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Show The Park Record Section B Thursday, May 26, 1994 D Page B17 Historian and Parkite Bea Kummer is honored as she moves to Salt Lake City Bea Kummer Day laiiiation Prod Park City by DICK GRIFFIN Record staff writer ; When Bea Kummer talks of her life in Park City the memories often bring a flood of tears. Tears of joy. ; Sitting in her house on Daly Avenue, one notices the figurines land the glass bottles, the rocks from . various mines in and around Park City and the pictures. Pictures of her 12 children and their families. "These all mean something to me," she said. The bottles and glass cars tell of a miner's daughter and a miner's sister and a miner's wife. There are also plaques and awards. One letter reads "Congratulations - to you on your anniversary .." sincerely Ron and Nancy Reagan. '. Governor Norm Bangerter also : wrote to convey his congratulations to the couple on their golden anniversary. The 1984 Valley Forge Honor Certificate honored Bemeil Carter Kummer with an Individual . Achievement Award. There are more. Bea moved to Park City with her Seven brothers and sisters when she was six years old. According to Bea her first memories of Park City are ' fighting with all the other kids. "I had to lick 'em all to stay here," and so she did even the boys. "It took ; me a couple of years before I made any good friends. The girls down the hill told me they didn't want me in (heir clubhouse and so I had to lick tfiem too. Later we became friends, Of course, but it was hard at first" She also remembers going with her grandfather to Helper to pick up truckloads of coal "We used to deliver it to Coalville or anywhere people needed it." Bea left High School in 1939 to have her first daughter, Kathryn. She ; would give birth to 1 1 daughters and one son with her husband Kenneth, who spent 43 years as a miner in die Park City mines. "He worked at the Silver King, Ontario, Judge the , miners were always looking; for$A Igetterlife," she said yr 1 1 ' y While her husband was in the FOUR LAKES VILLAGE AT PARK MEADOWS EAGLE RIDGE C Innovative homes in a residential community with a beautiful mountain setting! 7 Models from $177,000 COME SEE OUR NEW lip) I CHAPMAN lyilKl RICHARDS "TlA YE R S jn DIVISION Profile mines Bea worked as a cook for 16 years at the Kimball Junction RestaurantandlaterinParkCity.lt was about that time that she first joined the Daughter's of the Utah Pioneers and started her avocation as historian of Park City. It was just last week that Bea turned over the historian's scrapbook 'When I first moved to Park City life was quite a bit simpler. The town has changed a lot, but I don't yell about it any more. I'm getting used to it. I just hope the town continues to get better' -Parkite Bea Kummer to the Women's Athenaeum because of her failing health, but she is still consulted regularly by the Athenaeum and the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. She has been historian for the town and the county. According to Bea, she still gets two or three visitors a week at her home who have historical questions for her. Perhaps Bea is best known as a tour guide around the town. She would often be seen leading a group of tourists or newcomers up Main Street pointing out the local attractions and telling the stories that went along with the mining town. "Sometimes we would have as many as 65 people on tour," she said. So it was ojily natural that the town -i historian should write a book.'"'' "I wrote a book called Silver and AT PINEBROOK A Master Planned Residential Community MODEL Sales 1 - 5 pm Weekdays Noon - 5 pm Weekends Telephone: 647-7783 Listing Agents: Mary Corneveaux 649-1015 (H) JohnRideout 277-2988 (H) 1 i . : i- " ..mm v . . t v: ' - " 11 ' if i t 1 Long time resident Bea Kummer is being honored on Memorial Day; at the Miner's Hospital from 4 to 6 p.m. Snow, it was about Park City my favorite thing," she said. She also wrote the book Walking Through Historic Park City. She also wrote a weekly column entitled "Chit-Chat by Bea" and covered the 4-H club for the Park Record . "I remember the first time we the 4-H club went to clean the cemetery in 1959, we cleaned up 10 carloads worth of bottles and stuff." She also taught the 4-H club how to cook and sew and about the types of rock that were being pulled out of the local mines. In 1955 Bea moved into her present house. She has rented the upstairs since then and has had many tenants. "I guess they are all my favorite," she said, "even the man' J. " with the Boa Constrictor." She has Exceptional condominiums surrounded by the lakes and fairways of the Park Meadows Golf Course! Prices from $389,000 to $499,000 Sales Office Hours: 10 am - 5 pm daily Telephone: 649-2628 Listing Agents: Georgia Shane 649-7836 (H) Carol Child 649-8087 (H) Janet Stanley 649-4996 (H) 3 Office Hours: Park Record f photo always allowed pets and has seen her share of cats and dogs. She currently shares her home with her cat Boots who chases all the dogs away. Bea is planning to move to Salt Lake to live with her youngest daughter toward the end of the summer. As she will be leaving Park City soon, the City Council has proclaimed May 30, 1994 as Bea Kummer Day. There will be an open house at the Miner's Hospital on Monday, May 30 Memorial Day from4to6p.m. "When I first moved to Park City life was quite a bit simpler. The town has changed a lot, but I don't yell about it any more, I'm getting used ToiLljusthope the town continues ' to get better." Old town charm without old town headaches I It's hard to find - two-car garage, spacious grounds, great landscaping, plenty of storage space, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, laundry, extensive decks, incredible location between Deer Valley and Main Street - we have itl Call Georgia Shane (649-7836) Carol Child (649-8087) or Janet Stanley (649-4996) jznfiorf $259,000 Nature lover's hideaway In the pines of Summit Park; 3 BR 2.5 BA; approximately 1800 sq. ft; hardwood floors; gourmet kitchen; wrap-around redwood deck with hot tub and fire pit. Call Mary Corneveaux (649-1015) $198,500 NEW LISTING NEW LISTING 6 lots between Empire and Norfolk Avenues $57,000 each or $342,000 total - Cal Carol Child (649-6087) for details. PINEBROOK LOT Start building today; drive approach already started. .63 acre with wonderful views and trees. Survey completed. Call Linda Machol (292-3070) for details. $59,500 Agents: Victor Ayers, Broker (H) 649-9723 Carol Child (H) 649-8087 Barbara Sanford (H) 649-5563 Georgia Shane (H) 649-7836 Janet Stanley (H) 649-4996 Mary Corneveaux (H) 649-1015 John Rideout (H) 277-2988 Gloria Apgood (H) 649-6850 Ben Vallor(H) 649-1481 Linda Machol (H) 292-3070 :4m 111 rfCjL-iJl In recognition of Bea Kummer's long and untiring service ser-vice to the citizens of her home, Park City Utah since she arrived here as a little girl from Porterville, Utah in East Canyon; and in view of the fact that she has served as Park City's unofficial historian for much of the 20th century, cen-tury, guiding and aiding the Daughters of the Utah W Pioneers in their efforts to research and document the lives of Utah's first citizens; and recognizing her long and faithful leadership and service as a member of Utah's oldest women's service organization, the Park City . , Athenaeum; and recalling that Bea Kummer was one of the most able women ever to compete in the Miner's Day Mucking Contest in Park City, that when she picked up a shovel and loaded rock without benefit of machine and beat the men's time, they made her quit entering the competition, saying it was unfair for. the others to have to compete against her, and remembering her years of service ser-vice as an adult sponsor of 4-H when she and the young people accomplished the monumental task of cleaning the city cemetery which was overgrown with brambles and littered with trash, painting trash barrels and planting 1200 little pine trees; and acknowledging her years of " leadership in Girl Scouts; and in gratitude for her historical histori-cal legacy, the books Silver and Snow, and Walking . ' : through historic Park City; and her constant willingness r to assist all who came to her asking for historical information infor-mation about families and friends of old Park City; and the fond memories of Bea Kummer in the long striped, dress and broad-brimmed hat conducting walking tours of Old Town; and knowing how Bea loved to hike the trails of Treasure Mountain and swim in every creek, pond, ditch and water tank; and certainly paying homage to the mother of twelve grateful children who appreciated the opportunity to grow up in the beautiful hills of Park City with clean air and wholesome surroundings; and realizing the difficulties of life in a hard rock mining town both in prosperous times and in times of great need, always at the side of her husband Ken caring for their family, baking the best pies in Utah and even lending a ; hand with mining when she was needed; Be it hereby proclaimed that Monday, May 30, 1994 shall be celebrated as "Bea Kummer Day" in Park City, Utah, HOMES I H J y4mm NEW LISTING IN SLC Lovely custom tudor home in Bountiful on a seduded wooded lot. 6,095' with 6 bedroom, 4 bath; formal living and dining; huge kitchen; 3 large family rooms; 4 car heated garage; expensive upgrades; security system. 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