Spanish Fork Reunion

Pearl and Irena

July 23, 2010 John and I attended the 55 class reunion for Spanish Fork High, UT. We met at the Chillon Reception Center It was the first one I had attended. When we went inside there were two class reunions being held, one for me and one for the class of 52. That was the class my sister Luana would of graduated from. We checked inside and saw her so got a nice surprise and then she brought an old friend Clint Dansie to see me. It had been years. So it was fun for all 3 of us. I went to Spanish Fork from the 3rd grade including the 8 Th and then moved and graduated from Payson High.
It was a delightful surprise and the one person I wanted to see was there. Irena Hanson. We laughed about our homemaking teacher Helen Weeks Powell. Helen had just became engaged and we were working on making skirts and vests. Irena had this brown corduroy material and needed help placing the pattern on the material so the nap would run the right way on both pieces of fabric.Helen was so twitterpated that she put the nap on the wrong way. Irena said she never wore brown again. Memories are forever. I had ordered a book from our class and was able to pick up the 1955 class book also. It has been fun reading about old friends.
There are a lot of Spanish Fork people working in the St. George Temple. I hope some may recognize me and say hello.

One thing that I thought was unusual; they had 5x7 photos of most of our deceased classmates. I was surprised so many had passed away. For those with no photo they had the frame with the name printed on. Reminded me that life is very fragile an d we should value our time on earth.

Afterwards we traveled to Provo and spent the night with John's brother Gordon. What a delight for those two men. They talked and talked and was surprised it was after 11:00 p.m. I'm so glad they got in that good visit.

July 24 we stopped in Payson to visit the cemetary. We had a few flowers to put on the graves. Look At Alvie's tree. They have trimed it and it looks so much better than it did the last time we were there. It is even covering up the dead pieces. Thanks to whom ever did it.

Mom and Dad's headstone looks good. They all need cleaning but the lettering and their picture is as good as the day it was put it.

It doesn 't seem possible that it has been 7 years since they passed away.

They were watering Ed's so we didn't get pictures but everything looked green and we noticed they have street signs now, white with green lettering. Payson should be proud of their cemetary and it is growing. Looks like they are cleaning off an other piece of land to add more room for our ancestors.