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Show PUpl'flltipiHyH Thursday, May 5, 2005 NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Page IS Obituaries Doing the washing during wartime .r Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on Fay Parker, who served in the Quarter-l Quarter-l "" P ifi il 1 master Corps, as a laundry specialist. Parker served in the Pacific Theater in Sew Guinea, the I V W lwSI w$l . IVl small islands of Biak andOwi. the Philippines and Japan This week: Parker explains how a mo Richard J. Miller 1920-2005 bile laundry unit in the army operates. Our beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend, Richard Junior Miller, passed away April 27, 2005 after a very long and courageous cou-rageous battle with cancer. Richard was born in American Ameri-can Fork on March 12, 1920 to Theodore Edward and Mable Clara Wadley Miller. He was raised with five brothers and one sister. On August 13, 1938 he married Olivene Duke from Heber. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Provo Temple. Richard served honorably in the Army during WW II from 1944 -1945. He was a builder by trade and owned his own construction company. He built many schools for Alpine School District and homes in the American Fork area as well as a variety of structures throughout the state. He later owned a cabinet shop. Richard always shared his talents by helping his family beautify their homes. He also grew flowers in his yard, which he often shared with his family and friends, especially his beautiful roses. Richard is survived by his wife, Olivene and their four children: R. Larry (Zinaida) Miller, Pleasant Grove; Micheal D. (Cathie) Miller, American Fork; Mar Jean (Joseph) Sawyer, American Fork; Brandon (Theresa) Woods, Vernal; 16 grandchildren grand-children and 40 great -grandchildren. The family would like to thank Vista Care for their loving care during the many years of Richard's illness. Funeral services will be held Monday, May 2, 2005 at 11 am in American Fork 17th Ward Chapel, 240 S. Center, American Fork, UT. A viewing will be held Sunday, May 1, 2005 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Anderson & Sons Mortuary, 49 E. 100 N, and prior to the service from 9:45 to 10:45 am at the chapeL Interment Inter-ment American Fork Cemetery, 600 N Center. Lucy Lewis White A beautiful and loving daughter, wife, and mother has finally been released to join her husband and daughter. Lucy Lewis White passed away at age 86 on April 30, 2005 at her home in the loving arms of her family. Mom was born November 1, 1918 in Monti-cello, Monti-cello, Utah to George Lester and Mable Dalton Lewis. She married mar-ried William Wallace White on September Sep-tember 5, 1946 in Las Vegas. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple on May 6, 1949. Dad passed away on March 26, 2002. Lucy's mother died when she was 3 years old. She was then raised and educated in Monticello by her uncle Wilford and aunt Thressa Frost, whom she loved dearly and considered consid-ered her parents. Mom was an active member of the LDS Church serving in various organizations. Her home was her temple and a sanctuary to all who entered it. Mom was a loving mother moth-er and grandmother and a beacon of light to all who knew her. She is survived by her two daughters: daugh-ters: Gwen (Steve) Tattersall, Monroe, Mon-roe, Louisiana and Donna (Glenn) Barnett, Pleasant Grove; 8 grandchildren, grand-children, 12 great-grandchildren, two sisters: Erma Trainor and Rae Randall; two brothers: Harold and Wendell Frost all of Monticello. Additional Ad-ditional survivors include two special spe-cial sons-in-law: Keith Graves and Michael Graves. Preceded in death by her husband, her daughter, Helen Lucille Graves; two sets of parents, two sisters and five brothers. Funeral services will be held Wednesday May 4, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. in the Timpanogos Stake Center, Cen-ter, 800 North 100 West, Pleasant Grove. Friends may call Tuesday evening from 6-8 p.m. at Oipin Family Fam-ily Mortuary, 494 South 300 East, Pleasant Grove and at the church on Wednesday one hour prior to services. Interment will be in the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.olpirfamilymortu-ary.com. www.olpirfamilymortu-ary.com. The family would like to thank Odyssey Hospice who made moms last wishes come true. Von Wilson Sorenson Von Wilson Sorenson, age 71 of Cedar Fort, Utah, died May 2, 2005 at the Utah Valley Hospital of natural natu-ral causes. He was born June 4, 1933 in Lent Utah, son of Ellis (Bud) and Wilma Ann Whitman Sorenson. So-renson. Married Mar-ried Karleen FTygare Sept. 25, 1953 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She died Jan. 23, 1998. Von served in the Army during the Korean Conflict. He worked for the Public Works department for Lehi City Corp. and later as a supervisor over the petroleum division divi-sion at Tooele Army Depot. He raised his family in Lehi and moved to Cedar Fort in 1978. He loved horses, rodeos, and dearly loved his grandchildren. Survived by four sons, Ken Sorenson, Stansbury; Casey Sorenson, Soren-son, Tooele; Clay (Julie) Sorenson, Cedar Fort; Shawn (Jessica) Sorenson, Soren-son, Ibapah, UT; 13 grandchildren; sister, Kathryn (Jerry) Cook, Lehi. He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, brother Nile, sister Geralee Qathar, and granddaughter granddaugh-ter Shanalee. Funeral services will be held Thursday, May 5, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. in the Cedar Fort LDS Ward Chapel. Cha-pel. Interment will be in the Cedar Fort Cemetery with military honors by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Alfred Gerald Turner Alfred Gerald Turner, age 84 of Lehi, died April 30, 2005 at his home of causes incident to age. He was born July 3, 1920 in Lehi to William Gerald and Amelia Vie Andreason Turner. Married Mar-ried Retta Jane Goodwin, May 18, 1946 in Provo. Marriage Mar-riage later solemnized in the Provo LDS Temple. Gerald served in the Utah National Guard and was inducted to full-time military mili-tary service during World War U. He also served on the Lehi Auxiliary Police and Civil Air Patrol and was a volunteer with the Lehi Ambulance Dept. He enjoyed hunting, camping, fishing, boating, water-skiing, snow-mobiling, snow-mobiling, and gardening. He was a temple worker in the Provo and Mt. Timpanogos Temples and also gave many years provid- ing lock-up security and snow-removal at his ward chapeL He was a devoted husband and father and hard-working provider to his family fam-ily and he and Retta did everything together until her passing away on January 12th Survived by one son and two daughters, Tony (Jan) Turner, Linda (Paul) GLathar, all of Lehi; Geraldine (Shirl) Leavitt, Clinton, UT; 15 grandchildren; 17 greatgrandchildren; great-grandchildren; two brothers and one sister, Kenneth Turner and Roy (LTJean) Turner, both of Lehi; Faye (Earl) DeCoL Copperton, UT. He was preceded in death by brothers, Dale and Jay Turner and sister, Naomi Nielsen. Funeral, Friday, May 6, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. in the Lehi 7th Ward Chapel, 1149 N. 300 W. Family and friends may call at the Wing Mortuary, Mortu-ary, 118 E. Main, Lehi, Thursday evening from 6-8 pjm. and at the church one hour prior to services on Friday. Interment will be in the Lehi City Cemetery with military honors by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Rhonda Smith Baum Ronda Smith Baum, age 47, formerly for-merly of Lehi, Utah, passed away suddenly of a heart attack at her home in Palmer Alaska. She was born April 26, 1958 to Ernest andColene Smith of Lehi. Ronda attended school, graduating gradu-ating from Lehi High School She married her best friend and high school sweetheart, Kevin D. Baum on December 8, 1977 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Ronda was an excellent home-maker home-maker and loved to cook for her family and friends. Her suckers and egg rolls were always a must have when she came for a visit. Ronda will be remembered lovingly lov-ingly as a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, daughter and sister. She will be missed by her husband hus-band Kevin Baum, and 5 children, Michael, Nicole, Candice, Brittany and Alan. And her 3 grandchildren Joshua, Tony and Emma, all of Palmer, Alaska. Her parents Ernest and Colene Smith, of Lehi and siblings sib-lings Dale (Dekres) Smith, Robert (Karen) Smith, Debbie (Steve) Gates, Chariene (Robert) Bough, Art (Ja-nine) (Ja-nine) Smith, Marc (Marlene) Smith, Todd (Pam) Smith and Laura (Scott) Johnson. She is preceded in death by her brother Earl Hales and grandparents. Funeral services will be held May 7th in Palmer, Alaska. Our mobile unit was like a large semitrailer semi-trailer truck on wheels. The power for the unit came from a generator, so the unit was self-contained. A boiler, fired by an oil heater, provided hot water and hot air (for drying). We had good sources of water, though I dont know where it came from. A laundry uses a lot of water. Some men pinned identification identifi-cation tags on the clothing, to mark who it belonged to, though I never had to do that. After a cold rinse, the laundry was put through a hot-water wash, with powdered soap added, which did the real job of washing. (If there were any bugs in the clothing, I'm sure they were killed.) After another rinse, to get the soap out, the wash went to the extractor, which by centrifugal cen-trifugal force took out most of the water. Then it was on to the big tumble dryers, which sat on the floor. Big hoses were attached to the washing machines, to divert the water away from the unit into a ditch, or some place. It was all sort of primitive in a way no buildings build-ings or anything, just our separate, sepa-rate, self-contained unit. We were first stationed on Biak, an island just off the equator, where we first started to run our units. We were there for a month or so, then sent to a little island called Owi, a few miles from Biak, just big enough for an airstrip. On Owi, B-25s and B-26s flew over the top of us, 1 think on their way to bomb Borneo, Bor-neo, where the Japanese had oil fields. At night, Japanese bombers would come over and try to bomb the airstrip, but since we were about a mile from the airfield, we didn't pay too much attention to the air raids, even though we were supposed to go out and get in foxholes. From Biak and Owi, we were sent to Luzon, in the Philippines, Phil-ippines, where I first encoun-. tered serious combat. As we came closer to the Philippines, we were attacked by Japanese kamikaze aircraft. We were alerted to go down into the hold of our ship, which was crazy, because we could hear the anti-aircraft guns firing, and the Japanese pilots would simply plow into ships. One of the ships in our convoy was hit, and its gasoline exploded and trapped the men in the hold. On Luzon, we went into full operation with our unit. We were there from Christmas 1944 until the following October. Oc-tober. It was there when the men from the Cabatuan prison, survivors of the Bataan death march, were rescued and brought to a nearby hospital. They were a sad, bedraggled bedrag-gled bunch, suffering from malnutrition and a number of diseases. I didn't meet them, but they were brought to a H ft Fay Parker nearby hospital, where they were fed and cared for. This experience was a highlight for me. It was quite a sacrifice for the rangers to go in and rescue res-cue them. On Luzon, my buddy Bernard Ber-nard Harris and some men were asked by our sergeant to go inland about a mile to a coconut grove and set up some of our equipment. Because of insufficient guards on the perimeter pe-rimeter of the camp, the Japanese Japa-nese infiltrated, all hell broke loose, and some of our men, as well as some Japanese, were killed. Harris, while trying to get rid of a Japanese grenade, took some shrapnel. We called that the "Battle of the Coconut Grove." My last hair-raising experience experi-ence was on our way to occupy Japan, when we hit a typhoon. We were on an LST. which is just like a tub with a very shallow shal-low draft. It was pitch dark, and the wind was blowing like crazy. The ship would rock and roll, the bow would go up on a wave, and bam!, it would slam down. Hie steel hull would shudder. The captain turned our ship around and we went into a sheltered cove, where we waited till the typhoon blew out . In February, rotation home from Japan began, based on how many points you had earned so many points for !eing overseas, so many for being in bailie, so many for length of time in the sen' ice. 1 returned 1o Seattle, txk a train home to Salt Lake City, then returned to my home in Joseph, Utah. I d been home only three months when the bishop came to our home and asked me to go on a mission. 1 served in the Central slates. These excerpts from Orem veterans are ourtcsy of the Orem Heritage Committee. Complete stories of the veterans will eventually he put onto the Orem city Welt site, www.orem.org Readers aware of uny veterans who have written about their military sen ice, are asked to arrange to have these archived in the Veteruns History Project, Library of Congress. Plume Don Norton (22.r H050) on how to do this. Schedule changes at Alpine schools Change should allow for teacher collaboration NORTH COUNTY STAFF Students in the Alpine School District will get out an hour earlier each Monday beginning fall term and may go to school about 15 minutes longer Tuesday through Friday. Fri-day. The new schedule will give teachers the opportunity to collaborate with each other, exchanging information about students, curriculum, teaching teach-ing styles and needs of each student. The program was approved at the April 26 meeting of the board of education after the school board, district administration admin-istration and patrons weighed the pros and cons of the collaborative col-laborative time and felt that the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages, officials said. Utah requires students to attend school for 180 days and at least 990 hours each year. Although some of the schools already exceed the hours, others, depending on their current schedule, will have to make up the lost 32 hours by school starting about 15 minutes min-utes early each day. During the collaborative time, staff members will be broken into one or more teams that will work interdepen- Witlfk mVifspt mi ' " MATT SMITH 'North County Hillcrest Elementary students hurry to their rides as they leave school an hour early on Monday afternoon. Alpine School District has adopted an early out program that will send sludcnts home an hour early on Mondays. This is designed to' give teachers a chance to work together and create a better learning experience. dently to achieve one or more goals. They will focus on three major questions: What do we expect students to learn? How will we know what students have learned? How will we respond to students who aren't learning? In a letter to school patrons, officials said they are excited and enthused about the opportunity op-portunity offered to create and organize Professional Learning Communities. "It is a process that offers tremendous opportunity op-portunity to focus on student learning and school improvement," improve-ment," the letter said. The teachers ask for pa tience and support in the program. pro-gram. Parents are encouraged to contact the principal of their child's s( h(xI if they have any questions. Alpine School District schools are believed to be t lie first in Utah County to put 1he weekly professional development develop-ment program into place Tuacahn tour spots available, campout planned AMERICAN FORK The center is open weekdays week-days from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is located at 54 E. Main St. Round-trip rides to the center are available for $1. Reservations Reserva-tions must be called in to 763-3090, 763-3090, 24 hours in advance. The center offers ceramics, porcelain porce-lain dolls, exercise equipment, bridge, pinochle and bingo on Fridays. There is still room available on the Tuacahn tour set for June 7 to June 9. Reservations are being taken at the center and cost is $115. It includes one show, "Beauty and the Beast." The next Tuacahn tour will be in September. At that time, both plays, "Beauty and the Beast" and "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat" will be offered. LEHI There will be a blood pressure pres-sure clinic on May 11 from 10:30 to noon at the center. The Lehi Senior Center on 123 N. Center St. is open from 9 a.m to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. Fri-day. Friday is the center's craft day at 10 a m,, Tuesday and Friday at 1130 a.m. is bingo. I Old Folks campout party planned The Lehi South Stake members are hosting their Old Folks Party with a campout theme on May 14 at its stake center, 600 S. 500 West, Lehi. Dinner will be served at 11:45 a.m. and entertainment enter-tainment as well as door prizes provided. Photographs will be taken. Seniors and widows living within Lehi South Stake boundaries are invited to attend at-tend and are asked to wear their "Sunday best camping outfit." OREM A small bus will be taking tak-ing seniors on a Wendover Turn-around on Wednesday. The tour leaves at 7 a.m. at the center and costs $8. More information is available at 229-7711. AARP driver safety courses are scheduled for Wednesday and next Thursday. Thurs-day. Attendance is required for both days and class is from 8 a.m. to noon. Cost is $10 per students and class size is limited to 20 students. Prereg-istration Prereg-istration is being taken at the center. Reservations for lunch must be made one day in advance. PLEASANT .GROVE The center will host a recognition recog-nition banquet Friday to honor its senior volunteers sponsored through RSVP, Retired Senior Volunteer Program. The Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Fireman's Breakfast is at the Pleasant Grove City Park from 6 a.m. to 1 1 a.m. on Saturday. The Jacobs Center, 242 W. 200 South, Pleasant Grove, is open weekdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., except holidays. ALL Every senior center in north Utah County provides daily meals for seniors and ot her activities and benefits. Most centers have round-trip round-trip rides available upon query. Lunch is served at noon. Funding for Senior Center Cen-ter programs is provided by Mountainland Association of Governments and the Utah Department De-partment of Human Services. The center staff requests luncheon visitors notify the cook the previous day by 1 p.m. so enough meals will be prepared. A chef salad for $2.25 may be ordered at the same time. The suggested donation lor each meal is .$2 Menu Thursday, May 5: Baked ham, au gratin potatoes, mixed vegetables, veg-etables, gelatin salad, pumpkin cxkie and whole wheat roll with margarine.' Friday, May 6: Boneless breast of chicken, rice pilaf, sliced carrots, fruil salad, bread pudding with whipped topping and whole wheat roll with margarine. Monday, May 9: Navy beans and ham, sliced beets, apple, carrot cake and white roll with margarine. Tuesday, May 10: Lasagna, Italian blend vegetables, tossed salad with ranch, sugar cookies and white roll with margarine. Wednesday, May 11: Country-fried steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, peas, canned pears, pasta salad and white roll and margarine. Thursday, May 12: Barbecue hamburger on a bun. macaroni salad, potato chips and cuKjake. Friday, May 13: l ettuce ine alfredo. Italian sausage, California Cali-fornia blend, tossed salad with ranch, apple pie and whole wheat roll with margarine. L COPY |