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Show Mendon Resident Passes 80 Mark Peter M. Larsen, native) of Mendon, who hopes to purchase a new postwar automobile and travel trav-el to Alaska via the new Canadian Canad-ian highway, celebrated his eightieth birthday anniversary Sunday at the home of a daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. O. Wilford Pedersen in Logan. Mr. Larsen is the only surviving member of the Magnus and Mary Larsen family, early pioneers pio-neers of Cache Valley. He taught school for 23 years and in 1915 was one of the first homesteaders in Arbon Valley, Idaho. The buildings he erected there at that time are still in use-Active use-Active and in good health, Mr. Larsen drives his own automobile wherever he goes. He is highly interested in higher education for young people. He married Ann Longstroth and is the father of five sons and daughters: Guy L. Miles Larsen, Arbon, Idaho; Theo Lar-sene, Lar-sene, Mendon. Mrs. May Pedersen, Peder-sen, Logan; and Mrs. Vera Gos-ney, Gos-ney, Seattle, . Wash. He has 12 grandchildren, one of whom is serving in the armed forces in France; and one great-grandchild. |