Mable Potter

Mable Virgie Call Potter Green River - Mable Virgie Call Potter, age 87, passed away quietly in the early hours December 4, 2005 at Castle Rock Convalescent Center in Green River after being ill health since April of this year. She was born September 29, 1918 in Afton, Wyoming (Star Valley) the daughter of Farnham Lamoni Call and Lillie May Welch. She was the 5th of eight children. Mable attended school in Afton. Her high school education was curtailed by a severe motor-cycle accident resulting in a badly fractured leg. She was bedridden for one year. Mable was born into a family of perfectionists with many varied talents and trades. Her father and brothers were all more than carpenters. They were craftsmen with wood, building many homes and businesses in and out of the Star Valley area. Her father helped his father, Anson Vascoe Call II build the Star Valley Stake Center in Afton. The women were talented seamstresses, designers, homemakers and milliners. She married Rex Miller Draney on October 16, 1934 in Randolf, Utah. To this union were born four children; Jeraldine Jasperson, Delano Rex Draney, Leland Call Draney and Roger Kent Draney. A divorce resulted in her later marrying Delbert Milton Johnson on July 20, 1945 in Ogden, Utah. She then became mother to his two children Klaar who was 5 and Jon Howard who was 2. Delbert was in the construction work so the family moved on the average of five times a year until finally settling in Layton, Utah. They were later divorced. After several years of living with her daughter Jeraldine in Green River, she met and married Cyril Potter on October 11, 1958 in Green River, where they made their home. She had a great love and bond with Cyril’s 4 children and his grandchildren and Mable shared her love and talents with them. Mable was employed for many years with Little America. Mable’s talents extended to designing and building not only with sewing and crochet but to wood work, home building, laying carpet, doing rock work as well as being an exemplary homemaker. She filled her home with beautiful homemade items. She was the happiest sewing and making wonderful meals for her family and friends. Mable loved her children and grandchildren. Spending time and talents with them at every opportunity. She loved to cook and was the happiest with a table full of family or friends. She loved the outdoors and especially the time of year when she and Cyril could go camping and hunting. She cooked for days preparing for the large hunting group. She sewed many things for others including an outfit designed and made from a new born calf worn by Betty Jo Potts who wore it when representing the Wyoming PTA in Washington D.C. in 1959 Mable was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is survived by a brother, Verdell Call of Afton; a daughter, Jeraldine Jasperson and husband Tex of Green River; a son, Delano Draney of Green River; 10 grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren, and 9 great great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Cyril, brothers, Lamoni, Garwin, Lathair and Lawrence, sisters Sylvia (infant), and Fontella Harrison, two sons, Leland and Roger, and two grandsons, Kole Jasperson and Rod Rick Draney, and stepson, Jon Howard Johnson. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 10, 2005 at the Green River LDS 7th Ward Chapel, 1250 W Teton Blvd., Green River. Friends and family may call 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. Saturday at the church. Interment will be in the Riverview Cemetery, Green River.