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Show Jfr66 By CAROL LEMON J . X ! : I K-r rY, j M yv 1 i v A v (a -I . i Maud Christiansen Mother's Day, a special time, and to celebrate the occasion, oc-casion, we are visiting with a happy, pleasant woman who has enjoyed her role as wife and mother, MaudChristian-sen. MaudChristian-sen. Maud is proud of her heritage. heri-tage. "My grandfather was a sailor and was lost at sea. Mother's family, the Ogdens, have lived on the estate of Hallithwood, Scotland for generations . It was the place where Crompton invented the spinning wheel in 1799. Father became a farmer and merchant in Richfield, where I was born nearly 91 years ago. My mother passed away when I was just 10 months old." "We children played kick the can, tag, and of course, we girls all had our dollies. Not too much different than the children of today. I attended at-tended school in Richfield. When we graduated from 8th grade we had a big celebration. cele-bration. Not too many went on to school in those days. However, I did. There was only one high school in Sevier Se-vier County then. We had quite a number of students the first year, but in my second sec-ond year we had only four." "After high school I went entire class put on a musical musi-cal for graduation, and also presented it in the Salt Lake Theatre." "After graduation, I taught school in Nephi. When Hans and I were married I taught another year so he could finish fin-ish his education at USAC in Logan." "Hans became the first County Agent in Beaver County, the third in the state. He always wanted a farm of his own though, so after ten years as County Agent, he taught high school and bought the farm in North Creek." Maud and Hans became parents of six children, have twenty - six grandchildren, thirty -one great-grandchildren, and one great -greatgrandchild. "We are proud of our children and their families, and all they have accomplished," smiled Maud. "Life wasn't always easy. We had a depression to get through, but we all worked together and made it. We learned a lesson about debt and I still hate it to this day. With three daughters I did a lot of sewing, and especially especial-ly loved to embroider little baby things. I've always en- ent." "We lived in North Creek for 25 years then moved into Beaver about the same time our son, John, was elected County Attorney." A little over two years ago Maud moved to her present home in the Hilltop Apartments. Apart-ments. "I have lots of friends. I love people and like to be around them. My health is good, I have fam -ily near, and I am happy." Until last year Maud's specialty at Christmastme, for all her grandchildren, was a bag of delicious homemade home-made carmels. Thirteen batches of 100 pieces each was not unusual for Maud. This recipe is one she has used while her children were growing up and it's still a favorite today. For best results Maud suggests we use real cream and butter. joyed having a nice flower garden, plus, of course, the large family vegetable garden, gar-den, which was my responsibility respon-sibility as Hans was always so busy. The children and I took care of it ourselves, including the preserving and storing of it for winter use. We hardly had a slack mom - on the the LDS College. I loved college. It was such fun the friends, activities, activi-ties, music, drama. Itrans-ferred Itrans-ferred to the University of Utah. The U on the hill above the college campus was put there while I was attending at-tending in 1907. We had 160 in our graduating class. The |