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Show Mrs- AW" W. Open house will mark 1 90th birthday I Marking her 90th blrfc s' Mrs. D. 0. (Abbie) WtJ , this city will receive her,,' P tives and friends at the room of the Utah Centrum -valescent Center at (W urday, ,July 26, from ! 1 , 4 p.m. "' Mrs. Ashcraft recently i several weeks in the h , but is now recovering aid', St. be happy to visit , k Cn friends. ' She was born in Ute Ve County, Nevada, July 21, m us and has the distinction olfc, p the first white child born lit area. Shots were fired to my the neighbors and settlers : a I the arrival. jp Mrs. Ashcraft expeiie: Ni the hardships of early afc ni; ment days and recalls changes which have ok through the years. j0 Her husband, D. 0. Ashen.' toi a train engineer, died In M ha They lived in several com; Mi ties including Mldvale, Thistt Mi Ogden, Salt Lake City bd Sp coming to Springville. For i last few years, Mrs, Aitaf made her home with Ir Hi daughter and son in-law, C. E nest and Donna Whitlnf During her earlier yen 1,1 she was active in LDS Or li" work, serving as president Relief Society and of Ml 1 She also worked in the Suit T" School and eenealoev. She n su a talented reader and dric tist and took part In early I atrcials. Her sons and daughters e Mrs. C. Ernest Whiting l na) and Lloyd Ashcraft ! Springville; Orean Asfc' Salt Lake City; Ruel Ashen;, co Kearns and Elden Ashen.' ar. Garden Grove, Californit, t "t of whom will attend the US w day. There are also 19 g children; 42 great grandefc V-ren V-ren and nine great great grv- children. Jr Is air conditioning a w sity." More than two t three people surveyed byj ster Lou Harris for NW" " magazine said that ftfc |