Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

take. Dan and Ted went also. Anne didn’t go because it was storming.
Tom gave a wonderful talk. He told about President McKay’s visit to Samoa, the first time a
President had been there, and how they called him Prophet McKay instead of President and how
the missionaries taught the people to live and work as well as the gospel. The missionaries were
building chapels and showing the people how and they were doing the work. Tom said he spent
most of his time in the school.
Last Sunday May 6th Anne, Blair, Sara, Ted, Dan, Tom, and I went to Magrath to see Lore bless
his baby girl. She was just 9 weeks old. She is a little roly poly doll weighing 8 pounds. Lore
named her Barbara Jean and gave her a lovely blessing. Father and Barbara’s father [the two
grandfathers’] helped hold her. After meeting we all went to Barbara and Lore’s and had a
lovely dinner. Frank and Lloyd stayed home so they could attend their meetings.
Tom took Dan’s car on Monday and went to find him a job in Calgary or Edmonton.
Dee Jeppson was killed April 4. Father was in HillSpring tearing down the house when the
folks received word so Father phoned to me and told me he thought I should go. Lore, who was
helping Father with the house, came and got me and took me to Lethbridge and Glen and Father
and Mother met me there and we went to Salt Lake. We had a pleasant trip. It was good to visit
with the folks. We arrived at Ethel’s at about 5 o’clock Friday evening April 6. Ethel was in
bed. The shock had been too much for her. Father and Glen administered to her and she felt
better. She got up and had supper. Carol and Fanny and Gloria Fisher [can’t remember her
married name] were there too.
Tom went to work in Calgary in the town office. Then he taught school in Lethbridge for a year
then went to University in Provo and received his master’s degree in science and is now working
for his Doctor’s Degree.
1958. January 16 th , Bow Island
Got up at 5:30, bathed and got ready to go to Cardston with Ren and Bro. Pratt. Went
through a session at the temple and did endowments for Susanna Allen.
Madge Low told me when I was getting my name that they were holding a funeral for Jody Lenz
at 2 o’clock in Cardston. So Ren and I went to the funeral. The HillSpring choir was singing
and there was a big crowd from HillSpring there. I got to thinking of all the things people had
done for me and I couldn’t stop crying. I enjoyed Bishop George Hull’s talk so much. Kay
helped Donna and her two oldest children in, and the family. Edna, Roy, and Jimmy Lenz were
there. Brother Matkin [dentist], who is now living in Lethbridge, talked also. It was a lovely
funeral. We then went out to HillSpring and spent an hour with Mother and Father. We got back
to Cardston just as the temple was letting out. We picked up Bro. Pratt and returned home.
1958. January 17 th
Today I went to Relief Society. We had a lesson on Hamlet, ‘Shakespeare in our Lives’. I did a
little sewing. Father is downstairs listening to the new Television we got for Christmas. Frank,
Lloyd and Dan have gone to basketball practice. Dan is the coach for the Gershaw school team.
They played ball last week and Frank sprained his ankle but it is better now. Father has a sore
back. He and the boys loaded a carload of potatoes today and it is very sore tonight.
1958. On June 26, 1958 Dan was married to Alma May Eagleson in the Alberta Temple by
Pres. Archibald. The witnesses were Father and Tom Davies. Alma had been to the temple two
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