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She went to UCLA for at least a couple of years as an Art Major. Update
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Oh @%+*&! (Darn!!) Engine Failure in the Dark Once, in 1984… just north of a little place called Badger Gap… near Yakima, Washington, I had an engine failure. At night. I got real scared. It is embarrassing to tell you just how scared a man can be and still maintain...
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In my spare time I do some volunteer work as a secretary for a fairly large church organization. There is always someone to do for, as there was one day recently. I arrived late, and I found a little girl quietly minding her...
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You Never Know Who He'll be Tomorrow … I have a few talents I brag about… but there have been moments when I have seen, recognized and accurately understood the potential of people or events… even before the wise and savvy remainder of the community. ...
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I was just turning sixteen when Ralph Green and Golden Adams, two good-looking Airmen, spent a couple of hours flirting with me in the Union Pacific elevator (I was the elevator operator) and Golden asked me for a date that very night. Golden had a car, so we drove around the...
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When I was fourteen, I was out looking for work. My Dad wasn't able to work and mother was cleaning houses. It seemed like, as a family, we had sturggles to make ends meet and food on the table and clothes on our backs. So I thought if I could go...
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THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH-1935 Author: Curtis Allen JOHN GRIFFITH, LOCAL OCTOGENARIAN, CROSSED OCEAN ON 2nd STEAMSHIP EVER TO MAKE TRIP In a neatly kept little bungalow, 66 Binns Blvd., lives a distinguished looking little old man. You may have seen him on the street. If you have you won’t forget him and...
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Fur The Louisville Slugger Philosophy on Life… One day in… I don’t remember when… my oldest daughter, then age 15 years, 11 months and 28 days, came to me with a legal size yellow pad, a pencil...
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In 2011, Chad Peterson developed his Eagle Project as an oral history collection of "Salem Remembered". He and others interviewed several long-time residents of Salem, Utah and asked a series of questions. They responded with their answers. These are the questions he asked: (1) What is your name? (2) What at...
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FUR My wife and I had wanted a little piece of farm land for years, and we ended up buying a 14 acre piece which was crowned with the biggest mistake of our marriage: a small, used double-wide mobile home. Now, don't take offense, ye salespersons of "manufactured...
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Before I realized that I was going to embark on a journey as a Personal History Consultant and start my own business, I would interview my great-aunt Gert to learn about our family history. When she passed away, I offered to give a eulogy at her funeral. My only regret was...
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How do you know how to care for a child when you are practically a baby yourself? I know that at twenty-one years of age, I didn't know myself or anything else well enough to care for a child. When I was twenty-one, I could barely make Oodles of Noodles and...
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Five Principles To Live By 1. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is the modern language version of the biblical dictum: Love thy neighbor as you love thyself. We are a human family and our neighbors live close-by; and in other lands....
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Affinity With Tigers Blame it on his favorite uncle. As a youngster in short pants, the Footloose Forester sometimes heard his mother refer to her younger brother as Tiger; and in reality, her brother...
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Parentage: Folkert Teunis Folkers was born 12 Jan 1859 in Groningen, Netherlands. He was the oldest of six children—four boys and two girls—born to Teunis Folkers and Foekje Severien. The father, Teunis, was a ship’s captain and his ship was lost in the North Sea of the Atlantic Ocean on 23...
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Rules to Live By: Actually, I don't like the word "rules." Sometimes that has a wrong connotation in some people's minds. However, for lack of a better word--actually I just thought of one...............Principles to Live By. There, much better! BE KIND. Showing kindness goes a long ways in this troubled world....
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Picture with with a President - Found Among My Family Keepsakes Like so many baby boomers, I have boxes of my own photos gathered, throughout the years, along with many photo albums that I inherited when my parents passed on. Among these are photos and memorabilia from one of my...
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(Taken from the History of Hannah Rhead Richards) Silas LeRoy Richards was born the 25th of October 1882 in Union, Salt Lake County, Utah. His parents were Silas Newton Richards and Mary Norman Goulder. He was born in a small log cabin which stood way back from the road in...
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On 15 November 1987, Diane and I had the opportunity to speak in Sacrament Meeting at the Harkers Island (NC) Ward. We stayed at the home of Bishop Joel G. Hancock and were treated royally. Afterwards, in the evening, I delivered a Special Fireside. There I was surprised to see many...
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By William Albert Adams. This poem was written to highlight experiences he lived while serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Southern States Mission 1900-1901. I was born in a place called Utah, A...
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