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Main Street Park & Stage at 55 South Main Street in Helper, Utah.

Related:

• Helper Senior Citizens Park
• Standardville “Bandstand”

This plaque is dedicated to Nieda Garcia and Lois Giordano

In 2008 Nieda Garcia and Lois Giordano saw a dream, and watched this dream come true.

It started with the few and continues on today with the many. This plaque is dedicated to two women who had a dream of their little town becoming filled with beauty and pride. Friends working side by side along with others to help Helper Main Street be what it is today. Flowers being planted, streets clean. So when people come to visit, they see a thriving community and a town fill of life, a town that thrives through its people working together Communicating and Respecting who and what this town was and can be. Their hard work and determination is admired and respected by all who know and love them.

Honorable mention goes out to Edna Romano and Cindy Curry.

Roy William Simmons/Elizabeth Ellison “Tibby” Simmons

Roy and Tibby were both born in 1916; Roy in Portland, Oregon, and Tibby in Layton, Utah. Thy met as students in an acting class at the University of Utah, where Tibby played the part of Roy’s grandmother. They married in 1938, becoming the parents of six children: Julia (Watkins), Matthew, Laurence, Elizabeth (Hoke), Harris, and David.

Tibby excelled in drama and speech and maintained a life-long love of the arts. Always active in church and civic groups, she developed a special passion for her pioneer heritage and invested herself in the restoration and preservation of historic homes and buildings. She also served for many years as a member of the general board of the Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, traveling throughout the world teaching and training youth and their leaders.

After his mother’s death, Roy moved at a young age to Salt Lake City, where he was reared by Blanche Reese White. By the time he was ten, he was helping to support himself by working at a variety of jobs, including peddling vegetables, fireworks, magazines, newspapers, and refrigerators and working shifts at gasoline stations, grocery stores, movie theaters, and hamburger stands.

Following their marriage, Roy and Tibby moved to Layton, Utah, where Roy soon began working for his father-in-law, L. E. Ellison, at the First National Bank of Layton. In banking, Roy found his career and future success. With a small investment and through the creation, purchase, and merger of a number of financial institutions, Roy eventually built one of the West’s largest banking enterprises, Zions Bankcoporation. He served as the chairman of this institution until 2002.

Roy and Tibby Simmons have had an impact on the quality of life in Davis County and the state of Utah through their selfless involvement in the arts and in numerous community and charitable organizations.

This is one of several memorial plaques at the Senator Haven J. Barlow Field at Layton High School (440 N Wasatch Drive in Layton, Utah)

Laurence Ephraim Ellison & Catherine Maria Adams Ellison

Laurence Ephraim (L. E.) Ellison and Catherine Maria (Katie) Adams were born in Layton to pioneer parents. L. E. to Ephraim Peter and Elizabeth Whitesides Ellison, and Katie to Elias Jr. and Elizabeth Rose Harris Adams. They were married in 1967 and had six children: Harris, Oma (Wilcox), Elizabeth (Simmons), Bonnie Rae (Barlow), Carol (Morgan), and Kate (Anderson). They raised their children in the family home at 529 West Gentile St., Layton.

Katie attended the Agricultural College in Logan (now Utah State University), where she became a member of the Sorosis Society. A beautiful young woman, she was chosen to model clothes sent to an Exposition in Chicago in 1904. She was an accomplished sidesaddle rider who also raced her horse at the Lagoon racetrack. After her marriage, Katie was active in community affairs. She served as president of the Layton Elementary School PTA. During World War II, she was a Gray Lady in the American Red Cross. She was a member of Bay View Club, Utah Federated Women’s Club, Sorosis Alumnae, and served as a delegate to the Women’s Utah State Legislative Council. For twenty-five years she served as a counselor in the LDS stake Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association.

Her cooking was legendary – as were her wide-brimmed black hats. L. E. graduated from the University of Utah in 1902, where he served as president of the senior class and later as president of the Emeritus Club. After a short career as teacher and principal of the Kaysville Academy, he began working in his father’s businesses. He worked for the Farmer’s Union, Layton Milling, and Ellison Ranching Company as a bookkeeper.

In 1920 the Republicans and Democrats both nominated him as their candidate for president (mayor) of the Town Board. He was elected and went on to serve six consecutive terms. He was instrumental in the planning and construction of the first paved road in Davis County and served on the Davis County Welfare Board. Active in the Boy Scouts of American for many years, L. E. received the Silver Beaver award. For the L.D.S. Church, he served on the stake high council and stake Young Men’s Mutual Improvement board.

A much-admired and successful cattleman, he was president of the Salt Lake Union Stockyards for many years; and. in 1938, his first grade Hereford steers “topped the market” in Chicago – the first Western beef to do so.

In 1905 his father, E. P. Ellison, and others founded the First National Bank of Layton. During the Depression of the 1930s, under L. E.’s leadership, the Bank not only continued to pay dividends but also did not foreclose on any real estate loans. In 1941-42 L. E. served as President of the Utah Bankers Association. For sixty years he was known as “Layton’s Banker,” working until a few days before his death at age eighty-five.

This is one of several memorial plaques at the Senator Haven J. Barlow Field at Layton High School (440 N Wasatch Drive in Layton, Utah)

Haven J. Barlow/Bonnie Rae Ellison Barlow

Haven J. Barlow was born in 1922 in Clearfield, Utah, and Bonnie Rae Ellison Barlow was born in 1923 in Layton, Utah. They were married in 1944, while Haven was serving as an officer in the U. S. Navy. They are the parents of six children: Jesselie (Anderson), Heidi (Harris), Haven J. Jr., Duncan E., Stewart E., and Rachel (Richardson).

As a young woman, Bonnie Rae served as the editor of the Davis High School student newspaper and later attended the University of Utah. She also studied at the University of Mexico, where she acquired a life-long love of the Mexican people and their culture. She has worked with emotionally disturbed children through the Children’s Center and been at various times a member of the Women’s Legislative Council, Utah Symphony Guild, Ballet West Guild, Salt Lake City Assistance League, and the Bay View Club. She has also served as an LDS Ward Relief Society president.

An enthusiastic horsewoman and photographer, Bonnie Rae also excelled in pottery making, a skill she enhanced by taking lessons from renowned Indian potter Maria Martinez.

Haven J. Barlow is a graduate of the Utah Agricultural College, now Utah State University. Following service in World War II, he entered the real estate and insurance business in Layton, Utah.

Active in business and community affairs, he served on the boards of the First National Bank of Layton and the Utah Symphony and is a past president of the Ogden Board of Realtors, and the Trapper Trail Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Haven also served as an LDS bishop and is the recipient of the Silver Beaver award and an honorary doctor of humanities degree from Weber State University.

Haven J. Barlow is best known for his work as a member of the Utah State Legislature, where he served for forty-two years – longer than anyone else in the history of the state – serving for three terms as president of the Senate. While a member of the Utah State Senate, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Davis Applied Technology Center, Ogden/Weber Applied Technology Center, Davis Campus of Weber State University, Hill Aerospace Museum, and the purchase and creation of Antelope Island as a State Park.

This is one of several memorial plaques at the Senator Haven J. Barlow Field at Layton High School (440 N Wasatch Drive in Layton, Utah)

Jewel Lee Kenley

When a 1993 auto accident took her husband, Ed Kenley, and left her seriously injured, “Julie” Kenley was concerned about the welfare of the eighty employees of the Ed Kenley Ford dealership that her husband had owned and operated. She determined to perpetuate the business and has succeeded by every measure.

In 1998, her mostly male peers in the Utah Auto Dealers Association nominated her for the Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award, an honor given annually for outstanding operation of an automobile dealership and for distinguished community service. She emerged as one of the Top Ten Finalists out of more than 20,000 nominees, earning also a listing in the Automobile Hall of Fame in Dearborn, Michigan. In 2000 she was elected President of the Northern Utah Auto Dealers Association.

A tireless public servant, Mrs. Kenley has served on numerous boards, including those of the Davis Hospital & Medical Center, Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, Hill Air Force Base Military Affairs Committee, Davis Applied Technology Center, and Weber State University National Advisory Board. She has also been frequently recognized for her support of the arts, community development, and education.

One of her proudest accomplishments was her involvement in a creation of the Edward A. Kenley Centennial Amphitheater, a private/public partnership that brings quality entertainment to northern Utah.

In 1998 her many achievements were acknowledged as she received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Weber State University.

This is one of several memorial plaques at the Senator Haven J. Barlow Field at Layton High School (440 N Wasatch Drive in Layton, Utah)

The Corner Market Building is located between 1st Avenue and Western Avenue and is located partly in the Pike Place Market Historic District in Seattle, Washington

• The Gum Wall is located in Post Alley.

The Corner Market Building is located at 1503 1st Avenue in the Pike Place Market Historic District in Seattle, Washington