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Show GET RAGGEDY ANN DOLLS. Forrest Hunter, Iron County Chairman of the Utah Society for Crippled Children and Adults, presents these three young ladies with the popular "Raggedy Ann" dolls as representatives of children all over the state in the program. At left is Lori Sue Pratt, center is Jeanette Bray and right is Marilyn Thorley. Over 2500 of the Rag-! gedy Ann Dolls have been presented through the society this year in memory of the doll's creater, cartoonist John B. Gruelle. nin i v if "Raggedy Ann" Dolls Given To Cedar Misses Through a program sponsored by the Utah Society for Crippled Children and Adults, three children child-ren in Cedar City were the recipients reci-pients of Raigedy Ann Dolls recently. re-cently. The three were Lori Sue, daughter of Mrs. Lorene Pratt; Marilyn Thorley, daughter of Mrs. Phillip Thorley, and Jeanette Bray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred L. Bray. They were among the more than 2,500 children who were remembered re-membered by Mrs. Myrtle Gruel-lo, Gruel-lo, widow of Raggedy Ann's creator, the late famed cartoonist and writer, John B. Gruelle. Original plans for a lavish party par-ty in honor of Gruelle were vetoed veto-ed by the family in favor of a series of parties for children which would capture the spirit of Raggedy Ann's "parents". It was for his daughter Mercella that Gruelle created the doll. Mrs. E. W fouthwick of Cedar City serves the Utah Society in the capacity of a director and the work in Iron County is under the direction of county chairman Forrest Hunter. The Raggedy Ann Dolls were presented tot he teyrunegChoM presented to the three young misses by Mr. Hunter, symbolically symbolic-ally with hundreds of others that those less fortunate might be remembered re-membered during this holiday season. |