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Show 1 1 Green River J A Letter from Pearl, lona and Barbara... - OBITUARY Little Audie Lane Watter-son, Watter-son, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Watterson, died July 18 in a Salt Lake Hospital of cancer. He was born March 2. 1972 at Moab. The family moved back to Green River, and Charles is now managing the Husky Station. Survivors, besides the parents, par-ents, are brothers and sisters, Ricky Charles. Lonnie Kay, Myrna Kim, Bridey Colette and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Allen Lowe of Portland, Ore. Funeral Services were held Tuesday in the Green River LDS Chapel, and burial was in the Elgin cemetery. fishing Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair Thompson met Marshall and Mary Alice and John Vetere in Price and the group drove to Flaming Gorge for a fishing trip. This was to celebrate MaryAlice's birthday. ATTENDS CONVENTION Mrs. May Wilson, Mrs. Grace Peterson and Mrs. Tish Thompson drove in to the Capital City to attend an 8 and 40 convention at Ramada Inn. Carbon 356 has the Department Chapeau for the coming year with Mrs. Rose Migliaccio of Helper in the position. RETIREMENT LUNCHEON Sinclair Thompson, station foreman of the Green River shed of the Department of Tiansportation, joined three other retirees for a retirement luncheon at Price on Friday. Howard Thacker of Price and Spence Chapman and Rudy Rebo of Helper were also honored, with all the wives receiving corsages, except Mrs. Thacker who was unable to attend. Sinclair joined the State Road crew on April 4, 1954, and has worked for them until his retirement. He was presented pre-sented a plaque and a nice Seiko watch. Sinclair's position has been filled by Lorin Milton, who was moved up to fake the lead job of the local crew. The Thompsons are planning plan-ning some trips and a whole lot of fishing, particularly since Mrs. Thompson can retire soon from her job as elementary elemen-tary librarian and special education teacher. ARCHEOLOGICAL DIG A group of college students under the leadership of Dr. Jesse Jennings of the University Univers-ity of Utah is conducting archeological research at selected se-lected locations in the Maze District of Canyonlands, including in-cluding the Fins and Ernie Country. Thirteen students are camped camp-ed at Hans Flat for about six weeks, but will be closing a large operation near there in about a week or ten days. This is a regular training program conducted by Dr. Jennings for many years; however, this is the first dig in the Green River area. From a training viewpoint this has been a very successful dig, with the discovery of some new scientific data. An early site related to the Desha complex of North Central Arizona near Navajo Mountain was explored. It is about 7,000 years old, much older than other Indian cultures of the area. By the time the session is finished, Dr. Jennings says, he will have collected all the information from the location where he has spent most of the time. Unusual artifacts include numerous sandals altogether different technically from Ana-sazi Ana-sazi or Fremont; split twig figurines, very rare except in ceremonial caves along the Grand Canyon. A necklace made of 5 or 6 deer throat bones, which tinkle when touched together, was also found. Above the Desha material there were rich but standard early Anasazi Basketmaker stuff. The two deposits were separated by about a foot of windblown sand, indicating a long break in occupancy of the site. The artifacts were packed to take back to the University, but Dr. Jennings has promised a follow-up story with pictures of them at a later date. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors who were so kind with flowers, food, and many comforting words during the sickness and loss of our dear husband and father, Joshua (Slim) Nielson. Mrs. Ruth Nielson, Wayne and Gloria Hampton and family, Elvin and Linda Jackson and family. SUFFERS EYE INJURY Bert May, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy May, suffered eye injury when a sliver of shingle flew up and hit him in the eye. He spent several days in the Grand Junction hospital, and is home now, but still under the weather with the injury. BABY ILL Little Cameron Ekker, 4 .month old son of Barbara and Jesse Ekker, is hospitalized in Grand Junction with whooping cough. He is getting along better now, but has been very sick. He will be in the hospital for about ten days longer. BIG TURNOUT On Sunday, the local Catholic Cath-olic Church, St. Michael's, which has a capacity of about 30, had 54 tourists come for Mass. 9 states were represented with Nevada the only state west of the Mississippi River; Connecticut and several eastern east-ern states were home to several of the participants. Father Louis Fischer of Price celebrated Mass. Someone Some-one comes down from Price every Sunday, but this is the largest group ever to attend the small, but lovely St. Michael's here. PLEASE HELP! No more do you have to try to call me at home and not get an answer. I am working every day in the offices at the Bank Building, and the telephone number is 564-3407. When I took the job, it was with the understanding that if there was not too much interference with my time, I could receive telephone calls and visitors at the office. And it has worked out very well. If you have a news item, or want to take an ad just call or drop in. It is expected to set up an office for The Times-Independent in the offices next door, so it would be a good idea to get into the habit of bringing news notes by. Remember that this is a letter from home to a good many people, and they look forward to hearing something from every family a few times during the year. Please help me make the Green River page more interesting to more people. |