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Show W Mrs. Nancy Asay To Be W Honored on 86th Birthday Sunday, Aug. 12, will mark the l2t 86th birthday anniversary for Mrs. Xancy Meeks Asay, and the event r h will be celebrated with an after-L"T after-L"T noon party at the home of her ; son, Jerome Asay, in St. George. Her daughter, Mrs. Jesse Gibbons, ' and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Asay, f ill unite as hostesses for the 3 event. Friends of her girlhood in Dixie, as well as relatives, will be guests at the party, f ! Born at Parowan, Aug. 12, 1859, she was a daughter of Mary Jane McCleave and Dr. Priddy Meeks. ifij During the past year Mrs. Asay ' . buried three sons and was able to , 4' make the long trips to attend fu-)H fu-)H neral services for each of them. ,i Her consolation was that they fj): died in the United States instead ' of overseas, although she is proud 11! of her grandsons, who are in mili-' mili-' tary service. At the recent Pioneer Celebra-tion Celebra-tion in St. George she sat cross-i cross-i 'egged on the ground with others 1( of the family for the camp meal, ; and is active about her daughter's home, helping with the housework Jv1. especially the dishes. She also at-! at-! tends relief society regularly, tak-lj tak-lj in8 Part in the services, and keeps ' ; UP with the daily news in papers At and on the radio, and corresponds 7' regularly with her absent children. Of the modern inventions for )( household comfort she figures the ! electric refrigerator holds the rj( spotlight, as she remembers the : Problems of pioneer housewives in rAi caring for milk, butter and other ) foods, and recalls the nauseating i armth of drinking water from ' the Virgin River. |