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Show lVlE VAWDREY MITCHELL Appointed 1947 Elected Ivie to 1949-1951 1949 from a that all musical family played different and had their own family orchestra. A father with a of humor, and a mother who could sew up a storm. Happy of being raised on a farm that grew all kinds of fruit. came instruments great sense memories father taught them to play cards saying it sharpened the intellect, developed the memory and reasoning powers, and gave them "thought problems" each morning. Her She was born on September 7, 1893 at Draper, Utah, next to the youngest of six children of Thomas and Harriet Crapo Vawdrey. She loved books, and had her nose buried in them from morn to night. When she her a reached the watch eighth grade, her father told her he would buy the tests high enough to get a pass he did. A beautiful Elgin she kept if she could She did and scholarship. forever. two-year high school was begun in Sandy which was soon extended years. Draper students took the train there; and Ivie often walked the two miles to the depot in two feet of snow. In her first her father died of a heart attack, and Ivie finished high year, A to four school in three years with credits to spare. married Louie C. Mitchell of Bountiful in the LDS age 21, temple. He was interested in politics and came home from a district meeting to tell her she had been el ected chair of her voting district. She ccepted. Ivie became president of combined study the She that had formed around resigned this groups county. posi tion when she was elected chair of the Sal t Lake County At ·she Democratic Party. She had three children and was helping to raise her brother's baby whose mother had di ed in chil dbi r h They looked upon each other as mother and daughter. She was also serving as president of Second Ward, a position she loved. the MIA in the Sandy gi r l , World War II work went to Lake County broke out and her son went off to the Pacific and Ivie worker" and admittance clerk at the Salt a "social as Hospital. She was employed there from 1943 to 1953. Ray Greenwood, Ivie in took the his the seat Representative in 1947. She from her took leave district resigned and her work to serve from legislature. were the WeI fare served on and she weI fare the of chair and was Taxation and 1967 she was employed in the to From 1953 in riations, !.:m:::. :::..ee. 127 |
