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Show i Rosa B. Thorne to celebrate her eightieth birthday at home Saturday LDS Church as a teacher, secretary, president of the Relief Society, stake Relief Society Board Member, a member of Relief Society since her first marriage, stake Bee Hive Leader and a visiting teacher most of her married life. She has also been an ardent Genealogy and Research worker, having helped publish a Johnson Family History Book 1600 to 1970, and compiled a history of Relief Society of the first Lindon Second Ward in 1915 to 1969 when it was then Orem 34th Ward. She has made several large Books of Remembrance for all branches of her family and the Thorne Family. She is presently engaged in keeping a Living Genealogy of the John Kelly Baxter family and the charles G. Johnson family with assistance from other family members. Mrs. Thorne has spent thousands of hours doing research work and hired expert genealogists in Scotland, Scot-land, England and Sweden and Ireland. Her hobbies are sewing, crocheting, quilting, paintin, writing and research. ROSA BAXTER THORNE Until accident and illness of both Elvin and Rosa, they were historians of the Pleasant Grove Utah Stake for the Artifacts and Historical Society of the church, visiting home teachers at the Alpine Valley Care Center and very active in the Senior Citizens where they were members of the County Food Board and donated many hours of labor and also finance to the organization. Mrs. Thorne has been active in all organizations of the The 80th Birthday of Rosa B. Thorne will be celebrated by her children, child-ren, Lowell J. Baxter and wife Barbara of I Pleasant Grove and Acel and (Elizabeth) Baxter Nielson of Roy, - Utah on Saturday, - October 9th. Rosa was born at Pleasant Grove (now part of Orem, Utah) on Sept. 24th 1902, a daughter of Charles G. and Edith Ash Johnson. She attended ' school at Lindon Elementary and PI. Grove High School and had one year training at the Aird Hospital in . Provo, Utah. She married John C. Baxter in the Salt Lake LDS I Temple on May 31th, 1922. The family lived at Lindon on a dairy farm until 1931 where they were active in the Lindon Ward and then moved to Junction, Piute Co. seat, where Rosa operated a small (Cafe '-89") and John was a salesman for the W.T. Rawleigh Co. for ten years, rosa was also a Relief Operator for the Bell Telephone Co., and because Junction was the first town in Utah to go on the dial system they installed a pay phone booth in the cafe and Rosa had charge of bill collections collec-tions and calls for surrounding towns of Piute County. In 1941 they moved back to Orem and the Children finished school at Pleasant Grove High School. They built a home where the Green Acres Nursery is located now, ' where they operated a small dairy and chicken farm, and Mr. Baxter was employed at Geneva Steel Co. for 25 years. After Mr. Baxter's death in May 1969, Rosa sold the home and bought a mobile home and lived at Mona-Lea Mobile Manor where she was active in the Orem 36th Ward and then she renewed acquaintance with and married Elvin R. Thorne of Pleasant Grove. They reside at 306 South 100 EAst, Pleasant Grove . They were married in the Provo LDS Temple, Nov. 16, 1974. |