From our files: Jimmie Parker honored 10 years ago

100 years ago, April 2, 1926

The Cowley Progress

The highly heralded Universal super thriller, “The Phantom of the Opera,” which Carl Laemmle, the producer, confidently claims to be even bigger than “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” hitherto the most gigantic of Universal productions, will be presented to patrons of the  Hub Theatre next Friday and Saturday nights, April 9 and 10, Bishop Marchant, manager of the Hub announces.

75 years ago, April 5, 1951

The Lovell Chronicle

Clarence Townsend, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Townsend, and Miss Irene Seibt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Seibt of Argentina, South America, were married in the LDS Temple at Salt Lake City on March 28. Miss Seibt was met at the Denver Airport, having flown up from Argentina. 

Clarence graduated from Lovell High School in 1943 and served two years in the Navy and then served as a missionary to Argentina for 2½ years. Irene’s parents were born in Germany and then went to Argentina, where she was born and received her education. The young couple are making their home in Lovell.

50 years ago, April 1, 1976

The Lovell Chronicle

Sale of the Montgomery Ward catalog sales store in Lovell is being completed this week, along with a move to a new location. Former owners Marvin and Delores Hjorth have sold the business to Richard and Connie Fernau. The move across the street to the former Coast to Coast location was completed last Saturday.

25 years ago, April 5, 2001

The Lovell Chronicle

A local real estate broker is striking out on her own. Sarah Johnson has opened Johnson Home and Land at 235 E. Main in Lovell, the same building she has occupied as the managing broker in Lovell for the Wyoming Real Estate Network of Powell.

10 years ago, March 31, 2016

The Lovell Chronicle

Jimmie Parker was honored Thursday evening, March 17, in a friendly gathering of Cowley history lovers and town officials. Jimmie worked for father LeRoy’s pig farm south of Cowley, ... and he later went to work for Max and Judy Gifford, helping with their animals. Jimmie loves hard work, and he loves TV programs on the History Channel, Discovery and the like, Roland Simmons said.

Parker has donated many items to the musem over the years, so the museum has designated a special place in the facility of Jimmie’s items and has named him an honorary historian. “All of us should take a page out of Jimmie’s book,” Mayor Joel Peterson said. “It’s not so much what you have, it’s what you bring to others. This is truly fitting.”