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Show was the first child in Beaver to be( enrolled in Primary. Mary started teaching in Primary when she was 10 years old. She was a teacher teach-er from that time until she became President of the West Ward Primary from frfV .:. " -1 - - y t -j I 1 Beaver Stake Personality In every community there J are found certain brave men and women who dedicate their lives to the welfare and happiness of others. They give freely of their love and talents, and their only reward re-ward here is the joy they get from loving service to their Heavenly Father and their fellowmen. Suchaper-son Suchaper-son was Mary Williams 1 Goodwin. Mary Goodwin was born March 14, 1877 in Beaver, Utah. She was the daughter of Nephi and Martha Moyes Williams. Mary's father was a caller for the square dances and played the fiddle fid-dle for the dances. She learned the calls at an early age, and during recess time at school she would teach the square dances to her friends. She married George Goodwin, Good-win, and five children were born to them four sons and one daughter. She was a widow wi-dow for many years, and to help with her living expenses she made and decorated many wedding cakes. On March 19, 1880 President Pres-ident John R. Murdock called call-ed a meeting of all mothers in town who had children from 3 to 12 years of age. They met in the old Tithing Office where the 1st -3rd Church now stands. Martha Williams took her little three -year -old girl, to hear what their president had to say. Sittingbeside President Murdock on the stand were Eliza R. Snow and Arelia S. Rogers. They had come for the purpose of organizing organiz-ing Primary for the children of Beaver. Mary Williams Mary Goodwin 1914-1921. She was Stake Primary President from 1921 to 1938. At the Primary Conference Confer-ence held in Salt Lake City in April of 1353, Mary Goodwin Good-win was awarded the 50 year service pin. Members of Beaver Stake know how much she deserved this honor, and that her service in this good cause far exceeds the fifty year mark. |