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Show Ruth M. Johnson to Celebrate Her 80th Birthday j The children of Ruth j Monson Johnson are delight- i ed to announce and celebrate j her Eightieth Birthday. Ruth was bom on October Octo-ber 25, 1930 in Salt Lake City to Charles Horald and Orten-cia Orten-cia (Tennie) Merrill Monson. J She grew up in the Av- ! enues area of Salt Lake and attended Uintah Elementary, Roosevelt Jr. High and East High School. She graduated gradu-ated from East High in 1947. While attending the University Universi-ty of Utah, she met the love of her life, Douglas E. Johnson. They were married on August j 25, 1949. They have been I married for 61 years. I Ruth graduated from ! B.Y.U. in August 1963 with j a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood. She has been very i involved in civic affairs with- ! in the community. She was 1 involved in the local P.T.A., I serving as president in Orem, I on the Orem P.T.A. Council j and was Council President in j American Fork. Ruth was a member of the American As sociation of University Women Wom-en (A.A.U.W.) holding many offices including A.A.U.W. I President. ! Much time as been gar- nered in Ruth's church call- i ! I Ruth M. Johnson. ings which included service in Primary and Relief Society. Soci-ety. She and her husband served for eight years in the Mount Timpanogos Temple. Ruth and Doug have been blessed with seven children: Karen (Mark) Tuttle, Lynette (Les) Lovell, David (Karen) Johnson, Boyd (Jina) Johnson, Mark (Evie) Johnson, Gordon (Shauna) Johnson, Greg (Jana) Johnson. They have 26 grandchildren (including 10 spouses), and 19 greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. Friends and relatives are invited to an open house held in her honor on Saturday, Satur-day, October 23, 2010 at the American Fork Thirty-seventh Ward Church located at 396 North 1100 East, American Amer-ican Fork, from 5 to 7 p.m. |
