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Show NETHELLA KING Elected Elected GRIFFIN 1957 to 1959 1961 to 1963 WOOLSEY Nethella was born at Thurber (now Bicknell) on April 1, 1893 to John and Sally May Stringham King. When she was three months old the family moved to Escalante. During the summer they lived on a ranch at Boulder, Utah but moved back to Escalante in the fall so the children could attend school. For two years to Cedar Snow Academy at Ephraim, then went graduated from the Branch Normal School Nethella attended City where she was were in 1913. On June Alvin Varney Griffin 1914 she and 10, married. Together they taught school in Escalante and engaged in ranching. They had one son, Richard Varney Griffin and a foster daughter Laverd Griffin, who is now Mrs. Howard Larsen of Gunnison. In 1922, Alvin died and Nethella went to Salt Lake where graduated from the University of Utah in June 1925. For 19 after that she taught English and journalism at Bear River School in Box Elder County. she years High Her parents were now getting along in years and in the spring of 1944, she returned to help them run the ranch in Boulder. After the death of her parents she managed the 640 acre ranch alone until 1961 when er son retired from the Air Force and took over management. During five of the years she lived in Boulder its she taught school as well as overseeing the ranch and also was supervisor of the elementary schools in Garfield and Piute Counties for one In 1960, to make year. Nethella married Earl their new home. Woolsey and they moved to Escalante chief objective in entering politics was to try to improve the of her of southern Utah and to schools secure part try to improvement of the roads there. During the 1957 session, she was Nethella Griffin; during the 1961 session she was Nethella Woolsey. An active Democrat, in the legislature she served on the Education, Agriculture and Social Services Committees. Among the bills she sponsored and helped to sponsor were those on further equalization of school revenues of the state and continuation of the emergency school building funding. She strongly supported legislation for allowing and helping rural counties to extend television funding. She helped to pass a bill that established a mental helth clinic at Cedar City and others in other parts of the stte. Her She and 140 supported the bill that reorganized the State Highway System, unique service in getting the road between Boulder and did |
