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f*w TwoPROUD EVENT: Newell A. Welker when he blesses three new month-old grandsoms according- to cuetoms of the LDS Church. He practices for the special event with his daughters(left to right), Mrs. Robert S, Matthews and her son, Rod; Mrs. C. J. Wagner and her son, Russell, and Mrs. A, E. Mitchusson and her son, Timothy.LDS Leader to Bless His Grandsons SundayNewell A. Welker will be a proud and worried grandpa tomorrow when he undertakes the blessing of three new grandsons and tries to keep their names straight*Mr. Welker will be carrying out a custom In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in giving the three boys born within a month of eachother—-names. It is a belief in the church that a member holding the priesthood may ask a blessing and give a name to a baby, since infant baptism Is not practiced.Birth of the three boys brings to 11 the number of grandchildren the retired U. S. Forest Service worker now has. Mr. Welker is a father of five daughters.The names Mr, Welker has to remember are Rod Allen Matthews, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Matthews, born Dec. 4; Russell Clay Wagner, son of Mr. and Mrs. C, J. Wagner, born Nov. 26, and Timothy Edward Mitchusson, son of Mr. and Mrs, A. E. Mitchusson, bom Nov. 7. f
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Albuquerque Tribune
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Sat, Jan 04, 1958
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