho, and in 1923 came to Utah, and to Springville in 1930. Gates, Frank Alten and young John Donat, son of Robert Donat, in important parts of the RKO Radio picture. |