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Show Panguitch Hews By Mamie Talbot 676-8084 The red-winged blackbirds are back in the valley,-although there doesn't seem to be as many as in the past. Art and Beverly Crosby and son Bill and wife Maridon went to Eager, Ariz., to see daughter Kathy and husband Ed Ping. Kathy has been very ill. The travelers are back home now and the Roe sisters, Beverly, Ardith, Winona, and Thais, are packing for a trip to Nauvoo, 111. They will leave here on July 26 and will be gone 10 days. They will return by way of Branson, Mo., to see activities there. Speakers in the LDS 2nd Ward were Larry Mrkvicka and Lon Dalton. The choir sounded beautiful. Lynette Sawyer was called to teach in the Sunday School. Austin Orton was sustained to be ordained to the office of Teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood. Rory Hatch, Steven Moore, and Mark Tebbs received the Duty to God award. All three young men have completed requirements to receive their Eagle Scout awards. In the LDS 3rd Ward, Charlene Dalton and Tim Westwood were the speakers. Youth speakers were Rawley .Burningham and Bracken Englestead. Sherrill Henrie and Pam Robison gave a musical number. Adam Soper's missionary farewell will' be held on July 22. Greg Excell has sold his hay lot north of the River Bridge to the Greg Parkers.. They are working on the property and it is starting to look very interesting. They are the parents of Heather Hatch, wife of Ryan Hatch. The former Gretchen Goulding and her two children have moved here from Dixie. They will be living with her folks, the Ralph Gouldings. Her mother, Beverly,. is very ill. The Forest Service's new bike and ATV trail through Red Canyon is coming along fine. It is interesting to see where the trail goes. It will be great that motorists going through the canyon around sharp curves won't have to worry about running into bike and ATV traffic. Thanks to Ranger Carl Guillette for spearheading the improvement. And From Earl Roe: 676-2376 The unusual humidity we have experienced for the past few weeks mad me start to wonder if Panguitch was undergoing a climatic change; however, the slight frost we had last week tells me that' things are normal. Just the edges of a few of my bean and squash leaves got nipped, but I have been told that a little more damage was done to some gardens in town. Light frosts have always been spotty hitting quite hard in some parts of town and completely missing other locations. With the 24th of July just around the comer we know that Class Reunion time is approaching. I have heard that several classes will be gathering here this year and will try to get some particulars after they have taken place. (I'll do this so that those who did not attend will regret missing all the fun of reunions and will make a concerted effort to attend the next one.) I am putting in this plug for a class reunion for the class of 1940 which will take place next year. I want to call this the 80th Birthday Reunion because as far as I know all of the members of our class who are still living will turn 80 next year. (Frank Orton on Jan. 1 and me on Dec. 28) Harold Sevy just visited me to inform me of an error I made in writing about the Proctor reunion. I had written it as the Myron H. and Martha (Henry) family reunion and it should have been the Myron H, and Martha (Sevy ) reunion. Martha was the sister of Thomas (Uncle Tom) Sevy who built and lived in the home Mac Oetting now owns. Tom had a heart condition that required a stimulant and in those days the common prescription was one or two cups of strong coffee. During the war years coffee was one of the items rationed and was quite hard to get in excess of what your ration book allowed. My dad used to take Tom our ration stamps and Tom would repay him with a piece of mutton. Tom and his sons had one of the larger herds of sheep in Panguitch. Janell (Crosby) Bailey came to take her mother, Maxine Crosby, to St. George to attend the wedding of her grandson, Tyler Crosby (Norman's (Nor-man's son). They also traveled to Salt Lake City where was able to visit with more of her children and grandchildren. Evalyn and I both survived our John Wilford Roe family reunion which was held at the SW mountain lodge in Cedar Canyon. All of my children (Russell, Doug, Barbara, Beverly, Deanna), grandchildren grand-children (26), and great-grandchildren (5) were able to attend, traveling from Papillon, Neb.; Yosemite Nat'l. Park, Calif; Panaca, Nev.; Cedar City and Panguitch. All of my brothers and sisters (Winona Sevy, Beverly Crosby, Thais Griffin, Ardeth Davis, and Ken Roe) were able to (See PANGUITCH on page 6-A) PANGUITCH From Page 5-A be there along with most of their children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. I don't think we ever .got an accurate count but it was somewhere in the vicinity of 180. I did not realize there were so many until Brent Louis (Barbara's husband) hus-band) started to feed them a breakfast of hot cakes, bacon and eggs. (Thank goodness for the two large gas grills.) It had been so long since I had seen some of my relatives that I did not know who they were or to whom they belonged. I didn't recognize Robert Crosby until I had him take his dark glasses off. We had a couple of interesting incidents while there. Friday afternoon a young man walked in and started to lay stuff on the counter. As he looked around he must not had recognized anyone because he started to question some of the women and learned that he was at the wrong reunion. His was at Woods Ranch. The next morning an older gentleman came in and wanted to know where he was to go to be served breakfast. We learned that he and his wife were from Germany and someone had told them there was a restaurant along the road and when he saw all the cars and people moving around, he thought he had found it. We should have had him bring his wife in and served them breakfast but we were not quite ready with things and when we finally made him understand what was taking place, he apologized and left. We were informed that incidents like these might happen as the lodge is so close to the road and that sometimes travelers stopped by just to use the bathroom. This lodge is certainly a nice place for large group events and is very popular so you have to book it about a year in advance. Beverly was just lucky enough to find two empty days that suited our needs. Since no one has sent me their favorite Burma Shave rhyme, I'll have to use one from the list Lynn Sager sent me. Since we drive the Bear Valley road so often, Evalyn chose this one as advice to me (and others): Passing cars When you can 't see; May get you a glimpse -Of eternity. Burma Shave. |