INEZ
TAYLOR PRATHER
“Together Again”
Stories from her life.
March 2, 1924 – March 27, 2015
“Together Again”
Stories from her life.
March 2, 1924 – March 27, 2015
Written by her daughter Mary Jean Jacobs Harline, 2015.
This is intended to be a work in progress and we would love to have you to give input into it.
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Last updated: Nov. 2015
I hope you enjoy this. It has been very therapeutic for me to write
my thoughts down as I try to share the life of a remarkable woman with you.
Disclaimer
Mom told us she did not want a funeral and if we had a funeral for her, she would come back to haunt us! She was a woman of great faith and influence and we believed her word! A relative told us of not following his mother-in-laws wishes and they did what they wanted. Everyone at the luncheon that followed got food poisoning from some bad turkey gravy. So beware, we need to listen to what other's wishes are especially at the end of life. She did not say that we could not do am on-line virtual tribute so here it is; lest we forget too soon. We will always remember her but it's the great-grandkids that need something tangible to know her by.
Preface
Birth
Try as I might, I could not talk Mom into writing down any part of her life. I felt this is important so that some of our younger grandchildren could come to know her a little better. Most of the stories herein have come from short conversations, talking to others or longer visits over the phone as we would often talk for an hour once a week. I even tried recording her and as soon as she figured out what was going on she clammed up. The moral of this story is if you want to tell it like it is you need to do it yourself.
Birth
Inez Taylor
was born on a Sunday, March 2, 1924 9 am
and taken to church across the street at noon the same day to be blessed. She weighed
11 lbs. She grew up in Winder, Idaho located northwest of Preston. She was the third oldest of five children
(Elva, Arthur, Inez, Calvin and Roma) born to Vivian Hollingsworth and James
Caldwell Taylor. They had been sealed in
the Logan Temple. Her mother had born
four children in four years. Inez was
named after a school teacher they loved who had lived with them for year or
so. She wished they had spelled her
name Ines because it is usually pronounced with a hard z sound instead. When someone mispronounced it she knew that
they didn't know her!
Her Parents
When Vivian was a teenager, she worked in a clothing store for the Luthey Family. She attended the Fourth ward while she worked for the Lutheys. James Caldwell Taylor lived in that ward. She was like a member of the family and she helped to take care of the children, too.
When James first saw Vivian, it was at a community extemporaneous debate where they were both participating. When Vivian walked by on the stage in front of him, he nudged his his best friend, Jack Bright, and said that she was the girl he was going to marry. And he did! A few years later, James sold Jack a corner piece of his property and they remained friends their entire lives.
Her Parents
When Vivian was a teenager, she worked in a clothing store for the Luthey Family. She attended the Fourth ward while she worked for the Lutheys. James Caldwell Taylor lived in that ward. She was like a member of the family and she helped to take care of the children, too.
When James first saw Vivian, it was at a community extemporaneous debate where they were both participating. When Vivian walked by on the stage in front of him, he nudged his his best friend, Jack Bright, and said that she was the girl he was going to marry. And he did! A few years later, James sold Jack a corner piece of his property and they remained friends their entire lives.
Childhood on a Farm in Winder, Idaho
Winder Home
Inez is in the center back row with Calvin in front of her. Arthur is top left and Elva is top right in the dark jacket. The girl in from of Elva may be Roma We think the rest are cousins or neighbrs.
They lived
across from both the school yard and the church. She grew up during the Great
Depression but because they lived on a farm it wasn’t as hard on them as those
that lived in the city. They grew their
own beef and had milk cows and a garden.
They were self-sufficient and took care of each other. The grew crops for their animals and a large
garden including horseradish. Her father
enjoyed making it so hot that unsuspecting people couldn’t couldn’t swallow it and
would have to spit it out.
She loved to
do the outside work so she would do the girl’s work inside and then hurry
outside to help the guys. Her Dad loved
her to drive the tractor because she would drive it slow and steady and
straight. She learned to stack hay on
the trailer so it wouldn’t fall over. Her Dad said no one could do it any better than she. The boys would throw the bails up onto the trailer and she would stack
it in a crisscross fashion so that it wouldn’t fall over when they went around
the corner. When they stacked the hay in the barn they would stack it in a special way that would leave a hole in the center. The, come spring, they would have a place to put the newborn calves to keep them nice and warm.
Her father
had red hair, very shy but a hard worker.
All of the children had a pet except her. When she complained, her father told her that she could have all the dead animals! In the next month three animals died. He later came back to her and said that she
could now have her own pet and that she could no longer have any more dead
ones! She liked the horses on the farm
but she did not like to ride them. She felt that it wasn't fair to make them carry her when she could walk and she enyoed walking.
She would ride the horse in town and as soon as she was out of sight, she would jump off and walk it back to the farm. When the children attended High School in Preston, her Dad would drive a trailer full of students into town pulled by a tractor.
It was a a happy time for her. She felt needed and loved. And she was only too willing to contribute to the whatever the family had a need of.
She would ride the horse in town and as soon as she was out of sight, she would jump off and walk it back to the farm. When the children attended High School in Preston, her Dad would drive a trailer full of students into town pulled by a tractor.
It was a a happy time for her. She felt needed and loved. And she was only too willing to contribute to the whatever the family had a need of.
Second Grade (1931)
Inez is on the top row left, next to her teacher, Mrs. Gibbs
Vivian loved to cook and so when they would have a homemaking demonstration at Relief Society, she would go home and try it out on the family. Jim wouldn't touch it if it wasn't meat and potatoes. So then neither would the children. She got so mad and said "Just because your Dad is stuborn and won't eat this, doesn't mean you won't. You will either eat it or go hungry!"
Her mother loved to read and play the piano and later the organ. When Mom had a book report due, her mother would read her book for her and often write the book report, while she did all the chores. This lack of reading practice made it difficult for her in her studies. She also was naturally left handed back when that was strictly not allowed. Her mother and father were very stern about that and if she used her left hand it would get swatted with a newspaper or a ruler. It did cause her to have some learning problems and even in her older years she would sometimes have to wiggle her left hand to help her brain “crossover” so she could finish her thought.
Her mother loved to read and play the piano and later the organ. When Mom had a book report due, her mother would read her book for her and often write the book report, while she did all the chores. This lack of reading practice made it difficult for her in her studies. She also was naturally left handed back when that was strictly not allowed. Her mother and father were very stern about that and if she used her left hand it would get swatted with a newspaper or a ruler. It did cause her to have some learning problems and even in her older years she would sometimes have to wiggle her left hand to help her brain “crossover” so she could finish her thought.
She grew up in the
church and was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when
eight years old. She attended Primary and when she became twelve she
went to Mutual. Her mother was very active in the church and made
sure that the children were where they were supposed to be. She
achieved the usual awards along the way. She was valiant in the
principles of the gospel her entire life.
Life spared when 12 years old.
She felt that
her life had been spared at least three times that she knew of and possibly
others that she didn't know of. The first time was when she was is 7th
grade. Her Mom and Dad were across the
street at a PTA meeting. Grandpa had
gone unwillingly. She was shot from a
gun that her brother Arthur had been playing with. The bullet hit her on the right side of her
collar bone and bounced off. If it had hit
a half inch in either direction it would have severed an artery. Elva was in bed asleep. Arthur was so scared he couldn’t move. Calvin, being younger was absolutely no
help. She grabbed a towel to hold
against the bleeding and ran across the street to the PTA meeting. She called for her mom to come out in the
hall and she told her she had been shot.
Her mother became faint but quickly recovered and helped her back to the
house. She knew she had to handle it by
herself because Jim would go into a rage.
Grandpa didn’t know anything had happened until he got home from the
meeting. He was fuming mad because
grandma had left him there all by himself.
It was the last PTA meeting he ever went to!
Grandma
Taylor soaked the wound in Lysol.
Grandma decided that she should not go to school the next day but Mom
wanted to go. She pleaded with her Dad
to let her go to school. He said OK just
be careful. Her friends ater told her
that she smelled funny. After school
there was a big ballgame and she was the pitcher. She pitched for both the boys and the girls
team. She could pitch both overhand or
underhand. When her parents told her she
absolutely couldn’t go to the game because they knew she would want to pitch;
she cried. Up until that time she had maintained
her composure through the entire ordeal.
No matter how much she cried, they would not let her go. Grandpa Taylor had been really upset at
Arthur. Mom said she spent most of her
time the next few weeks being his protector so that Grandpa didn’t lay into him. (Laying on-of-hands in a not
too righteous manner!)
Chores and More Chores
Chores and More Chores
Inez with their milk cans and address of 1758
She worked quickly inside and then went outside to help on the farm. One chore
that she never did was milk the cows.
She would lead the cows to pasture and help bring them in to be milked
but she never milked them. That was
considered boys work exclusively and that was just fine with her. She never did like to drink milk. Occasionally she would put some chocolate
powder in it or make hot chocolate from scratch.
Of course
they grew a wonderful garden including many wonder Idaho potatoes. They thinned beats and worked for others in
the raspberry patch. She learned to can
from her mother. Canned raspberries and
green beans were the best. Suet pudding
was also a favorite.
Teenager
Life was busy as a teenager with the usual stuff: family, church, school, farm chores, ball games, mutual and dances every weekend.
Teenager
Life was busy as a teenager with the usual stuff: family, church, school, farm chores, ball games, mutual and dances every weekend.
She was
popular and loved to dance! She went to all thedances with her brothers and
sisters. Back then, you didn’t have to
have a driver’s license to drive. She
learned to drive on the farm driving a tractor.
She didn’t drive the family car much.
So when she would go to a dance and a boy would ask if he could take her
home, she would say “Sure, if I can drive.”
For that reason, she said that driving in the dark never bothered her
because that was when she got to drive most as a teenager.
Inez bottom center row, President of GAC
She was very
athletic and could do most anything she set her mind to. She had many friends and enjoyed doing things
with her siblings. She could shoot a bow
and arrow and a gun with good
accuracy. She played basketball and was
the pitcher for the softball team. As a
senior she was the president of the Girls Athletic Club.
She
graduated from High School in 1942. It was the start of World War II and life was very uncertain. She worked as a nanny
for her milkman's family whose wife taught school. She lived there Monday-Friday and then came home on the weekends. She felt under-appreciated
when the teacher gave her a can of soup as a Christmas gift. It was not even wrapped and there was not even one word of thanks with it. She decided
to get a real job!
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| Family Photo Inez, Arthur, Muriel, Calvin, Elva James C., Roma and Vivian Taylor |
Additional Family Member
Vivian's brother (Uncle Ray) ran a saw mill. He spent many long, hard hours working there. His wife wanted a divorce, he did not. She kept after him and so he relented and said, "OK, but I want Muriel." There was no way he could take care of a child and run a saw mill. He did it out of spite never dreamimg that she would agee to it! But. . . she wanted out!
When the divorce was over, Uncle Ray brought Muriel to Vivian. She was told to "Raise her as your own and I will come visit when I can." At first, he would come and visit once or twice a year and give her a small amount of money. As years went by, his visits became more and more infrequent. Muriel did not have contact with her biological mother until she was in her late 20's,
Muriel was part of the family and everyone seems to have gotten along well. Inez loved Muriel and always spole well of her. She named her youngest daughter Muriel.
Inez; Post High School
It was 1943 and young
women carpooled from Idaho to second street in Ogden to work during the week
and they would ride the bus back home Friday night. She had friends that were already doing
this. They roomed together during the
week and could still go to dances and be with other friends and attend church
on the weekends. She worked as a laborer
in a warehouse during World War II. She
was used to hard work. It usually took
two people to check the package turn it and send it down the conveyor
belt. She was so fast and had such a
good throwing arm that she did it without any help.
She
has often said that she was born at the perfect time, to a good family who had
enough of the right stuff: love, work, responsibility mixed with just good
common sense. She made the best of
whatever life had to offer her!
Years later,
when they sold the dry farm, the family moved to Preston, Idaho and grandpa
Taylor worked at the County Court house as a custodian. When visiting, he would let the grandkids
help clean and they would be allowed to go inside the courtroom. It smelled like fine wood and seemed like a
palace. He seemed stern but had a soft
heart and would always have peppermint lifesavers to give us if we did a good
job. In the summer we would roll down
the lawn and in the winter we would slide down it. The building had a lot of character so there
were many places to play hide and seek in.
His office was in the basement and we felt privileged to go inside it.
Marriage to Glen Emerson Jacobs
She met Glen
Emerson Jacobs at her first job in Ogden, Utah.. He was
from Ohio and had moved out here after his brother, Ronald, came here and liked
it. They both really enjoyed the
hunting, boating and fishing opportunities in Utah. Glen was working as a telegraph
employee. He would ride in the back of a
caboose and inspect and count the telegraph poles. He held a hand counter that he would later
let us play with. He was hired at the 2nd
street Depot and worked his entire life as a civilian doing warehouse duties
including operating a fork lift. He was
not involved in World War II because he was too old to be drafted or to
volunteer but he helped as a civilian.
He and his brother bought 8 acres of ground on the Uintah flats and
each took care of their half. They built
a large shed together and kept a tractor and boat in it.
Glen and Inez Hunting Pheasants
My dad was
what today we call a male chauvinist. He
was the supervisor in charge of spot inventory checking and was sent a sweet
young women of 19 to put to work. He
told the man that would be training her for the day that he didn’t want any
women working for him. He told him not
to show her how to do anything. Just
give her a job and walk away. He planned
to let her go at the end of the day because of low performance. However, her trainer reported back and told him that if he let her go he
was crazy! She had done better without
any instruction than any man had done with training! He kept her on and they started to do things
together outside of work. Ronald ended
up being drafted and felt bad that Glen would be left alone and asked Inez to
be sure and take care of him. About a
year later, Glen asked her to be his wife.
He was a good man but was old enough to be her father! (This is the only picture of Glen and Inez that we have except years later at my reception).
Glen
E. Jacobs and Inez Taylor were married in Rock Springs, Wyoming in 1944,
accompanied by some of his friends from Ohio.
None of Inez's family or friends were there. Glen and Ronald's friends were visiting from Ohio and so they just decided to get married
while they were all there together. Technically, they
did not elope because they told her parents what they were going to do and they
were against it. They liked Glen as a
person and enjoyed talking with him but they didn’t think Inez should marry such an older man. She was 20 years old when she
married Glen and he was 42. He was born January 17. 1902. There were not a lot of young men around as
the war effort was still going strong.
White cinderblock house on the flats of Uintah built about 1945.
This house is still standing but has a porch at the end on the left with two small bedrooms added on the right. A few years ago, she had stucco added to the outside and now it is tan but we still fondly refer to it as the white house. It is surrouinded by 100 foot elm trees and beautiful green grass.
Family Life with Glen
She always said she learned a lot from her
husband, Glen. He was intelligent and
thought problems through whether it was how to get unstuck from the snow or the
mud or how to use leverage to move things.
He was a small framed man and very smart even though he dropped out of
school. He was always reading. They built their cinder block house
together. She was the gopher and learned
to shop well for equipment and supplies to keep him working. She loved to be up on the roof. They had a well dug for water and it would
frequently go dry in the late winter before the spring runoff began. It was meager life by today’s standards but
they were content. They had a two
bedroom home, white picket fence, well water and a clothes line. He was not a member of the church and rather
anti. He flaunted his German
descent. He was always tinkering in his shed. He liked to make things with his
hands from wood. At one time he and
Ronald raised minks for their pelts to earn extra money but she never had a fur
coat. That only lasted a few years.
They didn’t
do much socially. She told him if he
would take her out to dinner once a year she would be a better cook because she
could get some new ideas and recipes. I
guess he liked her cooking just fine the way it was because they never went out
to eat not even for a special occasion.
He told her he liked her cooking just fine!
The
twins were born when Glen was out
fishing. No one, not even the doctor
seemed to know there were twins coming. William and Mary Jean were born in
1947. Bill never lets me forget that he was the oldest by five minutes.
When he returned from fishing, Grandma Taylor said that Inez was in the hospital and that she had had twins. He thought she was pulling his leg but soon found out it was true. When we asked him about not having twin names he said “He didn’t want to call for his son and have his daughter come running. “
When he returned from fishing, Grandma Taylor said that Inez was in the hospital and that she had had twins. He thought she was pulling his leg but soon found out it was true. When we asked him about not having twin names he said “He didn’t want to call for his son and have his daughter come running. “
Raising
twins is never easy. Since we were
premature, we had to eat every 2 hours round the clock. Bill weighted 3 lbs. 12 oz. and I was 2 lbs.
13 oz. The picture that they took of us
when we came home from the hospital could have been used to scare people at
Halloween time. Slowly but surely we
began to grow. We have always felt
fortunate because many premature babies at that time were given too much oxygen
and they lost their eyesight. We have
both had reasonably good health throughout our lives.
Steven Brad
Jacobs was born five years later in 1954.
My parents divorced in 1955. They had an amicable divorce. They split the eight acres in half. Glen
built a small house on the back four acres. We always had access to our father. We saw our Dad most everyday and called him Daddy Glen. Since he was as
old as my grandparents, he was more of a “sugar granddaddy.” Once or twice a week he would by a bag of candy and we would sit on the back porch and eat it with us. He would give us jobs to do to earn money for
things we needed.
Daddy Glen made it a priority to take his three kids on vacation each year but he was a paycheck to paycheck sort of guy. Mom would let him pay his child support short so that he could take us on vacation. He would make up the money and she would not complain. She never spoke unkindly towards him! He was often invited to Sunday dinners and for holidays. He retired at 65 and a few years later moved to the cinderblock house. He died at age 72 from cancer. He had smoked most of his life and had a real bad cough as well as a bad case of skin cancer that he tried to ignore and covered it up with a bandage.
Moved to Preston, Idaho
After her amicable divorce from Glen, She moved to Preston, Idaho to go to school to get her Nursing License (1 year). She had 3 children. Her mother, Vivian, tended Steven while she was at school. She bought a home and rented out the white cinder block house in Uintah because Jim insisted on it! She went to school to become a nurse. Bill and I were in 4th grade. I'm sure that it was a very difficult year being a single Mom and in school full time with much studying to do in the evening. She appreciated the help that her parents gave her.
Even with all she had to do, we grew a garden. She taught in real life lesson The Parable of the Sower. You can't plant tomatoes in the spring and expect pumpkins in the fall for jack-o-lanters. We learned to love green peas straight from the garden. We canned the green beans and of course, grew our own Idaho potatoes. We never knew what rhubarb was until then and how hard it is to get rid of!
She had to sell the house now in Preston and that turned out to be a real trial. It took three years to sell it and in betweeen she had to rent it out long distance from Ogden. Once again, her parents stepped up and helped her with this.
Daddy Glen and Inez at Mary Jean & David Harline's Wedding 1966
Daddy Glen made it a priority to take his three kids on vacation each year but he was a paycheck to paycheck sort of guy. Mom would let him pay his child support short so that he could take us on vacation. He would make up the money and she would not complain. She never spoke unkindly towards him! He was often invited to Sunday dinners and for holidays. He retired at 65 and a few years later moved to the cinderblock house. He died at age 72 from cancer. He had smoked most of his life and had a real bad cough as well as a bad case of skin cancer that he tried to ignore and covered it up with a bandage.
Moved to Preston, Idaho
After her amicable divorce from Glen, She moved to Preston, Idaho to go to school to get her Nursing License (1 year). She had 3 children. Her mother, Vivian, tended Steven while she was at school. She bought a home and rented out the white cinder block house in Uintah because Jim insisted on it! She went to school to become a nurse. Bill and I were in 4th grade. I'm sure that it was a very difficult year being a single Mom and in school full time with much studying to do in the evening. She appreciated the help that her parents gave her.
Even with all she had to do, we grew a garden. She taught in real life lesson The Parable of the Sower. You can't plant tomatoes in the spring and expect pumpkins in the fall for jack-o-lanters. We learned to love green peas straight from the garden. We canned the green beans and of course, grew our own Idaho potatoes. We never knew what rhubarb was until then and how hard it is to get rid of!
She had to sell the house now in Preston and that turned out to be a real trial. It took three years to sell it and in betweeen she had to rent it out long distance from Ogden. Once again, her parents stepped up and helped her with this.
Graduating Nursing Class in Preston, Idaho
She loved her teacher Ida Mockley (bottom, center)
She loved her teacher Ida Mockley (bottom, center)
Nursing Career
After
graduation, she moved back to Ogden and was hired at the Dee hospital on Harrison
Boulevard to be a back-up nurse. She
would float around to any department that needed help due to lack of nursing
staff. She was hired with the
understanding that she would report to work each night and could be sent home
if she was not needed. She was always at
work and she made herself useful and was never sent home. When they opened a new wing “4D” they asked
her to charge it even though she was not an RN.
She was placed in charge of a floor even though she was not a 4 year nurse. These were not after surgery patients nor critical care patients. She remembers Dr. Hyde sending his uncle to her floor. He told her he wouldn't normally do that but that she had the “personality” to help them the most! She could and would take the time to listen to patients in the wee hours of the morning when they couldn’t sleep. She worked as a nurse for 10 years. She loved every minute of nursing even though most all of those years were working graveyard so she could be available to her family and others who needed special help during the day!
She was placed in charge of a floor even though she was not a 4 year nurse. These were not after surgery patients nor critical care patients. She remembers Dr. Hyde sending his uncle to her floor. He told her he wouldn't normally do that but that she had the “personality” to help them the most! She could and would take the time to listen to patients in the wee hours of the morning when they couldn’t sleep. She worked as a nurse for 10 years. She loved every minute of nursing even though most all of those years were working graveyard so she could be available to her family and others who needed special help during the day!
Marriage to Rodney
Duncan Smyth While still living in Idaho, she was introduced to Rodney
Duncan Smyth about 1956 by Rulon Dye and his wife Gayla, who lived down over the
hill in Uintah. They were going to school together at Weber College. He was originally from
Montana. He was a very shy person and a
non-member. They had a reception in the
back yard of Vivian and Jim's house. He
worked at Weber State College in the grounds department in the summer and heating and snow removal in the winter.
They rented a home on 20th street for one year until the
renters moved out of the little white house.
We were right next to the school and we could wait till the first bell
rang and jump the cement fence and hurry into school and not be late.
Bill, Rod, Inez, Steven and Mary Jean about 1956
We called
where we lived, the flat. It was never officially Uintah and is now referred to as the Highlands. Highway 89
went right in front of our house for many years. We had the white cinderblock house and a
picket fence. Mom planted flowering
cactus so we knew not to go out any further on the property. We had a long driveway and plenty of room to
play. There were acres and acres of sage
brush to make trails in between and play hide-n-go seek. When chores were finished we would get a
neighborhood game of baseball together.
Many years later Highway 89 was moved about a block west and we were
delighted. Now the road was almost
abandoned and we could walk freely up and down it. It was a solid mile of bliss as we walked
with out friends without worry about the traffic. On a hot summer day, the tar would start to melt and get on our shoes. We had to check the treads to make sure we didn't track the tar inside the house.
We bought
unpasteurized milk from the red barn on Combe Road. The well water would run out in the winter
before the spring run-off. Rod worked at
Weber College in the physical plant management.
He would carry water from there in big heavy 5 gallon milk cans. We would carry cold water for bathing and
heat water on the electric stove to wash dishes in. We would take our clothes to the Laundromat
once a week and spend hours doing the laundry.
We had a white house and a picket fence and very little grass. We would often ride our bikes up to the cemetery because they had lots of green grass and it was just developing so there were not many “residents.” We would lay on our backs and watch the clouds roll by then ride our bikes a mile back home.
We had a white house and a picket fence and very little grass. We would often ride our bikes up to the cemetery because they had lots of green grass and it was just developing so there were not many “residents.” We would lay on our backs and watch the clouds roll by then ride our bikes a mile back home.
This was inside the carporch of the red brick house.
Rod and Inez
had the red brick house built in 1960 that was to the side of the cinderblock
house but closer to the main highway. He
joined the church and served in the ward presidency of the Sunday School. He
liked to drive Honda motorcycles and would occasionally let us drive
them fairly close to home. They had two
daughters. Joyce was born in1957 and
Muriel was born in 1960. He really wasn't used to having kids around
him as he had been a bachelor for many years.
He would have liked to have had a quiet home and liked to have everything
just so but that didn't work out with five youngsters running around. They divorced for a while and remarried to try and give
it one more try. Then came some really
bad news.
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| Steven, Bill, Mary Jeam Joyce and Muriel about 1962 |
It was about
1962 (I was 13) and Mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and was expecting
another baby. She lost the baby and had
to undergo radiation. She received a
priesthood blessing that she would be allowed to raise her family. It was a difficult time for all. Rod couldn't handle all the pressure he
wouldn't even touch her as if she was contagious.. Cancer scared him and he refused to be in
this family picture, so Mom just had a picture of us kids. It wasn't long before they divorced for good. They remained friends and he later married
another woman. He passed away early in
life in his 50's ironically from cancer.
Life Spared. . . Cancer
Did Not Win!
She was told
that she had 6 months to live and should go home and put her house in order. She said she was not going to let anyone else
raise her children! She had no one to
leave her two young children with, so the nurses would let her bring them with
her. When she received her treatments
of radiation, by accident she was given more than the protocol of the day said
she should have had. This provided
beneficial and she was soon in remission.
This is the second time she cheated death. She studied
and found natural ways to work against the cancer. She learned to read her body. She used teas for healing. She didn’t go to doctors anymore.
A few years ago, we talked her into going to a lady doctor in SLC to see
if she could be helped with her balance as she had taken a few bad falls. The doctor was very impressed that she was in
her late 80’s, walking unassisted and on no medications. The doctor said “I’m impressed to say that
the reason you are in such good health is because you haven’t gone to the doctor in over 40 years!” She lived to the ripe old age of 91. Up until the age of 85 she had extremely good
health.
Ten Years as a Single Mom
The
problems with the well persisted in the spring.
Mom, Bill and Steve would go down into it but none of us girls would. We learned to deal with it.
There were three fires as we grew up. One in the gravel pit, the second in the house to the south of us that had been abandoned and was being used as a shed and the third in the shed behind the white house that was used as a shop. These seemed to be started by some different precocious neighborhood boys who shall remain nameless. These were scary times because there was not water available like there is today to fight them. We were really frightened that the white house where we were living might catch fire and burn.
There were three fires as we grew up. One in the gravel pit, the second in the house to the south of us that had been abandoned and was being used as a shed and the third in the shed behind the white house that was used as a shop. These seemed to be started by some different precocious neighborhood boys who shall remain nameless. These were scary times because there was not water available like there is today to fight them. We were really frightened that the white house where we were living might catch fire and burn.
She of necessity became a spend thrift. We were often given hand-me-downs from ward members. We didn't have the newest and best of anything. When we would complain she said if anyone takes it away from you to let her know. She lived by the old adage that she had grown up with: “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.” Even in her old age she thought she had to eat old food storage instead of buying new food that she might be actually enjoy eating.
We have very few pictures because cameras and film plus the developing were very expensive. At one time we had a Polaroid camera that would develop a picture in minutes. That was fun but so far we haven;t located many of those pictures. Also, Mom didn't like to have her picture taken. We finally convinced her that if she would just smile, in ten years she would like the picture. This turnedout to be true.
She always had inspirational thoughts posted in her office and bedroom. She would change these once a week. Other times she would have a calendar that you would flip and it would have a new thought or scripture for each day. This thought reminds me of my mother!
Life Spared A Third Time . . . Winter Accident
The third
time that her life was spared was on one winter morning about 7 am coming home
from work at the hospital on Harrison Boulevard by the gully. It had been snowing most of the night and she
hit an icy spot and went over the edge of the road into the hollow. People saw skid marks and stopped to
help. She was already out of the car and
at the top of the hill as they wondered if everyone was OK in the car. She assured them that they were OK because
she was the only one in the car. They
didn't realize that she was the driver.
She was unharmed and felt the Lord had protected her that early
morning. One of the passerby's took her
about two miles to her home. Later they
called a tow truck. It was over a hundred
foot drop and he couldn't believe that she hadn't been killed. Today, they have a cement barrier to protect other drivers.
Excellent Cook
I don't know
how she could take a can of soup and a can of tuna and feed a family of 6 but
she did. She was a good cook and made she made yummy things on the weekend
when she was working all day. Her pies
would melt in your mouth with flaky crusts, smooth fudge, soft divinity, and peanut
brittle that was so thin you could see through it. She knew the secret to making
good gravy (good drippings and the
secret ingredient= potato water). We
often raised a beef each year and I didn't realize that everyone didn't grow up
eating a steak as big as your dinner plate!
She cooked a lot of things in a pressure cooker: potatoes, stews, meats
and soups. She got many of delicious receipes for casseroles from her sister Roma Smith.
Other foods she liked were: red potatoes and fresh green peas with a white sauce, green beans, raspberries, pickled beets, horseradish, deviled eggs, pinto beans and ham, and even tuna fish.
She loved to juice. She took it to a new art form. She was also very health conscious and would give us powdered yeast to swallow with lots of water. She said it would help our complexion. It was so gaggy that sometimes we would throw it back up! It wasn't until years later that yeast would be packaged in capsules.
She even made her own ice cream in ice cube trays in the freezer with delicious smelling Watkins vanilla. When it was just so, she would blend it with the hand mixer. Her all time favorite ice cream flavor was maple nut. Even as a great-grandma she would get 1 ½ gallon plastic buckets of Schwaans vanilla ice cream to enjoy with company or by herself at the end of the day.
Other foods she liked were: red potatoes and fresh green peas with a white sauce, green beans, raspberries, pickled beets, horseradish, deviled eggs, pinto beans and ham, and even tuna fish.
She loved to juice. She took it to a new art form. She was also very health conscious and would give us powdered yeast to swallow with lots of water. She said it would help our complexion. It was so gaggy that sometimes we would throw it back up! It wasn't until years later that yeast would be packaged in capsules.
She even made her own ice cream in ice cube trays in the freezer with delicious smelling Watkins vanilla. When it was just so, she would blend it with the hand mixer. Her all time favorite ice cream flavor was maple nut. Even as a great-grandma she would get 1 ½ gallon plastic buckets of Schwaans vanilla ice cream to enjoy with company or by herself at the end of the day.
She taught us all how to cook! Even the boys more or less. She would teach 4-H classes so that we could learn with our friends. We learned how to make a basic
Quick Mix that you could store in the fridge for a few weeks and then quickly measure and have yummy biscuits or cookies, or cakes by adding a few other ingredients.
She loved to
go to the cannery up in Preston and can things with her mom and sisters. Every
year we would make 50 cans or so of Suet Pudding. We loved eating this served with carmel
sauce and whipped cream. One Sunday we
were warming the suet pudding in a can and it boiled dry. We had raisins and this moist cake-like
pudding all over the ceiling to clean up.
That curbed our appetite for that dessert for a sometime.
Later in life when we would come back to visit she would always feed us something.
When Grandma Taylor came to visit ...all HELL broke lose! We needed to get the house spic-&-span clean and do it yesterday! Needless to say, this tended to make us not look forward to her coming very much. A fond memory of them was when for Mother's Day, Grandpa Taylor would invite everyone to eat at Maddox in Brigham City, Utah. We got to see all the cousins and had a wonderful meal.
Excellent Seamstress
She made many of the girls clothes as well as her own. She taught us how to sew. Sometimes we would have patterns everywhere! She loved plaids and made sure that we matched them up perfectly.
She did beautiful hand work and could hem a dress, pants, or repair a tear so that you couldn't even see it. Up until the last few years, when her eyes started to get bad, she would help us with projects that we needed assistance with,
Later in life when we would come back to visit she would always feed us something.
When Grandma Taylor came to visit ...all HELL broke lose! We needed to get the house spic-&-span clean and do it yesterday! Needless to say, this tended to make us not look forward to her coming very much. A fond memory of them was when for Mother's Day, Grandpa Taylor would invite everyone to eat at Maddox in Brigham City, Utah. We got to see all the cousins and had a wonderful meal.
She made many of the girls clothes as well as her own. She taught us how to sew. Sometimes we would have patterns everywhere! She loved plaids and made sure that we matched them up perfectly.
She did beautiful hand work and could hem a dress, pants, or repair a tear so that you couldn't even see it. Up until the last few years, when her eyes started to get bad, she would help us with projects that we needed assistance with,
Parenting
She did all the discipling of the children. None of her husbands would get involved. She was a smart parent and tried to keep track of what the kids were up to. She always tried to make things as fair as possible for all concerned. She had a candy bar philosophy. She would buy a giant Baby Ruth candy bar for 10 cents and split it four ways. One person got to cut the pieces and then they were the last one to choose. It helped to keep us very accurate. As the family grew, we would buy two candy bars and do the same thing.
She believed in "Tough Love" even before it was popular. We had consequences to our actions! More than once, she would get so tired of our bickering, that she would cut two willows from the tree and give it to the two that were fighting. She would tell us to keep fighting until she said to stop. After a few minutes, we were done but she wasn't. It continued long enought that she got our attention that she was not going to tolerate constant bickering!
She listened to her children. Even after we married and came back to visit, she would stop what she was doing and go into the frontroom to visit. She was also full of advice if you wanted to hear it and sometimes she would give it to you even if you didn't want to hear it!
Boys will be Boys
She did all the discipling of the children. None of her husbands would get involved. She was a smart parent and tried to keep track of what the kids were up to. She always tried to make things as fair as possible for all concerned. She had a candy bar philosophy. She would buy a giant Baby Ruth candy bar for 10 cents and split it four ways. One person got to cut the pieces and then they were the last one to choose. It helped to keep us very accurate. As the family grew, we would buy two candy bars and do the same thing.
She believed in "Tough Love" even before it was popular. We had consequences to our actions! More than once, she would get so tired of our bickering, that she would cut two willows from the tree and give it to the two that were fighting. She would tell us to keep fighting until she said to stop. After a few minutes, we were done but she wasn't. It continued long enought that she got our attention that she was not going to tolerate constant bickering!
She listened to her children. Even after we married and came back to visit, she would stop what she was doing and go into the frontroom to visit. She was also full of advice if you wanted to hear it and sometimes she would give it to you even if you didn't want to hear it!
Boys will be Boys
Bill was a rambunctious kid. He ended up breaking his pelvis when he fell off a moving trailer. He was in a cast for several months at the end of first grade and had to be home schooled. Unfortunately he fell behind his other classmates in reading.
When Bill was in the service during the Vietnam War, Steve “borrowed” Bill’s car and drove it to school and led others to believe that it was his car. He would have it home and parked back in the garage in the exact spot so that Mom never knew it had left. It was many years later that she heard about it and was very “dumbfounded” by it all.
Steve loved
getting out on the roof above the car porch because he had easy access out his
bedroom window. He and cousin
Michael would dive onto the bed from the
carporch roof when Mom wasn't home and she knew exactly what had been doing
because the caster on the bed was broken.She tells the story of changing pipes with Steve and how he was complaining about how hot it was and took off his shirt. She did not allow her boys to go around with their shirts off. She said OK, whats fair is fair. If you think it's so hot, you can run around with your shirt off, then so can I, and she proceeded to remove her blouse. When Steve could see that she meant business, he frantically put his shirt back on and he never removed it again in her presence.
Both boys could tell us lots and lots of stories about life with Mom!
No Family Vacations
When I was
growing up, she never went on a vacation.
There simply wasn’t the money to do so.
We would go see relatives for a few days in Idaho and our vacations were
going to stay with cousins for a week at a time and we loved it. Later in life, she would travel with her
Mother and Dad to Arizona to help them drive to be a snowbird. Once she went to Arizona to pick up her
mother after she had spent a season as a Snowbird after Grandpa had passed
away. They made a little longer trip of
it with Joyce, Muriel, and Aunt Roma and were gone for about a week. Sometimes grandma and grandpa Taylor would
want to go somewhere, so Inez was the one that would take them to Boise or
wherever.
She
did love to play with us. We often
played softball, she made sure we all had swimming lessons even though she did
not know how to swim. Other lessons
included piano, ballet, and sewing. We were allowed to learn to drive younger than most teenagers because we started first driving a tractor. The most fun of all was being pulled behind
a car in the snow. She also loved to
jump rope and would go out in the car porch and jump to 100 even when she was
over 60. She helped us with our homework
and if we had a big project that wasn’t done she would take us to work at 11
pm., set us up in the visiting room at the hospital, fill us full of orange
juice and crushed ice and keep us working till it was done.
When she had a moment or two she would check in on us and see how we
were doing. After we were done, we were allowed to go to sleep and we went tos chool the next day. That cured us of most of our procrastination as far as our schoolwork went.
Busy is Better
She made sure we were kept us busy! We were either watering, changing pipes,
growing and selling corn or helping others in some unique ways. When the work missionaries lived with Bishop
McMillian, Mom volunteered my help to go over to clean and vacuum the entire
huge house once a week in the summer. This was back
when missionaries were called to help build chapels. I walked through the field and would walk home about three hours later. They helped construct the Combe Road
chapel. We volunteered many hours as a
family painting the inside of the church.
Joseph (Red) and Grace Bagley Family
Our Best Friends
Mom's best
friend was Grace Bagley. They lived on
the same street as we did and had several kids our age. Grace was a good cook and made delicious
pull-apart bread. She helped with
babysitting and they spent many, many hours visiting. Red was an insurance salesman and into
politics and survival They purchased a hundred amd thirty acres of land in Star Valley on the Idaho side next to US Forest Service Land. This land was in case things got bad enough that we needed a place to retreat to.
Bagleys eventually build a large home up on the hill but we still remained good friends. They had some bad trials as their son, Fred, I think, was killed at the top of Wasatch Dr. and Combe road when someone failed to stop at the stop sign. A grandaugher was killed when a family member backed out of the driveway. Red died at an early age. Their twin girls were very young and didn't really get to know their father. They had a total of nine children. It was a hard time for their family but they survived and were stronger because of the trials they faced.
Grace and Mom were closer than most sisters. At the end of her life, she lived with several different family members until she passed away a year ago.
Bagleys eventually build a large home up on the hill but we still remained good friends. They had some bad trials as their son, Fred, I think, was killed at the top of Wasatch Dr. and Combe road when someone failed to stop at the stop sign. A grandaugher was killed when a family member backed out of the driveway. Red died at an early age. Their twin girls were very young and didn't really get to know their father. They had a total of nine children. It was a hard time for their family but they survived and were stronger because of the trials they faced.
Land in Star Valley
Inez sold the Ward (the family's name) property on the south of us and invested in 130 acres of land. This was during the cold war and this was their "survival" get away in Sun Valley. This was Red Bagley's idea and since Grace was her best friend, she went along with it. She actually put the downpayment on the property and the Bagleys paid the monthly principal and interest. It was next to US Forest Service property and cattlemen frequently graze their cattle on it. Larry and Mom would go up and
mend the barbwire fences. It was hard work but they made a vacation out of it.
In the spring it is full of beautiful flowers In her typical, true character, she would share the use with many family members. She still owned the property at her death, the Bagleys had sold their property many years ago. It is in a gorgeous valley and will soon have a temple in it!
Worked at Hill Air Force Base
In about
1965, she was single with five children and needed to make more money to
support them. She quit her work as a
nurse and went to aircraft instrument repair school for 2 years. It was full time 4 hours classwork and four hours in the shop for hands on experience. We lived off of child support and food storage. She never asked for help from family or the church.
She was very
good with figuring out how things worked and good with her hands. Being ambidextrous was an advantage when you were tearing instruments apart and putting them back together. However, studying
and passing tests were very hard for her.
Reading had always been difficult and she was slow at it. Many nights she studied well into the morning
hours to be able to pass her tests. They studied physical science, math, electricity,principals of flying and general aircraft maintenance. She would bring home gyros and showed us how they worked.
She also helped her nephew Robert Holmes to get into the Instrument Repair training and he in turn helped her when she didn’t understand some of her instruments. They enjoyed a special bond for many years as they would see each other almost every day. Then Robert became a supervisor and eventually moved to another part of the base. He ended up working there for 32 years. At one time, he was one of her supervisors. She took great pride in her work and most of her instruments passed on their first inspection!
She also helped her nephew Robert Holmes to get into the Instrument Repair training and he in turn helped her when she didn’t understand some of her instruments. They enjoyed a special bond for many years as they would see each other almost every day. Then Robert became a supervisor and eventually moved to another part of the base. He ended up working there for 32 years. At one time, he was one of her supervisors. She took great pride in her work and most of her instruments passed on their first inspection!
There were
not many women who worked on instrument repair.
She had to endure some bad language and crude joking around. She already knew a few “bad” words from
growing up on the farm but her vocabulary greatly increased as she worked among
a lot of crass men and occasionally a bad word would slip out at home. At work she was the one told to make
coffee. “Why me? I don’t drink the stuff and I won’t taste
it.” It was a losing battle because she
was the only woman on the crew! She did
a good job. People would walk over from
some of the other hanger to get her coffee.
When others were raising the price, she would not because she was
breaking even. When she asked some of
them why they walked so far just to get a cup of coffee. They said because you make it with love and
you scrub the pot when you make a new batch!”
I’m sure it didn’t hurt that she had the lowest price, too. She enjoyed working and did a good job. She retired after working at HAFB for 20 years,
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Married Larry Murl Prather from Craig, Colorado. He had worked in the coal mines as a teenager. In World War II, he was a captain (flight engineer) in the Army Aircorp stationed in Alaska doing reconnaissance work over the Bering Sea. Larry and Inez were married in 1972. They continued dancing together for many years with some couples square dance clubs. They went to Hawaii and Branson. He was very much the gentleman and always treated her like a lady. He reminded me of James Garner, the actor.
They met as single swingers in square dancing. She was the treasurer of the club, so she would greet everyone when they came. There was
at least five girls to every man and she was smart enough to stake her claim
early. The first night he was at the
dance she wished him a good evening and
a safe trip home. “Oh, I'm not going
home, I'm going to another club that does round dancing. Do you want to come along?” She said "Yes!" They had a good time! On their first actual date, he knocked her wig off when we reached his
arm to put it around her shoulders. She
was so embarrased! When he saw how
beautiful her hair was he was in love.
She always had thick beautiful dark hair. She didn't wear her wig much after that because he liked to see it long and flowing and run his fingers through it.
This is a year after they were married. Larry is really not that much taller than her.
Muriel, Steven, Lisa, Larry Inez Brandon Proctor and Amy Jacobs
He had two
boys the ages of Joyce and Muriel and so the six of them took a memorable trip
to Disneyland. This was the first
“official” vacation she had been on. It was a found remembrance that she talked
about all her life.
Larry was a
member of the church but inactive. Mom
did not push Larry to go to church. With
her first two marriages, she always just went to church no matter what but she backed off and let him lead. When he said he didn't want to go back east to Steven's wedding she didn't go because she wouldn't go without him. She wanted him to know, he came first. They had a lovely Open House a few weeks later here in Utah. She was very patient and knew he was a good man with a
good heart and that he would sooner or later decide that it was time for him to
go back to church. She gave him plenty
of time and prayed daily for him to feel the Spirit. He often visitied over the back fence with a neighbor. He just happened to be the bishop. One Saturday, he casually invited Larry to come to church the next day. He went the next day and he
never stopped going.
He was very
serious about the church. He studied the
gospel very diligently because he knew he had a lot of time to make up
for. Years later they were sealed in
the Ogden Temple and some of her children were sealed to them. Larry prayed to understand the temple better
and it wasn’t but just a few weeks later, he was called to be a temple worker. He served for many years and completed this
calling very faithfully.
Inez volunteered at the Family History Center for many years while Larry worked at the temple. She enjoyed working as a cashier, helping things to run better and greeted patrons with a pleasant smile and willingness to help with anything that they needed.
Inez volunteered at the Family History Center for many years while Larry worked at the temple. She enjoyed working as a cashier, helping things to run better and greeted patrons with a pleasant smile and willingness to help with anything that they needed.
Mom could
teach a class in Divorce 101 because she did not disparage her former
spouses. It was not uncommon for us to
have 2 ex’s and a husband at a dinner table with no discord. Larry passed away in July of 1999. They had been married 27 years. Mom was quick to point out that this was 3
months longer than he had been married to his first wife so that made her his
favorite wife!
Best of Backyards
They had the best of backyards which included lots of grass, sandpile, swings, monkeys bars, slide, trampoline, trees to climb and lots of shade!
Best of Backyards
They had the best of backyards which included lots of grass, sandpile, swings, monkeys bars, slide, trampoline, trees to climb and lots of shade!
She Loved Children
Our house was the gathering place for the neighborhood children. She let us run freely through the house with screen doors banging behind as we ran in and out. We loved to play Annie- I-Over over the white house, ball in the field, hide and seek in the sage brush, roller skating, basketball, jump roping, croquet, volleyball and riding bikes. She would let us go over to the gravel pit to play in the sand and swing from the big swing in the huge trees.
She taught as a Primary Nursery leader for over 20 years. She would teach they the lesson twice each week. Then have a little rest time and then teach then the smae lesson again. She said the second time they knew most of the answers. She loved each child dearly and enjoyed watching them as they grew up and see many of them serve missions. She believed that it takes an entire village to raise a child!
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She would help out wherever she could see a need. Whenever I see a Dr. Seuss hat, it makes me smile and think of her because for several years, she would drive from Ogden to West Valley to Mary Jean's school for the celebration of Dr, Seuss' birthday where she would read to groups of students. It took us a few years to realize that she had been born on his birthday. Then she became the "honorary guest." and she wore the Dr. Seuss hat. We grew up reading many of his books from the library. She would dress in one of her favorite color red. Looking back, I realize that took alot of courage for her to read out loud in front of people she didn't even know but she would do it because she loved me!
Remarkable Home
Our family home at 6130 South Wasatch Drive was remarkable not so much because of the design of the home but because of the love that was inside it.It has two bedrooms on the main floor and two upstairs. The upstairs bedrooms were very large compared to today' standards. The boys had the south bedroom with a small storage area to the west. The girls had the north bedroom. There was a bathroom upstairs.
Originally it had a carporch with a lubrication pit so the oil could be changed easily. Larry had it made into a garage.
The add-on at the rear was something that Larry did. It has windows that can be taken out in the summer and a folding garage door on the north. It also has a sink, counterop, cabinets and fridge. It works wonderful for family get-togethers.
Both these add-ons were nice but they cut out the natural light in the kitchen that she so enjoyed. She would let her young babies sun themselves on a blanket on the floor by the sliding glass doors when they were very young.
The first thing you would notice when you went inside was the green carpet. It is the original wool carpet that was put in when they first built it in 1960. She bought it because it was on close-out and commercial grade. The salesman said it would wear like iron and he was right. Even after all these years there is still no traffic pattern in it.
The basement was unfinished and had a large cold storage room. We would often rollerskate downstairs in the winter. There was also a clothes chute that went from the upstrais bathroom down to the washroom in the basement. She used to have an old wringer washer that we caught our fingers in more thatn once. She loved when she got a used Ironright so she could iron her clothes with it as well as her sheets!
We didn't have much on the walls in the form of decoarations because we just didn't have the money for all the frivilous kind of stuff. She did, however, decorate her bedroom with lots of lavender, her favorite color.
Employment
Our family home at 6130 South Wasatch Drive was remarkable not so much because of the design of the home but because of the love that was inside it.It has two bedrooms on the main floor and two upstairs. The upstairs bedrooms were very large compared to today' standards. The boys had the south bedroom with a small storage area to the west. The girls had the north bedroom. There was a bathroom upstairs.
Originally it had a carporch with a lubrication pit so the oil could be changed easily. Larry had it made into a garage.
The add-on at the rear was something that Larry did. It has windows that can be taken out in the summer and a folding garage door on the north. It also has a sink, counterop, cabinets and fridge. It works wonderful for family get-togethers.
Both these add-ons were nice but they cut out the natural light in the kitchen that she so enjoyed. She would let her young babies sun themselves on a blanket on the floor by the sliding glass doors when they were very young.
The first thing you would notice when you went inside was the green carpet. It is the original wool carpet that was put in when they first built it in 1960. She bought it because it was on close-out and commercial grade. The salesman said it would wear like iron and he was right. Even after all these years there is still no traffic pattern in it.
The basement was unfinished and had a large cold storage room. We would often rollerskate downstairs in the winter. There was also a clothes chute that went from the upstrais bathroom down to the washroom in the basement. She used to have an old wringer washer that we caught our fingers in more thatn once. She loved when she got a used Ironright so she could iron her clothes with it as well as her sheets!
We didn't have much on the walls in the form of decoarations because we just didn't have the money for all the frivilous kind of stuff. She did, however, decorate her bedroom with lots of lavender, her favorite color.
Employment
She was
always a hard worker. She always worked
even when she had small children. She
did not complain about having to work.
Jobs she has done: warehouse
work, clerk in a grocery store, secretary, selling Kirby vacuums, nurse (10
years) and aircraft instrument repair (20 years). Most times she would be selling something on
the side as a distributor. She usually sold to people minus her commission so
she could help them out, (obviously she didn’t make much money). I remember nutritional supplements,
foundation garments, shoes and most
anything she believed in but didn't want
to pay full price for, so she would became a distributor.
She retired from Hill Field after 20 years because there was a big layoff coming and she felt that, if she retired, that some other younger person would be able to keep their job to help raise their family. Larry had retired several years before and this would give them some time together. Even after retiring, she did some telephone sales work because she had worked at Hill Field Base and as such didn’t have the required years of work for social security benefits. So she worked until she did have enough.
She retired from Hill Field after 20 years because there was a big layoff coming and she felt that, if she retired, that some other younger person would be able to keep their job to help raise their family. Larry had retired several years before and this would give them some time together. Even after retiring, she did some telephone sales work because she had worked at Hill Field Base and as such didn’t have the required years of work for social security benefits. So she worked until she did have enough.
Retirement Years
Larry and
she traveled a little. They traveled
with square Dance Clubs for a while including Hawaii and back east to
Branson a time or two. A memorable trip
was when they took Larry’s two boys and Mom’s two girls and went to
Disneyland.
Another treasured trip was with her sister Roma and her husband Glenn and they went back to Nauvoo to check up on her brother Calvin and his wife Donna to see what they were up to on their missions. She has very fond memories of that special time together.
Another treasured trip was with her sister Roma and her husband Glenn and they went back to Nauvoo to check up on her brother Calvin and his wife Donna to see what they were up to on their missions. She has very fond memories of that special time together.
They talked
about buying a trailer and going camping but
then decided they had the best camp spot in their large backyard with
lots and lots of shade. The trees that
she had planted from saplings are now over 50 feet high. The bottom line was she liked her own bed
best!!! You could probably count on two hands the number of times that she did not sleep in her own bed.
Relaxing at the Reunion
For the past 20 years or so she would host a family reunion
for about 75 to 100 people and many families would bring their trailers in and
stay for a couple of days up to a week. Many would go to Lagoon and Salt Lake City during the day and return back to their trailers in the evening to visit. She enjoyed seeing everyone and greeted them all with the biggest smile. It was amazing how well she could remember so many relatives names when she would just see them once a year.
Old Time Photos like they do at Lagoon
Loved to drive --- fast
One day she
was coming home and she had a policeman follow her all the way down the long
driveway to the clothesline and gave her a ticket for speeding. “But everyone else was passing me.” He claimed he couldn't ticket the ones in
front for safety reasons but he could her because she was the tail end. She told us, "That’s the last time you'll catch me at the end of the line! Her philosophy was to go with the flow. Larry
had a lead foot also so they got along good together.
At 80 she was far sighted enough to buy a hybrid car long
before it was popular and when the price was about $10,000 lower than it is
today, she was quick to point out. She
bragged that she spends more money on gas for her lawn mower than she does for
her car but remember she has over an acre of grass that has to be mowed every
week. These past few years Angeleena and
Cory have taken care of the watering and cutting of the grass and she just
loved looking out her window at it and appreciated the wonderful job they did
for her.
She still loves to drive!
She planned to surrender her driver’s license at 88, not because she was
not a good driver but because she could tell her reflexes weren’t as fast as
they used to be. When it came time to
renew or surrender her license. It didn’t
happen. Somehow she couldn’t bear the
thought of not being able to drive and so she took the vision test and renewed
her license for another 5 years. She
didn’t drive but she could have if she wanted to and that seemed enough for her
to know that she had that option. But
then her vision started to go bad. She
had an operation but her sight wasn’t good enough to be able to drive again.
Things She Did Do and
Sayings She Said, Often
1. ”Pay your tithing first and everything
else will work out.” She had made that decision long ago as a youth, so she didn't have to decide each month what to do. It was not only the 10% but it was whatever the Church required. Back during the day when members raised a portion of the cost of building a church, we gave all our Christmas money to the building fund. This is the building on Combe Road where her family luncheon was held following the funeral. She talked it over with the kids and we decided to use the $100 dollars
that she had saved for our Christmas and give it to the bishop. We actually had next to nothing for Christmas
that year but we had a very sweet calm spirit in our home as we learned the importance of obedience. It was the widows mite and shegave it freely. What Year?
2. “Live by the Spirit." "I don't know why but I need to go" see so and
so, etc. & she would do it! It
didn't matter what time of day or night or if it was convenient or not, she would do it without hesitation.
3. “Pray always and keep a prayer in your
heart, too.” An example was one
Sunday there was no water from the tap.
She invited Muriel, who was 3 years old, to pray for water to bathe in so they could go
to church. The water started and they
were able to bathe and make it to church on time. The next day they called brother Halverson to
fix the well. After he examined the
motor he said there was no way they could have got the motor to work on Sunday
because it was completely burned out. He
replaced the motor.
4. “Take good care of yourself, no one else
is going to do it for you.” She took
good care of herself. She ate sensibly
and monitored her health. She never
looked sick and hardly ever bruised and never had any broken bones. She wore glasses more and more as she got
older and her false teeth always seemed to bother her. She was very flexible and when she did fall,
she had learned not to fight it.
She would rather work than eat. She didn’t get hungry. We had to remind her that it was time to eat. Some people when they get hungry, they get irritable like Larry did. Not her, she would just work harder to get the job done! Often times she would send Larry to get breakfast and she would keep working.
She would rather work than eat. She didn’t get hungry. We had to remind her that it was time to eat. Some people when they get hungry, they get irritable like Larry did. Not her, she would just work harder to get the job done! Often times she would send Larry to get breakfast and she would keep working.
She even used an anti-gravity machine that would flip her, and anyone else who wanted to try it, upside down. She stopped using that when she got stuck in it and couldn't get out by herself. Fortunately, someone stopped by to visit and helped her out otherwise that might have been her fourth brush with death.
She would jump rope in the garage and liked to race the grandkids. She was very agile and when she was 90 she could still touch her toes. She liked to do work outdoors and still changed irrigation pipes to water her huge lawn until she was 89. She had worked hard to keep her physical abilities strong. Then she just couldn’t do it anymore and this made her sad.
She was an early riser often starting the day by five in the morning, sometimes earlier. She changed irrigation pipes until she was 89. Each one was about 30 feet long and weighed about 20 pounds each. It was a balancing act to walk with them and connect them in another location.
She once bought all the specialized exercise equipment from a tanning salon that was going out of business. There were ten of them that each worked a different part of your body. Every morning, she would go downstairs, put a wash in the clothes washer and work out eight to ten minutes on every machine.
She was an early riser often starting the day by five in the morning, sometimes earlier. She changed irrigation pipes until she was 89. Each one was about 30 feet long and weighed about 20 pounds each. It was a balancing act to walk with them and connect them in another location.
She once bought all the specialized exercise equipment from a tanning salon that was going out of business. There were ten of them that each worked a different part of your body. Every morning, she would go downstairs, put a wash in the clothes washer and work out eight to ten minutes on every machine.
She also worked on her mind. This included her using her mind to remember people's names especially relatives that came to the legendary family reunion. She would say "If you don't use it you lose it!" She set time aside to work her mind by playing games like Rubic Cube and Free Cell. She very seldom lost at free cell.
Sometimes we would play together and she’d say “Now wait a minute, you’ve got to look further down to see what’s
coming at you, just like in life. You’ve
got to think things through.”
She kept
learning. She studied herbology,
personlogy, foot reflexology and massage.
She used these for herself and
to help others. She was not afraid of
computers and tried to keep up on them but she mainly used them for family
history work and playing free cell.
5. She lived the “Observe and then Serve”
philosophy decades before it became a popular saying. Her service to others is legendary. Service
was her life. She took at least a dozen
women into home and nursed them back to health or went and helped them in their
home. She even helped young pregnant
girls with no place to go. If there was
a need she tried to fill it. If it took an hour, a day, a month or several months, it didn't matter. She was not one to say "How can I help? or let me know if I can do something." When
someone passed away she would just show up and start cleaning, washing, ironing,
taking care of the children, etc. She
used the white house to help others have a roof over their heads. All of her children lived there for a while
at one time or another after they were married rent free untiol they could move on.
6.
“Things could always be worse!”
She kept a positive attitude and would often counsel with others about
dealing with the problems they've been given because there are many others you
would not want to trade for.
7. “If you work your kids hard enough, they won’t
have the energy to get into too much trouble.” For several years we planted eight acres of corn
and sold it out on the road. This kept
us out of trouble big time. Soon we
planted alfalfa instead of corn and that was a lot less work. We did stay out of most troubles that came our way.
8. “Just do the best you can! That’s all we can do!” She would often counsel not to compare yourself with others and that you just have to do the best you can at that time in your life.
9. "Stay on you own Ten Acres." As we grew older and had responsibilities and families of our own she would explain the ten acre plan to us. Everyone has ten acres and you need to stay on your own ten acres. It was a polite way of saying mind your own business.
10. “Make
hay while the sun shines.” If you
can do it, do it now while you can because the sun is not always going to
shine! This was true in her own life. Her sun stopped shining towards the end. Fortunately, she had her mind and her memories so she would say "Remember when we did . . . this or that." The past seven months were extemely difficult. Not that she was in alot of pain, but that she was sleep deprived, walking was difficult because of sight issues and she would lose her balance easily. The last six weeks she required 24/7 round the clock care which her daughters provided. She did not want to go to a nursing home! She had to put Vivian, her mother, in a nursing home and she really felt bad about that. After Roma passed, she hoped it would be soon that she could follow. When the days grew on and on, she was so werry. She said "If Heaven won't take me then I'll go to Hell but I want to go now."
Enduring to the end can be very difficult even when you have led a good life!
11. "There;s more than one way to skin a cat." She was open to thinking outside the box. She would help others look at different ways to solve their problems.
12. "Life isn't perfect so you just have to deal with it." There are many times in life when you just have to swallow your pride and grin and near it. This makes me smile when I think of it. We had gone through the usual stresses in getting the obituary, program and pictures together. Then her funeral video had hit some bumps in the road. We got past those and then we saw the final video had one frame that was suppose to have gone to the program and not to the video. To me it was a BIG deal because we wanted everything to be just perfect. It would have been easy to go into a rant and rage about how could they be so .... but then I remembered this characterstic of hers. I will, in the future, stop, think and try to gain her perspective. In most situations I can think how would she handle this and then do it!
Things She Didn't Do
Enduring to the end can be very difficult even when you have led a good life!
11. "There;s more than one way to skin a cat." She was open to thinking outside the box. She would help others look at different ways to solve their problems.
12. "Life isn't perfect so you just have to deal with it." There are many times in life when you just have to swallow your pride and grin and near it. This makes me smile when I think of it. We had gone through the usual stresses in getting the obituary, program and pictures together. Then her funeral video had hit some bumps in the road. We got past those and then we saw the final video had one frame that was suppose to have gone to the program and not to the video. To me it was a BIG deal because we wanted everything to be just perfect. It would have been easy to go into a rant and rage about how could they be so .... but then I remembered this characterstic of hers. I will, in the future, stop, think and try to gain her perspective. In most situations I can think how would she handle this and then do it!
This is what I wanted in her graveside service program.
Instead it went to the middle of the video. I can laugh about it now.
Instead it went to the middle of the video. I can laugh about it now.
Things She Didn't Do
She DID NOT smother you with sloppy, mushy kisses but she showed her affection in many other ways. She loved a warm hug! She had a smile that reached from one side of the room to the other for whenever you came to visit. There was a special twinkle in her eye. She sat down and talked face to face with people; she didn't try to multi-task. When you were with her, she was present with you in the moment. Even when she was talking with you on the phone for long periods of time, she was not doing other things. She was giving you her full attention.
She DID NOT write letters not even to her two missionary children. Steven served his mission in Taiwan. Daddy Glen was faithful to write him and had beautiful handwriting even though he did not have use of his pointer finger because of a saw accident. Joyce served in Kentucky. She supported them financially but writing was another matter. Spelling was difficult for her so the easiest thing was not to write. She would ask me to write a letter for her when she just couldn't get out of writing one. She would tell me what she wanted in it and I would get done. If she had been raised in today's world she probably would have been diagnosed as having some degree of a learning disability most likely caused from not being allowed to use her dominant left hand. She did learn to compensate. Her handwriting was beautiful and everyday she faithfully made a list of things she wanted to accomplish. She would cross them off and anything that was left over would go to the top of the next day's list.
She DID NOT speak (give
talks) in church. I don’t remember ever
hearing her bear her testimony but she LIVED her testimony everyday of her
life! She always prayed, paid her
tithing, attended church, helped others and had and used her temple recommend
usually weekly when she was in good health.
She liked to do initiatory work in the temple because it kept her
moving, so she didn’t fall asleep and because she thought others didn’t like to do that part as
much.
She DID NOT listen to music. It wasn't that she objected to it but she just didn't have a strong opinion one way or another about it. We had a wonderful intercom and radio that was wired for all through the house. She would never used it to just listen to music except for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. As the teenagers grew up they wanted to have music playing when they were doing their chores. That was OK with her unless it was too wild or too loud. Larry liked to listen to country music and she was OK with that. I think it actually started to grow on her. She did say that she liked the music from Sound of Music and she would watch it every now and then on VHS. We offered to get her a copy on DVD so she could watch it in her bedroom and she said "No need, don't waste your money this one works just fine in the other room!"
High Forward Ego (aka Pride)
Appearances were very important to her. It was a very strong trait that she had all her life. "What will people think?" was often her retort. She called it a high forward ego from her personolgy days. We wondered who are these people, anyway? This attitude stayed with her till the end of her life. She cared about what "other people" thought very strongly..
She was a person who loved the sunlight! The first thing she did in the morning was throw open the window shades! That was when I was surprised in the last few months of her life, she did not want the windows open. It was probably part of a vision thing but when I asked her why she said "I don't want people driving by to see me just sitting here, I don't want them to feel sorry for me." We would tell her "So, what?" But to her, it was more important what the neighbors though than her own comfort and enjoyment.,
She wanted to know when people were planning to come to visit so she could be looking good (dressed with her teeth in etc,) We knew that she was on the final decline when she stopped getting dressed out of her robe even when she knew people were coming to visit. Many people dropped by gifts to her doorstep and she appreciated that and said "Oh, they shouldn't have." Then she would proceed to tell us why they were the sweetest thing. She appreciated the many remembrances.
She loved when people called her except the telemarketers, who would call everyday at least once a day and wake her up when she hadn't had a good night's sleep the night before. Towards the end she wouldn't talk on the phone so we would tell people to just keep talking on the recorder and be assured that she would listen when it was convenient.
This pride thing really got in her way sometimes and kept her from having a more satisfying relationship with some people. She would refuse to call and talk to someone because they hadn't called and talked to her. This then became a thorn in her side that began to fester. Our take away from this should be to work more vigilantly to not let pride rob us of the joys that life has to offer!
Burial Site
She owned three cemetary plots at the _Wasatch Gardens?cemetary on the hill from where she lived. She gave one to Rodney's mother to be buried in, then later in life she gave one to Rod's second wife to use for Rod (which she kept and turned around and buried him somewhere in Montana) but his second wife did not return ownership of the plot to Inez. This left her with one single plot. As these plots were much more expensive, and being the penny pincher that she was, she opted to trade this one plot for two plots in a less expensive cemetary at the back section. This is the short story of why she is not buried close to where she lived, which is what you might think would have been the logical place.
Life of Service
She DID NOT listen to music. It wasn't that she objected to it but she just didn't have a strong opinion one way or another about it. We had a wonderful intercom and radio that was wired for all through the house. She would never used it to just listen to music except for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. As the teenagers grew up they wanted to have music playing when they were doing their chores. That was OK with her unless it was too wild or too loud. Larry liked to listen to country music and she was OK with that. I think it actually started to grow on her. She did say that she liked the music from Sound of Music and she would watch it every now and then on VHS. We offered to get her a copy on DVD so she could watch it in her bedroom and she said "No need, don't waste your money this one works just fine in the other room!"
High Forward Ego (aka Pride)
Appearances were very important to her. It was a very strong trait that she had all her life. "What will people think?" was often her retort. She called it a high forward ego from her personolgy days. We wondered who are these people, anyway? This attitude stayed with her till the end of her life. She cared about what "other people" thought very strongly..
She was a person who loved the sunlight! The first thing she did in the morning was throw open the window shades! That was when I was surprised in the last few months of her life, she did not want the windows open. It was probably part of a vision thing but when I asked her why she said "I don't want people driving by to see me just sitting here, I don't want them to feel sorry for me." We would tell her "So, what?" But to her, it was more important what the neighbors though than her own comfort and enjoyment.,
She wanted to know when people were planning to come to visit so she could be looking good (dressed with her teeth in etc,) We knew that she was on the final decline when she stopped getting dressed out of her robe even when she knew people were coming to visit. Many people dropped by gifts to her doorstep and she appreciated that and said "Oh, they shouldn't have." Then she would proceed to tell us why they were the sweetest thing. She appreciated the many remembrances.
She loved when people called her except the telemarketers, who would call everyday at least once a day and wake her up when she hadn't had a good night's sleep the night before. Towards the end she wouldn't talk on the phone so we would tell people to just keep talking on the recorder and be assured that she would listen when it was convenient.
This pride thing really got in her way sometimes and kept her from having a more satisfying relationship with some people. She would refuse to call and talk to someone because they hadn't called and talked to her. This then became a thorn in her side that began to fester. Our take away from this should be to work more vigilantly to not let pride rob us of the joys that life has to offer!
Burial Site
She owned three cemetary plots at the _Wasatch Gardens?cemetary on the hill from where she lived. She gave one to Rodney's mother to be buried in, then later in life she gave one to Rod's second wife to use for Rod (which she kept and turned around and buried him somewhere in Montana) but his second wife did not return ownership of the plot to Inez. This left her with one single plot. As these plots were much more expensive, and being the penny pincher that she was, she opted to trade this one plot for two plots in a less expensive cemetary at the back section. This is the short story of why she is not buried close to where she lived, which is what you might think would have been the logical place.
Life of Service
She
was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served as
Relief Society President, stake Young Women’s sports director and numerous
other callings. One of her favorite was a Nursery leader for over 20 years. She was a faithful visiting teacher supervisor and she took her job very seriously.
She
lived an exemplary life of service and was always giving her time to listen and
counsel others as well as opened her home to nurse many, many people back to
health. The children of Roma Smith said that the help she gave hes sister Roma when she was sick extended her life by 20 years! It wasn't just the platelets that she gave her repeatedly but also when she took her into her home and nursed her until she was well enough to go home. When they got together, it was as if they had never been apart. They could reminisce for hours on end.
She also volunteered at the local nursing home to visit residents to give emotional, physical and spiritual support. Her friendship was extended to everyone. She had a knack for anticipating what would meet their needs and did it.
She cherished her
friendship with her sisters and brothers.
She also volunteered at the local nursing home to visit residents to give emotional, physical and spiritual support. Her friendship was extended to everyone. She had a knack for anticipating what would meet their needs and did it.
(Arthur deceased)
Life of Gratitude
She said many times:
“I’ve had a good life. I’ve been blessed
with a good family, good health and the gospel in my life. I’ve lived during the best of times and we’ve
survived through some of the not so good times.
I’ve had a very blessed life! If
I don’t wake up tomorrow, it will be OK.”
She loved life and life loved her back!
Woman of Integrity
Integrity was everything! She knew that no matter how educated, rich, talented or cool you may believe you are, how you treat people tells all. She knew that most of the people she helped could do nothing in return for her, but she still helped them anyway and was glad that she could do it. She was a strong person who did not put others down but tried to lift them up. She was someone who did the right thing regardless of personal gain or who was looking.
This was the last race should would run at age 90 with her brother Calvin.
Slowing Down
The
end of life did not come easy for her but the biggest race of her life was yet to come. It lasted for a long eight months. She had hoped that she would be able to slip away in her sleep before
her capacities became diminished but that was not meant to be. She was not in severe pain but she was still not a
happy camper. She began losing her
balance and falling. It had become
increasingly difficult for her to see and she would count her steps into the
bathroom. Chocolate candy became her
best friend. She would often say “I've
been a good girl, don't I deserve a chocolate?”
She loved mini-sized peanut butter cups that would just fit in her mouth just so or a hershey's kiss followed by a spearmint life saver. She was sleep deprived and some days were better than others. The last 6 weeks, she could no longer walk. She kept the faith and endured to the end
valiantly. It was like a giant marathon that went on for months on end 24/7 with little relief in sight.
Even though she was starting to drift out of this world, nothing would bring back that twinkle in her eye like a baby! She would perk right up, smile broadly and talk to them in that voice that was reserved for babies. She wanted to make sure that they had a toy that would interest them. She would show them a good time and then afterwards she would be so exhausted that she went straight to bed to recouperate.
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| Grandma with Paisley King |
Even though she was starting to drift out of this world, nothing would bring back that twinkle in her eye like a baby! She would perk right up, smile broadly and talk to them in that voice that was reserved for babies. She wanted to make sure that they had a toy that would interest them. She would show them a good time and then afterwards she would be so exhausted that she went straight to bed to recouperate.
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to her daughters Joyce Beutler and Muriel Proctor who lived close by and helped and cared for her 24/7 these past months of her life so that she could remain in her home like she wished. They were indeed angels in every sense of the word and treated her with so much love, care and concern for her
comfort and well being.
She
had plenty of time to prepare for her passing and told us over and over again
that she did not want us to have a funeral and that if we did she would come
back to haunt us! We believed her and
had a simple graveside service for her.
She did not say anything about not doing a virtual tribute to her, so this is
it! We love her so much. To the world, she was just a mom but
to us, she was our world. Life won't be
the same without her and we will miss her until we are united again.
She is survived by 5 children, 19 grandchildren, 27 great grandchildren and 6 great-great grandchildren. She leaves behind a posterity of 57. All of her siblings are gone except Calvin. Her sweet sister Roma just passed away in December. It was as if she couldn't go until she knew that Roma was safely on the other side.
She is survived by 5 children, 19 grandchildren, 27 great grandchildren and 6 great-great grandchildren. She leaves behind a posterity of 57. All of her siblings are gone except Calvin. Her sweet sister Roma just passed away in December. It was as if she couldn't go until she knew that Roma was safely on the other side.
Inez
Taylor Prather passed away the Friday morning of March 27, 2015 at the age of 91. We honored her wishes for a graveside
service. We were at peace with her
passing and felt very blessed that she could return home to her loving Father
in Heaven. What a great family reunion
there must have been on the other side.
Inea was buried following a viewing and graveside service on April 4, 2015 at the Leavitt's Memorial Park on 836 E. 36th Street in Ogden.
Services for Inez
Inea was buried following a viewing and graveside service on April 4, 2015 at the Leavitt's Memorial Park on 836 E. 36th Street in Ogden.
Her Many Gifts I was asked what Mom gave me. I've thought about that a lot! My list includes: a fleece jacket, a pair of warm short boots, pair of gloves and two pair of socks. These were things she had been given and was not using anymore. On different occasions, she knew that I could use them and I have. I appreciated her willingness to share with me. I will warmly think of her as I continue to enjoy them. But that's not quite true, that wasn't all she gave me.
She gave me so much more! She gave me the desire to be fair and honest in my dealings with others. The gift to try to help others as I can. The gift to open your home to others and especially those in need. The gift of the gospel in our lives. The gift of trying to be more frugal. The gift of really listening to others, sometimes for hours on the phone. That's when it really hits home that she is really gone, when her number shows up on my phone and I won't be able to call her and ask her what I should do. I can't bring myself to delete her name from my cellphone because that will be the final tie. I loved her so much. I thank God for our angel mother!
Services for Inez
It
is fitting that each year at Easter time we will be reminded that she lives
because He lives and paid the price for each of our sins. Our lives are better because she graced our world. Our world will never be the same
but if we think “What would Mom do?” and then do it the world will be a better
place. We will miss her and remember her
always with great love and respect!
So Long . . . Farewell. . . Until We Meet Again!
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So Long . . . Farewell. . . Until We Meet Again!
(From Sound of Music, her favorite musical)
Tender Mercies of the Lord
We were concerned when we had to schedule her services during General Conference on Saturday. Thank goodness for DVR's and the internet! When we played it back, low and behold, the choir was wearing her favorite color, lavender! It was hard to hold back the tears. It was as if the choir was saying, You couldn't be here with us but we can be there for you." It seemed like a special tribute to our dear sweet mother.
Not only that, they sang the song
"Have I Done Any Good in the World Today?" that personified how she lived her life! She was a tireless advocate of working hard and helping others.
That song will always remind us of her!
Not only that, they sang the song
"Have I Done Any Good in the World Today?" that personified how she lived her life! She was a tireless advocate of working hard and helping others.
That song will always remind us of her!
Moroni 7:46-47
Wherefore, my beloved brethern, if ye have not charity,
ye are nothing; for charity never faileth.
Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all,
for all things must fail ---
But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him (her).
How blessed we are to have had her in our lives!
Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean, we'll miss you, until we meet again!
Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean, we'll miss you, until we meet again!
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