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Show Hatch Happenings Revealed By Long-Time Correspondent Reva Lowder HATCH For over 20 years Mrs. Reva Lowder has been correspondent for Hatch Happenings for the Garfield County News. Seventeen years ago her mother and sisters began helping her and since then they have gotten together once a week and quilted, and called their neighbors and written the column. Those assisting Mrs. Lowder with her column are her mother, Velma Huntington, and her sisters, Mae Sawyer, Hope Dalton. Mrs. Lowder and her husband, Karl are parents of six children; five living. They are Mrs. Vay (Velta) Sawyer, Kanab; Jess, Goldhill, Ore.; Mrs. Ron (Karleta) Rlggs, Panguitch; Mrs. Larry (Mary Beth) Daily, Minersville and Loretta, Hatch. Mrs. Lowder is a great visitor, "I like to visit better than I like to eat!" she exclaimed. She and her mother also paint pictures on quilt tops, making up a story for each top. They then quilt them and present them to persons in or from Hatch for their first baby. They also give them to their relatives, friends and close family members. They also sell the quilts at ward functions and present the money earned form the quilts to missionaries leaving on their missions. Mrs. Lowder also embroideries quilts and likes to crochet and paint pictures. She is very active in the LDS church. At the present time she is magazine representative for her ward. She said she likes this job because it gives her a ....... I. ...... I. ....... I.. I. ...... chance to visit every person In town at least once during the year. She is also Releif Society visiting teacher, she teaches the CTR's In Primary and Is the lesson leader in the Hatch Chapter of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Besides handicrafts she loves to read, any type of book from western to biographies, fiction science, gotham mysteries, to the Bible and religious books. Her philosophy of life Is that a person should "Have fun In this world, I can't see any sence pulling your face down and feeling sorry for yourself." She loves a picnic, traveling and of course visiting. She is very ambitious. One time she decided she wanted a cellar to store her fruit, vegetables and bottled food in, so she built it herself. "I Just started digging and before long I had a hole deep enough to build the cellar", she stated. Her future goal is to finish high school and get a diploma. She and her husband have seven grandchildren and they and the neighborhood children Just love her. "I brainwash all my grandchildren Into thinking they like me, but you have to start early. Pretty soon they think they love me and want to do what is right because it is their idea," she said. She has kept the paper and its readers Informed with the happenings of Hatch and the owners of Garfield County News appreciate the effort her, her mother and sisters take in writing the Hatch Happenings. |