Home of Brigham Young Lee and his wife Elsa Maria Jessen ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

 

Bert Hafen Family Photos

 

Eleven Human Faces Test

 

Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Depot History ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

 

Obituaries From Our Archives ... Waldemar, Ericksen, Davis, Westfall, Marx, Rowe, Ballard,

 

Perpspective... submitted by Larry Staker and Ruth Ann Beck

For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren't even over the hill yet.

When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn't end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.

As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A kid in 1985 didn't think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great grandparents) survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art. Let's try and keep things in perspective. Let's be smart, help each other out, and we will get through this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted. This too, shall pass.
 

 
































When I received this from Larry, I thought about my mother-in-law Alice Hafen who often told us about the Spanish Flu and that they missed two years of school and then had to combine classes to catch up.  The following is her class and names she remembered. 

If you double click the picture it will enlarge itself. However, to read the names, you will have to stay in the smaller window.

Alice has helped me identify these children as it is her class. 

They are numbered in red in the enlarged view. Some were not identifiable but here is what we have:
Teachers
1.Vern Seely
2. ? Rasmussen
Students:
3. Alice Hafen
4. Sylvia Hutchison
5. Nellie Wilcox
6. Phyllis Matson
7. Fern Olsen
8. Vida Allred
9. Birdella Peterson
10. Ruth Christensen
11. Grace Simpson
12. Ada Wright
13. Mary Trontwine
14. Eleanore Peterson
15. Wanda Matson
16. Iris Rasmussen
17. Wanda Nelson
18. Esther Madsen
19. Arvina Monsen
20. Lizetta Seely
21. Ina Rowe
22. Goldie Coates
23. Brooks Madsen
24. Ray Christensen
25. Harold Beckstrom
26. Warren Nolan
27. Elmer Syndergaard
28. Rex Anderson
29. Morris ?
30. Margaret Jensen
31. Cleo Staker
32. ? ?
33. Margaret Stansfield
34. Louise Fowles
35. Margaret Peterson
36. Ina Seely
37. Eva Monroe
38. Dale Nelson
39. Eva Beck
40. Ila Draper
41. Ila Allred
42. Wanda Smith
43. Rowe Olson
44. Grant Brotherson
45. Ivan Gunderson
46. Ralph Brotherson
47. ? ?
48. Roy Weech
49. Armond Wright
50. LeRoy Moss
51. Ivan Christensen
52. Dick Candland
53. Alan Smith
54. Cheratin Jacobs
55. Morris Olsen
56. ? Allerton
57. ? ?
58. ? ?
59. Asa Reynolds
60. Clarence Anderson
61. ?
62. Grant Larsen
63. ? ?
64. blank
65. Dean Peterson
66. Royal Sorensen
67. Roy Romero
68. ? Marx
69. ? ?
70. ? ?
71. ? ?
Please let us know if you have any corrections or questions.

Home of Francis T. Rudolph Strom and his wife Louisa Carlyne Rauche ~~~Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

 

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Local Military Men World War II

Local Military Men WW11

INDIAN JIM

 

The following is taken from: Jacob Barlow's Fredom Cemetery

There is one Indian buried in the cemetery and his name is “Indian Jim” or Jin Wanup. The Mt. Pleasant DUP put a beautiful marble headstone on his grave in 1975 but his name is misspelled on it. It is spelled James Onump on his headstone. He was a full blooded Ute Indian. Indian Jim was a good friend to the people of Freedom and he would spy for them and let them know when the Indians were going to attack. The people of Freedom built him a dugout to live in on the west side of Freedom. The cemetery is still visited by many people each Memorial Day and other times during the year. It is still a very peaceful and quaint little cemetery where those that come can remember what Freedom used to be like.

INTERESTING THOUGHTS . . . and wishing you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! ~~~ Submitted by Larry Staker

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Welcome to TOMORROW

 

Really?

 

This is extremely interesting. 

If you think the virus is making changes, read this! 

All of the following will become reality in the next 10-20 years (maybe if that long).  Many of us won't see the changes, but our kids and grandkids will.

 

1- Basic auto repair shops will disappear, they are disappearing now.  Read on to know why

 

2- A gas/diesel engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical motor has only 20 parts. Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are repaired only by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes to remove and replace an electric motor.

 

3- Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the dealership but are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with robots

 

4- Your electric motor malfunction light goes on, so you drive up to what looks like a car wash, and your car is towed through while you have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a new electric motor!

 

5- Gas pumps will go away. Now you buy new batteries (this is still a small problem with the old ones).

 

6- Street corners will have meters that dispense electricity. Companies will install electrical recharging stations; in fact, they've already started in the developed world.

 

7- Smart major auto manufacturers have already designated money to start building new plants that build only electric cars.

 

8-Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away. Drilling for oil will stop.  Say goodbye to OPEC!  The middle east is in trouble.

 

9- Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day than they use, and will sell it back to the grid.  The grid stores it and dispense it to industries that are high electricity users. Has anybody seen the Tesla roof?

 

10- A baby of today will see personal cars only in museums. The FUTURE is approaching faster than most of us can handle.

 

11- In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt.  Who would have thought of that ever happening?

 

12- What happened to Kodak and Polaroid will happen in a lot of industries in the next 5-10 years ... and most of us don't see it coming.

 

13- Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you'd NEVER take pictures on film again?  With today's smartphones, who even has a camera these days?

 

14- Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law – that technological capacity will DOUBLE every year. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a time, before it became way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years.

 

15- It will now happen again (but much faster) with Artificial Intelligence (AI), health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs.

 

16- Forget the book, "Future Shock", welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution.

 

17- Software has disrupted and will continue to disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.

 

18- UBER is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world!  Ask any taxi driver if they saw that coming.

 

19- Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties.  Ask Hilton Hotels if they saw that coming.

 

20- Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world.  This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.

 

21- In the USA, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of computers, you can get legal advice (so far for right now, the basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy – compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans.  So, if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, (what a thought!) only omniscient specialists will remain.

 

22- Computer programs already help nurses to diagnose cancer, and the programs are 4 times more accurate than human nurses.

 

23- Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans.  In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

 

24- Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars are already here. In the next 2 years, the entire industry will start to be disrupted.  You won't WANT to own a car anymore as you will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination

 

25- You will not need to park it  You will pay only for the driven distance and you can be productive while driving  The very young children of today will never get a driver's license and will never own a car.

 

26- This will change our cities because we will need 90-95% fewer cars.

We can transform former parking lots into green parks.

 

27- About 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide including distracted or drunk driving. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles.  With autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million miles. That will save more than a million lives worldwide each year

 

28- Some traditional car companies will doubtless become bankrupt.  They will try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.

 

29- Look at what Volvo is doing right now; no more internal combustion engines in their vehicles starting now – with the 2019 models they are using all-electric or hybrid only, with the intent of phasing out the hybrid models.

 

30- Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi are completely terrified of Tesla – and they should be.  Look at all the companies offering all-electric vehicles. That was unheard of only a few years ago.

 

31- Insurance companies will have massive trouble because, without accidents, the costs will become cheaper.  Their auto insurance business model will  disappear.

 

32- Real estate will change.  If you can work from home (or from literally anywhere), people will abandon their towers to move far away to more beautiful affordable locations...

 

33- Electric cars will become mainstream about 2030.  Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity.

 

34- Cities will have much cleaner air as well.

 

35- Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.

 

36- Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact.  And it's just getting ramped up.

 

37- Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that simply cannot continue  - technology will take care of that strategy.

 

38- Health: "Tricorder X" will be announced this year.  There are companies who will build a medical device (called the Tricorder from Star Trek) that works with your phone – taking your retina scan, your blood sample, and you breathe into it.  It then analyses 54 bio-markers that will identify nearly any disease. There are dozens of phone apps out right now for health.

 

WELCOME TO TOMORROW! – some of it actually arrived a few years ago.

 

 

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Mary J. Mower Dyches

 

Mary J. Mower Dyches

8/11/1947 ~ 1/14/2022

Mary J. Mower Dyches, 74 passed away peacefully on January 14, 2022. She was born on August 11, 1947 in Ogden Utah. She was the daughter of Lee and Jean Mower of Fairview Utah. She married the love of her life Sheran (Jug) Dyches on September 10, 1965 in the Manti Temple.

Mary was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints and served in many callings. She worked as the lunch lady for the Spring City Elementary School for many years. Later in her life she worked at the Sanpete County Treasures office where she loved to help those in the county. She loved gardening, canning food from her garden, sewing, quilting, going for long drives with her husband and camping at Fairview Lakes with her family. She loved the holidays and spending time with her family. Her kids, grandkids and great grandkids were the light of her life.

Mary is survived by her husband Sheran (Jug) Delon Dyches, six children Angela Ivory (Billings, MT), Stacy Mitchell (Dan) Strattford, CT, Neda Pyper (Steve) Manti, UT, Bradley Dyches (Lindsay) Springville, UT, Dallin Dyches, Alpine, WY, Garrett Dyches (Laura) Spanish Fork, UT. Brother, Richard Mower (Norene) AZ and 27 Grandchildren and l7 Great-Grand-Children. Proceeded in death by Parents Lee & Jeanette Mower, Brother, Jeff Mower and Grandson, Kyle Ivory.
Funeral Service will be held Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. in the Spring City 1st Ward Chapel (900 North State) with a viewing from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. prior to services at the Church. Interment in the Spring City Cemetery. 

 

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY

 

The following is taken from Wikipedea 
A United States federal statute honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and his work in the civil rights movement with a federal holiday was enacted by the 98th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 2,
1983, creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The final vote in the House of Representatives on August 2, 1983 was 338–90 (242–4 in the House Democratic Caucus and 89–77 in the House Republican Conference) with 5 members voting present or abstaining,[1] while the final vote in the Senate on October 19, 1983 was 78–22 (41–4 in the Senate Democratic Caucus and 37–18 in the Senate Republican Conference),[2][3] both veto-proof margins.

Prior to 1983 there had been multiple attempts following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to have a holiday created in his honor with Representative John Conyers introducing legislation in every legislative session from 1968 to 1983.[4] In 1979 a vote was held on legislation that would have created a holiday on the third Monday in January, but it failed to receive two-thirds support and was later rescinded following an amendment changing its date.

While attempts were made to have a federally recognized holiday, numerous U.S. states recognized holidays in honor of King. Connecticut did so in 1973. Illinois adopted a commemoration day in 1969, and made it a paid holiday also in 1973. Other states continued to adopt state holidays up through Utah in 2000.

Jean Bushman Johnson

 

Jean Bushman Johnson

1/2/1935 – 1/6/2022

Jean Bushman Johnson passed away at home peacefully on January 6^, 2022.  She was born January 2, 1935 in Fairview, Utah to Jacob Denzil and Emily Billings Bushman and was raised in Fairview. She attended North Sanpete High School. While a senior in high school, she met Glen Johnson and they were married shortly after her graduation on June 19, 1953 in the Manti Temple. They lived on the ranch outside of Mt. Pleasant for some years, then moved into town making it easier for the kids to get to school, eventually moving back to the ranch. After Glen passed away, Jean moved to Fairview where she spent her remaining years.

Jean enjoyed raising her four children; Victor, Daphene, Deniece and Doreen, as well as taking in several Navajo children for various time periods during the LDS Church’s Indian Student Placement Program. Jean loved cooking and was especially known for “Jean’s Donuts” and Christmas candy. She taught many 4-H cooking classes during the summer. As her children got a little older she worked in food service for Wasatch Academy, North Sanpete School District and at Terrell’s grocery store. Jean enjoyed having her grandchildren come and spend a week with her in the summer and kept them busy with swimming, crafts, movies and playing games together.

Jean was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and especially enjoyed callings with the children and youth. Sunbeams and Young Women’s Camp leader were some of her favorites, even going so far as to have special solar ovens made so she could teach the girls to cook in them at girls camp. After retirement Jean and Glen were able to enjoy several years as ordinance workers at the Manti temple. Some of her favorite times were serving and meeting the wonderful people they worked with there.

She is survived by her children Victor Lee (Laurie) Johnson, Herriman; Daphene (Tim) Hansen, Fairview; Deniece (Owen) Larsen, Kaysville; Doreen (Steve) Petersen, Sandy; her sister Donna Thorpe, Salt Lake City; brothers Lynn Merth (Camille) Holladay; and  Therald Duane, Millcreek. 

Jean had four children, 23 grandchildren, numerous great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.

Preceded in death by her husband Glen; her parents Jacob Denzil and Emily Bushman; sisters Erma Shelley and Carma Humphries; brother Boyd Bushman. Services will be held Saturday, January 15, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. in the Fairview North Ward Chapel (131 East 100 North, Fairview, Utah). Friends may call from11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Interment in the Fairview City Cemetery. 

Click Here to watch Live. The Live Zoom Link will activate at 10:45 a.m. MST prior to services.

FOREVER FRIENDS

And the Hafens and Carlsons are still wonderful Friends. 

Peter Hafen is a great grandson of  N.P. Nielsen.

Bud Carlson and his sister JoAnn Carlson Lea are   descendants of John P. and Ida Carlson. 

City Equipment Shed Burns To The Ground

 

Home of Andrew Jensen Syndergaard and his wife Marie Johansen

We thank Tudy Barentsen Standlee for this addition. 

 Marie Syndergaard in the white dress with friends and family. 

Obed Nelson home in the background.

BOBBIN LACE

 The Fairview museum offers classes on Bobbin Lace.

"Bobbin Lace Days" are held in July.  

There are people from all over the world who

 come to participate in these classes.

There are also venders there to sell Bobbin Lace

materials and bobbin lace making equipment.

Nancy McKay started this popular program in Fairview. 

This is a photo of our Relic Home bedroom closet full of women's ( and some men's ) clothing. Everything in earlier times was embellished with lace of some sort - - - handmade lace. We have samples of tatting, netting, bobbin lace, redwork, embroidery, knitted lace, and much more. Beautiful pillowcases from the old Overland Hotel are precious reminders of times gone by. We have a wide variety of wonderful period clothing. Everything from corsets to fine silk hankies. 

We also have clothing from the "Roaring 20s" era. A World War I uniform represent's the men's clothing as well as two tuxedoes from the Seymour Jensen era (1920 to 1950).

Also, the curtains that hang in the windows are original both to the Relic Home itself, but also from older homes around town. Many were donated by Lois Tucker from her home.

We have put UV protection film on all the windows to cut out the harmful rays from the sun to protect our collection. In the east and south windows we have muslin curtains in addition to the film. We have been trained every step of the way by good conservators such as Brook Bowman, now retired from Utah Museum Services. For this guidance we are truly grateful as should those in generations to come.

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Bobbin lace evolved from passementerie or braid-making in 16th-century Italy. Genoa was famous for its braids, hence it is not surprising to find bobbin lace developed in the city.  

The making of bobbin lace was easier to learn than the elaborate cutwork of the 16th century, and the tools and materials for making linen bobbin lace were inexpensive. There was a ready market for bobbin lace of all qualities, and women throughout Europe soon took up the craft which earned a better income than spinning, sewing, weaving or other home-based textile arts. Bobbin lace-making was established in charity schools, almshouses, and convents.