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Show I T- 1kv ,' ,i . K T ' , - 1- .. . W--, :. .. ., y . . ; i x " r T ' - ; GRANGER By Dorothy Hendriksen The North Jordan Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints will be divided June 8, it was announced announ-ced Sunday. The stake, which is one of the largest in the Church, has thirteen wards and a membership of approximately 10,000. Elder Mark E. Petersen of the Council of the Twelve and Elder Eldred G. Smith, Patriarch of the Church, will preside over the conference and direct the division. Wm. Grant Bangerter, Stake President, states that a meeting meet-ing will be held Saturday at 8 p.m. for all stake Priesthood leaders. General sessions will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Music during the morning session will be furnished fur-nished by the combined choruses chor-uses of the Redwood and Redwood 2nd Wards. A Pri- Mrs. Marvin Green, 1S35 West 3255 South, returned to f the hospital three weeks ago for a series of operations to traasfer tendons to her hips. Mrs. Green (Joan) was a victim of polio two years ago and since that time has been able to walk only with the aid of crutches and braces. The Green's three small children, child-ren, who are staying with their grandmother, , Mrs. Christy Hales in Orem, are anxiously awaiting their mother's return home the first part of July. We certainly wish Mrs. Green a speedy recovery. Mrs. I. B. Morgan left Salt Lake City by plane May 23 for Bethesda, Maryland, to stay indefinitely with her daughter, La Veil Morgan Bennion. La-Vell La-Vell has been ill for several months and is undergoing treatments treat-ments at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda. Mrs. Morgan was met at the airport by her son-in-law, Rex Bennion, and a daughter of Utah's Senator Sen-ator Watkins, who has been very helpful and friendly to the Bennion's during their stay in the East. Mark E. Petersen mary chorus consisting of all boys and girls in the Co-pilot, Top-pilot, Home Builder aird Trail Builder classes throughout through-out the stake will provide the MMMMMMMM, M I " t music for the afternoon session. A 7 pm. meeting Sunday night will be under the direction of the M.I.A. The annual North Jordan Stake Visiting Teachers and Officers Party was held Tuesday, Tues-day, May 27, at the North Jordan Stake House. Stake officers honored twenty members mem-bers who had served 45 years as visiting teachers. These ladies were given handkerchief corsages. Six carving knives were awarded to various wards for achievement during the past year. A film, "Oliver Cowdrey", was shown, after which luncheon was served by the members of the Relief Society Stake Board to the 400 women present. Ella Bennion, Stake Relief Society President, reports that the ward Relief Societies all held their closing socials during dur-ing the last week in May. During Dur-ing the summer months the Relief Society will hold only one general meeting a month. Many families in the Granger Grang-er area visited out of town over the Memorial Day weekend. Some of these were the Carl B. Fuller family, 3040 West 3835 South, who spent several days in Cache County; the Ray Blakos, 4415 West 3500 South, who drove to Southern Utah; Mrs. Henry M. Dutton, 4440 West 3500 South, who visited in St. George; the Clay Petersen Peter-sen family, 3371 South 1940 West, who traveled to Emery County; and the Ray W. Calls, 3394 South 1940 West, who spent some time in Idaho. We wish to . express sympathy symp-athy to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard K. Larsen, 6068 West 3500 So., Hunter. Their daughter Marilyn Mari-lyn S. Larsen, 31, died Saturday, May 24, in a Salt Lake hospital, following a brief illness. Miss Larsen was a graduate of Cyprus Cyp-rus High School and a member of the Hunter Ward. She has been employed at the Utah . State Tax Commission officies for the past 14 years. Funeral services were held at the Hunter Hunt-er Ward Chapel Tues., .May 27. Burial was in the Valley View Memorial Park. A Hunter family of five was forced out into the night when fire gutted parts of their home at 3700 South 4400 West. The sleeping family " of William Grant Bess was aroused at approximately app-roximately 12:45 A.M. by Sally aged 17, who awoke to see flames burning through the ceiling in her bedroom. The fire is believed to have started in an upstairs bedroom and quickly spread to the lower low-er floor. An estmated $4,000 damage was done to the two bedrooms, kitchen, and bathroom, bath-room, i Granger has recently lost one of its finest families to the Holladay area. The Leon E. Millers, who until May 24 resided re-sided at 3027 West 3500 South, are now making their home at 5051 South 21st East. The Millers have been prominent members of the L.D.S. church for many years. Mr. Miller served in the bishopric of Granger 3rd ward from 1951 until 1955 and has been a member of the North Jordan Stake Presidency from 1955 until the present time. His wife Barbara, taught in the Primary Association for several sever-al years and served as president presi-dent of that organization for a year and a half. She taught the literature lesson in the Relief Re-lief Society for one year and since 1957 she has been a member memb-er of the Primary Stake Board in the North Jordan Stake. The Miller's are the parents of five children. They are: Lee, 21, now serving a mission for the L.D.S. church in Brazil; David, 18; Steven, 15; Terry 11; and Margo Ann, 7. We are certainly going to miss this fine family. Elaine Bawden was the guest of honor at a baby shower given by Marna Bawden and Ruth Garrick May 28 at the Garrick home, 3862 South 4000 West. An enjoyable time wa3 had by 25 guests. Cub Scouts of Pack 244 held a weiner roast with their families May 27 behind the North Jordan Stake House. Two dens pre- . (continued to page 6) (continued from page 5) sented skits about Indians and Johnny Appleseed with the help of their Den Mothers, Bernice Jenkins and Georgine Warby. Melvin Bunkall, Cub Master, was in charge of the event Miss Evon Emily Hogan, of Granger, exchanged wedding vows with Max Freestone in a double-ring ceremony at the Salt Lake L..D.S. Temple on May 28. A reception was held in their honor the same evening at the Memory House in Memory Grove. Attending the bride were Miss Janet Wade of Granger and Miss Gayle Hill of Ogden. Little Peggy Hogan, a niece of the bride, served as flower girl. James Fisk was best man. The new Mrs. Freestone, a graduate of Cyprus High School, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hogan, 3255 West 3800 South, Granger. Mr. Freestone's parents are Mr. and Mrs. William Floyd Freestone . of Provo. The LaMar O. Dew family, 3427 South 2660 West, Granger, have been busily entertaining relatives during the past two weeks. Mrs. Dew's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lindsey, arrived in Salt Lake City May 20 from their home in Tennessee. Tennes-see. With them were three sisters of Mrs. Dew, Rebecca Lindsey, Tennessee, Elizabeth 1 Lindsey, and Vinnie Roberts, both of Dearborn, Michigan. This was the first trip the group had made to Utah. They left by auto on May 26. May 28 brought Mr. Dew's mother, Mrs. Edith Hoban from Las Vegas, Nevada, and on May 30 Mr. and Mrs. George Kipphut and their son, Greg arrived by train from Lockport, niinois. Mrs. Kipphut is a sister to Mr. -Dew. They remained until early June 2nd when they left by car to visit further in Las Vegas and in California before returning home. Sea Explorers of Ship 397 from Granger 8th Ward had a wonderful time and scored very well in competition at the Coast Ancient Mariner Regatta Regat-ta in California last week. However, How-ever, they had some difficulty keeping enough drivers on hand to man the four automobiles auto-mobiles that they traveled in. The boys left Salt Lake City early May 28 in four cars driven by Don W. Kleinman, Skipper of the ship, Blaine H. Hall, 1st Counselor in the Bishopric of Granger 8th Ward, H. Lowell Wilson, Ward Super-intendant Super-intendant of the YMMIA, and Earl S. Denney, committee member of explorer scouts in the ward. They were accompanied accom-panied by Douglas L. Arnold, Chairman of the Explorer Scouts Committee, who went along as extra driver. Upon arrival at the Stead Air Force Base in Reno, Nevada, where the group spent their first night, word was received that Mr. Denny, who operates a trucking concern, was needed at home to repair a broken-down broken-down truck. He caught a plane home, leaving Mr. Arnold to drive his car. The group continued con-tinued on to the U. S. Coast Guard Base in Alameda, California, Cal-ifornia, where their main avents were held on Friday ,May 30. That evening Mr. Hall, who is employed as a pilot by Western West-ern Airlines, received word that a strike settlement was possible and that he must return to be available for work. He, too, caught the first plane home, leaving his car without a driver. driv-er. However, arrangements were soon made for L. H. Kenn-ard, Kenn-ard, father of two of the scouts, to fill in for Mr. Hall. He arrived at the Oakland Ah-port late Sunday night and was met by the Skipper. , Meanwhile, the boys checked out of the Coast Guard Base Sunday, June 1, at 2:00 P. M. They attended sacrament meet- ing and fireside at the Alameda Ward and were housed for the night in the homes of various ward members. The group started home on Monday morning, June 2, spent Monday night at Reno, and arrived here Tuesday evening. |