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Show mil: :Birthday service for Minnie rRasmussen rY "Minnie Crouse Rasmussen, 99, born ' me 5, 1882 at the Park Livestock Ran-, Ran-, Brown's Park, Utah, died Nov. 18, SI at Prescott, Ariz. Upon her request r ashes were brought to the Park '0TIGea; er 'na' w's ' come norne t jjjjjjjjiy, became reality. A memorial ser- 0UMI:e w'" e ne'c' 'n honor. 0 Minnie was a spry and charming ipQ-iman. She was bright, elegant and yeyJ of life. A typical memorial service luld have depressed her, but a birth-(e birth-(e jj y party would have pleased her im-y( im-y( ;nsely. So, a memorial service in the .m of a birthday party will be held for j.'-r at the William's Ranch, Minnie's wte'p' Wyo-' on June 5 1982ner 100th mtg(r;thday-from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. jjj srhe party will have all the trimm-irn'jj trimm-irn'jj gs-a cake, flowers, pictures and j.poends. There will be a short 'program sentat'd a plaque will be presented to be , 0 iced on her stone at the William's j fmetery. The dedication will be at 11 ors03m. and a picnic lunch will be as 12 notlf.on. (Everyone is to bring their own cnic lunch, but cold drinks will be fur- (3)WCshecU j fifSlp.Minnie was a part of Brown's Park oljcejien it was a land of legend. People j lo are a fascination to us today were prjlquaintances and friends of hers then. 1982 Was 0ne of the final Iiving links t0 e history of Brown's Park, and she 0 j often called upon to tell what she lew about the people and events of iey at area. listlw.j Minnie's parents were Charley and 'sJATy Law Crouse. She had two 2. l others, Stanley and Clarence. Both others proceeded her in death. Min-s Min-s is survived by her daughter Mary , pdsworth of Prescott, Ariz., two jSlUndchildren Bobi Jo Wadsworth of escott and Frank Wadsworth of Qglfarnell, Ariz., several great-, great-, anchildren and two nephews Sid Pot-jggjUf Pot-jggjUf and Stanley Crouse, Jr. Near the year 1980, Minnie's parents nt her to Iowa to attend a Catholic public -arding school. Minnie became an East ;id reader. While living near Brown's rted Ife". sne often traded books with John sales!'rvie, Sr. and even in her mid 90's she jnal'P'. abreast of current events by l8 adding such publications as Newsweek . door ;d Time. a set When she came home from school she UitNit to work in a boarding house at Line's Lin-e's OOod, Utah. She didn't know how to A, but she soon learned. Meals were . ,,ents and beds with a botton blanket iJPl'xe 50 cents. fs1fZ(fie married a carpenter by the name llt3JKnud Ronholt. They moved to Idaho ic8ns " "ved there for several years. Dur-ott Dur-ott the time their daughter Mary was nef'n' Minnie divorced Ronoholt and ise ?;(urned to Linwood. Again she went to jck rk in a boarding house. ,e i'l11 1914 she homesteaded a gap which of ). 5-' since been known as Minnie's Gap. Ps-, by 1917 she had moved back to Lin-2 Lin-2 She was postmaster there from fjnm 1952- VW Jennie married George Rasmussen, d'eVi:'ler and operator of the Linwood 0UC (originally the Smith-Larsen cehi!rcantile). He died October 13, 1962. Minnie continued to live in their home in Linwood until the end of July, 1963. That year Linwood had been eliminated for the already rising Flaming Flam-ing Gorge Lake. Minnie's home was all that remained. One afternoon the clear-ning clear-ning contractor and a government inspector in-spector told Minnie they would have to begin moving her home the next day. She offered them tea and seemed agreeable to what they were saying. After they left she poured gasoline on her new carpet, lit a match to it and burned her home to the ground. It was then that she moved to Yarnell, Ariz, and later to Prescott. Minnie never lived in Utah again, but she visited on various occasions. She was home when the plaque for Linwood was dedicated. And by chance she was home when the highway was dedicated at Minnie's Gap. They made her the honorary guest during that dedication. And now, in a quiet sense, she is home for the dedication of her own plaque. More will be told about Minnie during her party and some of her favorite anecdotes will be repeated. Pictures will be on display of Minnie from infancy infan-cy until her later years. People are invited in-vited to bring their pictures and stories of Minnie to be added to the collection. |