Show The LeRoy will observe Golden Wedding October invite all friends and relatives Mr and LeRoy long-time residents of the Altamont are extending an Invitation to their friends and relatives to help them celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversary on 7 beginning at 8 in the Altamont High School Typical of the life of and Thacker will be the nature of their anniversary celebration It will be In the form of a For years this pioneer couple who same to the Basin in 1916 was a dance and have played for hundreds of missionary farewell parties and old-fashioned They want their friends to come and visit and enjoy a Supplying music for the dance will be a former Altamont Tom now of Salt who will bring his orchestra to his old and Thacker were married in the Salt Lake Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day November They moved from Fort Wyoming to the Upper Country in where they leased some Indian The one piece of was later sold to the school district on which to build the present Altamont Eleven of the arc still living and have produced 42 grandchild-rm and 7 great grandchildren-Five of the children are Howard who lives in Wesley and Fred Ogden and The six daughters are Iceland Don Tom W. Kirk nil of Salt Lake and Claude Thacker was employed by the Duchesne County School District for 15 years as custodian of the Altamont He resigned to accept a position with his son-in-law and and to operate their motion picture machines and custodian of Altamont Theater for eleven He retired six years ago and bought a home in Salt Lake Since buying atlie in the and Thacker actually lived there only about three just were not cut out to be city folks and desired to spend the remainder of our lives here among the people we know and watched so we moved back to the old they The who have been active in the church and community life of the have wonderful memories of the Uintah Basin watching it expand and struggle to take its place on the They still have visions of greater growth for the A special request comes from the and their family is to the effect they request NO come and visit with your friends and have a geed time with they |