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Show p,wguitc(i nsivs By Earl Roe 676-2376 wearlroeyahoo.com Larry and Dawna Barney took Dawna's mother, Mary (Judd) Perkins to Salt Lake City to attend the funeral of Mary's sister, Julia (Judd) Laird who. 'passed away on Aug. 7 follow-,ing follow-,ing complications of pneumo-'nia. pneumo-'nia. Members of the Ronald Perkins family and the Curtis Barney family also attended the services on Aug. 12. Members of the Myron and Jylartha (Sevy) Proctor family recently held a family reunion at the request of Merle" Stowell. She offered to organize it if all "of the younger family members vould do the work, which they did.) ; i Because the Proctor name has been very prominent in Panguitch history, I am going to treat this news of this reunion a little differently than how I usually usu-ally report them. (No reflection jbn the importance of any other family reunion,) Maryon and Martha were the parents of 16 children; Ray, Martha, Merlin, Ruth, Olean Maud, Eva, Gwen, Bill, Aleta, 'John, Nell, Tom, George, Jay, Merle, and Ken. Three of these children only lived a short time; Martha one year, John two 'months, and Olean Maud seven days. Merlin gave his life for our country during WWI. With the recent passing of their brother, Tom, the four youngest are the only living members of this large family. I hope George appreciates being called one of the youngest. Myron spent a lot of his spare time prospecting, but never hit the "Mother Lode." I have enjoyed my relationship with the children of this family from Eva down to Ken and even enjoyed listening to Myron's experiences when I was much younger. Children and grandchildren grand-children of Eva, Aleta, Nell, Tom, George, Jay, and Merle were in attendance at the reunion. Ken's family was not able to be represented because of a wedding of a grandchild. I had planned on naming everyone, but time and space will not permit my doing this. My hope is that this account makes our newer and younger Panguitch residents feel a little closer to George, Jay and Merle who still live here. I couldn't find a Burma Shave to fit this article so I will close with a Fearless Farris saying; say-ing; "If you lived here you would be home now". (This is as close as I could come.) |