Show LI t f t i Ill 7 t is fe tw L kraut CRAFTS SHOWN were made by Della Delia Chivers Oral tribute paid to Della Delia Cook Della Delia Chivers Cook who is a member of the Uintah Club of Senior Citizens took look both of their recent trips One was to Baxter Pass in Colorado and theother the theother theother other to the Josie Morris Ranch During these trips many memories were brought back to her WHILE WIBLE THA TRAVELING by bus along the roads to Baxter Pass she noticed that where once there were thriving towns with boarding hoarding houses and the mines all working there was silence and just a few decaying buildings to show where the towns had once been The same roads that she had driven a buggy over were now paved or improved in some y What t cha changes she has s her Ier Ji tiIT in transportation She's driven a horse and buggy rode a saddle horse crossed the Green River and at Jensen on the ferry ferryboats boats hoats taken a stage from Vernal to Fruita Colorado riden the narrow gauge train up the thc steepest slick rail in the world from Watson to Mack Colorado and now drives a car carand carand carand and has ridden in a plane She remembers the ranching at Hill Creek and the mines at Rainbow and Bonanza On the trip to Josie's she remembered the summer when she was about 16 One time lime I went over to a ranch on Blue Mountain I to stay with a family named Moran Queen Anne Basset Josie 1 Morris Morris' sister came riding up on a beautiful bay hay horse She was out taking the census She had a kerchief covering her face She was so pretty I 1 USED t to ride my greymare grey greymare mare every day out working the cattle that summer Every morning she would wait walt until I had my foot in the stirrup and then begin to buck II Della Delia who will be 80 years young on January 23 1976 has lived in this area all of her life The house that was on her fathers father's cattle callie ranch rand is out In Inthe Inthe th the Davis Ward and arid is now owned by Kate Boren The love of Dellas Della's life is her children and the grandchildren She frequently with some of them which range Inage in inage inage age from less than a year old to seven When Della Delia lost her husband she went to work Each mor mol morning ning ring she and her dog Kip would go out and feed the cattle and sheep Then she would take her year two daughter to the babysitters and be at the hospital by 7 am a.m. She worked until U this s little girl was grown grownup up and married At the hospital she either worked in inthe inthe inthe the Central Supplies Division or out on the floor as a nurses nurse's aide In Dr the Central Supply work perfection was required These were wen the things that were used in the operating room Out on the floor she was able to extend her love and concern for the sick Many lany years ago she along with Rosalie Burton and Levonia Burke had been trained by the doctors to go out and care for the sick in this community It was a twenty- twenty four hour a day job UI DELLA DELL LI ENJOYS gardening When she used to plant she would tell Kip the dog clog to stay out of it Which he did Bu when she would go to pick corn when it matured he would go out and do some picking for himself She just lost him in inthe the last few y years years' ars lie He had lived to be 20 or 21 years ears old Some other things that Della Delia likes doing are handicrafts Decorating the wall are several plaques that she has helped to make One of those is a peacock made out of egg cartons placed on a like felt fabric She has crocheted several bedspreads pillow tops chair sets and rugs Several of these rugs are made out of ordinary bread wrappers wrappers wrap wrap- pers The necklaces she crochets and puts beads on are lovely Della Delia ism is an an active member of the Uintah Club of Senior Citizens and is at the twice monthly dinners goes on thebus Thebus the thebus bus trips and is an table game player at the Golden Age Center every Tuesday She was the winner of the Month for August |