Heritage Court 2014
Dorothy Ann Outzs
Dorothy Ann Outzs still lives in the house in which she was born 92 years ago, a home filled with mementos from traveling and bicycle touring.
Then, she says, the Third Avenue house in Hailey was just “a shack” that was scarcely bigger than today’s living room.
While Outzs has lost much of her sight to age-related macular degeneration, her memory remains sharp. Her grandparents were of Irish descent and moved to the West to seek their riches in America’s gold and silver mines. Her father Les Outzs, who grew up in Cleveland and drove an ammunition truck in France during World War I, served as Blaine County sheriff between 1940 and 1960, and her mother Mary helped found the county historical museum in 1964.
BETTS SIMON
Elizabeth “Betts” Simon is the granddaughter of the man who founded the Nash automobile in 1917.
She attended school with child star Shirley Temple.
And she has carved out a “classic Sun Valley life” for herself that included playing golf with the late Gretchen Fraser, America’s first Olympic alpine ski medalist.
Born in Wisconsin, Simon grew up in the shadow of the Detroit automobile business thanks to her grandfather Charles W. Nash and her father, who worked for Chrysler.
Cars, though a novelty for many Americans, were nothing special for her, she said, since they were such a familiar part of her life.
Joyce Edwards
Joyce Edwards has eclipsed 70. But that hasn’t stopped her from standing in front of 18 fellow seniors and showing them how to exercise their arms by holding a rubber band with one hand and pulling back on it with the other as if it were a bow.
Over the next hour she leads the seniors, including a 94-year-old woman, through a variety of exercises including lifting two-pound rubber balls filled with sand.
“It started four years ago after I was rear-ended in Bellevue,” said the Carey woman. “It broke the frame of my 1951 pickup and popped the rotator cuff in my right shoulder. I joined a class similar to this at the Hailey Senior Center for therapy. And, when they asked if anyone was interested in teaching a group in Carey, I said, ‘Yeah, I will.’ ”
Vivian Bobbitt
When Vivian Bobbitt and her husband Bill moved to Bellevue some 30 years ago they boosted the town’s population many-fold.
They brought truckloads of cows, horses, ducks, dogs, rabbits, chickens—even pheasants–from their former home in Rupert. Oh, and two children to boot.
“We brought lots of loads,” said Bobbitt. “When I had a day care at our home, the children called us Ol McBobbitt’s Farm. They loved for me to take them walking around to see all the animals.”
Vivian’s day still begins with the crowing of the rooster. The neighbors’ dogs promptly bounce over to beg for treats with her dogs. Then it’s on to feed dozens of chickens, including some new baby chicks, and 25 peacocks.