| Show Former residents and pioneers of loka-Upalco areas celebrate years of happy married lives A total of years of happily married life is the proud achievement of two brothers and two sisters who were married September in the Salt Lake Approximately members of the two families gathered for a celebration in honor of their sixtieth wedding They held the celebration a month early in order to get all of the family All of the surviving children of both families were in They gathered at the Naples Ward Chapel for a family There they enjoyed dinner and there was an open house at the Franklin Merrell in Naples for all friends and relatives who attended between 2 and 6 p.m. Special guests attending the event were Bertha and Wilford and Elmer L. Ora and Elwin Sixty years on September Franklin and Fuller Remington Merrell with their sisters Mary Jane and Sarah Angus and four close relatives left Jensen in two wagons to go to the Salt Lake Temple to be The Angus and the Merrell families had lived in the same community for several years and everyone was delighted that these two brothers should marry two lovely sisters on the same said that we must have been in a to make it to Salt Lake in six They said that we must have been hard on the recalls Franklin Following their the two couples resided in Jensen until the reservation was opened in they was a golden so they moved to loka and up Between building canals and the men supported their families by freighting between Myton and Price with teams and Since the reservation area was new it called for real Canals had to be made to get water to their lands and new homes had to be The two helped haul the rock for the present loka Chapel from the mouth of Dry They also assisted in the building of the first school at which was paid for by Later the ward was divided and Fuller Merrell was In the new Upalco Ward for which lie helped to build an other new The two couples tell interesting stories of their life on the reservation and often mentioned how they would leave their homes before daybreak to drive their wagons to attend quarterly In the winter it wasn't unusual for many families to spend Sunday night sleeping on the chapel floor because it would be too late and cold in the winter for them to return to their homes before Both men have helped build six different and Fuller Merrell arc parents of 12 sons and 11 of whom arc They are J. J. M. T. V. T. L. J. A. and There are 40 grandchildren and 28 The parents have been residing in Salt Lake City for the past few and Franklin Merrell have seven five of whom are They are and Voit There are 16 36 great-grandchildren and one They in MASTERPIECE A masterpiece of life has been accomplished by and Franklin and and Fuller who celebrated their wedding Vernal |
