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The Marriott-Slaterville City History Collection was created by the residents of the town to document their history. The collection includes Autobiographies, Oral Histories, History of Marriott, History of Slaterville, and the History of the Merging Townships to create Marriott-Slaterville City. This information has left behind rich histories, stories and important information regarding the history of the Marriott-Slaterville area. |
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Show January 15, 2012 January 14, 2012 Bring your dog to worship Sunday MARRIOTT- SLATERVILLE—There will be a bring-your-dog-to- worship service at 6 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 1339 W. 400 North in Marriott- Slaterville. According to a news release from the church, dogs have to be leashed but are encouraged to sing along on the hymns. For more information, call 801-393-5662. NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner Packer poses with some of her Rogers/Evans memorabilia in her home in Marriott-Slaterville. ft Wilma Tidwell Packer holds photographs of herself as a young woman Still singing Happy Trails' 183 Roy Rogers was her father figure By BECKY WRIGHT Standard-Examiner staff bwright@standard.net If Wilma Tidwell Packer could have chosen a second father, she would have picked singing cowboy Roy Rogers. "I lost my father when I was 10 years old, and I looked up to Roy and Dale (Evans) as second parents — especially Roy, to have a father image," said Packer, of Marriott-Slaterville. "I looked up to him, and put his picture up on the wall, and tried to think of what he'd want me to do." She never got the chance to tell Rogers and Evans how she felt about them in person, but in the 1990s, when the two were struggling with poor health, she sent a letter. "I wanted them to know how their fans felt about them," she said. Packer wasn't the only one. Tens of thousands of fans sent letters. Packer's is one of nearly 300 reprinted in the book "The Touch of Roy and Dale" (West Quest, 2011). A portion of the proceeds from sales goes to a nonprofit organization the famous couple was associated with, The Happy Trails Children's Foundation in Apple Valley, Calif. The foundation cares for abused boys, age 10 to 16, who have been removed from their homes. The book was published in November 2011, to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of Rogers' birth; a second book may be produced in 2012 to recognize Evans' birth 100 years ago. Heroes Rogers and Evans became Packer's heros in the 1940s, when she started watching their movies. "I really got into them right after my dad passed away — that's when I started looking for pictures," she said, explaining that she covered her bedroom wall with images of the couple cut from magazines. "I thought about Roy and Dale an awful lot from then on." Packer's father died in 1947, of an undiagnosed 183 |
