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Show ' . i MARRIED 60 YEARS M. and Mrs. Jacob Felix, beloved couple who will note their sixty years of marriage October Octo-ber 1. Both are active in church, civic and cultural affairs. Mr. and Mrs.. Jacob Felix wed 60 years Tuesday, October 1 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Felix will observe their 60th wedding anniversary Tuesday, October 1, quietly at their home with no special celebration planned. They were married October 1, 1903 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They have lived in Springville for 50 of those 60 years together. Mr. Felix was born in Switzerland Swit-zerland December 10. li'S6 and came to this country as a boy of 12 with an LDS missionary. He subsequently earned money enough to send to his parents who also came to Utah a few years later. He retired several years ago from the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, whom he worked for 42 years. He is a high priest and member of the First Ward and has served in the Sunday School superintendency and as ' a home missionary, and was a high council member of Kolo'o Stake for a number of years. Mrs. Permelia Greener Felix Fe-lix was born in Joseph, Sevier County, July 20, 1889, and spent her early life in Hinckley. Hinck-ley. She has served as captain of Camp Kolob DUP and as a teacher in the various auxiliary org nizations including forty-two forty-two jears as a Sunday School teacher and seven years as YWMIA secretary. She has also al-so served as home missionary. The couple spent several years of their early married life at Hinckley and later lived two years at Leamington before be-fore moving to Springville in 1939, where they . built their home at 689 South Fourth East, where they have since resided. They are the parents of five sons and daughters, Leo and Ivan Felix, Springville; Mrs. LaZell Duke of ,Orem; Mrs. Leola Larsen and Mrs. Eileen Johnson of Salt Lake City, also al-so 23 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. |
