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Show DIXIE PIONEER OF 1861 HONORED ON HER 91 BIRTHDAY Jane T. Bleak, Dixie Pioneer, observed her !U birthday anniversary anni-versary at her home here December Decem-ber 1. Relatives and friends and ordinance workers fro the St. George Temple called during the day. Telegrams, letters and packages pack-ages wove received from California, Calif-ornia, Utah and r.ther states. Mrs. Bleak's life has been one of service and accomplishment. She came to America when she was nine years of age with mem-bets mem-bets of her family and at the age of fiftfeen came to Utah with a handcart company. She was then an active member of the L. D. S. Church. She married in Salt Lake City to James G. Bleak and came with the Bleak family to St. George arriving here on her sixteenth birthday. Of her thirteen children she reared ten to manhood and womanhood wom-anhood to rear families of their own. She has fifty-four grandchildren grand-children and enight-five great grandchildren. She has labored as an ordinance worker in the St. George Temple for forty-five years under the following Temple presidents: Wilford Woodruff. J. D. T. McAllister. David H. Cannon, Can-non, Thomas P. Cottam. Edward H. Snow, and George F. Whitehead. White-head. Mrs. Bleak has been honored on her birthday many times and on January 27, 1935 the South ward held a program in her honor. |