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Show et SS s| itself on Sunday will be a quiet one for Utah’s 1954 Mother of OS OE mw UY A family gathering Saturday night in Hotel Utah will observe ithe 80th birthday of Mrs. David f/O. McKay, but the anniversary AS 57 Editor ee Church eT ‘|. For Mrs. McKay—who is the j|wife of the president of the nom, Jack M. Reed Tribune eT bee La ren Pure 24. By #|Church of Jesus Christ of Lats|ter-day Saints—the nicest birth- That family includes. four isons and two daughters: David #| Lawrence McKay, Salt Lake attorney; Dr. Llewelyn R.. McKay, professor and head’ of the department .of languages at the University of Utah; Dr. Edward R. McKay, Salt Lake physician; 1|Robert R. }| Jeweler; Jean) Mrs.: David O.. McKay... Recalls events of 80° years. Blood, Mrs. Salt Lake}: Russell H. Great (Lou- Lakes, Conway A. IIl., (Emma Rae) Ashton, Salt Lake City. | Another son, Royle, died at the —— oe eae lage of 2. There also are 20 grandchildren and three great. grandchildren. |. Mrs. McKay was born June |23, 1877, in Salt Lake City- to O. H. and. Emma - Robbins Riggs. Her father named her Ae ama. Ray” and -spelled the “Ray” to indicate sunshine she| nuTAQTog oon Pome ee, iD ace was to bring into the home. } She was one of only six per- sons to receive a University of Utah degree in 1898. And it wwas through the University of Utah, indirectly, that she met her husband-to-be. When he came from Ogden to attend the University of Utah, he rented a room from Mrs. Riggs. | They were married Jan. 2, 1901, in the Salt Lake Temple and, Mrs. McKay recalled Friday, “We've never quarreled. If one of us feels a little put out with the other, we just keep still.” In later years, after her fami ly was grown, 3 o.7 CN and McKay, Mrs. ms she ON TAA iishe recalled Friday as_ | reminisced over the years, nN gathering. “We've been a very} happy, happy, close family,” aT f| day present would be a family eS vu ot ea. Ee Pleasant. Four score Yecars uD me LDS t cader . Wie Reviews: traveled N| Pacific Ocean. Mrs. throughout McKay the world at her husband’s side. They have n-| visited in recent years Europe to! South Africa, South and Centra: al| America and the islands of the She fondly remembers, toc the years (1932-34) she spen as president of the Relief So ciety of the LDS European Mis Sion, while her husband was president of the mission. TY!” Still healthy and McKay continues of housework the active, to do Mrs. much herself in their residence at 1037 E. South 6 Temple. s |
