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Show L great folks who have gone on recently. On a happier note, this weekend is Halloween and that is a great holiday for children as well as adults. Some older folks have as much fun dressing up for Halloween as kids do. I think that is great. My husband's birthday birth-day was October 26 and we also have one of our younger young-er granddaughters whose birthday is right on Halloween. Hal-loween. However, this one coming up is special as she will be turning eight and so her baptism will soon follow fol-low and that is another very special day. When I was a kid, Halloween Hal-loween was one of the great holidays of the year, almost right up there with Christ- by Marcella Walker A couple of weeks ago the Pleasant Grove Good Sams Happy Hoboes Club spent their last summer camping trip for this year together at East Bay in Springville. We had a wonderful time and the weather was great. Then last week we received re-ceived a phone call telling us that one of our own had passed away unexpectedly. Wayne Peay, who has been a member of the club for a long time, was gone suddenly. Wayne was a great man with an excellent sense of humor and he was a lot of fun to be around. I talked to him earlier this summer and he was telling me about him and Geraldine, his wife, visiting several different camping ar eas in Arizona and California last winter and how much fun they had in the sunny climes. I was envious. Wayne was a good man, hard working and lots of fun. We will miss him. This past year has seen several people we were close to pass away. My sister-in-law, Jerry's sister, Delia Davis, Da-vis, my brother's wife and my sister-in-law, Thea, plus a few others. Just a year and one half ago our daughter-in-law, Chris, died unexpectedly. unexpected-ly. But my father's sister, my Aunt Jennie, is 92 and still doing well. We visited her in Oregon this summer and she was quite chipper. Well, I didn't mean to get off on a sad subject, but a lot of people in' Pleasant Grove will miss Wayne and other mas and your birthday. We made our trick-or-treat candy can-dy last as long as we could and sometimes we almost made it to Christmas when we got another "sugar high" with what Santa left in our stockings. |