(1974) A BRIEF SUMMARY OF MY LIFE AFTER GRADUATION

I spent the summer after graduation traveling in the east. This was one of the gifts from my parents.

Upon my return I began doing secretarial work at the Staley Insurance Company. I spent a year there and then began working for Mr. A. N. Rice at the Kit Kat Confectionery. I was there for three years and then went to Salt Lake and worked at Auerbach’s department store.

During this time I was writing to a fellow from Lanark who was on a mission in New Zealand. He happened to be a companion of Lyman. On one of his letters, Lyman wrote a note to me so we started to correspond. We exchanged letters for about year and when Lyman came home from his mission in 1937, I met him for the first time.

We became engaged on my birthday in March and on August 10, 1938 we were married in the Salt Lake Temple by Elder Charles A. Callis.

Our first home was in Union, Utah. When Lyman began attending the University of Utah and working at a Shell service station we moved into Salt Lake.

Lanette Louise (Lannie) our first daughter was born in 1940. Lyman graduated from the “U”, and we moved to Logan and began teaching Seminary all in the same year.

Soda Springs as our next home. We went there to start the Seminary program. We lived in the Ender’s hotel for a time then moved into Paul Tipton’s mother’s home.

Lyman was called into the army as a Chaplain in 1944 and Lannie and I moved home with my parents. Lyman spent some time overseas and while there my mother passed away and upon his return home we stayed on with my father so that he would not be left alone, and Lyman began teaching Seminary in the new building.

Our son Denney was born in 1947 and our youngest daughter Vicki Lynn was born in 1950.

In 1951 Lyman was called back into active duty and we spent a year at Fort Ord, Calif. At the end of this period of duty we returned to Montpelier and continued on in Seminary.

Lyman was ordained a Bishop and he held this position until we were transferred to Downey, Calif. to coordinate the Seminary program there along with President Paul H. Dunn.

We spent 12 wonderful years in Southern Calif. and returned to Union (Cottonwood Heights) seven years ago and built a home near our first home. My father lived with us until his death in 1971.

Lyman is coordinator of the South Salt Lake Valley Seminary. He was ordained a Patriarch in the Butler West Stake in 1969. This keeps him very busy.

I have held positions in most of the organizations and was just released from the stake Relief Society board. I am now serving as secretary in Primary.