BOARD MEMBERS OF THE MT. PLEASANT PIONEER HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ~~~ FEBRUARY 1960 (from our archives)

 

HOME OF JOSEPH JENSEN and wife ROSELIA ANN FARNSWORTH (from our archives)

 

 

 

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS OF MT. PLEASANT PIONEER HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ~~~ 1960

 

ADOLPH MERZ AND WIFE IDA RUTIISHAUSER ~~~Researched and Compiledby Tudy BarentsenStandlee

 

Mt. Pleasant Historical Association Board of Directors 1984

 

The Soldier

 

Kathy:  Inspired by Rupert Brooke’s poem “The Soldier” and paraphrasing a line from it I’ve crafted this tribute.

     They never came Home but there is a spot in a Foreign Land that is forever North Sanpete.

Glen Brady

ID: 39835618
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Staff Sergeant

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 527th Bomber Squadron, 379th Bomber Group, Heavy

Died: Monday, December 20, 1943
Buried at: Netherlands American Cemetery
Location: Margraten, Netherlands
Plot: M Row: 3 Grave: 6

Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Clyde W. Rigby                              

ID: O-743208
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Second Lieutenant

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 577th Bomber Squadron, 392nd Bomber Group, Heavy

Died: Tuesday, January 04, 1944
Memorialized at: Cambridge American Cemetery
Location: Cambridge, England

Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Russell S. Jensen

ID: 39675224
Entered the Service From: Utah   
Rank: Private

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, Headquarters Squadron, 5th Air Base Group

Died: Thursday, September 07, 1944
Memorialized at: Manila American Cemetery
Location: Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines

Awards: Purple Heart

From Moroni

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Charles Rutishauser

ID: 39835671
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Technical Sergeant

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 526th Bomber Squadron, 379th Bomber Group, Heavy

Died: Sunday, June 18, 1944
Buried at: Ardennes American Cemetery
Location: Neupre (Neuville-en-Condroz), Belgium
Plot: D Row: 16 Grave: 4

Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Wallace W. Candland

ID: 39918059
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Corporal

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, Army Air Corps

Died: Thursday, January 04, 1945
Memorialized at: East Coast Memorial
Location: New York, NY, USA

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dee A. Johnson

ID: O-730509
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: First Lieutenant

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group

Died: Sunday, July 11, 1943
Memorialized at: Sicily-Rome American Cemetery
Location: Nettuno, Italy

Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart

Wasatch Academy

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

James K. Sorensen

ID: 03684611
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Ship's Cook, Third Class

Service: U.S. Navy, United States Navy

Died: Friday, December 11, 1942
Memorialized at: Manila American Cemetery
Location: Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines

Awards: Purple Heart

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Harold Q. Graham

ID: 39914895
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Private First Class

Service: U.S. Army, 275th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division

Died: Saturday, May 12, 1945
Buried at: Netherlands American Cemetery
Location: Margraten, Netherlands
Plot: K Row: 17 Grave: 3

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ferris Ivory

ID: 06604538
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Aviation Radioman, Second Class

Service: U.S. Navy, United States Naval Reserve

Died: Saturday, February 23, 1946
Memorialized at: Honolulu Memorial
Location: Honolulu, HI, USA

Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 4 Gold Stars

Wasatch Academy

The Soldier

by Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

A body of England's, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Businesses Once On 52 South State Street ~~~ Researched, Compiled and Updated by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

 

Memories of Past Mt. Pleasant Pioneer Historical Association

 

Plans For 1949 Pioneer Day (From Louise Johansen's Scrapbook)

 

Fannie Candland Miles 

Fannie Miles Students  1896
~~~~~~~~~~

Sergeant Charles Rutishauser

 

Flander's Field (From our Archives and Lee R. Christensen)

 

           

Ardennes American Cemetery 

The approach drive at Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium leads to the memorial, a stone structure bearing on its façade a massive American eagle, and other sculptures. Within the memorial is the chapel, three large wall maps composed of inlaid marbles, marble panels depicting combat and supply activities, and other ornamental features.

The Ardennes American Cemetery is the final resting place for 5,317 Americans, with 65 percent of those being fallen airmen of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Their headstones are aligned in straight rows that compose the form of a Greek cross. Along the outside of the memorial, inscribed on granite slabs, are the names of 463 of the missing, whose remains were never recovered. The façade on the far (north) end that overlooks the burial area bears the insignia, in mosaic, of the major U.S. units that operated in northwest Europe in World War II.

The reason poppies have become associated with Armistice Day and with this poem, in particular, is because red poppies began to bloom like crazy in the field in Flanders where men had fallen and been buried–where they hadn’t bloomed like this before.

                 

                              

Charles Rutishauser ID: 39835671  Entered the Service From: Utah  Rank: Technical Sergeant  Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 526th Bomber Squadron, 379th Bomber Group, Heavy  Died: Sunday, June 18, 1944  Buried at: Ardennes American Cemetery  Location: Neupre (Neuville-en-Condroz), Belgium  Plot: D Row: 16 Grave: 4  Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters,  Purple Heart T/Sgt Charles E. Rutishauser is also remembered with a marker here in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery

Thanks Kathy .  Your picture added  much to the posting.   I don't think any
of the Rutishausers  still around.  I've looked for James a number of times
over the years and have never found him.  I have the action report on the
mission from which Charles did not return.  He and two  others  went down
with the plane, five others POW's.

 Kathy:    And yes, we have a Mt. Pleasanter buried there, Charles Rutishauser, KIA               June 1944.  And by  comparison, a trivia note,  three versions of the poem, page 152, my  book.

                               lee  

    

Home of Christian Joseph Jensen and his wife Rosella Ann Farnworth ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

 

Home of Ebbe Jessen and his wife Dorthe Pedersen ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Home of Christian Joseph Jensen and wife Rosetta Ann Farnsworth ~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Home of Adolph Merz and wife Ida Rutishauser ~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

FLANDER'S FIELD

The reason poppies have become associated with Armistice Day and with this poem in particular is because red poppies began to bloom like crazy in the field in Flanders where men had fallen and been buried–where they hadn’t bloomed like this before.

                 
     Kathy:   

 And yes, we have a Mt. Pleasanter
buried there,
Charles Rutishauser,
KIA  June 1944.
And by  comparison, a  trivia note,
three versions of the poem,
page 152, my  book
 lee

Charles Rutishauser

ID: 39835671 

Entered the Service From: Utah 

Rank: Technical Sergeant 

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 526th Bomber Squadron, 379th Bomber

Group, Heavy 

Died: Sunday, June 18, 1944 

Buried at: Ardennes American Cemetery 

Location: Neupre (Neuville-en-Condroz), Belgium 

Plot: D Row: 16 Grave: 4 

Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart

Home of Lee Ross Christensen and wife Eva Lenora Parke ~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee ~ Comments by son (Lee R. Christensen)

KATHY:  We started construction on the house we latter called “the white house” mid Spring 1934 and hoped to be in by school starting time or mid-September.  Construction was delayed during the summer when our two carpenters, Charles Jacobsen and Ferry Peterson took time away from our job to help build the CCC camp.   The Wright family did the cement work. Oscar Amundsen and Charles Christensen (Minnie Rutishauser’s father) did the brick work and the Bohne’s the plumbing and electrical.   And we moved in just before Thanksgiving 1934.

   Our architect was a Mr. Young from Salt Lake City and rumored within the family as a major architect on a number of LDS temples.  He was unhappy with what he considered three major mistakes by our builders.  The outside brick wall was to have been constructed with “weeping mortar” giving it a very rough look. While the mortaring is thicker than usual it is not weeping.    The exterior 2nd floor walls went into the roof line by about 8 inches and had been curved up to meet the roof.  That curving was to have been carried out thru out the 2^nd floor on the interior walls even though they did not need it to meet the roof. And the roof shingling was to have been given a wavy effect (I never knew how). 

   Our family lived here for 10 happy years with these artistic mistakes until we sold in 1945 to the incoming Superintend of Schools.     lee

Enn Ess Aitch Junior Class 1939

"THE SOLDIER"

Kathy:  Inspired by Rupert Brooke’s poem “The Soldier” and paraphrasing a line from it I’ve crafted this tribute.

     They never came Home but there is a spot in a Foreign Land that is forever North Sanpete.

Glen Brady

ID: 39835618
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Staff Sergeant

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 527th Bomber Squadron, 379th Bomber Group, Heavy

Died: Monday, December 20, 1943
Buried at: Netherlands American Cemetery
Location: Margraten, Netherlands
Plot: M Row: 3 Grave: 6

Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Clyde W. Rigby                              

ID: O-743208
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Second Lieutenant

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 577th Bomber Squadron, 392nd Bomber Group, Heavy

Died: Tuesday, January 04, 1944
Memorialized at: Cambridge American Cemetery
Location: Cambridge, England

Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Russell S. Jensen

ID: 39675224
Entered the Service From: Utah   
Rank: Private

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, Headquarters Squadron, 5th Air Base Group

Died: Thursday, September 07, 1944
Memorialized at: Manila American Cemetery
Location: Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines

Awards: Purple Heart

From Moroni

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Charles Rutishauser

ID: 39835671
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Technical Sergeant

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 526th Bomber Squadron, 379th Bomber Group, Heavy

Died: Sunday, June 18, 1944
Buried at: Ardennes American Cemetery
Location: Neupre (Neuville-en-Condroz), Belgium
Plot: D Row: 16 Grave: 4

Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Wallace W. Candland

ID: 39918059
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Corporal

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, Army Air Corps

Died: Thursday, January 04, 1945
Memorialized at: East Coast Memorial
Location: New York, NY, USA

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dee A. Johnson

ID: O-730509
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: First Lieutenant

Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group

Died: Sunday, July 11, 1943
Memorialized at: Sicily-Rome American Cemetery
Location: Nettuno, Italy

Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart

Wasatch Academy

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

James K. Sorensen

ID: 03684611
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Ship's Cook, Third Class

Service: U.S. Navy, United States Navy

Died: Friday, December 11, 1942
Memorialized at: Manila American Cemetery
Location: Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines

Awards: Purple Heart

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Harold Q. Graham

ID: 39914895
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Private First Class

Service: U.S. Army, 275th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division

Died: Saturday, May 12, 1945
Buried at: Netherlands American Cemetery
Location: Margraten, Netherlands
Plot: K Row: 17 Grave: 3

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ferris Ivory

ID: 06604538
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Aviation Radioman, Second Class

Service: U.S. Navy, United States Naval Reserve

Died: Saturday, February 23, 1946
Memorialized at: Honolulu Memorial
Location: Honolulu, HI, USA

Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 4 Gold Stars

Wasatch Academy

The Soldier

by Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

A body of England's, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.