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Show .. , I I' "1 ; " .' ! f- - i I 'v J Mrs. Henrietta J. Harmer Local matron to be honored at Orem reception Open house honoring Henrietta Henri-etta Harmer in her 80th year will be held Sunday, June 18, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the home of a daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thorn, 762 West 7th South, Jensen Subdivision, Sub-division, Orem, Utah. Henrietta Hales Johnson Harmer was born August 14, 1881 at Spanish Fork to Mary Ann Mendenhall and William Parley Hales. She spent her early childhood there and attended at-tended schools in Spanish Fork, graduating from the Eighth grade, an accomplishment accomplish-ment in those early days. She married John William Johnson Oct. 8, 1903. They moved to Mapleton bench m April 1906 where Mrs. Johnson John-son resided 35 years. Mr. Johnson John-son filled a 2-year mission for the LDS church from 1907 to 1909, while she and two children chil-dren remained on the farm On Nov. 22, 1922 her husband died from injuries from a farm accident at the age of 41, leaving 5 children and sone son to be born the following June. Henrietta and her 6 children remained on the farm and through their combined efforts she was able to se two sons graduate from the BYU. She married L. E. Harmer from Mapleton in May 1927 and they continued to live there until his death in Oct. 1942. She then moved to Springville and has lived here since. In Nov. 1948, she was operated oper-ated on for acute glaucoma leaving her with vision in one eye gone and only partial vision vi-sion in the other eye. She has continued to keep house for herself and has made hundreds of pieces of handiwork. She has crocheted 75 afghant in the last 12 years for relatives and friends. Mrs. Harmer has 5 sons and daughters living having lost a 16 year old son Robert, in Feb. 1929 from rheumatic fever fe-ver and heart trouble. They are: Mark, Louis and May (Mrs. Joe Miller) of Springville; Spring-ville; Madge (Mrs. Paul Thorn) of Orem; John Wells of Colorado Colo-rado Springs. She also has 16 grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. The family requests re-quests no gifts. |