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Show Flora LeFevre To Note 80th Date TROPIC Anyone who wants to know what took place on any given day during the past 50 years always asks Flora LeFevre, who will celebrate her 80th birthday with an open house on Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. at her home in Tropic. Mrs. LeFevre can remember the first Model T Ford which came into Tropic, and when; the day in 1937 that she received her first washing machine, a gasoline modern wonder; and how hard it rained on Aug. 7, 1937. Her carefully kept 50 year diary, is centered primarly around her nine children, 40 grandchildren and 42 great grandchildren and helps her remember the significant and insignificant events in her life during the time when her children were tiny to the present day when visits of her great - grandchildren brighten her home. Many of those loved ones will gather for a family birthday celebration at the Cannonville Ward chapel Saturday, with each son and daughter and their families assigned a special part in the program. She was born in Tropic March 12, 1904 to John H. and Mary Estella Ashlstrom Johnson. Her father built the house in which she was born and in which she has resided since her children were small. It was only a log house back then and her present home was built around it, expanding as the need arose. Mrs. LeFevre had three sisters and one brother, along with two foster brothers, who had lost their parents in the great flu epidemic in 1918. Her father was a sheepherder and LDS bishop in Tropic for some 20 years. Her mother had kept a diary all her life, and when Mrs. LeFevre's children were small, gave her a five-year dairy which has grown to 50 years, and often poignant history of life as it used to be in this tiny 'southern Utah town. She was married to Leslie LeFevre, May 30, 1923. He died in 1971. She continued to keep her dairy as it reflects a different and sometimes lonely time of her life. Brigham Young University is seeking the volume for its extensive archives, since their pages contain so much of church history of Tropic over the past 50 years. Equally important to her as her diaries and second only to the Mr Flora LeFevre memories of the growing up days of he r children are the memories of her 50 years as ward organist in Tropic. She is the mother of nine children, eight living: Ellis, Vernal; LaMar, Las Vegas; John Lyle, Page, Ariz.; Mrs. Roy (Vonnie) Willis, Cannonville; Dale, Ellensburg, Wash.; Mrs. Harry (Velma) Landberg, Ogden; Reed, Tropic; Russell, Malad, Ida. |