Daughter of Richard Johnson and Johannah Jorgensen Johnson. The sixth child of a family of 11 children. Born at Goshen, Utah County, Utah, February 24, 1877. My father born June 15, 1842, at Norton Herriford-shire, England. He was drowned July 14, 1896 at Eureka, Juab County, Utah while trying to rescue two boys in a flood. One was rescued.
My father was very industrious. An early riser. Strict with the children. A great reader of papers, magazines, and church literature, poetry. He often read aloud to the family at evenings. He enjoyed talking on religious and political subjects.
My mother was born in Ribe Ribe Jutland, Denmark, January 19, 1848. She died in Byron, Wyoming, May, 1912. My mother was gentle, neat and clean. I never heard her use slang or vulgar talk. She was economical. Never wasted. She was free about giving meals to guests or travelers. Mother was a very faithful nurse when members of the family were ill. The children had many diseases that were common in those days, measles, mumps, diptheria, typhoid fever, and others.
Her parents joined the church in Denmark. Her parents left Denmark with four small children. Mother was their only child to reach Utah. Her parents spent a year in Keokuk, Iowa, where grandfather worked at boot and shoe making to earn means to purchase an outfit to cross the plains.
I was born in a log house on the farm. The log house was replaced by an adobe house made of white clay. My father hauled the clay and made the adobes near the place where the house was built. It had two large rooms on ground floor and three bed rooms and hall upstairs. Later, the log house was replaced by a brick dining room and kitchen.
I was baptized in my eighth year. Baptised in the Warm Springs at Goshen by Joseph Litchfield.
We all learned early to help with the work. I milked cows, cared for chickens, churned, sewed carpet rags, and many kinds of work in the house and garden. Most of the rooms in our home were covered with rag carpets so there were always rags to sew. Also mother had rag sewing bees, where a number of women spent a day sewing by hand.
My Amusements
We had one near neighbor and we often played with their children. We played hide and seek, ball, pomp, run sheep run, kick the can, and other games.
We spent much time playing Primary. Played store and had shows.
I had a beautiful wax doll and a china tea set.
I attended Primary and Sunday School. The Primary had afternoon dances for the children and I enjoyed them. Sister Sarah Roberts was president of the Primary. To me she is ideal. In Primary we recited Bible verses and poems. I also remember editing the "Morning Star", a paper that was contributed to by several members and recopied and read by an editor.
Sister Emma Jenkins used to teach singing in Primary.
Sister Sarah Roberts was also my first Sunday School teacher. I remember her treating the class with individual pies. Later Sister Amelia Gourley was my Sunday School teacher. Then we studied the story of the Book of Mormon.
My first work in church capacity was Sunday School teacher. At first I was a helper to Sister Nancy Steele. Sister Steele lived in Nauvoo at the time the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were martyred. She often told the Sunday School class of the sorrow their death caused the members of the church. Also she witnessed the mantle descending on Brigham Young. She had a record of never being late for Sunday School.
Later I had the experience of taking my Sunday School class of all boys, to Spanish Fork to take part in Sunday School Conference. We took the lesson about "The People of Jared". I received compliments from the speakers.
My Schooling
I think I attended school until I was seven or eight years old. lived two miles from the school house and either walked or furnished our own transportation. At that time each pupil paid their own tuition.
When I did begin school, the building was just one room and one teacher for all grades. All the desks were full, so the beginners sat on a bench. When we wished to write, we kneeled on the floor and put our slates on the bench. All pupils used slates. If one was particular, they owned a sponge or cloth to clean the slate. But many times slates were cleaned by spitting on them and rubbed with the hand. The beginner class learned to print before they did script. We had reading lessons from a chart. Z. S. Taylor was my first teacher. Later there was another room added to the first and Lucy Taylor taught the small children.
Later my teachers were Mr. Findelson, Richard Nuttal, Caleb Tanner, and George Powelson.
I liked spelling, reading, and arithmetic, Mr. Findelson taught singing in school, a new course at that time.
After I finished the grades in Goshen, I went to Provo, October 7, 1895, to attend BYU. My sister, Lydia took me to Provo with horse and buggy. She helped me find a boarding place. For a time, I lived with Sister Adlaide Meldrum.
I was the only girl from Goshen to go to Provo to school that year. So I looked for some strange girl to keep house with.
Adelaide Mason and Delta Cole from Willard, Utah, had already set up house keeping in one room at Sister Meldrum's place, and they let me move in with them.
So many new experiences were hard for me to adjust to and I was homesick. At that time, Provo was head quarters for Utah Stake and my father came to Provo for Stake quarterly conference. When he saw how homesick I was, he said I better givę up school and go home. But I was determined to stay, and of course became used to it.
Delta Cole's father died December 2, 1895, and she had to leave school.
Adelaide and I continued keeping house together. She had a happy disposition, and helped me be contented. I thought a great deal of her.
My second year at Provo, 1896-97, I lived with two Steward girls and Eliza Argyle from Benjamin, Utah, for sometime. The arrangement didn't prove satisfactory, so I moved into one room by myself. In a house where Emma Bingham, Alice Bingham, their mother, and brother, were keeping house. I enjoyed being near them. With two years of Academy work I was able to pass examination for a teacher's certificate. The year 1897-98, I taught school in Goshen. I taught again in Goshen, 1898-99. Aaron Roylance was superintendent.
Then I went to Lake Shore and taught one year, 1899-1900. Had a country school in a one room building. Boarded with the Joe Creer family.
Then another year in Goshen, 1900-01.
While teaching in Goshen in 1898, I started keeping company with my husband and became engaged. The year I taught in Lake Shore, John had a call to fill a mission in the Southern States. He wrote and asked me what I thought about his going. I felt he should accept the call. In February he left Goshen to fill his mission in the Southern States.
While teaching in 1900-01, Bishop Okelberry asked me to preside over the YIMIA. It was a big undertaking for me. Also a training. Martha Christensen and Emma Pettis were my counselors. Susy Y. Gates and Sister Meeacham visited our organization. My mother entertained them for the night and breakfast. While teaching in Goshen, I also taught a Sunday School class and religion class.
Early in 1902, my friend who was living in Woodruff, Utah asked me to substitute for a teacher who had resigned the position. So I went to Woodruff and taught the rest of the year.
John was released from his mission in May 1901. His health was poor and he had no means. So he went to Preston, Idaho to try to make a start for home making.
When I returned from Woodruff in the spring, John came from Preston to Salt Lake
City, and I went from Goshen and met him there and we were married in the Salt Lake Temple.
We soon moved to Preston, Idaho where John had a house rented and was farming. John's brother, James B., came to live with us. That fall we moved to Mr. Larson's farm where John fed sheep for Mr. Larson and James taught a country school.
May 20, 1903, Maurice W. was born. My mother and John's mother came to Preston to care for me. In October that fall we came to Byron, Wyoming.
We lived that winter with my sister Alice Miller. Our husbands went with teams to work on the canal.
That winter I taught school three or four months. Alice took care of my baby. There was a new rock school house to teach. I taught the younger children. That next summer we had a lone room log house built, so we had our own home.
Again I taught school. A longer term. Brother Thomas: Howard was teacher in higher grades.
In all I taught four years in Byron. Also substituted two months for Ora Egan when she was ill.
My neighbors cared for my children part of the time while I taught. One winter my mother stayed with me and cared for the children and one year my sister Florence came and cared for them. May 31, 1906, Fredora was born. We had added a room to our log house.
John had taken an uncultivated farm south of the river and we moved into a tent for the summer.
There was no bridge across the river. During high water it was impossible to cross, so we were obliged to go to the Penrose bridge to get to Byron or Garland.
May 10, 1909, Louise was born in Byron. When I was able to move back to the farm into a one room mud house that John had built the first year of our stay on the farm. It was one large room. We had no near neighbors.
January 2, 1912, Howard was born in the mud house. A very cold period that year•
My mother visited us the next summer. She was not well. Also that summer John commenced building our cement block house. Ernest was born in the new block house December 28, 1914. Mary was born in the block house September 11, 1917.
We were very comfortable in our new house and I was reluctant about leaving the farm when John purchased the Byron Mercantile store from Winn Simmons early in the year 1920. Our conveniences were not many at that time, we had a cistern with a hand pump and carried water. We burned wood or coal. We had a gas engine to run the washer. John owned a car.
The children went to school in a school wagon. Later there was a school car. The store was a big undertaking. All the children had a chance to work in the store as they grew older.
After Maurice graduated from grade school he had to go to Cowley for high school. He was graduated from Big Horn Academy.
Oct. 1925 Maurice went on a mission to the Tonga Islands. He was gone 3½ years. Fredora attended Big Horn Academy at Cowley three years. Then there was a high school at Byron so she finished her last year at Byron and graduated in Byron. Then she took a normal course in Lovell and was ready to teach school. She taught at Hyattville, Byron, and Soence.
Louise took a normal course in Lovell and taught school in Byron and Spence. She attended one year in Cowley and finished high school in Byron. Graduating as Valedictorian.
Louise filled a mission to Eastern States from June 1931 to July 1933. Then she attended summer school at Columbia University. Taught school in Byron 1933-34, also 1934-35. Married in Salt Lake City Temple to Delbert D. Jones, 1937. Louise and Mary attended U.A.C. at Logan, Utah in 1935-36.
Howard graduated from Byron High school in spring of 1930. Went to Laramie to college and graduated from college in 1934.
Ernest graduated from Byron High School and attended University of Wyoming two years, 1933-35- He was called to fill a mission in French mission. Left home June 11, 1936. Returned home.
Mary graduated from Byron High School May 24, 1935, then went to Logan, Utah, one year. Then attended BYU until Christmas. A11 the children worked in the church organizations.
I was sustained as first counselor to President Fannie L. Wolz in the Big Horn Stake Primary November 16, 1919. My part of the work was teacher trainer lessons and group of Zion's Boys and Zions's girls.
Sister Clarissa Willey was second counselor. Vina Jones, secretary. I learned to more truly love the board members by working with them.
We were united in our work and as I remember there was no ill will among the board members at any time. I had full support of my husband and family in my work.
I feel that we had full support of the local officers and were always treated with the greatest respect whenever we met any of them. In those days we visited the wards and travel was not so swift as it is now. We often stayed at the homes of local officers for the night. We always received the greatest consideration and kindness from our hostess.
When we attended convention in Salt Lake City, we went sometimes by way of Butte, Montana, by train. A long trip. later we were able to go by car. No paved highway.
I attended several conventions. Sometimes I went alone and sometimes in the company with one other board member. I was entertained in Salt Lake City at the home of John's sister and brother-in-law, Wm. Allen and Annie.
Also visited my brother Urban and family at Lehi.
When we held our own stake conventions, some board members entertained the visiting sister from Salt Lake City in our homes. I entertained several in my home. I always felt we received a lesson and a blessing from the visit of a general board member to our home. I was released from the Stake board November 11, 1930, at my own request.
While the children were filling missions and attending school and college, I had school teachers board at our home to help with expenses.
As John felt unable to manage the store business, Howard had graduated from college at Laramie, so Howard took over the store work for a few years. How-and family moved to Salt Lake City.
Then Ernest took over the store for a few years. Then Ernest moved to Salt Lake City, so we sold the store to Clarence Clark.
John did a little farming and gardening. We both did temple work in Salt Lake City and Idaho Falls Temples.
When Fred and Fredora's home burned down, John and helped Fred build them a comfortable log home. Then he helped Delbert build a log home.
John's Health was not good. In 1951, he had an operation on his neck. His heart had been bad for a long time and he also had high blood pressure. On February 19,1951, he passed away suddenly. I managed to stay in my own home. Nelda stayed with me two winters and attended school in Byron.
Then I stayed alone until June, 1956. Had a light heart attack and was unable to keep house and do for myself.
Maurice and Erma were very nice and invited me to live at their home. I have been able to cut and sew rags and quilt pieces, but my eyes are not good. I can read some.
Then Maurice had to build a new house, so I went to Otto to live with Delbert and Louise. I was there June 1957.
Came back to Maurice and Erma August 1958. Have a very nice comfortable room. May 1959, still able to stitch a little. Can walk out for short walks. Eat my meals and sleep well.
"Mother continued to live with Maurice and Erma. She wanted to stay in Byron, and they were able to keep her. She gradually became physically weaker, but kept stitching, reading, and taking an occasional short walk. At times she would be ill, but had very little pain. At Christmas time, 1960, she had a bad time and stayed in bed from then on. She was just too tired to get up. She stopped writing letters. She did sit up some, and got out of bed a little. Her last reading project was to read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover. She almost completed it. When she had her stroke the book was lying beside her. On
Thursday she felt real well, got up a little, and appeared to feel better. The stroke came suddenly. She answered Erma that she had no pain. When she went to sleep that night she never woke up again. Death came at 12:45 A.M., Tuesday, February 14, 1961."
Louise
My father was very industrious. An early riser. Strict with the children. A great reader of papers, magazines, and church literature, poetry. He often read aloud to the family at evenings. He enjoyed talking on religious and political subjects.
My mother was born in Ribe Ribe Jutland, Denmark, January 19, 1848. She died in Byron, Wyoming, May, 1912. My mother was gentle, neat and clean. I never heard her use slang or vulgar talk. She was economical. Never wasted. She was free about giving meals to guests or travelers. Mother was a very faithful nurse when members of the family were ill. The children had many diseases that were common in those days, measles, mumps, diptheria, typhoid fever, and others.
Her parents joined the church in Denmark. Her parents left Denmark with four small children. Mother was their only child to reach Utah. Her parents spent a year in Keokuk, Iowa, where grandfather worked at boot and shoe making to earn means to purchase an outfit to cross the plains.
I was born in a log house on the farm. The log house was replaced by an adobe house made of white clay. My father hauled the clay and made the adobes near the place where the house was built. It had two large rooms on ground floor and three bed rooms and hall upstairs. Later, the log house was replaced by a brick dining room and kitchen.
I was baptized in my eighth year. Baptised in the Warm Springs at Goshen by Joseph Litchfield.
We all learned early to help with the work. I milked cows, cared for chickens, churned, sewed carpet rags, and many kinds of work in the house and garden. Most of the rooms in our home were covered with rag carpets so there were always rags to sew. Also mother had rag sewing bees, where a number of women spent a day sewing by hand.
My Amusements
We had one near neighbor and we often played with their children. We played hide and seek, ball, pomp, run sheep run, kick the can, and other games.
We spent much time playing Primary. Played store and had shows.
I had a beautiful wax doll and a china tea set.
I attended Primary and Sunday School. The Primary had afternoon dances for the children and I enjoyed them. Sister Sarah Roberts was president of the Primary. To me she is ideal. In Primary we recited Bible verses and poems. I also remember editing the "Morning Star", a paper that was contributed to by several members and recopied and read by an editor.
Sister Emma Jenkins used to teach singing in Primary.
Sister Sarah Roberts was also my first Sunday School teacher. I remember her treating the class with individual pies. Later Sister Amelia Gourley was my Sunday School teacher. Then we studied the story of the Book of Mormon.
My first work in church capacity was Sunday School teacher. At first I was a helper to Sister Nancy Steele. Sister Steele lived in Nauvoo at the time the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were martyred. She often told the Sunday School class of the sorrow their death caused the members of the church. Also she witnessed the mantle descending on Brigham Young. She had a record of never being late for Sunday School.
Later I had the experience of taking my Sunday School class of all boys, to Spanish Fork to take part in Sunday School Conference. We took the lesson about "The People of Jared". I received compliments from the speakers.
My Schooling
I think I attended school until I was seven or eight years old. lived two miles from the school house and either walked or furnished our own transportation. At that time each pupil paid their own tuition.
When I did begin school, the building was just one room and one teacher for all grades. All the desks were full, so the beginners sat on a bench. When we wished to write, we kneeled on the floor and put our slates on the bench. All pupils used slates. If one was particular, they owned a sponge or cloth to clean the slate. But many times slates were cleaned by spitting on them and rubbed with the hand. The beginner class learned to print before they did script. We had reading lessons from a chart. Z. S. Taylor was my first teacher. Later there was another room added to the first and Lucy Taylor taught the small children.
Later my teachers were Mr. Findelson, Richard Nuttal, Caleb Tanner, and George Powelson.
I liked spelling, reading, and arithmetic, Mr. Findelson taught singing in school, a new course at that time.
After I finished the grades in Goshen, I went to Provo, October 7, 1895, to attend BYU. My sister, Lydia took me to Provo with horse and buggy. She helped me find a boarding place. For a time, I lived with Sister Adlaide Meldrum.
I was the only girl from Goshen to go to Provo to school that year. So I looked for some strange girl to keep house with.
Adelaide Mason and Delta Cole from Willard, Utah, had already set up house keeping in one room at Sister Meldrum's place, and they let me move in with them.
So many new experiences were hard for me to adjust to and I was homesick. At that time, Provo was head quarters for Utah Stake and my father came to Provo for Stake quarterly conference. When he saw how homesick I was, he said I better givę up school and go home. But I was determined to stay, and of course became used to it.
Delta Cole's father died December 2, 1895, and she had to leave school.
Adelaide and I continued keeping house together. She had a happy disposition, and helped me be contented. I thought a great deal of her.
My second year at Provo, 1896-97, I lived with two Steward girls and Eliza Argyle from Benjamin, Utah, for sometime. The arrangement didn't prove satisfactory, so I moved into one room by myself. In a house where Emma Bingham, Alice Bingham, their mother, and brother, were keeping house. I enjoyed being near them. With two years of Academy work I was able to pass examination for a teacher's certificate. The year 1897-98, I taught school in Goshen. I taught again in Goshen, 1898-99. Aaron Roylance was superintendent.
Then I went to Lake Shore and taught one year, 1899-1900. Had a country school in a one room building. Boarded with the Joe Creer family.
Then another year in Goshen, 1900-01.
While teaching in Goshen in 1898, I started keeping company with my husband and became engaged. The year I taught in Lake Shore, John had a call to fill a mission in the Southern States. He wrote and asked me what I thought about his going. I felt he should accept the call. In February he left Goshen to fill his mission in the Southern States.
While teaching in 1900-01, Bishop Okelberry asked me to preside over the YIMIA. It was a big undertaking for me. Also a training. Martha Christensen and Emma Pettis were my counselors. Susy Y. Gates and Sister Meeacham visited our organization. My mother entertained them for the night and breakfast. While teaching in Goshen, I also taught a Sunday School class and religion class.
Early in 1902, my friend who was living in Woodruff, Utah asked me to substitute for a teacher who had resigned the position. So I went to Woodruff and taught the rest of the year.
John was released from his mission in May 1901. His health was poor and he had no means. So he went to Preston, Idaho to try to make a start for home making.
When I returned from Woodruff in the spring, John came from Preston to Salt Lake
City, and I went from Goshen and met him there and we were married in the Salt Lake Temple.
We soon moved to Preston, Idaho where John had a house rented and was farming. John's brother, James B., came to live with us. That fall we moved to Mr. Larson's farm where John fed sheep for Mr. Larson and James taught a country school.
May 20, 1903, Maurice W. was born. My mother and John's mother came to Preston to care for me. In October that fall we came to Byron, Wyoming.
We lived that winter with my sister Alice Miller. Our husbands went with teams to work on the canal.
That winter I taught school three or four months. Alice took care of my baby. There was a new rock school house to teach. I taught the younger children. That next summer we had a lone room log house built, so we had our own home.
Again I taught school. A longer term. Brother Thomas: Howard was teacher in higher grades.
In all I taught four years in Byron. Also substituted two months for Ora Egan when she was ill.
My neighbors cared for my children part of the time while I taught. One winter my mother stayed with me and cared for the children and one year my sister Florence came and cared for them. May 31, 1906, Fredora was born. We had added a room to our log house.
John had taken an uncultivated farm south of the river and we moved into a tent for the summer.
There was no bridge across the river. During high water it was impossible to cross, so we were obliged to go to the Penrose bridge to get to Byron or Garland.
May 10, 1909, Louise was born in Byron. When I was able to move back to the farm into a one room mud house that John had built the first year of our stay on the farm. It was one large room. We had no near neighbors.
January 2, 1912, Howard was born in the mud house. A very cold period that year•
My mother visited us the next summer. She was not well. Also that summer John commenced building our cement block house. Ernest was born in the new block house December 28, 1914. Mary was born in the block house September 11, 1917.
We were very comfortable in our new house and I was reluctant about leaving the farm when John purchased the Byron Mercantile store from Winn Simmons early in the year 1920. Our conveniences were not many at that time, we had a cistern with a hand pump and carried water. We burned wood or coal. We had a gas engine to run the washer. John owned a car.
The children went to school in a school wagon. Later there was a school car. The store was a big undertaking. All the children had a chance to work in the store as they grew older.
After Maurice graduated from grade school he had to go to Cowley for high school. He was graduated from Big Horn Academy.
Oct. 1925 Maurice went on a mission to the Tonga Islands. He was gone 3½ years. Fredora attended Big Horn Academy at Cowley three years. Then there was a high school at Byron so she finished her last year at Byron and graduated in Byron. Then she took a normal course in Lovell and was ready to teach school. She taught at Hyattville, Byron, and Soence.
Louise took a normal course in Lovell and taught school in Byron and Spence. She attended one year in Cowley and finished high school in Byron. Graduating as Valedictorian.
Louise filled a mission to Eastern States from June 1931 to July 1933. Then she attended summer school at Columbia University. Taught school in Byron 1933-34, also 1934-35. Married in Salt Lake City Temple to Delbert D. Jones, 1937. Louise and Mary attended U.A.C. at Logan, Utah in 1935-36.
Howard graduated from Byron High school in spring of 1930. Went to Laramie to college and graduated from college in 1934.
Ernest graduated from Byron High School and attended University of Wyoming two years, 1933-35- He was called to fill a mission in French mission. Left home June 11, 1936. Returned home.
Mary graduated from Byron High School May 24, 1935, then went to Logan, Utah, one year. Then attended BYU until Christmas. A11 the children worked in the church organizations.
I was sustained as first counselor to President Fannie L. Wolz in the Big Horn Stake Primary November 16, 1919. My part of the work was teacher trainer lessons and group of Zion's Boys and Zions's girls.
Sister Clarissa Willey was second counselor. Vina Jones, secretary. I learned to more truly love the board members by working with them.
We were united in our work and as I remember there was no ill will among the board members at any time. I had full support of my husband and family in my work.
I feel that we had full support of the local officers and were always treated with the greatest respect whenever we met any of them. In those days we visited the wards and travel was not so swift as it is now. We often stayed at the homes of local officers for the night. We always received the greatest consideration and kindness from our hostess.
When we attended convention in Salt Lake City, we went sometimes by way of Butte, Montana, by train. A long trip. later we were able to go by car. No paved highway.
I attended several conventions. Sometimes I went alone and sometimes in the company with one other board member. I was entertained in Salt Lake City at the home of John's sister and brother-in-law, Wm. Allen and Annie.
Also visited my brother Urban and family at Lehi.
When we held our own stake conventions, some board members entertained the visiting sister from Salt Lake City in our homes. I entertained several in my home. I always felt we received a lesson and a blessing from the visit of a general board member to our home. I was released from the Stake board November 11, 1930, at my own request.
While the children were filling missions and attending school and college, I had school teachers board at our home to help with expenses.
As John felt unable to manage the store business, Howard had graduated from college at Laramie, so Howard took over the store work for a few years. How-and family moved to Salt Lake City.
Then Ernest took over the store for a few years. Then Ernest moved to Salt Lake City, so we sold the store to Clarence Clark.
John did a little farming and gardening. We both did temple work in Salt Lake City and Idaho Falls Temples.
When Fred and Fredora's home burned down, John and helped Fred build them a comfortable log home. Then he helped Delbert build a log home.
John's Health was not good. In 1951, he had an operation on his neck. His heart had been bad for a long time and he also had high blood pressure. On February 19,1951, he passed away suddenly. I managed to stay in my own home. Nelda stayed with me two winters and attended school in Byron.
Then I stayed alone until June, 1956. Had a light heart attack and was unable to keep house and do for myself.
Maurice and Erma were very nice and invited me to live at their home. I have been able to cut and sew rags and quilt pieces, but my eyes are not good. I can read some.
Then Maurice had to build a new house, so I went to Otto to live with Delbert and Louise. I was there June 1957.
Came back to Maurice and Erma August 1958. Have a very nice comfortable room. May 1959, still able to stitch a little. Can walk out for short walks. Eat my meals and sleep well.
"Mother continued to live with Maurice and Erma. She wanted to stay in Byron, and they were able to keep her. She gradually became physically weaker, but kept stitching, reading, and taking an occasional short walk. At times she would be ill, but had very little pain. At Christmas time, 1960, she had a bad time and stayed in bed from then on. She was just too tired to get up. She stopped writing letters. She did sit up some, and got out of bed a little. Her last reading project was to read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover. She almost completed it. When she had her stroke the book was lying beside her. On
Thursday she felt real well, got up a little, and appeared to feel better. The stroke came suddenly. She answered Erma that she had no pain. When she went to sleep that night she never woke up again. Death came at 12:45 A.M., Tuesday, February 14, 1961."
Louise