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Show Farewell Party At Neola To Fete Val D. Edringfon WILL SERVE CHURCH I VAL D. EDRINGTON, active ac-tive church worker, has accepted ac-cepted a call to serve as an LDS missionary in the East Central States. He will be honored at a farewell party at ihe Neola ward chapel next Monday night, April 26. f Val Dean (Scott) Edrington will be honored at a special dinner and program at the Neola Ne-ola ward chapel next Monday, April 26, prior to his departure for the East Central States, where he will serve the next two years as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A graduate of Union High School with the class of 1953, Elder Edrington has been employed em-ployed by Safeway Stores the past two years, and has been active in the church all his life. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ruel Edrington of Roosevelt, where he lived until his marriage mar-riage to Miss KaDee Bastian in August, 1953, at which time they established residence at Neola, from which ward he has been called. In 1953 Val graduated from the Union Seminary, where he was especially active in speech, having won the declamation contest for boys two years in succession.- During high school he was active in athletics and student affairs, being a member of the football team for three years, and was president of the senior class. ,C1 1 i. 1 Tf.l 1 ssiiiue last uttemuei, vai nas been serving as a stake missionary, mission-ary, along with his wife, KaDee. Ka-Dee. He has been very effective in this work, which will give him a lot of confidence as a full-time full-time foreign missionary. KaDee will continue to work at the Commercial Bank of Utah in Roosevelt until her husband returns re-turns from his mission. She will also continue her stake mission assignment. Elder Edrington will enter the Mission Home in Salt Lake next Wednesday, April 28, and will report the following week to Louisville, Kentucky, headquarters head-quarters of the East Central States mission. The dinner-program social and farewell at the Neola ward chapel is being arranged under the direction of Bishop Richard Olsen and his counselors, LeRoy Gardner and Charles Crozier. Time of the affair is 8 p.m. |