Ogden Pioneer Days

Harry Joseph Mosher, born April 24, 1936, died Friday, May 4, 2012, at his Hyrum home after an extended illness. Services will be held Monday, May 14, at Larkin & Sons Mortuary, 496 24th St., Ogden. Family and friends may visit beginning at 9 a.m., funeral at 11 a.m. A vintage car processional and graveside dedication will follow with interment at Ogden City Cemetery. All vintage car club aficionados are invited to bring their vehicles in tribute. Post condolences at viewobit.com/larkinandsonsmortuary. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

NORTH OGDEN -- A business icon in the Ogden rodeo and equestrian world, Ken Cross, 85, died last week.

The funeral has been set for Wednesday for the man credited with much of the success of Ogden Pioneer Days, the Miss Rodeo Utah and Miss Rodeo Ogden pageants and a host of local activities involving horses through the many activities his business supported.

OGDEN -- A float displaying the musical side of the Mormon pioneers was named as the top winner of the 2011 Ogden Pioneer Days parade.

"Even today at my work, people are still talking about it," Paula Sever, Ogden Pioneer Days parade committee member, said Tuesday of the float that featured enthusiastic musicians playing violins and banjos.

OGDEN -- Beginning with a flyover by F-16 fighter jets from Hill Air Force Base, the Ogden Pioneer Days Parade set off along Washington Boulevard on Monday morning.

OGDEN -- The parade went off with plenty of hitches -- just as planned.

The annual Horse and Hitch Parade is a long-standing part of Ogden Pioneer Days. And with more than 600 horses in the parade Monday evening, it's the largest such parade in the United States, said Tracy Smith, parade director.

"It's three times as big" as when Chet Leete said he attended the parade about 20 years ago.