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Show Community Services Council, Salt Lake County Council the Foster Grandparent Advisory on Aging, and chaired Council of Salt Lake County. Born December 27, 1903 in a three-room white adobe house at Koosharem, Sevier County, Utah, Beatrice was the eldest child of Frands P. Peterson and Anna Christine Pearson Peterson. At the age of six, the family moved to a S he attended school in a one-room red brick ranch in Box Creek. schoolhouse, sat in two-seated desks, played in the sage and hunted flowers and pretty rocks at noon and recess. A year later w hen her mother died in childbirth, her father sold the ranch and the family moved to Koosharem to live with her Grandmother Peterson. Her father went into the cattle business He met Ruth Bunting on one of his business trips. buying and selling. - They were married and moved the family to Salina. She graduated from high school in 1920, entered the the University of Utah, and at seventeen she taught grades at Coalville, followed by one year of teaching S he then accepted a teaching assignment in County. husband, Stephen C. Marchant. Education Department at the fourth and fifth at Redmond Peoa w Sevier here she met her They married in December and she completed the school year. Her first child was born in September 1924 and three more followed before of the depression and sold t heir- farm. The they experienced the full brunt She says that family moved from Peoa to Midvale and then Salt Lake City. her are seven boys and eight girls greatest her family of fifteen children joy and blessing. One daughter died in 1974. - - Following, World War II, her husband suffered a severe heart attack followed by a series of strokes and' heart attacks. S he returned to school to renew her teaching certificate and became a school librarian to support her large family At the request of' Nellie Jack, Salt Lake County Recorder, she worked in the Her work impressed the Recorders office her micro-filming county records. owner of a local microfilming company and she was hired to put on microfilm •• all Utah newspapers and most of the Idaho papers pioneer s ar ri v ed. published Community, church and political affairs have played an since the important role of all counselor in the Y.W.M.I.A. in 1921 when the M Men/Gleaner She was and stake librarian. program was initiated and later served as w ar d PTA service included ward Relief Society President for several years. She served president, secretary, legislative chairman and parliamentarian. three terms as president of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. In 1972 she was nominated for Mother of the Year, in 1974 received the Susa Young has been a member Gates award from the Utah Women's Political Caucus and her life. She was of the Women's Democratic Club since 1936 serving many positions including She than 20 years, she was voting district vice chair. has been secretary of the Democratic County Committee and served as a member of the County Executive Committee. president. For more 153 |
