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Show Robert Orton Called To LDS Second Quorum Of Seventies PANGUITCH Elder Robert F. Orton, 64, a Panguitch native, has been called by the LDS Church to serve in the Second Quorum of the Seventy. Orton and wife, Joy Dahlberg Orton returned from service in Romania Ro-mania over a year a half ago where he had been mission president. Elder El-der Orton served as only the second president that the Romania Bucharest Bucha-rest Mission had ever experienced. During his tenure, the mission work expanded from four to 1 5 cities cit-ies and when the Romanian translation transla-tion of the Book of Mormon was introduced to the people, the first two meeting houses were under construction and the Republic of Moldova was opened for missionary work. The Ortons returned and he resumed re-sumed his legal practice and has now set that aside to devote full time once again to the work of the Lord. Elder Orton is the eldest of four children born in Reno, Nev., to H. Frank and Gwen Riggs Orton. He was reared Panguitch in what . he explained as an "idyllic boyhood on the ranch," where he learned to work hard, breaking horses and driving driv-ing cattle on the range. Orton said that it was during his boyhood that he observed firsthand the effect that a single spiritual experience ex-perience can have on a person's life. He recalled when he and his mother begged his father to attend church on Sundays and prayed that he ' would have a change of heart. When Elder Orton turned 12, his next youngest sibling was born and their father attended LDS Sacrament meeting for the blessing of that baby. Orton said that after that experience, experi-ence, he vowed to never again let another man do what he ought to do, that is performing ordinances for his children. Within a month of 1 " I.... , ; I """'. . ' - i, t L Elder Robert Orton that experience, the senior Orton became a member of the bishopric and within a couple of years, a member of the stake presidency. He is now 91 recounts Orton and has remained a faithful member. Elder Robert Orton served his initial mission for the LDS Church in France where he gained valuable leadership experience as a district and branch president. Upon returning return-ing home he forsook earlier aspirations aspira-tions to become a medical doctor for a new found interest in political science. This path took him to Washington, D.C. where he worked for the staff of U.S. Senator Wallace Wal-lace F. Bennett from Utah. It was in Washington, D. C. that he met and courted his bride-to-be, Joy Dahlberg, who was a University Uni-versity of Utah student working in . a summer internship as a commercial commer-cial artist with the National Aeronautics Aero-nautics and Space Administration. They married June 13, 1963 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Orton received re-ceived his bachelor of arts in 1961 from Brigham Young University (See ORTON on page 2-A) ORTON From Front Page and his juris doctor from the University Uni-versity of Utah in 1964. They are the parents of six children: chil-dren: Lori Anne, 37, (Mohamed Khodadad); Robert Kent, 36, (Kristina); Elizabeth, 32 (Mathew Elggren); Emily, 30, (Matthew Jacob Ja-cob Hamblin); Rebecca, 27, (Derek Anderson); Allison, 24, (Gregory Dunstan). |