Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Harry Hanson ~ A Man Of Integrity
Harry L Hanson Jr
05/19/1933 - 10/03/2013
Harry Lawrence Hanson, Jr. completed his incredible eighty year earthly journey on October 3, 2013. He was born in Rhame, North Dakota on May 19, 1933, the fifth of eleven children, to Harry Lawrence Hanson, Sr. and Alma Tesnes. Harry was drafted into the Army during the Korean War and he credited military service and his wife, Lavonda Harper, for changing his life for the better. Harry worked for J. C. Penney and was a true entrepreneur eventually starting his own department store, Big V, in Mt. Pleasant, UT. He also owned a variety store, convenience store, campground, and car wash in Green River, UT, where he also served as Mayor.
Harry loved his country and continued to serve in the Air Force Reserve, working his way up the ranks, eventually retiring as a Chief Master Sargent after 30 plus years. He served actively during Desert Storm and held leadership positions in the VFW, American Legion, and Mt. Pleasant Senior Citizens.
Harry was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He had a firm testimony and served faithfully in many positions, including in the Manti Temple, which he loved.
Harry was charismatic and people were always drawn to him. He accepted everyone and he always made eye contact with everyone in the room, giving them a wave, a wink, a nod, a kind word, or a funny comment, even in his last days.
Harry was well read and could talk intelligently about any subject. He knew how everything worked and how to fix it. He loved music, whistling, finding a good bargain, investing in the stock market, and new technology.
He was a very charitable person who was always an advocate for those less fortunate. He truly believed he was blessed so he could help others. Harry was a man of integrity and was never afraid to stand up against any one or any thing that didn’t square with right. Harry loved spending time with his family and created many memories traveling with them, spending time at Lake Powell, attending football games and playing board games. He was always there and indeed, was the life of the party.
Harry is survived by his wife, Lavonda, children, Kathy (Clark) Knudsen, Lehi, UT, Larry (Camille) Hanson, Stansbury Park, UT, and Nancy (Tony) Johnson, Salt Lake City, eight grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. In death he will be joining his parents, a daughter Pamela Banasky and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tues Oct 8, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. in the Mt. Pleasant North Stake Center (461 N 300 W) in Mount Pleasant, UT. Friends may call Monday from 6-8 p.m. at Rasmussen Mortuary and Tues from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at the church prior to services. Interment at Larkin Sunset Garden Cemetery, 1950 East Dimple Dell Road (10600 S), Sandy, UT at 3:00 p.m.
Special thanks to Home Care Assistants and A+ Hospice for their care and compassion, to his many friends and relatives for their calls, visits, notes, and kind words of support.
To honor Harry’s memory, please do something kind to help someone in need or brighten their day.
Chief, you will be forever in our hearts!
In Remembrance of Dona Hafen Pulham
Dona was the daughter of Boyd Hafen and Jessie Elizabeth Ericksen.
She grew up in Orem with her grandmother Elizabeth Emily Waldemar Ericksen.
She always had a song in her heart and a day didnt go by without music. She sang during her school years in musicals, trios, quartets, and choirs. She sang to gently wake up her family and to express her sheer joy in daily living. She found music in the song of the birds and in all of nature.
She recently sang with a stake Relief Society Choir at her stake conference. These musical moments brought her great happiness.
The best part of her life was sharing it with her beloved forever companion. They were married in the Manti Temple on June 27, 1947. This sacred union formed a firm foundation on which to raise their family. Her children were richly blessed to be brought up in a home of love and kindness, where simple truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ were taught and honored.
The void that she leaves will always be filled with the loving memories and lessons she taught us.
She temporarily leaves behind her loving children:Cheryl Dawn (Garry Green, deceased), Alan Kenneth (Anne) , Mark Hafen, Jeanine (Allen Blatter), Kurt Terry ( Tamera), and Brian Keith (Robin ) and 15 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Monday, October 7, 2013
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Mount Pleasant Library, J.C. Penney, Laundry Dress and the Sheep Industry
.......Narrative in the first person is written by Arla May Stansfield herself. The original record is in the possession of the Leland Andreas Peterson family.
Typing, editing, artwork, and other comments are done by Elaine Arla Bezzant, Arla's oldest daughter.
Submitted to us by JoAnn Truscott Peterson
correction: John H. Seely is credited with introducing purebred Rambouillet Sheep into Utah.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
In Remembrance of Susan Woodring
Dr. John Woodring and His Wife Susan (McArthur)
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Find A Grave information:
Burial:
Mount Pleasant City Cemetery
Mount Pleasant
Sanpete County
Utah, USA
Plot: A_209_3_8
Maintained by: Penne Magnusson Cartrigh...
Originally Created by: Utah State Historical So...
Record added: Feb 02, 2000
Find A Grave Memorial# 140112
Friday, October 4, 2013
Pioneer Memories As Related by C.W. Anderson ~ from the Johanna Madsen Hafen Collection
C.W. Anderson wrote this as second person version. The red marks made on the original manuscript changes it to "first person".
In the year 1854 a company of people set sail from Scandinavia. It took them nine days to cross the North Sea, with their sailing vessel. This same distance with distance now with steamers can be traveled in less than three days. On their way to Liverpool they were nearly ship wrecked. They left Liverpool on Christmas Eve. That same night they were driven on dry land on the other side of the English Channel (France). Here they had to wait til the tide came in to carry them off the land. They found their ship was damaged and had to go back to Liverpool for repairs. On the way back, when in the middle of the channel, they collided with another ship and almost went down. After arriving at Liverpool, they had to stay at a boarding place for six weeks, waiting for another ship. It took them nine weeks to go from Liverpool to New Orleans.
They were then driven by the tide as far south as the Isthmus of Panama.
On their trip they buried fourteen people in the ocean. They were followed three days by pirates, who were at times so close that their faces could be seen.
The people on board got their guns, knives and four cannons on board ready for use, if needed, should an attack be made. For some reason the pirates changed their minds.
In crossing the Gulf of Mexico there was a man who fell overboard. When they arrived in New Orleans, the people were having a sale or trade on negroes. In going up the Mississippi River in a steamer to St. Louis there were five people who fell overboard, but no attention was paid to them. It took two weeks to make the trip up the river.
At St Louis the cholera broke out among them, and during the two weeks while the went by boat from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth there were a great many that died.
While crossing the plains they saw buffaloes by the thousands. The pioneers had to corral their cattle at night. This was done by driving their wagons in a circle with the cattle inside the circle. Sometimes in the day the buffalo were so thick that they would stampede their teams. But they were not allowed to shoot them for fear they would fight.
The party reached Salt Lake on the 27th of September 1855. During the winter of 1855-1856 it was very severe. The snow was three feet deep in Brigham City. Many of the cattle starved to death, and their meat was all the people had to eat because the grasshoppers had taken their crop. Therefore, when ever an animal died their meat was eagerly taken. In the spring and summer about all there was to subsist on was sego roots and thistle stalks. One day mother, by mistake ate a poisonous sego, and results was convulsions and almost death. They had no bread whatever from Christmas until the 24th of July. The second year after arriving in Utah, however, was a better one, and they thought the crop was a good one. It is strange to remember that they had been almost three years before a pig was seen.
One morning, during the first year, the mother and son of this family went out into the fields to look at their wheat and found it frozen. They had started for home in dismay. They became very hungry having not had anything to eat all day, and very little for previous days. They came to a small spring of cold water, but before drinking, they blessed the water, and when they drank it, it satisfied their hunger, so that they were not hungry the rest of the day.
In the early spring of 1859,or March 20th, 1859, this family were among the original pioneers to Mt. Pleasant. And since that time have always had plenty and been happy and content. Up to this time the men were mostly dressed in buckskin, both shirt and pants, and in many instances mostly bare footed.
The first construction in Mt. Pleasant was the fort which was built of rocks located on the block where the old Union Store and Opera House now stands (Madsen's Store) (2013 Recreation Center). The first adobe house was built first house south of where the Armory Hall now stands (Wheeler's Drive In 2013). The second house was where Mrs. Wise now lives (?), and the third by Nils Widergreen, on the block now owned by Wasatch Academy. The adobies were made by John Waldermar.
Sometimes when people didn't have access to a cradle, they pulled the wheat up by the roots with their bare hands, and when this was done, the stacks would be as black as the ground. The women and the girls always helped in the fields. The Indians often caused a great deal of trouble to the pioneers.
Plowing was done with ox teams, sowing by hand, reaping with a cradle, binding of bundles by hand, threshing was done by oxen stepping on the grain, and cleaning was done by the wind.
One particular plow, and that was a good one, was made entirely by wood, with the exception of about 5 percent iron. Iron was very scarce..
At the first celebration in Mt. Pleasant 1860, an oxen was killed and a public dinner was given in the bowery, built just east of the now social hall. A pitch pine arch in each corner of the bowery furnished light for evening, many dancing barefoot on the dirt floor. Music was furnished by John Waldemar and James Hansen. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.
(The family referred to was the Niels Widergreen Anderson Family)
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Ina Seely Morgan Has Passed Away
NEPHI-- Our Mothers angelic spirit ascended into the eternal sphere leaving her earthly remains in repose. This graduation occurred Sept. 25, 2013.
Mother was born in Mt. Pleasant, July 31, 1913, and grew up in Sanpete where her family was involved in farming, ranching and U. S Government Indian Services.
She was the daughter of the late John Leo and Edna Lucille Rolph Seely and the granddaughter of the late John Henry and Margaretta Folkman Peel Seely and Magnus Gustavus and Anna Johanna Knudsen Rolph.
Ina was a graduate of North Sanpete High School, class of 1931, where she was involved in student government as well as many school activities. After high school, Mother attended BYU for two years (always a faithful BYU fan) and then accepted employment in Salt Lake City.
Mother met and fell in love with Frank Othello Morgan in 1930 and they were married Oct, 6, 1935; moving to Nephi, to live and start their family in the farming and the ranching business. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.
She taught business classes at Juab High School and then worked for the Juab County Hospital from 1952 to 1979 as office manager. While making her home in Nephi, Mother served as PTA President for two years, a member of Lit-A-Lure and 20th Century Ladies Federated Clubs, as well as being involved with many other church and civic duties.
other toiled side-by-side with her husband and sons managing sheep and cattle herds and dry and irrigated farms. She was an avid fan and supporter of the Nephi Ute Stampede, attending every Friday evening performance of the rodeo for the past 79 years, a perfect attendance record.
Mother was an active and dedicated member of the LDS Church and served in many callings, compassionate service was her most favorite and naturally gifted stewardship.
Mother and dad were the parents of four boys, Charles William Morgan (Bill); Dr. Stephen Seely Morgan; Jon Leo Morgan and Michael Pressley Morgan.
Mother followed the admonition of her Savior to Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself. Many of her acts of service by-passed human recognition but penetrated the hearts of those she served. Her influence, which touched the lives of legions, will be felt throughout eternity.
Mother was an elect lady of her Heavenly Father. Her core values were based on peace and love. One of her favorite sayings was, Never trust yourself in anger. She served as a peace maker with family, friends and strangers.
Jewels in her crown she is leaving behind are her sons, Dr. Stephen S. (Analee) and Michael P. Morgan; grandchildren, Julie M. Bosh (Larry), Lori M. Lee (Preston), Dr. Kyle (Emily), Dr. Christopher (Natalie) and Chauntel Morgan, RDH; 12 great-grandchildren; one great-great granddaughter; sister, Lucy Rae Seely Capel; sister-in-law, Marjorie Payne Seely; daughter-in-law, Helen T. Morgan and daughter and dear friend, Joanne Seely.
All her nieces, nephews and many friends bid her farewell and express gratitude for being a gracious mother to each of them making each one feel special.
Greeting Mother at the veil will be her eternal companion, Frank O. Morgan; sons, Bill and Jon Morgan; her parents; grand and great-grandparents; brothers, Mark, Robert, Duskee, Edwin and John Seely; sister, Chesla Seely Patterson; grandson, Dr. Chad T. Morgan; and nephews, Jeff Capel, Jake and Johnny Ross Seely as well as numerous friends and family members.
Funeral celebration services will take place at 11 a.m., Friday, Oct. 4, in the Nephi Utah LDS Stake Center, 351 North 100 West, Nephi.
A viewing for family and friends will be held from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Anderson Funeral Home, 94 West 300 North, Nephi; and at the Stake Center one hour prior to services.
Interment will be in the Nephi Vine Bluff Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers and mothers love of people, education and the Gospel, donations may be made to the LDS Church Missionary Fund or the Perpetual Education Fund at LDS Philanthropies, 1450 North University Avenue, Provo, Utah 84604.
They never took a swim and thought about Jaws. They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are. They don't know who Mork was or where he was from. They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane, Boss, de plane.." They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is. Mc Donald's never came in Styrofoam containers. They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter. Do you feel old yet? Pass this on to the other old fogies on your list. Notice the larger type, that's for those of you who have trouble reading.. So have a nice day!!!!! It is good to have friends who know about these things and are still alive and kicking!!!!
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