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Show Review - Wednesday, May 8, 1985 - Page 12 Follow courageous Moms Ky KALYN SKCKETAN "I sat with Mom as she died, both knowing the end was near. "She was calm and relaxed and once in a while a tear. "She turned to me telling me in her eyes, but what she had to say, came as no surprise. "I have to die, she said to my sister and I, I love you, all of you. "It was not hard to cry." I'll never forget that moment, the love and courage I felt from my mother was a strength which could never be taught in any other way. There is a bond in a family that gives you someone to live for, to achieve for. It is a powerful force. My mother waited that day, several hours until she had seen every one of her six children. There was so much to live for, she had put up a long fight. A husband, her children and 22 grandchildren. Mother had been living on a cliff for a long time suffering with leukemia. Her body had required 24G pints of blood and she did not waste a lot of time feeling sorry for herself. She made friends with many on that hospital staff. One nurse said, "Your mom has helped us so much. She is at peace with herself and her maker." In all of the suffering, my brothers and sisters with their families pitched in to relieve the suffering, helping out at the family business, bringing dinners, arranging for blood and visiting mom and helping keep up the home. On Mother's Day 1977 we were preparing for our mother's funeral. She died on May 6 and was surrounded by beautiful flowers. In thinking of her strength and courage I couldn't help but think of other courageous mothers. She came from a long line of them. Her mother was left alone with a family of 10 children on her 23rd anniversary, the youngest child nine months old. She raised one of the best gardens .in Cedar Fort, enough for her family and to share with others. She raised a grandchild and took in others at times when they needed a home. She, too, was called horn by Heavenly Father at Mother's Day time. My grandmother's mother was a pioneer who left her home to come to Utah. She lost her mother in Ohio as they were coming across the plains. Seeing her mother buried was too much for her to bear. It was evening before she was missed and the scouts went back to where the young mother was buried and there was my great-grandmoth-lying on the grave. She couldn't bear to leave her mother. That mother buried on the plains ' had lost her husband just a short time before and was coming west so her posterity could be free from persecution. When ' you think of all the sacrifices, you realize the responsibility that you have to the mothers of the past. All of our mom's have sacrificed in the past and left us a pattern of love, courage and service. The joy in life comes from having someone to do for. Yes, Mother's Day does have many memories of our moms because my mother-in-la- also passed away on May 6, five years after my mom's death. She was a woman who left Utah in a covered wagon as a baby to settle in Canada. They spent the winter in Idaho in a covered wagon so the trip took several months. She compared her trip in the covered wagon to the two hour flights to Canada in her later life. I y " " ; ..... jV ' 'ryjP f j u i i 'n" o Installed as 1985-8- 6 officers in the Pleasant Grove PTA Council are, L-- presi(, Rosalie Smith, Loretta Roper, Kathy Harrison, Pam Cluff, Norman Barton, Eva r. canbrack and Mark Bezzant. P New PTA leadership installed ! Rosalie Smith was installed as president of the Pleasant Grove PTA . Council for the coming school year at a special board meeting held Thursday night at Valley View School. The new council officers were installed by Helen Hatch, Region 9 PTA director. The .other officers are Eva Ercanbrack, president-elect- ; Loretta Roper, treasurer; Kathy Harrison, legislative vice president; Norman Barton, principal vice president; E. Mark Bezzant, teacher vice president; and Pam Cluff, secretary. Alpine School District will appoint an administrative vice president at a later date. Outgoing council president, Kathy Harrison, conducted the meeting. She said that the council will be awarding two $350 scholarships to students at Pleasant Grove High School in the next few weeks. She also announced that on June 11 would be the goal setting with principals and PTA presidents at' Pleasant Grove Junior High starting at 9 a.m. She reported that financial books should be audited and turned over to the new treasurers. Those units which do no change treasurers this coming year should also have their books audited. In addition, she noted that all procedure books should be ready to hand over to the person filling the position next year by the end of this school year. i Kathy reminded B all council t members to hand in a writteiC' of their positions for the hif book. "! Mrs. Hatch presented bership achievement m awards to k schools and the council receive plastic worm for the Early h Award since all units in the received the award for turn t I their memberships early. Rosalie presented a pottedplaoit ) Kathy in recognition for herm t service as council president afc with the 's pin. Kathy expressed her appreciate I to the board for their support ay I hard work during the past year. A buffet dinner was served to Ik board members and their spouses. Lafferty saying it was "societal self defense." "The only thing that stands between him and his next victim is you," Watson said. Johnson argued that Lafferty committed the crime while suffering a mental illness - and that psychiatric testimony had shown he could be treated. "He's going to be in prison for the rest of his life," Johnson said. "Do you elevate that and say that isn't enough?" Apparently the jurors felt it. was not. (Continued from page 1) Included in the witnesses were two psychiatrists and a psychologist with the Utah State Hospital who had examined Lafferty and declared him competent last November. All three had since changed their minds, concluding- - that Lafferty suffered from a paranoid delusional system. All said they now think Lafferty is mentally ill and has been for some time. Dr. Robert J. Howell, a clinical and forensic psychologist, said Lafferty suffers from "a major mental illness" where he sees himself persecuted by the LDS Church, the court system, the psychiatrists who examined him and attorneys appointed to represent him. Dr. C. Jess Groesbeck, clinical director of the Utah State Hospital, said Lafferty coupled his paranoia with illusions of grandeur to create a "messianic religious complex" where he saw himself as having an extremely important role on the earth. Doctors said Lafferty and his brother, Dan, had a shared paranoia- - and two of the expert witnesses testified that Dan was probably dominant in the relationship. However, another expert witness testifying for. the prosecution, countered that Ron and his brother were manipulating the other doc-tors, who had made a diagnosis without the cooperation of the patient. "He is fully capable of manipulating the system, this jury, me and the other clinicians who have been involved in these proceedings," said Dr. D. Eugene Thorne. Dr. Thorne said Lafferty's revelations were an elaborate, carefully planned scheme to "blame God for their actions." While agreeing that Lafferty may be paranoid, Dr. Thorne said he didn't think it reached the point of a mental illness. Other testimony came from the commander of the Utah County Jail Jerry Scott, who said Lafferty at-tacked him days before his first scheduled court date in November of 1984, prefacing the attack by saying, "God forgive me for what I am about to do." Scott said Lafferty was pacing in his cell "like a wild animal" a few days before another scheduled court appearance on December 29 and that Dan Lafferty told him "that Ron had been trying to stab him with a pencil and he was afraid that Ron would try kill him or himself." , That same morning Lafferty attempted suicide by hanging himself with his In the final arguments of the penalty phase, Watson called for the jurors to deliver the death penalty, f : y , i ; r yl' 1 ' i - . i .Ji j 1 i ' ' , " 1 ' V i ? " I I ' ; I h' i v i ; - . " ' ; T I I If1. V 4 M i fi Vf I Irv' u If - . i Ax i u I ' . . jf , ' f ' ' - f ' ' f .v - V . -- '; ' " Y ' I ' V J Ahead of the Competition i You'll be seeing our ballootfCJ this summer. 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