From The Payson Chronicle in Payson, Utah, 10/11/00:

(It should be noted that this story appeared on the FRONT PAGE of the newspaper. Also, please note the use of the phrase “I was to a BYU football game” instead of “I was at a BYU football game.”)

by Ivan Haskell

As I was purusing the grocery ads the other day, in the middle of its pages were two witch pictures I readily identified as my daughter, Betty Ann (Haskell) Murray. It is the ad for Payson Market Place printed by Associated Foods in Salt Lake, and it goes to its many stores about the intermountain area.

I was to a BYU football game when this “witch” came down the stairs and gave me a hug and a kiss. I was somewhat startled, but when she repeated the process with my wife, DeLowa Haskell, and I could look at her, the familiarity came to me.

We were playing Pennsylvania, coached by Joe Paterno. He is very superstitious, I’m told, and Betty Ann as a witch confronted him and put a “hex” on him and his team, predicting that BYU would win the game, which is what happened.

She went up in the announcer’s booth with Paul James and talked with him and gave her name as Grinelda the Witch. She dons this costume every October and makes the formidable appearance of a lovely witch.

My son-in-law, and Betty Ann’s husband, works in the printing department and they were looking for a model to dress as a witch for pictures in these ads. Bill told them, I’m married to a real witch. They looked at some photos of her and told him to bring her in and they would look at her. Apparently, she passed their test.