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Show MILLY OBERHANSLEY Elected Milly BERNARD 1966-76 born, Mildred Cox to Robert & Eleanor Jarvis Cox, on May in the sand hills surrounding Brewster, Nebraska, the hub farming community, population 3000. Then and now. was 28, 1920, of the came from large families and since they were the there was a lot of visiting by aunts, uncles, and cousins. When she was "old enough to reach over the counter, take money and give the customers their package, she worked in a general and on Saturdays. Milly store along with her Mother after school always loved working with people. Thanks to the provision of the Carneige Foundation to the town, and a love of reading, Milly kept from being lonely. Both parents "city" folk, After graduation from high school and receiving a National Honor Society Award, she went to Denver and worked her way through Business College. While working at a secretarial position she met Robert Workman. They married and had a daughter, Judy, and for seven years, Milly was a housewife and mother. In they moved to Utah, divorced, and Milly found a job. then married Rex Oberhansley and had another daughter, Carole, 1944 She and moved That was the beginning of Mi 11 ys' the site of an Air Replacement Depot which was dismantled after the War. It was purchased by developers for the sewage system. They were the 28th family to move into the area where they had bui I t 100 homes. There were no stores, no street no no no and sidewalks, lights, schools, snowplowing, political to Kearns, career. Utah. Kearns was telephones only for those who had a work related priority. Since she was not working, and they had a seven party telephone, Milly became the catalyst and "gadfly" who heckled the School Board, the County Commissioners and everyone involved. Soon, Milly had a town council organized and they began to flex their political muscle. that Realizing most of the young folk there were GI's and they could offer a solid block of votes in return for Milly was appointed to the Salt Lake County Planning & Zoning Commission, serving many years. She attended all meetings of the School Board and every other meeting relating to Kearns. She a was prime mover in the formation of the Kearns Improvement Democrats, town favors. District and served on the Board for 150 years. many Economics forced her back to work and she Corp. She was there for 17 years and had found a a job at the Eimco highly successful |
