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Show Widow of LDS President Feted on '90th' Birthday Xn. Heber J. Grant tiU younr-appearln( younr-appearln( widow of the seventh president. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, haa, Ilka all women, reached the point where ah. hate to admit her age. "Newspapers," aha laughingly admitted, "add year" to her age each year making her 91 Una year on Thureday. 'Tva reached a point," ahe aald, "where I think I ahould remain 0 for the reat of my life." , Mrs. Grant waa honored with the kind of birthday party ahe "Ukea beat" by seven of her daugh-tera daugh-tera and her close frtenda at a luncheon Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Emigration canyon summer home of her daughter, Mrs. George N. Cannon. Her daughters are Mrs. Robert L. Judd. Mrs. John H. Taylor. Mrs. Cannon. Mrs. Wlllard R. Smith. Mrs. George Midgley. Mra. Wallace F. Bennett and Mrs. Aahby D. Boyle, aU of Salt Lak City. Another An-other daughter. Mrs. Isaac Blair Evans, Pasadena, Cai- will not attend at-tend the luncheon. Among others to honor her on the occasion were two nieces, Mrs. Alex P. Anderson. Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Isaac M. Stewart, Scare-dale. Scare-dale. N. Y. Mrs. -Adele Cannon Howe Us. president, LDS Primary Assn., a dose friend, also attended. at-tended. The white-haired woman, known as "Aunt Auguata" to relatives, till maintains a lively Interest In Utah education and other civic projecta. particularly in the art and music fields, snd practices her philosophy of keeping busy, maintaining main-taining happy thoughts and doing something worth while each day aa a formula for longevity and happiness. She waa bora July 7, ISM, In Pleasant Grove snd Ister became that community's first schoolteacher. school-teacher. Bh waa married to the late church preeident May 2a. ISM, In Salt Lak City. He died May 14, 1946. |