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Show PATRIARCH TO BE FETED AT OPEN HOUSE John H. Manwaring, Kolob stake patriarch, will be honored at open house Sunday on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday at his home from 2 to 5 p. m. Mr. Manwaring says, "I will be pleased to greet my friends and thrice glad to shake hands with any enemies." A son of Henry and Sarah Barber Bar-ber Manwaring, he was born in Sandbach, England, May IS, 1866, and emigrated to Utah when he was five years old. He married Anna M. Peterson, February 26, 1890. in the Logau temple, and she died nineteen years ago. He has served in many capacities capaci-ties in the L. D. S. church and (Continued on page ten) PATRIARCH TO BE HONORED (Continued from page one) filled a mission in the Southern states. He was bisiiop's counselor for twenty-seven years and was ordained or-dained patriarch of Kolob stake October 2, 1932. He was city sexton for thirty-seven thirty-seven years, school janitor for thirty-four years, and at one time he was sexton, janitor at the school and bank, nightwatchman at the H. T. Reynolds store, news agent for the Deseret News, voting vot-ing registrar, and a farmer. He is the father of six children, Zenos, Mrs. Lloyd Ashcraft, Wil-ford, Wil-ford, Morris, and Maurine of Springville, and Mrs. William R. Hill of Salt Lake City. |