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Show SOCIAL NEW; Viola M. Long to be honored on 85th birthday anniversary Mr., Mrs. Allen A. Francis to be honored on anniversary To honor Viola Mork Long on her 85th birthday her family invites friends, relatives and neighbors to attend an open house Sunday July 22, from 2 until 8 p.m. at her home, 492 South Canyon Drive (1300 East), Springville. No gifts please. Biola was born July 17, 1899, in Mercur, Utah, to Soren and Mary Alphine Christiansen Mork, the 3rd of 11 children. She was raised on a farm on Provo bench, now Orem. Her first three years of school were in a small one-room one-room schoolhouse accommodating nine grades, beginners thru 8th grade. She graduated from the 8th grade in Pleasant Grove, Utah, where she also attended high school. both spent many long and hard days planting, caring for and harvesting their crops. Viola taught Sunday School in the old 1st Ward Church and was a work leader in Relief Society under five presidents. , She and her husband had many foster children in their home and later took care of a disabled lady veteran for 12 years. She crocheted many beautiful afghans, pillows and other articles giving each of her grandchildren some. She also did beautiful ap-pliquing ap-pliquing on her machine, giving many articles to the Relief Society for their bazaars. She made all her own and her family's clothes and still sews and crochets. She and her husband had four children, three of whom are living: Mrs. Leonard Dean (Dorothy) Johnson, Spanish Fork; Dale A. Long, Santa Ana, California; and Mrs. Robert W. (Charmian) Taylor, Springville; eight grandcildren and 14 great-grandchildren. With good luck and good health she'd like to live 15' 2 years longer and have the distinction of living in three centuries. f ti Prices return following three-month research tour Artist Gary Lee Price, Lanea, and their 9-month old son, Zachariah Lee, arrived home to beautiful Springville on the 10th of July. They have been gone for three months doing art research in 11 European countries and also Egypt and Israel. Highlights of their trip include the Sistine Chapel in Rome, seeing the original Christus Statue in Denmark, Den-mark, Climbing to the top of the Cheops pyramid in Cairo, swimming in the Sea of Galilee, and visiting the Louvre in Paris. Gary received lots of ideas and inspiration for new sculptures and is very excited about being back in the "good ol' USA" and getting to work on new pieces in his home studio. "My first piece will be another bust of Christ and next a knight and horse in armour fighting a huge dragon. Gary says you don't realize how beautiful Springville is until you're away for a while. The children of Allen A. and Margaret Hill Francis are honoring their parents on their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house, Friday, July 27, 7 to 9 p.m. at the 3rd Ward Chapel, 585 North Main Street in Spanish Fork, to which their friends and family are invited. Allen was born in Lake Shore. Margaret was born in Mapleton and raised in Payson. They were married in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Manti Temple, July 27, 1934. They have lived most of their married life in Spanish Fork. A World War II military tour of duty took them to California, Washington, Maryland and Florida. In Florida Allen served as a member of the South Florida District Council, and also as first counselor in the South Florida District presidency. Margaret was the Miami Branch MIA President. In the Spanish Fork area Margaret has held positions in all of the womens organizations of the Church, including the Stake Relief Society board and stake genealogical committee Allen served as bishop of Spanish Fork 2nd Ward from 1962 to 18 He was a high counselor in the Spanish Fork, Palmyra, and Spanish Fork West Stakes. He worked for four years as an ordinance worker in the Provo Temple. He recently organized and directed a regional name extraction program in the Spanish Fork area. As a refrigeration, air- conditioning engineer Allen was self employed for 21 years, then worked 13 years in the engineering depart ment of Utah Valley Hospital. Their children are Jane Ami Bissell of Chugiak, Alaska, Colleen Kenison of Orem, Joseph Allen Francis of North Ogden. Camille Nielsen of Farmington Hills, Michigan and Julie Olsen of Orem. They have 13 grandchildren. w . .... S ' - - i ; if Jf' ' ' ' " J J f- - i I ' V i ' v if, x V ; : A :-:-:- M & , Mr. and Mrs. Allen A. Francis Viola M. Long She helped her folks on the farm doing everything the boys did raking, hauling and stacking hay, irrigating the crops, picking fruit and tomatoes, also picking and taking the ripe watermelons to market in Provo. Viola, along with her sisters and brothers had cows to milk twice a day. They were taught to milk at age six. Her father ran a milk route daily and when he was in the Provo hospital after an operation she and her younger brother had the responsibility of harnessing and hitching up a big team to a milk wagon and driving them around the route to pick up the farmers' big 10-gallon 10-gallon can of milk and five-gallon can of cream and taking it to a milk house on the Geneva road, to be shipped to a the Clover Leaf Dairy in Salt Lake City. They had to get up at 4 : 30 a m. in order to have the milk at the milk house by 8 a.m. when the train came and picked it up. The winter mornings were very cold, so she and her brother ran back of the wagon to keep warm. The horses knew the way and would stop at each farm. Viola did housework and cooking for families in Salt Lake City and Provo. One being the Senator Reed Smoot family in their big beautiful home that still stands at 183 East 100 South, Provo. She married Alex Long Sept. 14, 1921, in Provo; the marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Alex's father had a stroke, so they lived with Alex's folks the first year so he could take care of his folks' farm. They moved to Bingham Canyon in 1922, where they owned and operated the Grill Cafe. In 1931 they moved to Springville where they bought a farm on which they Mary Boyer to celebrate birthday Lifetime resident of Springville, Mary Strong Boyer, will celebrate her 77th birthday on July 20. Mary and her husband, Arthur C. Boyer, were married 54 years ago on June 3, 1929. Mr. Boyer will be 83 on August 5, 1984. Births July 2 Boy to Steven and Sherry Palfreyman Killpack of Springville. Girl to Alan and Janet Loftus Russell of Springville. July 5 Girl, to Steven R. and Melinda Oates Sumsion, in McLean, Va. Grandparents are Dick and Joann Sumsion, Springville. July 7 . Girl to Dodd and Catherin Mount Greer of Springville. July 8 Girl to Bradley and Leslie Larsen Lyons of Springville. July 12 Girl to Floyd and Colleen Huff Miner of Springville. July 13 I Girl to Jeffrey and Kathy Hall Hillock of Springville. , July 14 ii Boy to James E. and Trudy Gross Sumsion of Provo. Grandparents are James and Oneita Sumsion of Mapleton. fSi fir '" V''"' 1 l I , ' J - ff I - - 1 1 " J 1 ifwH y f ? I 1 '12 i M 1 & If a : m ' i. g 4 ' " 5 ' ? f k -K - t'l . i it -i 4&&L,( , I?! k ' tt " Ji X I f ' I Pi . vfl 4 '." t'l f t ' ' i f tj'" ' ' ' I 1 I fi' "ST "C 1 : ! J P - -1 : Q ! V W vf MJ, rJ fc ' " I mtm m .1 1 .1 1 j j 1 liuli ii Mil 'Hi in' in fill niiVni- - |