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Show Randlett Couple Honored At Vard Testimonial The Randlett ward chapel last Friday night was the scene of a farewell testimonial and social so-cial honoring Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Wall, Sr., prior to their leaving for Norway where they will fill missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for two years. For Mrs. Wall it will be going go-ing back home to her native Norway, where she was born and where she joined the church in 1905. Elder Wall served as a missionary in this country from 1908 to 1910 for twenty-eight twenty-eight months. Elder Wall is a native of Hol-liday, Hol-liday, where he was born in 1885, and he and Antionette Benjaminsen were married in (Continued on back page) Randlett Couple . . (Continued from page I) the Salt Lake Temple in 1910. After their marriage they moved to Lyman, Wyoming where they helped to pioneer that community commun-ity as farmers. In 1919 the Walls moved to the Uintah Basin, settling in the Randlett area, where they raised a family of seven children, six to maturity, one having died In its youth. In 1951 a married daughter was called by death. Working in the church was as much a part of the life of Elder and Mrs. Wall as was their farming. He served as bishop bish-op of Randlett ward from 1920 to 1928, when he was released and called to the stake high ' council where he labored for 14 years. Almost from the first time he can remember, Elder Wall has been a ward teacher. His other activities have found him group leader in the High Priests quorum, home missionary, mission-ary, and senior Aaronic priesthood priest-hood adviser. All the while her husband was a bishop and high councilman, council-man, Mrs. Wall was serving in the Relief Society 14 years as president, 30 years as visiting teacher, and as a Sunday School teacher 18 years. She was also a counselor in the Primary. Elder and Mrs. Wall will enter en-ter the Mission Home in Salt Lake on November 18. and will sail from New York City on the Norwegian lines on Dec. 4. Bishop Franklin Jarman presided pre-sided over the testimonial and Henry Wall conducted the program. |
