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Show e n u b i r T alt Lake -_-— —.. _—_—_ Radio-TV Log Page B14. Utah — Wednesday Morning — December 10, 1958 Page One va ee Kaa RA ae Mr. and Mrs. Peter Peterson, who celebrate their 80th wedding anniversary 30 Years T ogether Thursday at an open house, enjoy 1890-style “3-D” slides through old-fashioned stereoscopic viewer. 4 Longest-Married Couple Awaits Fete The Relief Society of their own Fairview South LDS Ward will serve refreshments to the hundreds of visitors expected. Their living ters are: Mrs. Mrs. Araminta Mrs, Lucile P. sons and daughSarah P. Rigby, P. Clement and Madsen, all of | Fairview; Andrew L. Peterson, Wednesday night the couple Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete Counwill be honored at a special ty; Laurin V. Peterson, Provo; program in the ward chapel. Visitors from throughout the Mrs. Eva Mirl P. Jensen Biles, Medford, Ore.,.and Le Roy Pestate are invited. Ephraim, Sanpete Mayor Otis Neilsen and terson, Reed lLasson, ward bishop, County. will be co-chairmen of the HOW DO THE Petersons program. Among speakers will live now? Naturally it is a be LeGrand Richards, chairquiet life. But in the morning THEY TAKE it calmly, man, and Harold H. Jenson, before their daughter, Mrs. quietly, prayerfully thankful historian, of the Old Folks Madsen or another family) and with an occasional chuckle Central Committee of Salt about the fuss made over what member drops in to lend a —to them—is the natural out- Lake City. hand, Mr. Peterson gets up, In addition, either talks or come of a good life well fires up the 60-year-old iron tape recorded greetings from lived. President David O. McKay and kitchen stove and the living sb eas the couple will other LDS Church, civic and room heater, puts on breakthe.80th anniversary of state gisnilaries will be pre- fast and—when the house is comfortable—calls his wife. vain ‘wedding in 1878 in the sented, Even their advanced age Manti Temple, Church of JeTO SAVE their strength for has not changed their mental sus Christ of Latter-day Saints. That day will be marked with the open house, Mr. and Mrs. alertness. They still like to an open house at their small, Peterson will not attend, but read church literature, newsneat, unpretentious home, fur- will hear the program over a papers or the giant-sized old nished much as it was at the loud speaker directly wired family Bible. turn of the century. from the ward chapel. They enjoy visits with The huge wedding cake is friends and family, and. literally on ice—frozen, until often joke with their greatDay Since it is needed. It was sent to the great-grandc hildren who couple by the Old Folks ComLast Utah drop in for the inevitable mittee. cookie. 3 Traffic Mr. Jenson’s research shows the couple has been Death The cookie is traditional. married longer than anyone After The Tribune photogelse in the country and holds rapher, Ross Welser, had the record for the largest numUtah taken pictures, he was ofber of living posterity, 253. *958 177 fered a cookie by Mrs. Pe“SZ 203 terson. He politely declined. A That includes seven of the ae daughter spoke up: 10 sons and daughters born “IT suggest you do or you to them still living; 47 may have an argument on grandchildren; 157 great253 your hands. Nobody leaves grandchildren, and 41 great193 this house without a cookie.” ‘O5 great-grandchildren. ean By Stan Bowman Tribune Staff Writer FAIRVIEW, Sanpete. County—They get letters regularly from the President of the United States; they have 253 living descendants; they probably have been married longer than any other couple in the nation; and they are noted throughout the country. ‘How do Mr. and Mrs. Peter Peterson of Fairview take their fame? |
