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Claudia Veteto Stillman

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CLAUDIA VETETO STILLMAN

The past ten years have been rewarding as retirement has brought more opportunities for travel, time to enjoy our growing family, and service. In 2006 I retired from teaching at Lone Peak High School in Highland, Utah, after having served as Social Studies Department chairperson and instructor in AP World History, AP European History and AP Government and Politics classes. From 2006-2010 I served on the Highland City Council and saw a dream of many in our community realized with the building of a library and new city hall.

After my husband, Ted, retired in 2010 from serving for 13 years as City Manager of the neighboring city of Alpine, Utah, we made three family history trips. The longest was a 50-day, 10,000 mile trip last summer visiting the birthplaces of some of our ancestors. It began at a Veteto family reunion in Kansas, with a side-trip to Prince Edward Island, and culminated in a visit to the Stillman family home founded by Irish/British immigrants in 1836 in Ontario, Canada.

During the past ten years we have seen our last two of five children marry and our family expand to include 13 wonderful grandchildren. With them we have enjoyed camping trips to scenic areas such as Goblin Valley State Park in Utah, the Oregon coast, and Teton, Yellowstone, Zion, Glacier and Arches National Parks. We love traveling, hiking and camping in our RV, whether alone as a couple or with our entire family. And of course we enjoy attending all the soccer games and other sports and school programs and performances of our grandchildren.

Currently we are taking time off from pleasure to serve as full-time volunteer �member and leader support� senior missionaries in the Texas Houston Mission working with Hispanic members of our faith. Because we feel that we have received so many blessings in our lives and the lives of our family from our membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we welcome the opportunity to give something back. Our purpose here is to help others to come unto Christ through sharing our beliefs(see www.mormon.org)and to improve the lives of our Spanish-speaking members in the Northwest Houston area by offering English classes, keyboard/piano lessons, and other services and programs. The greatest challenge for us has been speaking Spanish again, forty-five years after we served as younger Spanish-speaking missionaries, Ted in the Guatemala-El Salvador Mission and I in the Spanish-American Mission headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

We do miss our family and friends back home but it is very rewarding work and we know we will find it hard to leave our new friends here when we return home next Spring. We are sorry to miss the reunion but wish you all good health and happiness.

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