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Show A Letter from Pearl, lona and Barbara... Green River News Happenings Obituary... Services for Melvin Brownie Cottrell were held in Fruita, Colorado Colo-rado at the Maclean Funeral Fun-eral Home on January 6. He died at a nursing home there on the preceding pre-ceding Tuesday, after a short illness. Mel Cottrell was born in Hanksville, September Septem-ber 27, 1898, the son of John Lawrence and Lidee Ellen Buchendorf Cottrell. He grew up in this area, went to school in Green River. In 1930, he married Alice Curfew Martin, and they were later divorced. div-orced. One son, John H. Cottrell was born to them, who survives his father; Mrs. Cottrell died in 1954. Two sisters, Evelyn Wood and Alta Zecker, both of California survive sur-vive him, and one brother, broth-er, Ed who lives in Colorado. Col-orado. Mel was a stockman all his life, working on ranches with both sheep and cattle. He was injured in-jured in Colorado and suffered the loss of a leg, after which he retired re-tired from ranching. He spent a couple of years with a sister, Mrs. Claude Gillies, in Provo. He served w ith the Army in WW II. At the funeral services, serv-ices, LeGrande Baer gave the eulogy and Jack Baer dedicated the grave. Out of town friends attending the services were Mr. and Mrs. Vine Johnston and Scott and Collette; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mar- sing and son Larry of Moab and Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne Johnston of Moab. Visitors to Uinta Basin. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Seely and son Keith spent a week of the vacation holiday in Vernal with the Johnnie Davis family. fam-ily. Before New Years, they all returned to Green River, including Mr. and Mrs. Davis and their children, Misty, Monica and Monique. On New Years, the Seelys entertained at a dinner party for Mr. and Mrs. Roland Beach, Mr. and Mrs. Dwendle Wilcox with Rita, Wanda, Donna, Teena, and Rhett. Wayne Smith joined the group, also, as Mrs. Smith was on jury duty in Salt Lake City. While in Vernal, the Seelys enjoyed a great deal of snow sports, snowmobiling and tobogganing tobog-ganing near where the Davises lived. School Plans Movies. . . Since there is no theater thea-ter in Green River, the Green River Booster Club is planning to show movies at least once a week, and possibly twice. There will be a show on Thursday, and if attendance justifies, another on Friday. Charges will be 50C per seat, rather than a sliding scale of ticket prices. There will be a popcorn stand, and other concessions managed by the various classes in school as fund-raising projects. The first movie chosen cho-sen is "A Man Called Horse," one of the most authentic movies on the American Indian. It will be given on January 25, and again the 27th at the High School Auditorium. Audit-orium. To Rope at Denver. . . Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Milton received a call from Jake telling them that he has signed up to rope at the Denver Stock Show. The Miltons will not be able to attend, as Lorin is pushing snow on the highway every day, and Helen is ushering the school children across the highway as a school -crossing guard. Jake's aunt Lois and family, Mr. and Mrs. Don Hatch and Nancy of Price will be there cheering for him, though. To Horse Trainer. . . Howard Silliman and Scotty Boyle took two colts to Richfield to Billy White for breaking and training. Mr. White will handle the horses for a month, at which time, the local men will go and bring them home. Visitors From Canada... Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Nelson had as holiday guests Mrs. Nelson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geordie Robb from Calgary, Cal-gary, Alberta, Canada, and her sister and family, fam-ily, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Blakely and Todd of Salt Lake City. Holiday Visitors. . . Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Ekker are enjoying an extended visit from Mrs. Ekker's parents, 'Mr. and Mrs. W.W.Transue, formerly of Hawaii. Mr. Transue was Road Supervisor Sup-ervisor over all the highways in all the Hawaiian Ha-waiian Islands until his retirement last fall. The couple is now touring the United States, and planned to spend the greater part of the winter win-ter in Phoenix. However, they were delayed by the storms. A.C. and Mr. Transue are spending this week at Robbers -Roost, attending to matters mat-ters at the ranch. Holidays Together. . . Mr. and Mrs. Howard Silliman had their children child-ren all home for the holidays. hol-idays. Dr. and Mrs. (Judy) James L. Bowman Bow-man were here from Austin, Texas; Reverend and Mrs. Jeffry andSara from Richfield; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith and Satina from Salt Lake City spent the Christmas Christ-mas holidays home with brother Rodney and their parents. Undergoes Operation. . . Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Thompson drove in to Salt Lake City, where Mrs. Thompson underwent under-went surgery for a growth on her foot. At last reports, tests have revealed other complj- ations, and she is st'( hospitalized. They p to spend some time wi their daughter, , x Donna Radamaker -soon as Mrs. Thom'ps' -is released from W hospital. Y, |