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Show Panguitch t lews . By Mamie Talbot 676-8084 The early September fall days here in the valley are beautiful. The view from the western foothills catches at the throat, with a breeze from the south and the mottled green floor of fields and pastures stretching north and east to the purple pur-ple peaks and red cliffs. All this is topped by a blue, blue sky and white fluffy clouds. A lone antlered antelope shares the view. It's not surprising that folks who spend part of the year in the warmer south can " hardly wait to get back here. Janalee Wilcock, daughter of Hal and Roma Wilcock, was married mar-ried to Dave Hahn on Aug. 1 1 at the Wilcock residence in Cedar City. Grandmother Norma Talbot and many other relatives were present. pres-ent. Recent visitors at Norma Talbot's Tal-bot's were Ellis and Louise Tait, Charley and Jolene Mohar and their children and Cynthia Shiner and two children of Vernal. Also Norma Jean and Kay B undy and Hal and Roma Wilcock dropped in for a short stay. Glen and Connie Whiting received re-ceived their call to serve an LDS mission in Little Rock, Ark. Connie Con-nie is a daughter of George and Thora Proctor. They will leave in early September. In the Panguitch LDS 1st Ward, Nathan Shaun Houston was ordained or-dained an elder by Bishop Evan Boshell, Janette L. Orton, wife of Keith Orton of Panguitch, was buried in the Panguitch Cemetery. She is survived by her husband Keith, a son, Stephen K. Orton, and a daughter, Leslie Bishop, of California. Califor-nia. Her daughter Lori is buried in Panguitch. They have four grandchildren grand-children and two greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. Leon LeFevre, son of Leon and Pearl Houston LeFevre, and brother of Ike LeFevre, died in Globe, Ariz. Ike, his son Jerry, and two sisters, Margaret Woolsey of Layton and Bonnie Lamoreaux of St. George, and some of their children went to Globe for the funeral. LaVera Henrie Tobler Hannig, sister of Ercil, Gerald, Orald and Nile,' all deceased, died in Nevada. Amy Stephenson and John and Caroline Henrie took their mother Mary Henrie to Nevada for the services. serv-ices. Joshua Hunter Holman, son of Kelly and JoAnn Holman, was blessed by his father in the Panguitch Pan-guitch LDS 4th Ward. Arthur Daly and his wife were here for Louise Henderson Adams' funeral services. They were able to visit with many old friends. Jean and Fae Ann, sisters of the late Jim Cooper and Gwen Cooper Davis Edwards, were here visiting and eniovine beine home again. Maria Gilbert and her mother purchased the former Bryce Canyon Cafe building. The Spencer Gunn family sodded sod-ded the yard west of their Panguitch home. Mike Connell and family have been here visiting with his mother, Edna Clarke. Beth Cherrington Evans was here doing work on her home. Harry J. and Rolayne Gardner of Idaho Falls, Ida. were at the home of his mother, Hilda Gardner. Lige Moore is spending the summer in Panguitch visiting family fam-ily and recuperating from an injury. Jerran Ancira has been here visiting vis-iting with his parents, Tex and Charlene and brother Konrad. Jim and Jill Mullcncaux and family have moved to Cedar City where he is working. Wayne Houston and his grandson grand-son were here. He is a son of the late Tommy Ray and Emma Houston. Hous-ton. The former Suzette Simkins and children spent time here visiting family and friends. Ann Farnsworth had her sister Lynne here as a visitor. Louise Crosby visited her mother Ida, and Barney Shannon and sister and brother-in-law Gloria and Laine Sevy. George and Geraldine Robinson of Ogden were here visiting with her mother Mary Henrie and caring for her sister Mary Ann Church, who had surgery. Mary Ann's grandchildren Angela and Andy, children of Gary, were here also, Fred, Janet, Meisha, Michelle, Tori and Logan Houston came to help son Derek gather information from Tropic Reservoir for his master's degree work at Brigham Young University and to visit. The Don and Alia Orton reunion was held at Red Point. Caroline Rose, Allison Sherrat and Janell Jensen and families visited vis-ited with their mother Opal Miller, and began organizing a Frank and Roene Syrett Houston reunion for next year. Keith and Roma Henrie came from Arizona for a family reunion. They also attended the mission report re-port of Dale and Elaine Baldwin. They were in the same area. Ted and Christine Owens of Dallas and their daughters Pamela and Amber were here for the Owens reunion as well. Lula DeLong, widow of Clark DeLong and former resident of Panguitch, Pan-guitch, celebrated her 80th birthday at the Senior Citizens Center in Moab. Lu and Clark operated Pan-guitch's Pan-guitch's first dairy. Jerry and Deanna LeFevre prepared pre-pared a birthday dinner and invited his sisters, LaRayne Lindsay and RayLynne Johnson and their families, fami-lies, to help celebrate his father Ike's 84th birthday. All the family except three grandchildren surprised him with the cookout. Maxine Crosby went with her daughter, Jaynell and husband Phillip Phil-lip Bailey, to attend the wedding of a grandson Tyler, son of Norman and Sherril Crosby in the St. George LDS Temple. Erin Houston and his fiancee Robyn were here to get acquainted with all his family. An October wedding is being planned. Delia Mae Miller, widow of the late John Miller, her sons and their wives, Clair and Marilyn and Steven Ste-ven and Alisha, and her daughter Karen and family were here staying at the White Bridge Campground for a few days. Frank and Cecile Orton have been here most of the summer. Their son Ron came to help his father with some projects. Blaine Tebbs is teaching a class for anyone interested in gathering genealogy. The LDS Family History His-tory Center invites more people to make use of its extensive resources. Betty LeFevre attended the LeFevre Le-Fevre reunion and spent time with her sister Grace and Rex Sandberg. Bruce and Jolene Hatch have been in their Panguitch home for part of the summer. J. Ned Richards, his son Frank Richards and Kay Richards were home. The Senior Citizens bus took a group to the Vernal LDS Temple, Dinosaur Museum and Quarry and the Castle Dale Pageant. Kathleen Church, a dean at the university in Tempe, Ariz., spent several days at home visiting with family and friends. Max and Loa Sevy went to San -Diego to be present at the baptism of their son-in-law. The lawns and gardens in town have suffered from lack of irrigation water iliis pat week. A pipe in the irrigation system ruptured. The garden produce is being harvested now. In the Panguitch LDS 1st Ward, conference was held. The ward campout was held at Red Point also. Bob and Juanita Smith spent several days in Ogden visiting with their four children and families. They also visited with Bob's sister LaRue Jensen in Payson. She is in a care center there. In the Panguitch LDS 3rd Ward the youth speaker was Brittany Frandsen. Adult speakers were Cindy Stewart, Debbie Pollock, Sherrie Burningham and Sandy Packer. The ward choir sang a special spe-cial number. A combined LDS Young Men and Young Womens activity was held at Red Canyon. Folks were delighted with Art Cooper's lovely home and furniture. furni-ture. Art's son has been here from Texas and helped him plant trees. Speakers in the Panguitch LDS 2nd Ward were Val Church, who spoke about tolerance and civility and Calvin Poll, who discussed strengthening the youth and whose job it is to do so. Kristin Huber played a beautiful rendition of "Sweet Hour of Prayer" on the piano. pi-ano. Panguitch native Marva Smith Hanson, age 95, died last week in Santaquin. She was the daughter of early Norton folks, Asa and Evalina Norton Smith. Steve Talbot of Escondido, Calif., and his son Eric and daughter daugh-ter Amanda Talbot, stayed overnight over-night with Mamie Talbot. They were on their way to Brigham Young University in Provo where (See PANGUITCH on page 5-A) PANGUITCH From Page 3-A the young people will settle in for school. Their brother Justin flew up later. Steve then stopped at ' mom's on his way back to Califor- nia. Panguitch makes a good "way station" for loved ones. The Keith Tacys have moved out of their home this week so that the new owners can move in. Nancy Houston is the new librarian li-brarian at the elementary school. The youth speakers in the Panguitch Pan-guitch LDS 4th Ward were Landon Fullmer and Shaun Marshall. Stake speakers were Kirt Robinson and Kay Hatch. Lynn Alien, who has served under four bishops, was released. Curtis Barney was called as the ward clerk. Members of the American Legion Le-gion and Auxiliary held their annual cookout at the Tebbs Ranch. Fifty to 60 people enjoyed mutton, chicken and com-on-the-cob. Guests were George and Wanda North, who are the District 7 leaders. lead-ers. Special guests were Dr. Don Lappe and associates and a big mountain goat which Bill Kay spotted on the hill to the North (just above the creek). Bill had a good pair of binoculars and everyone every-one got to view it using these although al-though it was easy to identify it with the unaided eye. Several people peo-ple called Norm McKee and he said it probably moved in from the Beaver Bea-ver Mountain area. He scanned the area the next say but did not see it. If anyone does see it again, Norm would like to be notified as soon as possible. Frank Henrie has a broken leg from a fall. Bob McCullough got some broken ribs when he was on a trail ride. DUP members from Camps Cornelia and Loyhova want to thank Gary Owens and the people who helped him move the coal out of the DUP Museum basement. It has been a concern for some time. The next big project is to find someone to remove the old furnace from the basement. The Troy Norrises had friends and relatives from near and far here for the blessing of little Taylia Nor-ris. Nor-ris. She was blessed by her father with the help of many priesthood holders, including her grandfather Norris. Mom Ann Marie's parents are serving an LDS mission so were not here for the joyful occasion. occa-sion. Luke Tebbs, son of Bishop Mike and Margaret Tebbs was ordained or-dained a priest. Margaret's parents, Ken and Mary Jones of Salt Lake City, were here. All the family members attended the funeral for 3-week-old Cherish Hope Syrett, daughter of Bryce and Cherish Tebbs Syrett, in Tropic. Our hearts go out to the family. Marvin and Maurine Worthen Scowgard have bought the Lamar and Clara Worthen home next to Art and Beverly Crosby and have been here this summer. Maurine says it's great to be home again. Ray and Julie Ross Richards and three little boys have moved to Salt Lake City, where Ray works. Daughters of Utah Pioneers ' camps Loyhova and Cornelia met together on Sept. 4 at the city library li-brary for their first meeting of the year. They will have all their meetings meet-ings together this year and will meet from October on through May at the Senior Citizens Center on the first Tuesday of each month at 4 p.m. New members and visitors are welcome. Captain Grace Sand-berg Sand-berg of Loyhova Camp gave a fine history of the early county and people peo-ple stretching from Antimony to Bryce Valley. That area is now called Johns Valley and includes the former town of Widtsoe. Johns Valley gets its name because of the many men named John who settled there, owned land and were very active in the area. Marie Liston gave the lesson "History of Iron County." Hostesses were the Loyhova Loy-hova Camp officers. Verda Oldham, Loyhova Camp secretary, is in Salt Lake City to be with her sister, Cecil Dawn Porter, whose husband Que Porter is in the hospital. The Porters will be glad to get back home to Escalante. Raymond Roundy has had major surgery in a Salt Lake City hospital. hospi-tal. We wish him a full recovery. Cory and Cami Talbot and two little boys, Zachary and Noah, formerly for-merly of Provo, stayed overnight with Grandma Mamie Talbot on their way to Phoenix where they will live now. Cory will join a law firm in Phoenix. He is the son of Lyle and Kathy Talbot of Sandy. Maxine Crosby had family at their Panguitch Lake cabin last week. The Earl and Beulah Allen family fam-ily reunion was held in August. Over 100 Aliens ate their dinner here in town then went to Kon's Ranch for activities. Panguitch LDS Stake Conference Confer-ence will be held on Sept. 16 at 10 a.m. in the Panguitch Stake Center. And From Earl Roe 676-2376 Jay and Dudley Proctor had family fam-ily members visiting recently. Arlyn Proctor and his wife, Ann along with their daughter, Christine and her three children came from Syracuse and Centerville to visit with family and friends and to attend at-tend the wedding of Kenneth Tebbs. Kenneth Jones stayed with Mike and Margaret for several days. Dudley Dud-ley also sent some interesting information in-formation on Jay's family, (Myron Proctor family). The six living members are now 80 years of age or older. Kenneth is the youngest (80 this month) then in order of age: Merle, Jay, George, Thomas (Tom, living with his daughter, Shana Rae, in Caliente, Nev.), and Aleta Furlong (95) in Logan. Received a nice letter and another an-other book of the entire Burma Shave story from Louise Goulding Crosby and learned that she also sent me the one I lost. She slightly chastised her sister, Gloria Sevy for not reporting the Owen and Rebecca Orton reunion held at our Senior Citizen Center on July 21st. There were around 70 people jn attendance and a special part of the program was honoring their mother Ida (Goulding ) Shannon. Ida's "baby brother" (Louise's words), Morris Orton, was also honored. Both Ida and Morris are in their 90' s and the only survivors of a family of seven children. Everyone enjoyed the reunion and agreed that they were fun. Nin and Lois Miller called to give me the low down on the George William and Anna Harmon Cherrington reunion which was held last weekend at the Jess Cherrington Cher-rington family home (second house east of the Blue Pine Motel) which is now owned by Beth (Cherrington) (Cher-rington) Evans. George and Anna had seven children, Phil, Alf, Jess, Louella, Alice, Ken and Myra. I remember all of these except Louella and Alice, but the families I knew best were those of Alf, Jess, and Myra because they had children of or near my age. Although only 23 family members were able to attend, most of the seven families were represented by children, grandchildren, grand-children, great grandchildren or great, great grandchildren. Those attending were George (Alfs son) and Kay (Riggs) Cherrington, Nin and Lois (Sedgewick) Miller (Alice's daughter), Beth (Cherrington) (Cherring-ton) Evans (Jess's daughter), Riley Miller and Lucille (Miller) Bridges (Myra's son and daughter), Lynn and Janette Sedgewick (Alice's son). Those comprising the grandchildren grand-children and their children were Ned Evans and his family, Brent and Cherry Owens and their grandchildren grandchil-dren and Randy Cram and his family. fam-ily. (I hope I haven't missed anyone!). any-one!). On a historical note, Alf and Jess built the original Beaver Dam Lodge in Ipson Canyon shortly before the war .(1937-1938?). Alf also built the home that Wallace and Billie Miller purchased. On their way to Cedar City to pick up their new foreign exchange student from Brazil, Joe and Margaret Marga-ret Decker were able to attend the Joseph Victor and Vera Decker family fam-ily reunion which was held in Parowan. Joseph and Vera are Joe's grandparents. There were over 75 family members present and as at most family reunions, everyone had an enjoyable time. Joe and Margaret Marga-ret now have two exchange students living with them for this school year. Debra McKee's mother, Emo-gerie Emo-gerie O'Donal, says she enjoys reading read-ing the Panguitch News and liked to see the Burma Shave rhymes again. She read the column where I mentioned "Dog Days" and sent me this article clipped out of an Arkansas Arkan-sas newspaper entitled "Dog Days" by Benson Fox. Harold and Winona Sevy held a family barbecue at their home last Saturday evening so thaj members of their family could meet a young lady from Recife, Brazil who spent a couple of days with them. Ben Sevy, Ken Sevy's son and Harold's grandson, is serving a mission in Recife and met Kika and her family. When he learned she was coming to Utah to attend Brigham Young University, Ben told her to be sure and visit his grandparents in Panguitch Pan-guitch if she could. There were 30 family members present from as far away as St. George and Albuquerque. Albuquer-que. This seems appropriate for this week's ending: " proposed to Ida, Ida refused. Ida won my Ida, If Ida used" Burma Shave "No lady likes, to dance or dine, accompanied by, a porcupine. porcu-pine. " Burma Shave |