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are such lovely people. Monday night Ellen and Veryle, Jerry, Kenny and Connie Sue and Lore, Barbara, Bobby, Lorianne, and Dana Lynn came and stayed all night. Sara, Ted, Ricky, Wendy and Doran came on Tuesday and we had another turkey dinner. They brought such lovely presents for us all. It was so good to have Tom and Frank home for a week. Tom was in the university hospital for some time this fall and is still under Doctor’s care. They thought that it was the muscles of his leg that had been hurt at first, but found out by sending a graft of his skin to Washington that he had contacted a terrible disease while on his mission in Samoa. The germ had lain dormant in his leg for 4 years. This fall it began to destroy the nerve cells halfway up in his leg before the Doctors in Salt Lake found out what it was. They are giving him some pills that they say will kill the germ in a year and hope to restore life to his leg in another year. He limps and it is painful at times. On New Year’s Day his stomach was bothering him. He said the doctor told him if this happened again to come to him for it might be the pills that were causing it. On Tues the 3rd of January Ren and I took Tom to Lethbridge to meet the people he was going back with. We haven’t heard from him since then. Franky went back on New Year’s Day. He had to be back to school by the third. It has been so hard for Frank to be away from home for the first time, and with Tom sick. They have both prayed earnestly about it. Tom said he fasted for three days and Frank and the boys had administered to him. Tom said it was such a comfort to have Frank there with him. Frank for some years has wanted to go to Provo to school. Last fall we didn’t have the money to send him but Lynn gave him money for his tuition and Tom put the $500 deposit he needed down and told him to come. Frank had received over $100 for his 4- H Calf Club so he was able to go. He is enjoying his courses in Animal Husbandry and in music. He sang with the university choir in the Sunday evening session of Conference in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. He said it was wonderful to sit so near to President McKay and to sing in the choir. On Sunday Christmas Day December 25, 1960 we met in the church house for the first time. It is not completely finished but was lovely to be in. Tom and Frank and Barry Pratt, who is attending school in Taber, spoke in the afternoon meeting. They bore such lovely testimonies. Oh may God bless them both with health and strength! In the Sunday school, Brother Taylor presented some new song books that Max and Roxy Hamilton sent to the branch. They moved to Salt Lake last fall and are doing very well. Max is working in a news office in Salt Lake City. Anne and her family are living in Edmonton. They returned from Provo last fall. It was sometime before Blair was able to get work. He is now doing research work for the Government. They came down in November and we had a nice visit with them. Lore went to summer school and received his Bachelor of Education in August 1960. Tom hopes to get his Doctors Degree in Science this spring. He is now doing research work. 1961. January 28 th Today is my 59th birthday. Yesterday I received a letter from Tom and Frank for which I was very grateful. Tom said that his stomach was all right now. That his leg was about the same but he was able to get around on it pretty good. He was still a bit worried about people getting the infection from him, so he was going to talk to the Stake President about it and ask his advice. He was going to the green and gold ball that was being held in their ward that night. Tom is a councilor in the Bishopric. Frankie said he was getting along all right. He is expecting to write his exams this next week for the first semester. 32
Sara phoned yesterday. Ricky was on TV in the Georgia Birthday Program. Ricky’s birthday is just before mine. Barbara phoned this morning to wish me a Happy Birthday. I received a letter from Anne, Linda and Davy wishing me a Happy Birthday. This morning Alma and Carol, Kathy and Dan gave me a lovely broach. I have wanted one to hold my dress up around my neck. The dresses are all so low. Father came and brought me home from Primary at 3:30 so it has been a happy day. Tonight Lloyd kissed me and said he loved me. Dear Mother and Father, We are having our 8 th birthday party in our class Wed. afternoon the 1 st of June. Because 8 years is the age for being members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, it is the first important birthday of our lives. Will you celebrate with us and help us eat our eight-candle cake? Sincerely yours, Frankie and his friends, Frankie dear, you have always been an obedient son and such a joy and help to us. [Frankie I found this letter among my papers today so I’ll paste it in my book. This is a letter Frank wrote December 31, 1962 while on his mission. I found it among the cards and papers. Dear Folks, Well this is the last day of 1962 and another year is about to begin bringing with it new hopes and new resolutions and determinations. I hope this year that you will have the things you need to make life happy and the necessities of life that make it comfortable. I received your Christmas presents, the shirt, cake, and candy. Thank you very much for everything. We had a very nice Christmas. The people have been very good to us. Elder Grappmayer’s brother had a bad accident not too far from Hawthorne on their way home from Utah where they had been for Christmas. No one was killed but his little 7 year old was hurt really badly so we went to see them at the hospital Christmas Eve. She has been released from the hospital now. So this has been an eventful Christmas for me. In some ways it seems like someone in the family was hurt and because of this it seems to have been a long drawn out Christmas season. We are in Reno today. I went down to get a new extension of stay in USA for six months. I got that taken care of. It has been almost one year now. Everything is fine with me. I have plenty of money. $200 should last through September. I will write and tell you when I need more. I love you very much. Frank 1962. I sent Frank’s letter to Loyd to read. 1963. July Today Lloyd was working in the field cultivating the beets. I was busy in the house and hadn’t noticed the dark clouds that had come up from the west. He came running into the house and said, “Mother let us have prayer. It looks like hail.” So we knelt down together and prayed that the Lord would protect our crops from the destroying elements. We each took a turn praying. Then we went outside. Everything was so still and hot we could hardly breathe and I have never 33
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Page 3 and 4: us, and Tom and Lore, went down to
Page 5 and 6: When Tom was just a little fellow h
Page 7 and 8: gave me such a lovely blessing. He
Page 9 and 10: came out for the first time. I came
Page 11 and 12: milking cows. He also got a small t
Page 13 and 14: They wouldn’t take any thing for
Page 15 and 16: companion to come to Los Angeles an
Page 17 and 18: and seemed so homesick and discoura
Page 19 and 20: had been renting, so Ren and Lynn p
Page 21 and 22: Merrill, reading by Veryle’s 14 y
Page 23 and 24: Boy born at Utah Valley Hospital, J
Page 25 and 26: take. Dan and Ted went also. Anne d
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Page 31: 1960. February 19 th Tonight Ren, F
Page 35 and 36: Father bought a new car and we took
Page 37 and 38: e back to work Tuesday morning so t
Page 39 and 40: They had gone to Las Vegas a number
Page 41 and 42: Lynn had living quarters in part of
Page 43 and 44: this year. So our family is growing
Page 45 and 46: grandparents, were there in the roo
Page 47 and 48: Janene and Denise. Lloyd had finish
Page 49 and 50: Rae showed a locket with a picture
Page 51 and 52: Veryle read it so nicely. The parce
Page 53 and 54: along with some cookies, for lunch.
Page 55 and 56: Stringham brings her car and picks
Page 57 and 58: Myrtle has lived in the hospital. S
Page 59 and 60: told him that morning, of a time wh
Page 61 and 62: This morning Gail Southerton was ma
Page 63 and 64: things in the one bedroom and garag
Page 65 and 66: In the year 1830, a member of the c
Page 67 and 68: will learn obedience and grow to be
Page 69 and 70: took names for the dead. I will try
Page 71 and 72: 1974. April 27 th It is Saturday mo
Page 73 and 74: Orman thinking I had the flu. I had
Page 75 and 76: Fay is expecting soon and Rae is no
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Page 79 and 80: 1974. December 3 rd Today I went to
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It is late and I am very tired. I m
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And trusting plans the morrow. For
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people. They never say an unkind wo
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I surely haven’t been to the temp
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her neighbors and was always doing
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meeting some of our family especial
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Maybe the thing for me to do is to
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mountains. I have been tired today.
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some peas and put them in the fridg
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own family and our relatives but it
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that goes on. Oh if my children wil
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Father and I are going down to Magr
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it did that I can remember. I was s
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that I thought of as I sat there th
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1977. Saturday, July 16 th When I w
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1977. August 24 th This morning Ren
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It was Sunday. Sara invited us to c
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1978. March 7 th I have been lookin
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Ren came home from the temple and i
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children and grandchildren. I shoul
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1979. January Relief Society is at
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of boxes with pretty curtains aroun
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