Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

and Ren and Max being successful in getting the go ahead permission on our church house, we
are now travelling toward home.
When we arrived at Anne’s we found Blair’s mother was staying there. She too had come up
with people attending conference. We enjoyed visiting with all of them and with Tom who was
staying for conference. Ren and I attended conference Friday and Saturday, then I stayed at
Anne’s and we listed to conference on TV.
Tom took Anne and I on Friday night to attend a music festival put on by the university. It was
a wonderful experience, to hear the different groups singing songs they had made up words to,
and acting out the songs as they sang. There were hundreds of beautiful voices in the final
chorus.
Then Tom took me to Salt Lake to join Ren and Bro. Hamilton to return home.
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......left for home to do chores. I stayed in Magrath and Lore and Barbara and children took me
to HillSpring to see my Father. Father wrote to Lore and asked him to bring me up to see him if
he could because he was expecting Ada and Eddy and Ethel for Christmas. I had not seen him
since October conference in Salt Lake City and I did want to see him. He lives alone in the old
home since Mother died. He keeps it so nice and clean and just loves to have the children come
home to see him. We have all tried to get him to come and visit us for awhile but he has his
cows and chickens and wants to be independent.
Ada and her family were there. Eddy and Ethel didn’t come. LeRoy, Ada’s stepson, has just
returned from his mission. He was there and Bill, Ada’s husband and Billy and Barbara and
Loraine Terry Hartley with her husband and 5 children. Father had a houseful for Christmas.
.........baby soon, had prepared for us. I phoned to Ellen at Provo and told her I was there and she
said they would come over the next morning. Lorraine, my Brother Frank’s wife, and I stayed at
Neff’s all night. Lorraine was there to attend conference.
The funeral was held that day at 2 o’clock. Reece Allred told of their life in HillSpring. The
singing was beautiful and Dave’s Bishop gave a lovely tribute to them. There were loads of
flowers.
Ellen came at noon and that night we went to Provo. Her baby is so sweet and she has a dear
little 3 roomed home to live in, bathroom, lovely cupboards, gas stove. She is a sweet little
mother. Veryle looks thin and she is too. The baby is nice and plump, and is a happy baby. It
was so good to see her.
I hadn’t seen her since September and it was the first time I had seen Jerry. We hoped she
would come home at Christmas but it was best for her not to travel so far the Doctor thought.
The rest of the children were all here except Tom at Christmas time and we had a happy
Christmas.
1960. Saturday January 2 nd
Two years have passed since I wrote in my diary. I have been reading through it and it is so
interesting to me. It brings back things of the past. I wish I had written oftener through the
years.
I will go back to Christmas Day. We got up early. Father and Frank and Lloyd and I looked at
the gifts we had given each other and the ones Aunt Lynn had left on Christmas Eve. She and
Dora had come down 2 days before so we had a nice visit with them. They left to spend
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