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Show t mmmmmmm. mom GUS T. LARSON Notes 90th Birthday Gus T. Larson will celebrate his 90th birthday on Sept. 23. HE WAS born in Norway. Sept. 23. a son of Syver and Valberg Larson. When he was two and a half years old his father died, leaving his mother with six children to raise. A few years later his mother joined the LDS Church and when Gus was 12 years old. a missionary asked her to let him bring Gus to America, she consented con-sented and he was brought to Freedom. Wyo. HE SPENT five years there, then moved to Grover. Wyo.. where he lived until 1969. In 1911 he married Lovisa Hepworth and they were parents pa-rents of seven children. She died in 1965 and in 1966 he married Leah Hatch and in 1969 they moved to Bountiful to live. HE WORKED as a farmer, lumber man. freighter, in an airplane factory and for 15 years he was head of the Weed Control District of Lincoln County. Wyo. He has six living children, many grandchildren, greatgrandchildren great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. |
