Journal of Mary Phyllis Fisher - Thomas Davies

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How beautiful to us they seem. All else is forgotten as we gather The flowers to take home. Then in the summer how we enjoyed Going on a picnic and eating at the spring. And then in the canal for our daily swim. In the winter what fun skiing and Coasting down the hill would bring, But the most precious memories of all Are those of our loved ones and friends and kin. 1975. January 2 nd Anne and her family all but Lynda and her husband and baby were here yesterday for New Year’s dinner. The turkey Father bought was nice and we had a lovely dinner. They stayed and visited with us until evening and they went away happy, I thought. Of course Noel is not very happy. I do pray that the Lord will bless her. I am glad she is going back to school. I think she misses her baby so much. She is very quiet and sad. I hope that she will do what is right and that the Lord will bless and guide her. I know she will find happiness if she serves him and keeps his commandments from now on. 1975. January 3 rd Father has gone to the temple and I’m alone. I will be glad when the men get their work caught up with the women but that will not be until February, they say, even if they do as many as they have been doing this past month. Judy Sheppard, Emma’s girl, is to be married in the temple Saturday January 4, 1975 to Stanly David Burton. He lives in Salmon Arms B.C. Judy was staying with Erva and teaching school when she met him there. 1975. January 5 th Judy’s husband is tall and big build, large face and not very good looking but friendly and nice. They had a lovely reception at their ward church. There was not as many there as they had hoped but Christmas is such a busy time. The people from Emma’s ward didn’t come because Emma and Jack have not been here very long. President Jensen and Hatty and Sister Baines were there. The program was nice, put on by the family. Mary’s family is very talented. It was a lovely family gathering. Sara, Dan and Lore were there from our family. Things are so dear we decided to go together and buy something. We each put in $5.00. Sara bought a set of nice sheet and pillow cases. They cost $20.00. They were not fancy. You can hardly believe things cost so much. You can’t buy anything for less than $5.00 so she didn’t get as many gifts as she hoped. I’m glad my family is all married and hope in the next few years when my grandchildren begin to marry things will be different, not so costly. Today is Sunday and I have been in bed with the flu all day. Well I’m glad that Christmas is over and I hope this miserable cold I have will soon leave me. Father went to Sunday school and meeting alone and I stayed in bed as he told me to. I didn’t feel like getting up, too dizzy and weak. I feel better tonight, only my heart keeps pumping away so fast. I hope by morning 80
it will be rested. The doctor said I must be very careful and never get tired. The trip to Edmonton, having Anne and family here for New Years, then the wedding I guess was too much. I hope I will feel better tomorrow. I am reading the Pearl of Great Price. But just can’t remember what I have read even when I take notes. I do hope that when I die my mind will be quickened and I can remember some of the things I have read. My patriarchal blessing says I shall be called to preach the gospel to the nations of the earth. I’ll be 73 on January 28, 1975 so I may have another 10 years to go, who knows. Must rest now. My feet are so numb. The blood is not being pumped to my hands and feet as it should be, Dr Roy Spackman says, and that is what makes them numb. Will lie down for awhile. Father is asleep on the cot. He came home from church, warmed over things left from supper. He is so good to me and takes such good care of me. I really believe he doesn’t want me to die. I said to him, “If I die you can get you a new wife. I wouldn’t want you to life alone.” But he always says he doesn’t want another wife. I love him so much and hope when I go to heaven he will soon come too for it would be terrible to be without him. It couldn’t be in heaven if he were not there. 1975. January 28 th Well I am 73 years old today. I hope I can do my visiting teaching today. I have been going with Sister Stringham, but she has asked to be released. She doesn’t like to drive when the roads are slippery and covered with snow in the wintertime. So I am going to go with Sister Claudia Roberts. Her phone number is 653 3010. Today at 2 o’clock we will go teaching to Rowena R Spackman ,Jutta Vander Hiede, Vickie Sommerfeldt, June Parks, Lorna Hatch, and Shirley Paulson. I hope we find some of them at home. We haven’t been finding anyone home lately. They must all work….Well we went teaching. Sister Roberts came and picked me up. We went to every house but no one was at home. They all work. I hoped she’d want to go at night but she doesn’t. Connie came over and had dinner with me. Father was not going to the temple this afternoon. We had a pleasant afternoon together listing to the radio. I worked on some dish towels I am making out of some sacks. Father brought me ten one hundred pound sacks. I needed dish towels so bad I was grateful for them. I was born January 28 , 1902 at my Father and Mother home in Magrath. There were no hospitals at that time I do not think. Their doctor was the Lord working through the Priesthood, who went among the Saints healing them when they were sick, in Jesus name. The women who were called midwives were all the doctors they had. They would wait on the mother and the babies who were being born. They had no way of putting the mother to sleep Today is my birthday. I was born January 28, 1902. It is now January 1975. No one remembered. It is hard for me to keep track of birthdays. Father went to the temple. I am home alone. I feel frightened but I must not say that or Ren will have to stop going to the temple. I guess I should go to bed before he comes home but I hate to be in bed all alone in the house. I can always hear so many things, people walking around down in the basement, cars driving up. The doctor said that Dora Davies Coleman, Ren’s sister, wouldn’t last long. It was a surprise. She has been living at the Citizen’s home. There are so many old people there who are mentally sick. I think that it would be very hard on her. I hope I never have to go there but I shouldn’t say that. I’m sure it would be better than living all alone. Some of Dora’s children were coming on the train tonight and Ren went to see how Dora was and if her family got there. I don’t know 81
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TO MY CHILDREN Journal of Mary Phyl
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us, and Tom and Lore, went down to
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When Tom was just a little fellow h
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gave me such a lovely blessing. He
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came out for the first time. I came
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milking cows. He also got a small t
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They wouldn’t take any thing for
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companion to come to Los Angeles an
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and seemed so homesick and discoura
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had been renting, so Ren and Lynn p
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Merrill, reading by Veryle’s 14 y
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Boy born at Utah Valley Hospital, J
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take. Dan and Ted went also. Anne d
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warm and quiet and clean. We got tw
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Page 31 and 32: 1960. February 19 th Tonight Ren, F
Page 33 and 34: Sara phoned yesterday. Ricky was on
Page 35 and 36: Father bought a new car and we took
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Page 39 and 40: They had gone to Las Vegas a number
Page 41 and 42: Lynn had living quarters in part of
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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.
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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
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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 89 and 90: I surely haven’t been to the temp
Page 91 and 92: her neighbors and was always doing
Page 93 and 94: meeting some of our family especial
Page 95 and 96: Maybe the thing for me to do is to
Page 97 and 98: mountains. I have been tired today.
Page 99 and 100: some peas and put them in the fridg
Page 101 and 102: own family and our relatives but it
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Page 105 and 106: Father and I are going down to Magr
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Page 111 and 112: 1977. Saturday, July 16 th When I w
Page 113 and 114: 1977. August 24 th This morning Ren
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Page 117 and 118: 1978. March 7 th I have been lookin
Page 119 and 120: Ren came home from the temple and i
Page 121 and 122: children and grandchildren. I shoul
Page 123 and 124: 1979. January Relief Society is at
Page 125 and 126: of boxes with pretty curtains aroun
Page 127: A letter from Franklin Peirce Fishe
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