Davis County Clipper | 1990-02-28 | Page 11 | 60th Anniversary

60th anniversary i- " -ir t v Karl and Vesta Crandall of Centerviile celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Valentine's Day. They were honored later in the week by their three children at a gathering in Bountiful of their adult descendants. Natives of Springville, they both graduated from BYU. Before their marriage, Karl had completed his MBA from New York University and was working for an oil company com-pany in Salt Lake City. Vesta, having served an LDS mission in the Eastern States under President Brigham H. Roberts, was teaching school in Bingham. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple an hour before midnight mid-night Feb. 13, 1930. (It was the only time Karl could take away from work the stock market crash, six months earlier, had made jobs very precious. It was rumored that if you left for lunch, either your chair would be gone or someone else would be sitting in it when you returned. re-turned. Since a lady school teacher couldn't be married to an employed husband and keep her job too, Vesta resigned her teaching position by exchanging wedding vows. In those days, honeymoons were not common.) com-mon.) After the depression, Vesta MR. AND MRS KARL CRANDALL resumed her teaching career. Now in their late eighties, they've lived in the Salt Lake City area throughout their married life. Long retired from their careers, they're still active in church, community com-munity and family pursuits. Karl is an enthusiastic mechanic, and Vesta is a fine seamstress. They stay young enjoying their many greatgrandchildren.