Show t I r Ir I 1 I 1 j i t I L LLOUIS LOUIS VAN MASSEY remains active during year Vernal Pioneer Louis Van Massey Eyes Birthday u 11 uLouis Louis Van Massey 1 will celebrate hl birthday April 1 and will be hon hone ored at at an open house Sunday at his home hone East 1st North In Vernal J lie He was born April 1 1886 in Boon Boon County West Virginia the fourth oC ot 15 children lie He moved with his family to a section of Colorado which was open len for homesteading a location call ed cd Fox Creek It FROM THERE the family moved tg San Louis Valley in Manassa Colorado where agricultural conditions were bet beti ter tel then to Utah in 1905 1105 where th the 1 family settled at hIeber City Mr 11 Massey stten attended the Brigham Young University in Provo and later completed his schooling while attending night school and received his degree it in veterinarian science IN HEB HEBeR R he met and married May 1 Maybell bell ThacKer who died April 2 The couple and other members of the Massey family moved to Vernal front from Heber and settled in Dry Fork they continued farming and Mr 11 Mas Mas' Massey sey practiced veterinarian science Mr 11 Massey worked in the fur bus bus' business iness mess with his father in Vernal and the family returned to Vernal to make their home Fourteen children were born td Mr Mc and Mrs Massey all of whom ar arstill are still living 1 q THEY INCLUDE Roy Hoy Sewell Mable Pearl J J. J D. D Otis Lapreal Lois Zelpha Edwin Wanda Norman Mona and Doris J 1 A farmer rancher government trapper trap trapper per fur dealer veterinarian and junk dealer Mr 11 Massey has enjoyed a busy and industrious l life e. e Most of all he has been a lover of plants and trees and has never stopped planting since his first home as a boy Mr Massey 1 has 56 grandchildren 59 great grandchildren and four great great-great grandchildren |