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Show EVA WESTOVER Elected Eva 1963 CONOVER to 1967 born in Huntington, Emery County, Utah, a of Utah's coal district. She attended elementary and junior high school there, but graduated from Provo High School in 1927. She then obtained a life teaching certificatae from the U of U. Wetover Conover small town in the was heart In the fall of 1929 her teaching career began in the town of Ferron, Emery County, where she met her husband Harry L. Conover. married on They May 18, 1933. It was depression time and they moved to a newly purchased ranch in the mouth of Ferron Canyon without water or electric lights. running Through subsequent years and- the war years, Eva went back to teaching. During the summers she cooked for hired men, sometimes as many as seven and eight for months at a time. She raised her own vegetable garden and canned fruit and vegetables. The the parents of three children. Two daughters, Idaho Falls, Linda Elizabeth Staker, and one son, both of Salt Lake City. The girls followed in their George Harry mothers footsteps and became educators. George was a mechanical Conovers were Carolyn Lewis, engineer. In the early fifties, Eva had a severe illness, and her doctor to advised her to get away from the ranch, away from teaching; become involved in something entirely different from any work to which she was accustomed. became a Eva attended her districts Democratic mass meeting, county delegate to the county convention, whereupon she was elected to the office of Emery County Democratic Chair. In this position So, she automatically became a member of Committee. From that time on, both Eva workers for the Democratic party. She worked to el ect Senator Congressman Blaine Peterson, the Utah State Democratic and Harry became energetic in the U.. Moss Frank E. Senat, and several state senators and house members. served as Emery County chair of the American Cancer in getting a In 1939 she was instrumental ten years. grant from the REA, the first in the state, to put electric power in Ferron Canyon and in establishing the Emery County Farmers Union and as obtaining secretary ASsociation, acting Telephone Eva also Society for subscribers for the telephone. 145 |
