Estella "Stella" Christina Evans Ainge, age 93, passed away at her home in Brush Creek on March 6, 2008 of natural causes. She was born March 30, 1914 in Vernal, the second of five children to Edward William Evans and Gladys Middleton Evans.
She married Thomas Leaon Ainge on March 30, 1937 on the Evans Ranch on Brush Creek. She and Leaon had two children, Juanita "Nita" Clark of Jensen and Thomas "Tom" Kyle Ainge of Kanab. She had 10 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She had three brothers and one sister.
She was raised and lived her entire life on their ranch on Brush Creek except after she graduated from high school she attended Westminister College in Salt Lake. She was a homemaker and worked on the ranch in any capacity she was needed: mowing hay with a team of horses and a six-foot side-bar mowing machine, bucking up hay with the buckrake (sometimes called the bullrake) taking it into the hay stacker and irrigating.
She and Leaon raised a large garden and she bottled everything she could. This was a big job back then as they did not have electricity until 1952, so it required a lot of cutting and hauling wood and standing over a hot stove for many hours.
She was an accomplished seamstress and taught herself to crochet and knit. All her children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, friends and neighbors enjoy the fruits of her labor in the form of at least on hot pad, dish cloth, house shoe, scarf, afghan or mitten.
In the late 1940s Leaon and Stella purchased mountain grazing property on the east end of Pot Creek, where it flows into the Green River at the foot of Oilfield Mountain in Colorado. When they bought the property they did not have an automobile, so the only way to go back and forth was by horseback. Stella helped pack up the pack mules to haul supplies and made several trips with Leaon to their mountain property from the Brush Creek ranch, up through McFarley Flat to just west of Island Park, up over Diamond Mountain, down to Pot Creek and on down to their place. This took about 13 hours with the pack mules.
Stella was an excellent cook and her pastries melted in your mouth, they were so light and delicious. After the children were grown she put her cooking abilities to good use by going to work at Maude's Café, next to the old Rock Service station in Vernal, and later worked at the Trail Café, Commercial Grill and the Gateway Café for approximately 15 years. She made all their pastries, so she had to leave home at 4 a.m. to have the cinnamon rolls, pies, and other pastries ready for the early morning coffee run.
Leaon and Stella had several of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren live with them for periods of time while they were either working in the area or going to college.
Estella was preceded in death by husband; parents; and all of her brothers and sisters, Martin Evans, Floyd Evans, Wilford Evans and Laura Kenny.
Funeral services will be Saturday, March 15 at 2 p.m. at Jensen Ward Chapel. Friends and family may call at the chapel one hour prior to the services. Burial will be in the Jensen Cemetery, under the direction of Blackburn Vernal Mortuary.
-Vernal Express, March 13, 2008
She married Thomas Leaon Ainge on March 30, 1937 on the Evans Ranch on Brush Creek. She and Leaon had two children, Juanita "Nita" Clark of Jensen and Thomas "Tom" Kyle Ainge of Kanab. She had 10 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She had three brothers and one sister.
She was raised and lived her entire life on their ranch on Brush Creek except after she graduated from high school she attended Westminister College in Salt Lake. She was a homemaker and worked on the ranch in any capacity she was needed: mowing hay with a team of horses and a six-foot side-bar mowing machine, bucking up hay with the buckrake (sometimes called the bullrake) taking it into the hay stacker and irrigating.
She and Leaon raised a large garden and she bottled everything she could. This was a big job back then as they did not have electricity until 1952, so it required a lot of cutting and hauling wood and standing over a hot stove for many hours.
She was an accomplished seamstress and taught herself to crochet and knit. All her children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, friends and neighbors enjoy the fruits of her labor in the form of at least on hot pad, dish cloth, house shoe, scarf, afghan or mitten.
In the late 1940s Leaon and Stella purchased mountain grazing property on the east end of Pot Creek, where it flows into the Green River at the foot of Oilfield Mountain in Colorado. When they bought the property they did not have an automobile, so the only way to go back and forth was by horseback. Stella helped pack up the pack mules to haul supplies and made several trips with Leaon to their mountain property from the Brush Creek ranch, up through McFarley Flat to just west of Island Park, up over Diamond Mountain, down to Pot Creek and on down to their place. This took about 13 hours with the pack mules.
Stella was an excellent cook and her pastries melted in your mouth, they were so light and delicious. After the children were grown she put her cooking abilities to good use by going to work at Maude's Café, next to the old Rock Service station in Vernal, and later worked at the Trail Café, Commercial Grill and the Gateway Café for approximately 15 years. She made all their pastries, so she had to leave home at 4 a.m. to have the cinnamon rolls, pies, and other pastries ready for the early morning coffee run.
Leaon and Stella had several of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren live with them for periods of time while they were either working in the area or going to college.
Estella was preceded in death by husband; parents; and all of her brothers and sisters, Martin Evans, Floyd Evans, Wilford Evans and Laura Kenny.
Funeral services will be Saturday, March 15 at 2 p.m. at Jensen Ward Chapel. Friends and family may call at the chapel one hour prior to the services. Burial will be in the Jensen Cemetery, under the direction of Blackburn Vernal Mortuary.
-Vernal Express, March 13, 2008
Estella "Stella" Christina Evans Ainge, age 93, passed away at her home in Brush Creek on March 6, 2008 of natural causes. She was born March 30, 1914 in Vernal, the second of five children to Edward William Evans and Gladys Middleton Evans.
She married Thomas Leaon Ainge on March 30, 1937 on the Evans Ranch on Brush Creek. She and Leaon had two children, Juanita "Nita" Clark of Jensen and Thomas "Tom" Kyle Ainge of Kanab. She had 10 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She had three brothers and one sister.
She was raised and lived her entire life on their ranch on Brush Creek except after she graduated from high school she attended Westminister College in Salt Lake. She was a homemaker and worked on the ranch in any capacity she was needed: mowing hay with a team of horses and a six-foot side-bar mowing machine, bucking up hay with the buckrake (sometimes called the bullrake) taking it into the hay stacker and irrigating.
She and Leaon raised a large garden and she bottled everything she could. This was a big job back then as they did not have electricity until 1952, so it required a lot of cutting and hauling wood and standing over a hot stove for many hours.
She was an accomplished seamstress and taught herself to crochet and knit. All her children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, friends and neighbors enjoy the fruits of her labor in the form of at least on hot pad, dish cloth, house shoe, scarf, afghan or mitten.
In the late 1940s Leaon and Stella purchased mountain grazing property on the east end of Pot Creek, where it flows into the Green River at the foot of Oilfield Mountain in Colorado. When they bought the property they did not have an automobile, so the only way to go back and forth was by horseback. Stella helped pack up the pack mules to haul supplies and made several trips with Leaon to their mountain property from the Brush Creek ranch, up through McFarley Flat to just west of Island Park, up over Diamond Mountain, down to Pot Creek and on down to their place. This took about 13 hours with the pack mules.
Stella was an excellent cook and her pastries melted in your mouth, they were so light and delicious. After the children were grown she put her cooking abilities to good use by going to work at Maude's Café, next to the old Rock Service station in Vernal, and later worked at the Trail Café, Commercial Grill and the Gateway Café for approximately 15 years. She made all their pastries, so she had to leave home at 4 a.m. to have the cinnamon rolls, pies, and other pastries ready for the early morning coffee run.
Leaon and Stella had several of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren live with them for periods of time while they were either working in the area or going to college.
Estella was preceded in death by husband; parents; and all of her brothers and sisters, Martin Evans, Floyd Evans, Wilford Evans and Laura Kenny.
Funeral services will be Saturday, March 15 at 2 p.m. at Jensen Ward Chapel. Friends and family may call at the chapel one hour prior to the services. Burial will be in the Jensen Cemetery, under the direction of Blackburn Vernal Mortuary.
-Vernal Express, March 13, 2008
She married Thomas Leaon Ainge on March 30, 1937 on the Evans Ranch on Brush Creek. She and Leaon had two children, Juanita "Nita" Clark of Jensen and Thomas "Tom" Kyle Ainge of Kanab. She had 10 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She had three brothers and one sister.
She was raised and lived her entire life on their ranch on Brush Creek except after she graduated from high school she attended Westminister College in Salt Lake. She was a homemaker and worked on the ranch in any capacity she was needed: mowing hay with a team of horses and a six-foot side-bar mowing machine, bucking up hay with the buckrake (sometimes called the bullrake) taking it into the hay stacker and irrigating.
She and Leaon raised a large garden and she bottled everything she could. This was a big job back then as they did not have electricity until 1952, so it required a lot of cutting and hauling wood and standing over a hot stove for many hours.
She was an accomplished seamstress and taught herself to crochet and knit. All her children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, friends and neighbors enjoy the fruits of her labor in the form of at least on hot pad, dish cloth, house shoe, scarf, afghan or mitten.
In the late 1940s Leaon and Stella purchased mountain grazing property on the east end of Pot Creek, where it flows into the Green River at the foot of Oilfield Mountain in Colorado. When they bought the property they did not have an automobile, so the only way to go back and forth was by horseback. Stella helped pack up the pack mules to haul supplies and made several trips with Leaon to their mountain property from the Brush Creek ranch, up through McFarley Flat to just west of Island Park, up over Diamond Mountain, down to Pot Creek and on down to their place. This took about 13 hours with the pack mules.
Stella was an excellent cook and her pastries melted in your mouth, they were so light and delicious. After the children were grown she put her cooking abilities to good use by going to work at Maude's Café, next to the old Rock Service station in Vernal, and later worked at the Trail Café, Commercial Grill and the Gateway Café for approximately 15 years. She made all their pastries, so she had to leave home at 4 a.m. to have the cinnamon rolls, pies, and other pastries ready for the early morning coffee run.
Leaon and Stella had several of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren live with them for periods of time while they were either working in the area or going to college.
Estella was preceded in death by husband; parents; and all of her brothers and sisters, Martin Evans, Floyd Evans, Wilford Evans and Laura Kenny.
Funeral services will be Saturday, March 15 at 2 p.m. at Jensen Ward Chapel. Friends and family may call at the chapel one hour prior to the services. Burial will be in the Jensen Cemetery, under the direction of Blackburn Vernal Mortuary.
-Vernal Express, March 13, 2008
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