The Snowflake Lobo Football Booster Club is proud to recognize Carvel and Cleone Solomon as the honorary sponsors for the 2021 football season. The Solomons are both products of the Snowflake/Taylor Community having  both lived here for most of their entire lives. Both graduates of Snowflake High School, and they are proud parents of eight children all graduates of Snowflake High School as well. They also have 19 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren with another expected to arrive in January. The Solomons have always been grateful for the opportunity to grow up in this community, and have always strived to help strengthen and promote the towns of Taylor and Snowflake along with the rich heritage that exists here.

Carvel was born in Winslow, Arizona where he lived until about the age of 8 years old. His family moved to Taylor, where his father worked various jobs but mostly focused on the logging and lumber industry. Tragically, Carvel’s father died when Carvel was 13 years old. As the oldest of his siblings, Carvel went to work to help provide for the family. Many good men helped Carvel to learn the building trade, which served Carvel, his own family, and many others well through the remainder of Carvel’s life. Carvel continued his education and was a lettered in Football, Basketball, Baseball, and Track and Field during his high school years. He went on to graduate from high school, served an LDS mission in the Northwestern States, and attended college at both BYU and ASU. Armed with a degree from ASU, Carvel took a teaching job at Snowflake Jr. High School where he taught 6th grade for many years and then transitioned to 7th Grade Math and/or Science after the 6th grade was moved from the Jr. High to the Intermediate school campuses. Carvel retired from teaching in 1996, but continued to build and remodel homes while managing several rental properties they had acquired through the years.

Cleone was born to Virgil and Gerda Flake in Snowflake. Virgil was a cattle rancher, and Cleone loved working cattle alongside her dad and brothers. She also loved playing sports, and often still complains that during her time in high school girls were quite limited in participation in sports activities. Every time we watch the current Lady Lobos Basketball Teams play Cleone shares her memories of the girls being limited to playing half court only back in the 1950s.. Regardless, Cleone developed a deadly accurate hook shot that served her well later in life when she needed to humble her much taller sons. Cleone attended college at BYU and ASU, and participated in college rodeo clubs as a barrel racer whenever she could manage to borrow a horse. She and Carvel married while attending school at ASU, and have lived in Taylor and later in Snowflake ever since.

Carvel and Cleone’s eight children all attended Snowflake High School, and watching their children participate in extracurricular activities was one of the highlights of their lives. Brad, Lori, Rob, and Kay were all members of the SHS Orchestra. Brad, Lori, Rob and Sterling are SHS Madrigal Alumni. Nolan and Joe were SHS Band members. Kay, Nolan, Sterling, Joe, and Steve all played football at SHS. Whether it was a concert or play in the auditorium, a football game under the Friday Night lights, or a basketball game or track meet, Cleone and Carvel made time in their busy schedules to enjoy watching their children perform. Most recently they were blessed to witness their two grandsons, Carter and Joshua Solomon, help the Lobos secure the 2020 3A State Football Championship with granddaughter Emma cheering them on as part of the Varsity Cheer Squad, and son Kay coaching from the sidelines. They are a great example of the legacy we continue to build at Snowflake High School and in our great community. We are proud to recognize the Solomons as our honorary Lobo Booster Sponsors for the 2021 season. Go Carvel and Cleone Solomon, and Go Lobos!!!