Happy New Year ~~~ 2023

Oman Family

Chuck Bynum ~~~ A Long Time Friend to Everyone

 

1942 – 2022

Charles “Chuck” Eatinger Bynum, 80, passed away Saturday, October 29, 2022. He died peacefully with Lois at his side.

Chuck was born September 10, 1942, in Mt. Pleasant, Utah to Donna Maurine Eatinger and Hugh Bynum. He attended Wasatch Academy where he played football and graduated in 1960. After high school, Chuck moved to Los Angeles, CA to attend NIT Technical Institute and work at Bonanza Airlines (which after a long history of mergers and name changes is now Delta Airlines).

While living in Los Angeles, he met Lois Ann Odefey, a flight attendant also working for Bonanza Airlines. Chuck graduated from NIT in Mechanical Engineering. Chuck and Lois were married on September 14, 1963. They briefly lived in Reno, NV before Donna called needing help on the family farm, so they quit their airline jobs and moved back to Mt. Pleasant. Chuck later worked as a travel trailer salesman and then took a job working in the coal mining industry where he stayed for 30 years. Chuck enjoyed watching his three children: Dawn, Alana, and Heath thrive in school, sports, 4-H, and rodeo.

Once he retired from coal mining, he decided to start his own trucking company, operating first just in Utah, then expanding to Arizona. Chuck and Lois moved to Salt Lake City where Dawn’s family was living at the time, to be closer to their granddaughters.

Retirement came and the warm sunshine of Arizona was a little nicer than the cold snowy winters in Utah. Even though he lived in Arizona, his heart never left his small hometown.

He loved fishing, boating at Lake Powell, traveling, and spending time with his grandkids and great-granddaughters.

Chuck is preceded in death by his mom Donna Maurine Smith, brother Myron Frandsen, and his sister Charlyn Austin. He is survived by Lois Bynum, his children Dawn Buxton, Alana Favela, Heath Bynum, their spouses respectively, 4 granddaughters, one grandson, and two great-granddaughters.

Graveside services are being planned for the spring/summer of 2023 in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.

Danish Potato Dumplings ~~~ Mary Bjelke Cloward

 

Peel and boil potatoes (6 medium sizes for a large kettle of soup). Salt and cook until tender, drain, and mash.  Beat in 1 egg and a small amount of cream, add flour until mixture leaves the pan, and add to boiling soup 5 minutes before serving.

Home of Joseph Page and his wife Alice Mills ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barensten Standlee

 

Hamilton Grade School 5th Grade 1932 - 1933

Hamilton Grade school 5th grade, 1932 - 1933 Front row lf to rt: Marland Zabriskie, Shrol Erickson, Billy Hansen, Buddy Christensen, Arthur Oldham, Que Barton, NewelNelson, Phil Squires, Allen Olsen, Rex Christensen, Blain Shelley 2nd row lf to rt: Alice Johnson, Jane Brittan, Miriam Candland, Carol Anderson, Geraldine Staker, Llavon Draper, Mareen Tidwell, Florence Peterson, Barbara Beckstrom, Lavon, Cambron, unk, Mary Hafen, Mayre Mckay, Betty Jensen Back row lt to rt: Andra Sorenson, Mary Kathrine Christensen, Elaine Sorenson, Beth Lund, Alma Johansen, Evelyn Jensen, Fern Olson, Hilda Roberts, Charles Rutishauser, Kenneth Johnson, Wayne Peterson, Boyd Johansen, Lon Simons, Cataract Olson Marsden Allred, teacher

ONE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS

 

by Anonymous

It's one day after Christmas
I'm crabby and I'm broke.
I'm so full of ham and fruitcake
I think I'm gonna croak.

It's nice to see the relatives
I wonder when they'll leave.
They've been camping in my bathroom
since early Christmas Eve.

They're eating everything in sight
and sleeping in my bed.
I been sacked out in the basement
with my spotted beagle, Fred.

The relatives have all gone out
and left their screaming brats.
The toilet bowl is all plugged up
and I can't find the cat.

It's Christmastime at my house,
the relatives are here.
They eat me out of house and home.
and drink up all my beer.

I love the decorations,
and the sleigh bells in the snow
But I wish those pesky relatives
would take their kids and go.

Those cookie crunchers fed the dog
a twenty pound rib of roast.
His feet are sticking in the air
like skinny old fence posts.

Now they're in a free-for-all,
the girls against the boys.
They're fighting over boxes
'cause they're bored with all their toys

My mother-in-law is snoring
in my favorite TV chair.
Those kids are stringing lights on her
and tinseling her hair

I oughta wake her up
before the fireworks begin.
But I wanna see those blue sparks fly
when they plug her in.

The Elves and The Shoemaker by The Brothers Grimm

 

The Elves and the Shoemaker is one of our

  Favorite Fairy Tales 

and

  Christmas Stories.

A shoemaker, by no fault of his own, had become so poor that at last he had nothing left but leather for one pair of shoes. So in the evening, he cut out the shoes which he wished to begin to make the next morning, and as he had a good conscience, he lay down quietly in his bed, commended himself to God, and fell asleep. In the morning, after he had said his prayers, and was just going to sit down to work, the two shoes stood quite finished on his table. He was astounded and knew not what to say to it. He took the shoes in his hands to observe them closer, and they were so neatly made that there was not one bad stitch in them, just as if they were intended as a masterpiece. Soon after, a buyer came in, and as the shoes pleased him so well, he paid more for them than was customary, and, with the money, the shoemaker was able to purchase leather for two pairs of shoes. He cut them out at night, and next morning was about to set to work with fresh courage; but he had no need to do so, for, when he got up, they were already made, and buyers also were not wanting, who gave him money enough to buy leather for four pairs of shoes. The following morning, too, he found the four pairs made; and so it went on constantly, what he cut out in the evening was finished by the morning, so that he soon had his honest independence again, and at last, became a wealthy man. 

Now it befell that one evening not long before Christmas, when the man had been cutting out, he said to his wife, before going to bed, "What think you if we were to stay up tonight to see who it is that lends us this helping hand?" The woman liked the idea and lighted a candle, and then they hid in a corner of the room, behind some clothes which were hanging up there, and watched. When it was midnight, two pretty little naked men came, sat down by the shoemaker's table, took all the work which was cut out before them, and began to stitch, sew, and hammer so skilfully and so quickly with their little fingers that the shoemaker could not turn away his eyes for astonishment. They did not stop until all was done, and stood finished on the table, and they ran quickly away.

The next morning the woman said, "The little men have made us rich, and we really must show that we are grateful for it. They run about so, and have nothing on, and must be cold. I'll tell thee what I'll do: I will make them little shirts, coats, vests, and trousers, and knit both of them a pair of stockings, and do thou, too, make them two little pairs of shoes." The man said, "I shall be very glad to do it;" and one night, when everything was ready, they laid their presents all together on the table instead of the cut-out work, and then concealed themselves to see how the little men would behave. At midnight they came bounding in and wanted to get to work at once, but as they did not find any leather cut out, but only the pretty little articles of clothing, they were at first astonished, and then they showed intense delight. They dressed with the greatest rapidity, putting pretty clothes on, and singing,

"Now we are boys so fine to see,
Why should we longer cobblers be?"


Then they danced and skipped and leaped over chairs and benches. At last, they danced out of doors. From that time forth they came no more, but as long as the shoemaker lived all went well with him, and all his undertakings prospered.

Temple Square Lights

 The first lighting ceremony on Temple Square was held in 1965 when nearly 15,000 people gathered to watch former Church President David O. McKay push the button to light 40,000 lights. During the ceremony, President McKay said, “Our minds tonight should be on the babe of Bethlehem, whose coming into the world Christmas morning reminds us all that we each should have in our hearts the love of Christ.” Although there is no longer a formal lighting ceremony on Temple Square, the lights continue each year as a reminder of the birth of the Savior, Jesus Christ.

Favorite Christmas Artwork

 

Hamilton School Band 1937

 

Christmas At The Whitehouse

 

OH COME ALL YE FAITHFUL