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Norma was a prolific writer, a true historian, a dear friend. We miss her and treasure her writings. Norma Smith WanIass 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 J. 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. These things are worth remembering. Then there were unpleasant things I choose to forget. I 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 before I saw 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, and I would 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 2 |
