| Show The pictures above and below are of the Wan property at North Main before his private up clean-up campaign got underway r 1 Q This picture Is taken or of the property after the work was wac completed READERS RITE Your paper has been a welcomed welcomed welcomed wel wel- visitor weekly at our home since leaving Manti ManU and we have thought about expressing expressing expressing express express- ing our appreciation to you and your readers for what you have done for us Now In your May Issue you invite time one-time residents of Manti Mantl to tell where they are and what they are do do- do ing This stopped our tion We hope thae following will be interesting We lived in Mardi ManU from 1940 to 1960 The whole period was spent in the North Ward We had no blood relatives but have havea a host of dear friends We first rented a home from Frank Alder which is now Owned by Tom Maylett The Lloyd Tuttle family and the Louis Christensen Christen- Christen sen family were our next door neighbors and better neighbors are not to be found After a afew afew afew few years we purchased the Al Alder Alder Alder Al- Al der home now owned by Glen Goodwin Our children are planning a golden wedding for us on June Of these 50 years we h have ve 11 lived ved in Manti Mantl longer than in any other city Of our six children children children chil chil- dren four were graduates of the Manti Mantl High School and one from Snow College Three were sent on missions from the Manti Man Man- ti North Ward Russell served I in the Eastern States Mission John in the British Mission and Paul in the East German Mission Most of our children completed work for their bachelor bachelor bachelor bach bach- elor degrees while we were at Manti ManU Bens Ben's work was with the Farmers Home Administration and took him to every community community com com- in the county from Axtell Axtell Ax- Ax Axtell tell to Fountain Green to In- In He knows more people by their first names and where they live in Sanpete Count County y than in any other place Louise Louis worked during the war at the th e parachute factory She also conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted a ladies ladles chorus of which h she still sUll holds fond memories Jean taught one year during the war at the Manti Mantl High School John worked part time at th the e Texaco Service Station operated operated oper oper- operated by Armon Whiting Paul delivered papers for several years and before finishing high school had served in every quarter charter ter o of the city We all love Manti ManU and her wonderful pe people Whenever a an l opportunity comes we return for short visits You have an ideal c community for children to grow up Ours acquired an incentive for scholarship from your schools and your citizens and the inspiration to be spiritually minded from your church pro pro- grams We thank the officers and teachers for this tion They are all active in church programs and are doing well in their chosen As you are aware one of Mantis Manti's bad features is its limited limited limited lim lim- payroll and only a few of the most fortunate and persistent persistent persis persis- tent are permitted to live there e It was only chance that gave gay e us this good fortune Since leaving Manti Mantl to b be e with our children we have spent two years as stake missionaries missionaries missionaries mission mission- aries and have been ordinance workers at the Oakland Temple since it opened In January of 1965 Ben sold real estate from 1961 to 1965 There are 30 of us now living living living liv liv- ing in the area of the San Francisco Bay The parents and David and his family aren are in i n the Berkeley area Russell John and Paul and their families families families fam fam- are in the San Jose area about 50 miles mUes south of us Our son Harold lives In Boise Idaho and Jean our daughter lives in San Diego Your paper often reports who have gone away and been successful If It they could all live in the same community community com com- It would be a good one It may be interesting to list lista a few successful In Inthis Inthis inthis this area that we at the moment moment moment mo mo- ment recall Maybe there are more liar Harmons mons here than in Manti Among them are Maybelle Maybelle Maybelle May- May belle Harmon Anderson her daughter Doris and her family Norma Armstrong Grotepas and her daughter Kenna Ray Ford and family Others not Harmons are Lenore Dyreng Hall and her daughter Barbara Langlois Alvin Carpenter Von Madsen Lloyd Parry Charles Rasmus- Rasmus sen Don Reid Maynard Christensen Chris Chris- Unice Christensen Cadwallader Cad Cad- Reid and Wilbur Cox is president of the Northern California Mission and lives in the Mission Home on the hill opposite the Oakland Temple Ben and Louise Hulme Ashbury A Avenue venue El EI Cerrito Calif |
