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Show Grace Kilbourn Truly Deserves Super-Senior Citizen Title Throughout the country retired citizens are com¬plaining about being bored in their period of retirement, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for our special sen¬ior citizens in Morgan County. Recently one of our more active and certainly well- loved ladies, received a ser¬ious ankle and foot injury in a fall. It wasn't an ordinary fall encountered by a simple sprain while taking a simple walk, but the accident occur¬red while Grace Kilbourn, who is 74 years young was fishing up Hardscrabble Canyon on June 4. She had caught a fish and was climbing up the steep bank when she slipped and fell. She was quite a distance from the others in her party, and had to crawl and hobble a half-mile before they could hear her. She is recovering from her injuries, but is still confin¬ed to crutches, and her foot is still quite swollen. Grace is president of her DUP club and is a special worker in the Ogden Temple. She is also very active in the Porterville Ward, On May 30, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Kilbourn attended an open house in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond (Marsha Lee) Ferland, at Provo. During their son Vern's stay in Virginia at Ft. Eustis, he became acquainted with the McAdams (Marsha Lee) family, and when they came to Utah for their Temple work, Marvin and Grave accompanied them. Marsha Lee McAdams has been attending school at the BYU and several years ago she wrote a story for a church magazine, which was accompanied by her picture. Raymond Ferland, from Medford, Oregon, read her story while serving an LDS mission and was very im¬pressed with it. After returning to Utah to resume studies at the Y, he passed Marsha Lee, one day and immediately recog¬nized her. A conversation ensued and several months later they were married. This is just an example of the kind of friends and sit¬uations which add excitement to Grace's life. Last week Mrs. Glenna Wood, her son Brian, and daughter Denise Clawson and granddaughter, Lucinda and Keith Edwards visited with the Kilbourns. On June 14 Mr. and Mrs. Wade Baker of Burley, Idaho brought Mrs. Baker's moth¬er, Mrs. Ethel Garner of Rupert, Idaho for a week's vacation, with Marcin and Grace. Ethel and Grace are sisters. On Saturday the Kilbourn's plan a trip to Idaho to re¬turn Ethel to her home. Saturday, June 14 the Kil¬bourns and Mrs. Garner drove to Granger, Utah to visit with the Jay Bowen family and attend a family re¬union. Also attending were an¬other brother, John Bowen and his wife Annie, their daughter Ruth Jones, and her son Carl from Sac¬ramento, Calif. They spent Saturday night with another brother, A. C. Bowen and his wife Ada, in Salt Lake, where they cele¬brated Father's Day. Tues¬day about noon the whole kit and kaboodle, to use Grace's words arrived, to spend a few days at Bub's cabin in Hardscrabble, and enjoy the beautiful canyon scenery and the cool evening breezes, and one another's company. Joining them later in the week were John's grand¬daughters, Lynn and JaAnna Nelson of Salt Lake, and Kevin and LaRae Olson of Ogden. Grace in addition to being an avid and accomplished fisherman, who on one oc¬casion while fishing at Flaming Gorge, where it is legal to fish with two hooks caught a fish on each line, simultan¬eously, is also interested in geneology and a dozen other hobbys at which she is very accomplished. She can give a book re¬view which can have her audience laughing one minute and crying the next. She has written articles for the Morgan County News and served for a short time as one of their correspond¬ents. The secret of this ac¬complished and beloved lady's happy life seems to be loving people and keeping active and involved with life. In addition to all her many accomplishments, Grace has at least a dozen new projects planned and we are looking forward to hearing more about her new adventures, and to quote her Grace ex¬pects to recover. Perhaps this is the real secret of staying young. She expects good from life and people and because she looks for the best, usually finds it. |