In 1941, Oliver and Marie Johnson moved to Lindon and began to raise their family. Now, nearly 70 years later, one of their daughters is hoping to give back to the city that meant so much to her parents.

Connie Johnson Bahr, a resident of north Orem, came in front of the Lindon City Council on Tuesday and reported her plans to donate a piece of her family's land at 70 W. 200 South in Lindon to the city in hopes of building a park.

"I can't think of a better way to honor my parents," Bahr said. "If Daddy were still alive today, I think this is what he'd want to do anyway."

Oliver and Marie Johnson raised their family in Lindon and were always very active in the city. Oliver was involved with the town council, and Bahr said she remembers the day her dad came home excited that Lindon had become a city.

"Whatever the city was involved in, Daddy was there," Bahr said. "And Mother was his No. 1 right hand."

The couple built a house where Bahr grew up and had a large portion of land next to the home. After their death, the land the house was built on was divided into three parts and given to the couple's children.

"Then one day my brother came to me and said, 'I want to tear down the house and put a rest home there.' I came unglued," Bahr said.

Bahr said she couldn't stand to watch the home where she grew up be torn down.

So she and her husband Alan took out a loan to pay her brother out for his chunk of land. They then put the large piece of land next to the house up for sale but nothing ever came of it.

Bahr said she and her husband "fasted and prayed and were inspired that we should turn it into a park and donate it to Lindon."

Bahr has applied for federal grants to be able to pay the loan off, keep the land and donate it to Lindon.She is currently working with Woody Mataele, assistant Lindon City planner, to get the grant and begin the development of a park.

Once the grant comes through and they can pay off the loan, Bahr said they plan on getting help from Boy Scouts working on Eagle Scout Projects to build the park.

The Bahrs have about six months to get the grant and pay the bank before the government takes the land.

Connie Bahr presented the idea to the Lindon City Council on Tuesday night and received positive feedback from the council members.

"Lindon has been very cooperative," Alan Bahr said. "They want to start right now."

The main purpose behind Bahr's decision to donate the land to Lindon is to honor her parents, and Bahr said her parents would have loved the idea of giving the land to the city to build a park.

"There isn't a community park in that area," she said. "My main purpose is to honor my parents. They loved Lindon and worked hard for Lindon."