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Show Two Wards Merged Into One, To Be Known As Avalon Ward A new ward was formed in" the Roosevelt stake, Church of :' Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 0ti last Sunday, Feb. 7, and two 'existing wards were discontinued, discontin-ued, and joined together, is a report issued by Hollis G. Hul-linger, Hul-linger, president of the stake. According- to' Prs. Hullinger, the Randlett and Leota wards were both discontinued and the membership joined together in the formation of the new Avalon Ava-lon ward, and Ralph Durfee was called and sustained as the new bishop with Calvin Jorgensen as his first counselor. Both held like positions in the Leota ward. The second counselor and ward clerks were not chosen at the organization. Officiating in the changes at the Avalon ward chapel, which formerly was known as the Randlett ward chapel, were Pres. Hullinger, his two counselors. counse-lors. Russel Todd and Clifford Drollinger, and High Council-men Council-men Russell Robison, Edgar B. Stoddard and Alva Snow. Retiring from the bishop position po-sition at Randlett was Franklin L. Jarman and counselors La-Rue La-Rue Pickup and Mariner Mc-Mullin, Mc-Mullin, with Albert Harris as clerk. Counselor to Bishop Durfee Dur-fee at Leota who was released was Rondle Rogers with Wm. W. Wilson as clerk. The Randlett ward was first organized Dec. 30, 1917, with Byron O. Colton as bishop. It then included what is now the Moffat ward, Leota and Ouray. Bishop Colton, who had gone to the Ouray valley as an employee em-ployee of an irrigation company (Continued on back page) Wards Merge (Continued from oage 1) that is still trying to achieve things for that area, was serving serv-ing as bishop of the Maeser ward in the Uintah stake when called to preside over the Rand-lett Rand-lett ward. Strange as it may seem, Bishop Colton was not released re-leased as Maeser bishop for six months after his later call. He presided over the two wards as bishop at the same time, which is rather an interesting piece of history. In 1920 Bishop Colton was called to serve as a counselor to W. H. Smart in the stake presidency and Lawrence C. Wall, now a missionary in Norway, Nor-way, was chosen as bishop. Fallowing Fal-lowing Bishop Wall was Charles F. Walquist, then Ira Wilson (both men live in Idaho at the present time). Bishop Jarman succeeded Bishop Wilson. Upon the release of Pres. Smart as president of the Roosevelt Roos-evelt stake, Pres. Colton succeeded suc-ceeded him as head of the stake, a position he maintained for 18 years, being ' succeeded by Ray E. Dillman, now serving- as president pres-ident of the Western State Mission. Mis-sion. In 1920 the Leota ward was formed, after having existed for several years as a branch with John G. Ecker as presiding elder. el-der. The first bishop of Leota was Lester E. Eklund, who now lives at Greenriver, Utah. He was followed by I. S. Eksund, who is presently serving as a missionary, and upon his release Austin Wardle became the ward head. Ho was released a little over a year ago and Bishop Dur-fee Dur-fee was sustained. |