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Show FruitHeightsGreat Mom has great heart i--ir -ft - w (( ;WK - ' ' . ' - i t ' i " ,? i Cf rj ships to BYU and USU, she chose to marry Ralph Provost instead instead in-stead of going on to college. She graduated from an accounting school by taking classes through the mail. Always working in banks and finance companies, Belva learned to love finance. Fourteen years ago she began working as Fruit Heights' city recorder, a position she still holds. While working in Kaysville, she often did work for her boss that took her up in the Fruit Heights area. It was then that she realized how much she loved the small city and she has been a resident since 1976. Belva and Ralph have two children: a daughter Robin Butler, who is an elementary teacher at Antelope Elementary in Clearfield and a son, Mark, who works for US WEST Communications. Although Belva has had two open-heart surgeries, she says she really does have a heart, and her family and friends would testify to that. She loves people and being around them. Belva enjoys doing things with her family, including vacations, playing games and listening to her husband and daughter play the piano and organ. While living in Summit County, Belva was a rodeo queen. She still loves rodeos and even though her husband doesn't really like them, he takes her to one every year. Provost has many choice friends and some of those are city managers in the state that she has gotten to know in the past 14 years. "Next to my husband, kids and my friends I love the city of Fruit Heights, Belva said, but then Fruit Heights is my friend." BELVA PROVOST FRUIT HEIGHTS Belva Provost was bom in Summit and raised there by her grandparents. She attended South Summit High School and in her senior year was named class valedictorian. Although she had full scholar- Belva M. Provost, Fruit Heights City Recorder, has a considerate family that understands the pressure and responsibility of her job. Family members include son, Mark; Belva; husband, Ralph and daughter, Robin Butler. s |