Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

Barbara and Alma and Sara and families arrived soon after. By 10 AM we were at the Leavitt
church ready to practice the family program which was to be put on for the public on Friday
night. The children had learned the songs before they came. At noon we all went back to
Ellen’s. They had cleared out their big new garage and set up tables for a kitchen. Everyone
had brought most of their own food and we had plenty of warmed up casseroles for dinner. Tom
and Rae and family came Wednesday night. The program went off just as it was planned and it
was surely enjoyed by all of us.
Ruth Jensen and Elizabeth Smith took my place at the temple [traded days with me] and then
father and I went to the temple at 5 o’clock in the evening so didn’t get to the practices but were
there for the evening program on Friday night. It started promptly at 7:30 and was the best
program I have ever seen.
Lawrence and Mary Leavitt were there. Dora and Lynn and the Shields, [Alma’s folks] and
their friend, and some of the people from Leavitt were there. Sara’s sisters-in-laws, Jean and
Sharon, and their families also came and seemed to enjoy it very much. To me it was
marvelous. The decorations, costumes, dancing, and music were something I shall never forget.
All our family was there except Frank and Lloyd and families, and Lore.
1969. Saturday July 12 th
We all went to the Lake for the Thomas Davies Reunion. There was a good crowd. Aunt Ethel
Wynder and her girls and their families were there. Mary and Lawrence Leavitt and some of
Dora’s and all of mine made it. Frank and Fay came Saturday morning and Frank showed the
genealogy work that Leon had done. It is wonderful.
I feel most of the family were tired and anxious to get home when it was over. Frank and Fay
and Anne’s family stayed with us over night and went to church the next day. We had all the
strawberries they could eat from our garden while the family was here. I picked gallons of
strawberries and have put up enough for father and me for the winter. It will be a lovely week to
look back at with pleasure for the rest of my life.
1969. July 19 th
After the two Saturday sessions we went to the Woolford Park to the Gibb Reunion. Sara and
Ellen were there with their children. They took part on the program. Sara and Ellen sang the
song “Homing” that they sang in our program. It is so beautiful, Wendy gave a reading with
actions and Jerry and Ken played on their instruments.
The Gibbs are working on Hannah Gibb’s genealogy now.
1969. September 20 th
These past two months have been eventful ones. On August 2, 1969 we held the Franklin Pierce
Fisher Reunion. It was a very successful day. Legrand and most of his family were there. Bob,
Muriel and John and Margaret, Ada, Edyth and family, Erma, Jim and Morgan, Neff’s boys, and
family were there also. Ellen went to a convention at Calgary so was not there. Sara, Dan, and
Lore and families and most of the other Fisher families were represented.
On Sunday morning we help a testimonial. Such beautiful testimonies were born. Carol’s
family spoke of their love for their mother. I enjoyed Jim’s [Neff’s boy] testimony. He said the
day his father died he was cleaning the church for his father. [Neff was a caretaker of their
church in Kearnes]. Jim said he was fasting and very much concerned about his father who had
had a stroke. After praying for his father he sat down on the bench to rest for a minute. He said
the most peaceful feeling came over him and he felt that my Father and Mother, his
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