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Show Page 6 The Ogden Valley news Volume XXII Issue XXIV February 15, 2015 Announcements Wedding Obituaries Wyatt Creager and Heather Bingham Mr. and Mrs. Boyd M. Bingham of Honeyville would like to announce the marriage of their daughter Heather Alyce Bingham to Wyatt Les Creager, son of Mr. And Mrs. Verl N. Creager of Eden. The wedding ceremony was performed Thursday, January 15, 2015 in the Brigham City LDS Temple. A dinner celebration was held at the Grand View Reception Center in Ogden. The bride is a graduate of Utah State University with a degree in Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education. The bridegroom served in the Brazil Campinas LDS Mission. Louise Sellers He is the General Manager of Holmes Clothing. The couple will reside in Eden. Louise E. Sellers Pictured left are Wyatt and Heather Creager September 21, 1917 ~ January 29, 2015 Wedding Anniversary & Birthday Opal and Harold Probasco Harold and Opal Probasco The children of Harold E. and Opal Probasco would like to announce their parents’ 68th wedding anniversary on February 6, 2015; and Harold’s 90th birthday on February 25, 2015. Mom and Dad quietly celebrated their anniversary at home. In deference to the weather, Dad intends to celebrate his birthday later this year when the snow melts, probably in conjunction with an engine show. Dad was born to Walter and Etta Probasco, February 25, 1925, in Unionville, MO and graduated from Putman County High School in 1943. He served in the United States Navy as a Radioman during WWII. He landed on Okinawa in April of 1945. After the war, he and Opal May (Davis) married, on February 6, 1947, in Lawrence, Kansas and moved to Utah in 1956. They have lived in the same home in Huntsville for over 58 years. Dad retired from the Union Pacific Railroad in 1988 after working as a Switchman/Brakeman for 30 years. He also is a trained mechanic and owned and operated several service stations over the years. He still uses his skills in his professional and private pursuits, especially his passion for the restoration of antique machinery. He is a founding member of the Utah Antique Machinery Association, Great Basin C.A.S.T., and several antique machinery clubs. Their home is a beautiful historical farm, complete with schoolhouse, filling station, log cabin, and displays of rural farm life. He hosts an annual sale and swap meet in Huntsville that draws crowds from all over the country. He is always ready with advice or “supervision” on any project, and is a widely sought after authority on many subjects, including tractors, engines, vintage automobiles, guns, Old Crow, and short stories. We, his children, Dennis and Kathy Probasco, of Harrisville, UT; Gary and Julie Probasco of Huntsville, UT; Cathy Probasco of Marion, Iowa; Dwight and Roxanne Probasco of South Weber, UT; Judi and Terry Ellis of Ogden, UT; Wanda and John Hammersmark of New Salem, ND; and Kirk and LaQuitta Probasco of Ogden, UT are frequently recipients of his vast wisdom and knowledge. He also is always willing to advise his many grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, and great-great grandchildren. Louise E. Sellers, 97, passed away Thursday morning, January 29, 2015. She was born September 21, 1917 in Salt Lake City to Trygve Eugene and Hilma Andersson Torgersen. She spent six years in Salt Lake City before the family moved to Sacramento, California. She graduated from Sacramento High School and Jr. College. Louise served an LDS Mission to Oslo, Norway. She married Doyle Davis Sellers on September 11, 1945 in the Salt Lake LDS Margaret Williams Gooch November 22, 1919 ~ January 27, 2015 Margaret Williams Gooch, our loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend, passed away January 27, 2015 of complications incident to age. She was born Margaret Gooch November 22, 1919 in her family home east of Blackfoot, Idaho, the last of nine children, to parents Peter Joan Williams Sr. and Elosia Call Williams. Margaret attended elementary school in Wapello, Idaho. It was a four-room school with two grades assigned to each room. She graduated from high school in Blackfoot, Idaho. Each of the Williams children were encouraged to get an education or other training after high school. Margaret chose (or was chosen for her) to attend Ricks College for two years, Temple. Doyle passed away January 24, 2012 Louise enjoyed reading, sewing, gardening, extraction/genealogy, and journal writing, but especially spending time with the family. Our mother was a very kind person who accepted all. She was very intelligent, had a good sense of humor, and never criticized others. She was always positive. Louise is survived by her children, James “Jim” R. (Shirley) Sellers, Wilton, CA; Kent A. (Ruth) Sellers, Taylorsville, UT; Anne (Nate) Pierce, Ogden, UT; Elaine (Gary) Fuller, Eden, UT; and Ruth (Del) Clawson, Layton, UT; and 25 grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Doyle; son Lee E. Sellers; parents; and two sisters, Esther Hill and Thelma Pulsipher. Graveside services were held Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at the Ben Lomond Cemetery, North Ogden. The family extends special thanks to Apple Village for their loving care of mom. Also, a special thank you to Queenie, her homecare nurse who provided excellent and tender care for our mother. Condolences may be sent to the family at <www.lindquistmortuary.com> earning her degree in elementary education. She taught first and second grade in Menan, Idaho and the first grade in Bancroft, Idaho. It was in Bancroft that she met and married Rupert Gooch. She dreamed of a farmer for a husband, a home with a white picket fence, and a garden. She married a farmer, painted the fence white herself, and dug the ground with a shovel for her garden. They lived in Hatch for a time until Rupert sold the ranch and moved Margaret and their three boys to Pleasant View, Utah. Margaret subsequently substitute taught at North Ogden Elementary, Ben Lomond Elementary in Pleasant View, and Plain City Elementary. She loved teaching the school children. She also loved being a mother to five boys, but longed for a daughter—a wish that was fulfilled with her daughters-in-law. She loved to work outside, tending her garden, and mowing her lawn until age 92. While mowing her front lawn, it irritated her when well-meaning strangers stopped to help because she was too old to be doing that. “I wish they would mind their own business,” but was too kind to say it out loud. Margaret was a member of the LDS Church and was most recently a Relief Society visiting teacher supervisor. She was loved and well served by her friends and neighbors in North Ogden. They have been especially kind to her by keeping in close contact, providing aid when she had emergencies at her home, and in the winter by cleaning the snow off of her driveway. Margaret is survived by her brother Peter Williams Jr. of Boise, Idaho and five sons, John (Vee) Gooch, North Ogden; Richard (Janeen) Gooch, West Haven; Kim (Kathleen) Gooch, Kaysville; George (Tamara) Gooch, Plain City; and Gary (Tana) Gooch, Hooper. She is also survived by 22 grandchildren and 48 greatgrandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Rupert; granddaughter Amy; her parents and siblings, Leona Archibald, Jane Marlow, Vilda Stone, Vesa Babcock, Alta Beran, Lamar Williams, Janet Fowler, Ada Marie Mabey, and Patricia Pedersen. “I didn’t mean to get this old; it just snuck up on me.” The family expresses their appreciation to A Step Forward and Quail Meadow for their tender loving care given to mother these last few months. Thank you. Services were held Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at the North Ogden 13th Ward, 900 E. 2850 N., N. Ogden, Utah. Interment, Ben Lomond Cemetery in N. Ogden. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you contribute to one of the Alzheimer’s organizations with the hope that it makes a difference in someone’s life. Arrangements entrusted to Myers Ogden Mortuary. Condolences may be sent to the family at <www.myers-mortuary.com> |