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Show 3B food Wyatt's Iniappeiniiiin) by Connie Sample Della Welch Ethel Bradford, women's editor Phyllis Le Cheminant - Mathews, born April 3, 1902, is celebrating her 80th birthday. She was born in Morgan, Utah, to James Nash Welch and Sarah Coulam Heiner and is the eighth child of ten, six boys and four girls. The family moved to a childrens page of a Cowley, Big Horn n local daily in my County, Wyoming, in years. I was encouraged 1905, when Della was in my artistic talent three. It was a pioneer town and they lived in through my years at a log house with very Blaine elementary, conditions. primitive she continued. When I got to Irving junior The canal, to furnish water to the parched, arid land was just barely finished as the Heiners moved there. Area Woman Is Chosen One Of 43 Artists Featured Legacy, Remembered and Renewed series. Her work, along with the others, will be shown through April 5 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at by Margaret Slack A water color, depicting the renity, snow-cappe- Se- Alps with d an evergreen foreground and one lone autumn tree is on display as part of the Thursday, Mar. 25, 1982 Della Mathews Mastered Pioneer Skills In Youth fun family WEST VALLEY VIEW the Relief Society Building across from make soap, cure meat, and all of the skills that went with pioneer life. She saw the first electricity, cars, water in the taps, and the added ease which came with each one. Her high school days were a series of appearances in plays, railroad in Salt Lake at the time, but his family had earlier resided in the Cowley area. The newly married couple lived in an attic apartment on Browning street, but it was too hot to endure. Before B When winter came, they shared living quarters with friends from the Cowley area who had a baby about the same age as their Mane, They wanted to be able to share baby sitting chores. When Mark was laid off in the spring of 1925 due to lack of work for his crew, Sarah was on the way. The railroad shipped their belongings to Cowley and there they stayed for the rest of their married life. fb 1 of a paraletic stroke. The family, at the grandparents re- quest, moved back to Morgan. Della spent a year of school in Morgan. However, there was a farm, horses, and a home to keep the boys busy in Cowley and so, in July of 1910, the family moved back to Cowley by way of Yellowstone Park. Life was hard for everyone, especially for a widow who did ironing, washing, sewing, took in and boarders, anything she could to feed the family. School was easy for Della and she was the valedictorian of her eighth grade. - She taught forty-si- x School Sunday children and was in the beginning of the Beehive classes. She could make her own clothes, cook, on Phyllis LeCheminant, ot the west window of her sunny kitchen, painting one of the many water colors she has created. Her work hos garnered her a special spot of honor in the LDS church wide endeavor to honor its women Street and 4th selves. Della began her thday, her father died first Avenue, to with a shared bathroom, but soon moved again into a bungalow around the corner to be by them- pre-tee- schooling in Cowley, but on her seventh bir- their child was born, they moved to the corner of Mark died December 14, 1961, of a heart attack. All of the children were married with families except Pearl, who was a junior at Utah State, The couple were the Della Welch Mathews speech contests, and she graduated just two points short of being valedictorian, losing out to a bookworm whose only interest parents of five children. They include was classes. Dellas tomother Marie Moore, crochet mar, California; her and the collar on the Sarah Doane, Kelso, dress in the high Washington, who graduation pic- - ed away in 1981 ; Fred ture was made by Welch Mathews, Cody, Della with silk thread Wyoming; Mary Jean and a No. 14 hook. Hayward, Houston, Della married Mark Texas and Pearl Mathew's on ckelsen, Salt Lake. June 13, 1923, in the She now has twenty-Sal- t Lake LDS Tern- - three grandchildren and thirty-fou- r great- pie. Mark worked for the grandchildren. Wildo-taug- ht pass-scho- ol Della Mathews as she marks her 80th birthday. Della did sewing and cared for a bedfast invalid in California until she was old enough for Social Security, and did just about anything to earn a dollar. All of her children and have grandchildren one special or more quilts that They had gardens, cows, chickens, pigs, and ground their own wheat. They built their home by themselves as they could afford to buy the materials needed Della had two foster teenage girls from County Welfare for three years. They are Geri Hauck Hodson and Janet Gilmore Haffner and they still keep in touch. When Della had three children under six, her brother Nashs Della has made, but she laughs and says shes now too lazy and likes to read. Della and Mark raised their family during the depression, doing any odd jobs to be found to help provide wife died after childthe necessities the birth. Della took the baby and two older family needed. girls that made her so with six children under six. She notes that this was not easy as it was during the depression and they had no indoor plumbing. She had the children for four years her brother until remarried. Della has lived in Salt Lake wdth her daughter, Pearl, since April of 1977. In celebration of Dellas 80th birthday, an open house will be held on Friday, April 2, from 6:30-9:0p.m. at the Millcreek 7th 0 4600 ward, East. South 600 members. special tribute to Temple Square. women series being ofIve been painting fered by the LDS church. Its artist, Phyllis LeCheminant, who is from the Green Sheet area, is one of 43 Utah artists who were invited to exhibit works the special during as long as I have memory, Phyllis recalled. My mother had artistic talent, though she didnt have opportunity to develop it. I remember having a couple of pen and ink drawings published in Suwmidwcm... CHOOSE DON BLAIR FOR OUTSTANDING GRADUATION PORTRAITS . . . high in Sugar House, I lessons. For instance, met Verla Birrell who a couple of times Ive was teaching art at reproduced the small art reproductions in that time. Mrs. Birrell was a the back of the manual student of Joseph A. F. on a large scale so that the group can see them Everett, water colorist. Phyllis better. was in her classes all Ive done covers three years. Later for programs for the Mrs. Birrell taught girls standard nights water color at B YU. and for various other After high school, I ward and stake events. was privileged to take I do program covers, art from Mr. Everett invitations and fliers. who was teaching at You might say Im just the Lion House. I was sort of on call. Her two children are working, coloring both oils with creative. Her photographs at the time. Unfordaughter Marion tunately he died the (Mrs. James) Smith, next spring so I wasnt lives nearby and has with him too long, but four children. Another he had a great indaughter, Connie, lives at home and fluence on me. I also was a student teaches home ec at of LeConte Stewart at Brighton high. Marion used to the University of Utah. What a nice man he play bass with the was. But he was in oils Utah Symphony, she and I preferred water said. I do a lot of art work for Connie. colors. I also took a sumMy home has many mer class from May of my own art works Kimball Johnson, a displayed and I have noted Salt Lake water water colors hanging in the homes of many colorist. Phyllis has always neighbors and friends. painted. A couple of I give them for special she exher pictures were ex- occasions, hibited at the Finch plained. Lane Art Center for Mrs. LeCheminant students of Mr. will be honored at a Everett. formal banquet next In fact, the very week along with others week I got married, selected to display one of my pictures was their talents in the well-kno- w in the tribute to women published she shared. series. paper, Lavaur LeCheminant, her husband, loves photography and takes slides of scenes he thinks she might consider for painting. He is proud of her talent and encourages her efforts. I love to sew and to cook, too. There just isnt enough time to do it all, unfortunately. BLAIRS CAMERAS CAPTURE MOST Her talent AREA SENIOR STUDENTS our studio is Wora proud that of most area students, whether seniors or underclassmen , When you moke your choice, go where most others go for a Master portrait. We furnish drapes, tuxedo's or caps and gowns, if you like, and graduation specials ore now In effect. 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