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Show f,vr Tt' try yg Hoab's Mrs. Isabelle Prewer Moab's Mrs. Isabella Prewer Celebrates 95th Birthday The person who has more birthdays behind her than . anyone else in Grand County Coun-ty is Mrs. Isabella Prewer. Mrs. Frewer celebrated her 95th birthday Tuesday. She sat poised and still for The Times-Independent photographer pho-tographer and answered his questions cheerfully. She had a beautiful flower pinned to-her to-her dress and her house was neat and orderly. It was June 10, 1874 when Mrs. Prewer was born in the state of Pensylvania. She lived there until the age of 21 when she came west by train to visit a former housekeeper. In the small mining town of Rico, Colorado, Colo-rado, she married Shirley (Chub) Burguin, who was in the pack train business with mules and burros. Those early days in the high altitudes of Rico were adventurous, and the family had several narrow escapes from hazards in snow. Later in another community commun-ity a fire erupted in the barn, dsetroying the way of livlihood that the family had known, and they moved to San Francisco. Mrs. Prew-er's Prew-er's husband became severely ill there, and next came the famous 1906 earthquake, damaging da-maging the home. Mrs. Prewer later moved back to Pennsylvania where she had been raised, but came west again in 1922. She became a housekeeper for Fred Prewer in that year in LaSal, Utah and "got him to marry her," after two years of cooking for him. Prewer had the mail contract con-tract from LaSal Junction to LaSal for a number of years. The Prewers boarded the LaSal school teachers for a number of years. Mrs. Prewer also cooked hot. lunch for the school kids at this time . Mrs. Prewer moved to Moab in 1937 and has lived here since, except for a short time she spent in Washington, D.C. |
