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Show ST. GEORGE MATLOCK from grocers in the community. In the end, a total of e Continued from pg. 5 34,500 meals are given out every month. bank Manager Darcy Barr - Matlock. loves workher story, she was persuaded ing there. “It is a wonderto spend her time doing volful place. You meet a lot of unteer work at the Care and different types of people... Share. Since then, Matlock You make a lot of friends.” spends most weekdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. there, and at ' Along with friends, Matlock says her family extends to 90 years old, she has logged many of the people here. “I over 1,200 hours and counthave several boys and girls ing. I call my adopted grandchil“IfI didn't have these peodren. I have a family that has ple that I could trust and adopted me, and we're really ride on and deal with on a good friends’ regular basis... If it wasn’t In August, Care and Share for them, I wouldn't be here, personnel shut down the said Barr of her volunteers. facility and gave Matlock a Thevolunteers sort donatbirthday party, and some of ed food and assemble boxes the grocers even donated which are given to people cakes for the day. and families that need them. “Albertsons baked a cake The boxes of food will last with my name onit,’ Matlock for 15 to 20 meals, if used in said with a smile. the right way. Although there were three They give out about 600 cakes at the party, Matlock boxes a month, which will said that this one was specover about 2,000 people. At lunch, almost 150 come to cial because it had her name be fed from food donated on it. (TIME TO. LOSE THE WEIGHT!We Can Help Moiivarel Wiin Noiural & Mecleal Welgint Lossl ¢ Nutritional Program Provided @ Overcome Food Addictions @ Increase Energy e B-12, FAT BURNERS ¢ HCG, Appetite Suppressants* ¢ MD, Naturopathic Dr. & Si St to assist you Both Opt tional ahs $50 OF = ma This, Ad* ——_ = om of Z *New Patients Only ict Lose Boigis the-Holiday’s Start today for only $175/ then only $79 ‘e Call (435) 628-DIET (3438) 447 No. Bluff St., St. George her 4 NEIGHBORHOODS The Spectrum — www.thespectrum.com Woman to celebrate 100th birthday BY BOB HUDSON bhudson@thespectrum.com ST. GEORGE — Leah Jane Drake Hill, known to her hold “I that Jane chores. was just always taught was the thing to do, said matter-of-factly. Jane was born in Sunset, friends and family as Jane, near Ogden, the seventh of has plenty of memories. 13 children, but the family You would expect that of — moved to California when a woman who will celebrate she was 14. A year later she her 100th birthday on Dec. 2. met Orville Hill and married Her family will conduct a cel- him. ebration at the Morningside One of the stories Hill tells Park 16th LDS Ward church is about their courtship. at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. Orville worked in a “Tlove all her stories, even butcher shop and the owner though I've heard them many encouraged him to marry times before, said great- Jane, one of their customers. great-granddaughter Monica “This old lady said, ‘you Cazarin. “I've learned: a lot should marry that girl;” Jane about what she’s went recalled with a chuckle. through. Not many people The mayor of Los Angeles can say they have a.99-yearconducted the ceremony. old great-great-grandmoth“I was very happy with him; she said of Orville. Another great-great-granAlthough he wasn't a memdaughter, Haylee Cazarin, ber of The Church of Jesus said her relative sets a good Christ of Latter-day Saints example. when they married, he even“She helps me when tually joined. The couple was I'm doing chores, Haylee married more than 70 years Cazarin said. mi before he died in 1995. Hill's daughter, Pat Gulley, “She's a self-made person; noted that her mother still Gulley said. She pointed out does dishes and other housethat her mother was creative, © 6 — For the week of November 28, 2008 THE For PERFECT Ho .ipay PLACE DINING Da eh eta uid WY CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CUISINE Casual Fine Dining 4pm* $3-$11- 4PM DAILY rge ~Ancestor Square Se Bob Hudson / St. George Neighborhoods Leah Jane Hill, left, who will celebrate her 100th birthday on Dec. 2, poses with her granddaughter Janey Rolfson, her daughter Pat Gulley and great-great-granddaughters Haylee and Monica Cazarin. did interior design and dabbled in politics. She worked as a bookkeeper after quitting school to get married. The couple had two daughters — Patsy and Cherie. Her granddaughter Janey Rolfson noted that she loved to sew clothes for every occasion, whether it was for school, church, a dance or their weddings. In 1996, Hill sewed a pioneer dress that won an award from the Utah Statehood Centennial Committee. She. still proudly shows off the dress. “Orville and Jane loved their friends; Rolfson wrote in her grandmother's history. “They went on picnics and camped with their friends and their friends’ children. Although she was primarilyahousewife, she and Orville bought and sold properties. e See HILL on pg. 19 |