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Show (pohltMi Wedding Observed It v Joseph Larsons Quietly and with simplicity Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Larson celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary on August IS at their home in Pleasant Grove, with only the immediate im-mediate family present. Joseph and Stella Larson were married on August IS in the Salt Lake LDS Temple and have spent their entire married life here, with the exception of six years spent in Spanish Fork. Mr. Larson is a native of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, being born here Sept. 20, 1868, son of Neils Peter and Karen Christine Swenson Larson, early pioneers of this city, where young Joseph early learned the work and struggle of pioneer life. In his young manhood he filled an LDS Mission to the Southern States and has since been very active in all church activities, among am-ong which were counselor in the Manila ward bishopric, a member of the Nebo stake Sunday school superintendence' and YMMIA president. pres-ident. Besides managing his farm in Manila ward, he has served as secretary-treasurer of the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Irrigation Company and the Farmer's Threshing Machine Company since the two companies were incorporated many years ago. Mrs. Larson is a native of the South, having been born at Man-ington, Man-ington, West Virginia, on April 5, ' 18S7, a daughter of William and Emmeline Kendall Baker. After the death of her father, a Civil War Veteran, the family came to Utah in 1891 and made their home in Pleasant Grove. Her untold church activities include in-clude president and also secretary of the YWMIA, Sunday school teacher, Relief Society worker and many other responsible assignments assign-ments in church work in the wards of Pleasant Grove, Manila affd Spanish Fork. Mr. and Mrs. Larson have two children, Mrs. Ernest R. (Velma) Rasmusson of Provo, and Joseph W. Larson of Pleasant Grove and four grandchildren. Hosts of friends throughout the community are expressing good wishes. |