Show pioneer nurse have party on life is filled with many services Grace Hale Ji observe her birthday in Duchesne on 7 her home Since the final day the Duchesne County Fair on her birthday the family plans an open SL from 2 to 6 on 23 at her home to greet Sends and An extended to all Kes' friends to help her celeste her Hale to Duchesne in with her hus-Ua and two of her six homesteaded at Mid-r She near Ind as a midwife and nurse in all the area for many the hospital was built At she is still gives a hand f with child care d household For Ls she served as both a midwife and vr Hale was born at Tooele a daughter of Slam J. Robinson and Mir-Ja Drucilla She Frank B. Hale April It died May at Du- Hale has been a teach- in the junior Sunday school the Duchesne Ward for 35 an a row and served as Relief Society Teacher for 56 For four she was of the Theodore of at six daughters arc Con J. Eldridge Fred U of A. iff Og-id Ula H. near She has id children and 38 great ays she feels sue helped his country by putting t food into the working er culinary art was ap-d by men working for the Antelope g the Knight's on Blue Du-i first old and She te enjoyed cooking for who liked to eat good At Antelope she baked es of bread in one day d get ahead of the as fell as baking 35 pies every Hale expects to enter a home canned fruits and jellies and jams in in the Duchesne County Wr this She has a box I blue ribbons she has won nr the years with her entries i the women's department at She does all her own still is a member of the Relief Society Sing- and prefers walk- to riding short Hale says part of their li homestead is covered by eke Boreham It was We living on this homestead she assisted close and far with services of a and practical k remembers going in a buggy wagon and even on a sleigh 1 help to defer babies and take care of mother and baby and the or to help in homes of family EIGHTY A birthday celebration will be held honoring Grace Hale who ivill be eighty on The party will be held at her home on August Most of her services verc performed in the usual one-room log cabin of the using makeshift equipment and Hale says I never lost a baby or a Asked how many deliveries she she I lost track of the number after about One case she tells about is delivering a pre-mature She says a doctor was called in on the but since he had suffered a heart attack a short while he sat by the bed while Hale delivered the After the baby was snug in a small cotton-lined diapered with a man's white and given liquids through an the doctor don't know why you sent for Grace did as good a job as I could have Hale little girl is married now and a mother One time in responding to a call for a Hale had to cross the swollen Duchesne riding She was but her husband told her to place confidence in the horse to get her him his Hale remembers her husband instructing She said she shut her eyes and held onto the saddle horn with both The horse drifted clown stream several hundred feet to reach the other side of the river bank and climbed Hale recalls it was on this river crossing that she lost her little black satchel in which she carried her meagre medical It floated from the saddle and was carried away in the She says a neighbor boy recovered her can of ether as it was bobbing in the It was tightly so was damaged by Hale says in those days the midwives and mothers did not have to worry much about baby as most of the mothers breast-fed the This midwife and practical nursing work was not done by Hale for Sometimes she would receive a dollar or two or a sack of or other foodstuffs the family could Hale got started in this work of assisting mothers to bear their after she bore three of hers without assistance of a doctor or |