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Show May Anderson honored on 90th birthday "I love homemaking, I don't like housekeeping," so says May Anderson, who celebrated her 90th birthday with an open house in her honor at her home in Naples May 23. At the party, several hundred relatives and friends greeted May and listened to her sing "I Cannot Sing the Old Songs." May used to sing at many funerals, parties, and receptions, and many know her because of her lovely voice. May was born May 25, 1891 in Naples just a mile east of where she now lives. She was the seventh daughter in a family of 14. When she was 17 her mother died and she helped raise her younger brothers and sisters. She has done everything from making soap, carding wool, spinning yarn to washing on a scrub board. She was well prepared to be a mother to her mother's family. She has been a professional dress maker and did some home nursing. She also went on an LDS mission to the Central States. Her parents, John Nielsen and Frances Higgins Nielsen, came to the United States from Denmark and England. May married Willard Hans Anderson in 1941 on her birthday. She moved to Bear River City, Utah and helped her husband raise the youngest in his family. He died in 1954 and in 1956 she moved back to Vernal. "Vernal is home," said May. And it's people like May Anderson, 90 years young, who make Vernal a nice place to live. ' Is te. ..... v. MAY ANDERSON with cake made for her 90th birthday birth-day celebration. |