aah ae | bt 7 442 .* ‘Senior | Citizen Spotlight Yhe family lived in REET Ever wonder where you can take the family during the winter months and enjoy a good day’s outing? The division of visiting the informative visitors center. Here you can warm up by the fireplace while you watch the elk on the meadow or Wildlife Resources has. browse through the exhibits that give a history of just such a place located the area and the purpose 16 miles east of Hyrum, of the ranch. Sleigh rides Utah. Not only are you _ are given from noon until able to view about 650 4 p.m. on weekdays and head of elk but, you can 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on havesthe pleasure of Sat. and Sundays. Large groups should call ahead on weekdays so that ranch personal can prepare to make your trip more enjoyable. For those that enjoy snowmobiling, the Division of State Parks grooms two trails out toward Bear Lake and Monte Cristo. Take the sleighs or tubes along for the kids be- cause there are plenty of good tubing hills near by. One special that last clue place’s it was to this name named after the Box Elder Hardware Company. Don’t delay planning your trip as snow is going fast and it gets hard to pull sleighs in March with all of that dirty mud. : a These Morgan Senior Citizens celebrated birthdays during April. Back, from left: Peep etets, Ada Waldron, Robert Miles, Deleen Sommers. Front, Fred Florence, Carl Phillips. is lefi: changes in her life, just accepts them and ‘is happy just to live in her home...and. visit.,.with friends and family. Her daughter LaVez lives next door and sees to her every need and fixing her meals. Sarah Ann Rawle was born November 17, 1881 in Morgan. Her parents were James Richard and Margaret Mary Simmons Rawle. When Sarah was 8 years old she was baptised in the Weber River in Nov. 1889. Ice had to be broken so this event could take place. She grew up ina happy home where young people gathered on Sunday evenings to sing and have a good time. She had a good voice and as she was always interested in music, she sang in the church choir. She was very popular and loved by both boys and girls. She learned the art of homemaking and cooking from her mother , 0 ee ua a : . yy s “ 4 eneeenn ee nas ae 7 ele “mhy Tie o 5 y 7 * Sarah was married to Ro funeral was held at the hote. This was a sad John P. Hopkin Nov. 27, 1901 in the Salt Lake Temple. Soon after their marriage, they moved to Devil's Slide where Mr. Hopkin was employed at the cement plant. Five children wre born to them, two dying when they were very small. - time for the family but — Sarah kept busy help-| ing others. The Devil’s Slide. village at that time was— just like one big family sharing joys and sorrows. Everyone decided to» have a big party for Doctor Dorland on his Sarah and Jack took birthday so of course over the management Sarah and Jack said and operation of the have hotel. event Slide Hotel and contin- ued this until they built a home and moved to the Morgan about 1940. This was lots of hard in those days all baking in the home. Also all the washings, ‘Many plant hotel lived and at lunches em- the this in her stride, never letting one because of the miles time urging of the residents, she baked and sold bread. She had -to discontinue this because the demand became_ too great. With all her hotel work she still had time for helping others. Many ‘sick or needy were recipients of her goodies. She was also president of the Relief Society for years. Sarah was one of the happiest and most hospitable women I have Always cheerful, natured, known. was good never heard to complain about being too busy or awful tired. | x tid tee para down on her. baked goods and pies. She did all the cooking leaving other work to hired girls. They built a beautiful home in Morgan where Sarah still lives. Mr. Hopkn died in 1955 which was very hard for Sarah to take but she has a loving, wonderful family and they are in her great help declining years. She has a son Jay and a daughter LaNez, 10. grandchildren, 33 great grandchildren and 3 great great grandchildren. They all love her and visit her often. Yes, Sarah Hopkin is a wonderful lady. She will be 98 years of age in November and still© . has her happy eer bread and pies became for’ alas hallways. Sarah took all the meals. Sarah was an excellent cook and her baked At and overcrowded with men, | beds were even in had to be put up besides all famous around. room railroad put ,double tracks through the can-— yon, the hotel was no -laundromats. ployees dining tables beautiful and did far more than her share ‘of baked bread and pies. When Union Pacific work for Sarah because was done it here in the It was a festive and Sarah had aan’ ways: Od ln Oe in gE FOwe Hardware Ranch offers interesting day and she practiced all her life. te =< Feeding elk at Hardward Ranch. Mrs. Sarah Rawle Hopkin is one ‘of our senior citizens over 90 years of age. She is 97 and the second oldest lady in Morgan. She has lived alone up until a few months ago when her son, Jay, decided to sleep in the house so she wouldn't be alone at night. She has good health and does many things ,for herself, but she * says she can’t remember things very well. Sarah was always a ywonderful homemaker | and her home has many lovely things she has made or chosen. She never complains about EE the front part of the hotel and young people gathered there for parties and fun. Mr. Hopkin used to give surprise birthday parties for Sarah. During the flu epe-— demic of 1918-1919 they went through ‘the heartbreak of losing a 16 year old son, Ellis. this All the family was sick — with the flu, so the ~—s