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Show MRS. K. WHITING HONORED ON 87th BIRTHDAY Mrs KasiaU Whiting was the honor guest at a birthday dinner held at her home Wednesday, February 7, the occasion being her eighty-seventh birthday. A dinner was served at one long table centered with pink roses to the following guests: Mr. and Mrs. Glen Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. George Geo-rge Hone, Mrs. Herbert Gabbitas, Mrs. Frank Beardall, Lavern Hone, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gabbitas, Gab-bitas, Ruth, Jack, Rex, and Joe Gabbitas and Fern and Evelyn Harrison all of Springville, and Mr. and Mrs. Goodman Allien, Glen, Herbert, and Mary Aiken of Provo. Mrs. Whiting was presented with six birthday cakes. One very large one held eighty-seven pink candles and was decorated entirely en-tirely in pink. Another was chocolate choc-olate color with the inscription, "Happy Birthday, Grandma," written in carmel. Little Herbert Aiken of Orem was also two years old that day, and had a smaller cake which was a replica in pink of the large cake given his great-grandmother. His cake held two pink candles. Mrs. Whitney was born February Febr-uary 7, 1853, at Coventry, Warwickshire, War-wickshire, England. She was married mar-ried to George William Gabbitas July 31, 1871 in the Salt Lake Endowment house. Mr. Gabbitas died May 26, 1892. She was later remarried to Jemiah Harrison and her husband was Leonard J. Whiting. She is the mother of five living children, Mrs. Thomas Loynd of Los Angeles, Mrs. D. E. Cannon of Twin Falls, Idaho; George and Herbert Gabbitas and Glen Harrison Har-rison of Springville. She has thirty-three grandchildren and fifty-one great grandchildren. |