Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-02-01 | Page 18 | Past, Present All Bad to Centenarian in Ogden

Post Past Present All Alt Bad To Centenarian in Ogden OGDEN Utah Feb 1 OP The P-The The good old da days says Mrs MaryField Mary MaryField MaryField Field Garner who is b years ear of or ornge age toda today were not so good There Isn't anything anything- very good about either of them she ahe said when hen asked how the old days compared compared com corn pared with the present They are arc both bolh bad For all aU her century of ot life Mrs Garner is still sun active and in good health She does doell not wear glasses and her ber hearing is normal She thinks the r radio is one of I Ithe the outstanding modern Inventions inventions but she sho deplores the tho automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile and the airplane They cause too many accidents she be be- ii eves The Townsend old age pension plan would be fin fine for tor the old folks she sho said but predicted it will wUl never become a reality unless unless unless un un- un- un less a smaller amount is provided for lor When Mrs Garner was Wl born in Stanley Iii Hill mn Herefordshire England En En- gland years a ago o today the first steamship had bad just crossed the Atlantic Martin Van Buren had just been elected president of o the United States and a n new religion Mormonism had had been established but six years ears She and her parents later embraced embraced em em- I braced the new faith aith and spent seven weeks in sailing across the I Atlantic In Nauvoo Ill IU where they settled she recalls hearing Joseph Smith founder of ot the Lat Lat- day ter-day Saints church preach many runny times and of ot his slaying In Inthe Inthe inthe the jail at Carthage HI nt Later she walked with her parents parents parents par par- most of the way across the plains to Utah She has more than o living descendants and some 40 others have preceded her herIn herin herin in death At a family gathering today at nt atthe atthe the home of or a law in here Mrs Garner will wUl cut a birthday birthday birthday birth birth- day cake bearing candles