Show Utah Woman Near N ar 80 Would Like Bicycle 11 PLEASANT GROVE What Mrs Mary B. B Fage Pleasant Grove pioneer wants for her eightieth birthday is not a rocking rocking rocking rock rock- ing chair or a new spring filled mattress but a bicycle That old age cannot catch people peo peo- I pIe who refuse to sit still was Mrs Fages Fage's philosophy as she greeted friends at an open house reception Tuesday at the family home in Lindon The tea was given by her children Mrs Fage wonders if iT she didn't get a running start toward being a live wire when she left Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia to come to Utah at the age of seven in 1868 The stories she tells of this long trek do not have the characteristic characteristic characteristic charac charac- sad tone of pioneer tales but are arc invariably colored by the sense of humor of the narrator A favorite is the story about how each child in her parents' parents family had a year five-year supply of clothes She smothers a. a chuckle when her granddaughters feel a qualm about wearing a 1940 model coat remembering that th the primary function of clothes in her days was to cover and nd style took a aback aback alack back lack seat She was married to Fred Fage Page in 1883 and they began to raise farm crops and children at Lin Lin- don Their success was pronounced pronounced pro pro- no in the latter project the sons and daughters being Mrs Martha Johnson of Orem Mrs Laura K Fox of Lehi Mrs Idella Walker of Pleasant Grove Mrs Bertha Ash of Lindon Miss Ruth Fage of Salt Lake City Mrs Viola Morton and George Fage Page of Lin Lin- LinI I don Mr Fage Page died in 1920 Rearing a family did not prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent Mrs Fage Page from being active In n other fields as she served for 20 years as a teacher in the L D S relief society organization was secretary of the first Sunday school and president of the Primary Primary Primary mary association in the Lindon ward To supplement these activities Mrs Fage Page has been helping in itt inthe inthe the operation of a successful chicken farm for 20 years riSs riSsI I A MRS Mali MARY B. B F PAGE AGE She wont won't sit still |