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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1973
Page
2
Clifton residents recount holiday visits as Ada Bailey hosts a Christmas turkey dinner. Attendees include McDermott and Porter families, Beasley and Atkinson relatives, and guests from Preston Wellsville Pocatello and Las Vegas. The piece lists numerous names and kinship connections amid holiday gatherings.
Sociable Mr and Mrs Heber Swain Ston Sr entertained at a Saturday family dinner for Heber Swainston Jr and his family of Winder Carl Swainston family of Preston Paul Swainston family of Mink Creek and Ray Munford family of Roy Utah in attendance.
Melvin Smith McVin Thomas Smith age 79 of 498 North State Street Preston died Tuesday December 25 at Preston Hospital from a massive coronary. Born October 2, 1894 in Richmond Utah he was a farmer who raised cattle and lived in Richmond Fairview Utah before retiring to Preston in 1960. He married Bernetta Fackrell in 1914 in Smithfield Utah and is survived by his wife a son Norman F Smith and five daughters Virginia Giesbrecht Bernice Hunter Dolores Bulow Lorraine Jensen Eva Jean Nielsen and Eva Evelyn, plus 22 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. Also surviving are one brother and five sisters. Viewing at Webb Mortuary Thursday 7 9pm and 11 30am to 12 30pm Friday. Funeral Friday 1 pm Preston Seventh Ward. Interment Fairview Cemetery.
Wilber Winward 60 of 82 Ravine Drive died Friday at Bannock Memorial Hospital after an extended illness. He was a retired Union Pacific brakeman conductor and married three times, last to Doral Atkinson. Survived by his wife a daughter two grandchildren three sisters two brothers and other relatives. Burial Whitney Cemetery. Henry Wilford Miller 84 of Weston died December 19 in Logan born February 20 1889 to Lars and Cathinea Miller. He married Hazel Anderson later to Rosa Jensen. He worked as a dry farmer and for Union Pacific Laundry and left four sons, a daughter, 18 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. Funeral services were held December 22 at Weston LDS Ward Chapel. Burial Weston Cemetery.
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