Reva Ponder

Reva Ponder, 88, died on Tuesday, June 17, 2008, at the Carriage House in Snowflake. Memorial services were held June 23 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Holbrook Stake Center. Interment was at the Show Low Cemetery.
   She was born Dec. 22, 1919, to John Lorenzo Willis and Sarah Mills Willis, the fourth of six children. She grew up in Show Low and graduated from Snowflake Union High School.
   Most of her adult life was spent in Holbrook. One of her first jobs was as a secretary in the Treasurer’s Office of Navajo County. She later worked as a secretary for several years for Whiting Bros., a major company in Holbrook at that time. She also worked as a secretary-bookkeeper for many years for the Holbrook Schools. Here, as always, she made many friends among the school employees, as well as the students. In the last few years she, along with her good friend Nelda Brinkerhoff, took tickets for athletic events at Holbrook High School.
   She was a lifelong member of the LDS church.
   On June 6, 1948, she married Victor Westover. To this union was born two daughters, the first named Vicki, who died at the age of three years of leukemia, and the second, Kathy, who died shortly after her birth. Some time later, after a divorce from Mr. Westover, Reva married Dewey Ponder and they lived together on East Hampshire Street in Holbrook until his passing.
   Reva was a beautiful, caring person, and will surely be missed by all who knew her.
   Survivors include her two brothers, Kenneth and Cecil Willis, both of Gilbert; as well as Beverly West-over Hatch of Holbrook and Robert Westover of Provo, Utah, who were much like her own children.
   Owens Mortuary of Holbrook was in charge of the arrangements.