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Show Pioneer Utahn Observes 82nd Birthday Active in L D S Church She Has Held Many Prominent Positions WOODS CROSS Commemorating Commemorat-ing her eighty-second birthday anniversary, an-niversary, Mrs. Lydia Hall Turner of Woods Cross, whose father helped colonize Utah's Dixie, will be guest of honor at a dinner on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. H. Blake, in Woods Cross. Nearly all of her sons and daughters will attend. Mrs. Turner has always resided in Utah, and she was born at Providence Prov-idence on April 6, 1862. She was married to Lorenzo Turner on February Feb-ruary 14, 1882, in the St. George L D S temple. Her husband died in June, 1943, and since that time she has resided with Mrs. Blake and with another daughter, Mrs. L. D. Hudson of Salt Lake City. Active in the L D S church, she has served as counselor, secretary and teacher in the Relief Society wherever she has lived, including Wayne, Delta, Millard and Washington Wash-ington counties. A large number of her 60 grandchildren grand-children are in the armed services, and she has 22 great-grandchildren. Nine of her 11 sons and daughters are living. They are O. L. Turner of Delta, R. L. Turner and Lorin Tumor of Tooele, Mrs. E. D. Knight and Mrs. LeGrande Law of Delta; Mrs. Parley Steele of San Diego, Cal.; Mrs. Ernest Blackburn of Great Falls, Mont.; Mrs. Blake of Woods Cross and Mrs. Hudson of Salt Lake City. |