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Show Velma Huntington To Celebrate 80th Birthday HATCH An open house to celebrate the 80th birthday of Velma Huntington will be held for all her friends and relatives at her home in Hatch on Sunday, Sept. 1 from 4 until 7 p.m. She was born at Provo Bench (now Orem) Sept. 1, 1905 to David Hyrum and Myra Mayall Henrie Evans, the second oldest of 12 children, seven of whom are still living. She married Oliver Barnhurst Huntington, a native of Hatch. They had six children: Mrs. Karl (Reva) Lowder, Hatch; Mrs. Darol (Beth) Allred, Washington City; Mrs. Pat (Ileta) Dix, Panguitch; Mrs. David (May) Sawyer, Hatch; Garn 0. Huntington, Middleton; and Boyd E. Huntington, deceased. She had 24 grandchildren, 49 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren. She&bcen. an active member of the LDS.church all her life, holding many positions in Sunday school, Primary, and Relief Society over the years. ' She is columnist for Hatch Happenings for the Garfield County News, a column that she has regularly written for several years and which was earlier written by her mother and her two daughters. She serves a president of the local Hatch Camp of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, a position she had held for many years. She is also employed at the Garfield County Information Center in Hatch and regularly walks the two miles to and from work each day. Few people in Garfield County could provide more information about the area, with her . ed 5.1l, v Velma Huntington accurate memory recalling many events and places of the past. Her hobbies are making quilts, primarily baby quilts. She has been making them as gifts for family and friends for the past 62 years and estimates that she has given away more the 2,000. She and her husband celebrated 50 years of marriage not too long before he died. The open house on Sunday, Sept 1 is being hosted by her children who have requested no gifts and encourage everyone to come and share memories. |