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Show Cadmus Club members relate own histories Cadmus Club members met at the home of Lucille Jense for their February meeting. Vice president Genevieve Fotheringham conducted the meeting and June Monson offered the prayer. Program chairman Maxine Smith gave the thought for the month: "To go about your work with pleasure, to greet others with a word of encouragement, to be happy in the present and confident in the future, this is to have achieved some measure of success in living. --Edwin Osgood Grover." She introduced Cadmus members Catherine Rees and Glenna Oveson. They presented their personal history in keeping with the club theme this year. Catherine is proud of her pioneer heritage. She told of her immigrant great grandparents, Ernest B. and Maneva Anderson. Her grandmother grand-mother died as they were coming to join the Saints on the trek west. She was buried in the Mississippi River. Her grandmother Blackham brought her three children from England and came to Utah with the Martin Handcart Company. Catherine was the daughter of Ernest and Vernorma Anderson and her childhood home was in Moroni. Her father was an electrical engineer and helped install electrical elec-trical systems in Southern Utah. He was very talented and made grandfather clocks. She showed one of the violins he had made and it was beautiful. Her mother was a great homemaker who could cook and sew. She had a beautiful contralto voice and sang a lot. Catherine had two sisters and one brother. They lived in a large house with a big yard and her parents believed in keeping the children busy. Music was always an important im-portant part of her life. She took piano and violin lessons. Her first violin was one that her great grandfather Anderson brought across the plains. She showed that violin, also. Catherine talked about her childhood. She has no regrets growing up in a small town, as you could grow and develop yourself and participate. After high school she attended Snow College. She met Leslie Rees when he came to , Moroni to teach school and he needed an accompanist for a school program he was presenting. They were married in the Manti LDS Temple. They have lived in Spring City, Spanish Fork and in Pleasant Grove for the last 30 years. Leslie taught music at the high school. Both have been active in the community and church. They are the parents of four daughters: Carol Gaye, Deanna, Rosalind and Marianne. The girls sang the song, "Grandmother's Apron," accompanied ac-companied by Catherine. Each had on a pretty blue grandma's apron. Glenna was born in a small town in Emery County. She was the daughter of George Taylor and Francis Woodward. She told of her Grandmother Woodward, an alert and independent grandmother, who lived to be 92. She, too, had a pioneer heritage. Her grandfather, followed by her father, owned and operated a power plant that generated electricity for most of Emery County. She had a good life growing up with her three sisters and one brother. Her parents believed you received a day's pay for a day's work. Her mother loved friends and neighbors. She has always been proud that her parents showed togetherness. In eighth grade she went to Castle Dale High School. It was here that she met Marion Oveson. They had fun and enjoyed school together. After high school they both took business courses. They were married in the Manti Temple when Marion went to Price to work for the power company. Twenty-three years ago they were transferrd to Pleasant Grove and she, too, went to work for the power company. Glenna said she felt like she had been involved with electricity elec-tricity all of her life. Service has been an important part of their lives, but their family is their pride and joy. They have a son, Craig, and a daughter, Lisa Dawn. Glenna showed pictures of her children, grandchildren and her beautiful great-granddaughter. Assisting Lucille as hostesses were Maymetta Johnson and Mae Winters. Delicous refreshments were served to the 22 club members. |