Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

took names for the dead. I will try to do so every week now. We have so many workers now
that every one goes just half a day so it is not too tiring. I love to work in the temple very much
Today was testimony meeting. We have such a large ward. The chapel in the stake house is
always full and they always have the front benches filled in the recreation room.
Ken stayed here last night. He went to Raymond to play basket ball. The Cardston team won.
Jerry came for him at seven o’clock. I am so grateful for my grandchildren. They all attend
sacrament and are such fine boys and girls. Oh if they can only keep themselves pure and clean.
I am reading the book ‘The Keys of the Kingdom’ by apostle S.W. Sill. I also read my Relief
Society lesson ‘think kindly of others’.
1974. March 7, Saturday
This has been a surprising day. Erva, Ada, Edyth, and Frank came to visit me. We had a lovely
afternoon together. Erva’s sister-in-law Thelma Burnham Jacob’s funeral was yesterday at
Lethbridge. Erva got Frank Fisher, my brother to bring her to Cardston to see Sister Burnham
and to see me. Erva lives in Burnham B.C. Edyth came with her husband and little girls to
Ada’s daughter at Pincher Creek. She had heard that Erva was here so she came over with
Edyth and Lynn. Erva had to go right back because she teaches school.
Sister Harker has had two deaths in the last two weeks. Leon Harker died in a fire. They had
just bought them a new trailer home. His wife went over to see her mother and while she was
gone Leon died in a fire that burnt his trailer house to the ground during the night. Ren thinks
that Leon was drunk and perhaps had been smoking which may have caused the fire. And then
Thelma died from cancer a few days after. It has been a terrible shock for Sister Harker. She is
nearing her 91 st birthday. She does her own work and it is marvelous the way she is able to get
around and remember people and so on.
Ren and I are going to Utah on Monday. He wants to do some more research. He is taking
Lynn and Dora down with him to visit Mary and Laurence and I’m going along too. I will be
able to go to conference while he is working at the library. Father doesn’t want to leave me here
alone, he says. I hope I won’t be in the way and we will have a good trip. Sara Leavitt and Eda
Wood are taking my place at the temple. We always have to get a substitute when we are away.
Emma is coming to live here. Frank said she sold their home. I do hope things will work out
for them.
1974. January 13 th
Aunt Mabel Gibb died yesterday. She has always been so good to me. I used to help her quite
often when I was a girl and she would sew a dress for me or pay me for working for her. She
was a lovely seamstress and house keeper. She has been living in the citizen’s home for some
years now since Uncle Frank, her husband, died. When I have gone to visit her she has been
glad to see me. Glen Fisher said he was sending flowers for the funeral and taking the money
out of the our father’s estate. The family decided to use the little that was left for flowers and to
send to missionaries etc. Things Father wanted to do all his life.
I have felt so very tired and discouraged today. I know I shouldn’t feel that way I have so many
blessings.
1974. January 16 th
I went to Aunt Mabel’s funeral today. There was a large crowd. All her family was there, 7
boys and 2 girls: Stan, Raocoe, Bruce, Dean, Dorothy, Wayne, Burt, Glen, Inez
The program went as follows
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