| Show Norma wasprolific writer true historian dear friend We miss her and treasure her writings Norma Smith Wanlass Barton died November 25 1997 at her home in Manti after serving three years with her husband Lee Barton as the President and Matron of the Manti Temple THINGS WORTH REMEMBERING IN COLOR Elizabeth Story Senior Honorable Mention Poetry Certainly there are many many things about the complex world of my childhood days in Mt Pleasant Utah in Sanpete Valley which were very pleasant and good Thess things are worth remembering Then there were unpleasant thingschoose to forget remember innumerable shapes and splendid dyes and most and best of all the exciting colors GREEN GRAY of the sagebrush in our north field those ancient gnarled bushes growing there for ages Who knows how long they were there beforesaw them and their color PURPLE soft and so very delicate showing in the iris blossoms along the cemetery fences So like the orchids with fragile parts so lovely They say the iris is the flower of devotion andwould agree CRIMSON-CLAD peonies bright with iridescent light on the large blossoms on the two bushes in front of our old home planted by my grandmother in the early days She must have loved |
