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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1963
Page
5
The article recalls Ellen Wright, the first girl born in Franklin on October 6 1860, and describes early settler life. Men built roads into canyons, hauled logs for wagon frames, and constructed dirt floored log houses around a 60 by 90 rod rectangle fort.
A Preston native Capt Richard Merrill describes his Air Force transfer from Indian Springs Nevada to Clark Air Base Philippines after visiting family in Preston Idaho Hawaii and staging relatives in Idaho Falls He notes his wife Lynn and four children will join in January and mentions stops in Guam Manila and Boguis while serving with the 6926 Security Squadron APO 74 San Francisco He signs as a Preston high graduate proud to call Preston home and asks to publish parts of his update.
Local notes recount Henry Hatch and others attending a Logan Temple session and the marriage of Carolyn Viehweg to Anthony Gee. Attendees include Marian Gee of Pocatello, A L Fisher, Anne Hatch, Cecil Fisher, Cluff Kendall, George Redington, Milton Hatch, and many extended family visits across Logan, Montpelier, Sunset, and Pocatello.
Fairview notes list numerous local visits and travels. Cless Hinckley and family from San Jose visit Vern Hinckly and others as Cless attends a New York purchasing school. Several families from Salt Lake City Ogden Preston Rexburg and Logan gather for weekend visits and church events.
Emma Gleed, sister of the Gleed family living near Moses Lake in the Grand Coulee irrigation project, died, with Emma’s siblings and relatives attending the service in Warden, Washington after visiting local families. Weston and Pleasant Grove individuals mourn the loss as her siblings and spouse reflect on the death.
Weston Captain Thayne Dewey and his three children have settled in a Roswell New Mexico assignment. His brother Lynn Dewey and family live about 200 miles away in Albuquerque. Thayne had been studying in Sacramento before his promotion to captain.
Mr and Mrs William Robinson accompanied Lee Robinson of North Logan to Pocatello for the funeral of Sadie Roebuck aged 93. Attending relatives included Bishop and Mrs Floyd Robinson Jack Robinson Maurice Bateman and Howard Robinson.
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