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Show VVy i LELAND SMITH, ONE of Utah's oldest Lions Club members, celebrates his 94th birthday at a recent Bountiful Boun-tiful Lions Club meeting. Watching daughter Romaine Moss cut his birthday cake, Mr. Smith joined the Bountiful Boun-tiful club 42 years ago. To observe 94th One of Utah's oldest Lions Club members, Leland R. Smith, of West Bountiful, will be 94 May 18 and has been an active member of the Bountiful Lions Club since he joined the organization in September, Septem-ber, 1944. Recently, members of the Bountiful Boun-tiful Lions Club held a birthday party for Smith, inviting his two daughters and their husbands and celebrating the occasion with a special cake decorated with the Lions Club emblem. Smith became vice president of the Bountiful club in 1945 and president pres-ident in 1946. Since then, he has served in practically every office in the club and on every committee and brought in four new members of the club in the first decade of his membership. Born May 18, 1892 in Park City, the son of William Henry Jex Smith and Polly Garn Smith, he moved to West Bountiful with his family when he was six years old and has lived there ever since. His father was a dairyman and Smith has continued in that tradition. tradi-tion. He became well known in Davis County for raising purebred Guernsey cows, was one of the first in the area to install automatic milking machines and automatic watering devices. Smith sold his dairy herd in 1945 and, since then, has boarded horses and raised alfalfa hay on his farm at 1165 N. 8th West. He still cares for several of his friends' and neighbors' horses and works in his fields regularly. He married Olivia Myers Dec. 22, 1915 in the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She died in April of 1982. The couple had three daughters, daugh-ters, Mrs. Tom (Janet) Clark, who died in 1953 and Mrs. Robert (Marion) (Ma-rion) Nelson and Mrs. Van (Romaine) Moss. Smith also has 1 1 grandchildren and 33 greatgrandchildren. |