Dick Pellek

Legacy Stories Get Remembered Best When They Are Recorded First

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Legacy Stories Get Remembered Best When They Are Recorded First   When asked by the Co-Founder of LegacyStories.org to compile a list of the legacy stories we had submitted in 2013, some of the regular contributors...
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Legacy Blog

Your Personal Year in Review for 2013

Your Personal Year in Review for 2013
YOUR PERSONAL YEAR IN REVIEW! Hello Friends, 2013 is about to become history. Each of us experienced memorable events that stand out over the past year. A milestone reached, a defining moment such as a birth, death in the family, promotion, new career, an injury or personal victory. This is your...
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Van Ercanbrack

Van Richard Ercanbrack Obituary

Van Richard Ercanbrack Obituary
Van Richard Ercanbrack May 23, 1946 December 21, 2013 Van Richard Ercanbrack, 67, amazing husband, father, brother, and grandfather passed away peacefully on December 21, 2013, surrounded by family, from ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Born May 23, 1946, to LeGrand and Pearl Roberts Ercanbrack, he lived in Lindon most of his...
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Dick Pellek

Always The Amateur

Always The Amateur
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Always An Amateur   Life can be so disheartening when you grow up without good looks, athletic ability, high intelligence, or with physical limitations.  Poor posture and annoying mannerisms also add to the handicaps that we...
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Jeff Herman

Verdugo Mountains

Verdugo Mountains
Always looking for a challenge, we decided to travers the entire length of the Verdugo Mountain range in one day. It would require two cars, one at each end. The hike was special and quite unique. I doubt that many hike the entire length. It was supposed to be 11 miles,...
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Jay Young

Marie Played Baseball

Marie Played Baseball
Marie Played Baseball Contributed By Jay L Young In the sixth grade we played baseball with a mixed team, and we would go to different schools on Friday afternoon on a hay rack pulled behind a tractor or car. We played Happy Valley-Bennett-Scism-Melba-Glendale-Greenhurst. Then they would also come to Bowmont. We...
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Dick Pellek

If I Had Three Wishes

If I Had Three Wishes
If I Had 3 Wishes As often as I have heard that expression, starting with my childhood, I have never been able to provide an answer.  The inquiry is simple and innocuous enough, “what would you ask for, if you had three wishes?”  Perhaps it was the recognition that such rhetorical...
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Michele Ostrowski

How easy it is let things slip away.

 

 

 

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Patricia White

Remembering the Doing

This year there was a bit of a crunch, getting ready for family to visit for the Thanksgiving weekend.  I had the weak feeling of 'will the important parts get done' along about three days before everyone was to arrive. As I began cleaning and putting away, I realized this was...
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Salem Utah Heritage

Russell and Arlis Hutchinson

Russell and Arlis Hutchinson
Russell and Arlis Hutchinson will celebrate 69 years of marriage on December 15, 2013.  Russell was born in Springville and turned 88 years old last June.  Arlis will be 91 in January, and was born in Payson.  Russell's family moved to Payson the day Pearl Harbor was attacked [Dec 7, 1941]. ...
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Alison B. Pack

Those God-given Talents: Music

I think I was born whistling. I can thank James Smith Turner II (and whoever passed it to him!) for that--he always had a tune on his lips, as often expressed in a whistle as in any other way. As to whether it is ladylike to whistle . . . that's...
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Caldwell County Historical Society

Ellen Ford Her Story

Ellen Ford Her Story        Ellen Ford was the youngest of the daughters born to David Ford and Nancy(McIntosh) Ford, she was born in Canada on May 22,1858, and was 10 years old when the family came to the United States and settled in Caldwell County, Missouri.  They lived...
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Caldwell County Historical Society

William Alexander Ford (W. A. Ford/Mr. Alex) His Story

                                  William Alexander Ford (W. A. Ford/Mr. Alex) His Story        William A. Ford was the youngest child born to David and Nancy(McIntosh) Ford.  He was born in Canada in March, 1861 making...
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Caldwell County Historical Society

Hannah Ford Her Story

Hannah Ford Her Story        Hannah Ford was born in Canada on March 18, 1842 to David Ford(1819-1893) and Nancy (McIntosh) Ford (1822-1870). David Ford born in Canada, and mother Nancy born in Scotland.  I found Nancy in Canada in 1851, under the name Nancy McIntosh, in Nova Scotia. ...
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Caldwell County Historical Society

Harley Duston His Story

Harley Duston His Story              Harley H. Duston was born to Philander H. Duston and Hannah Duston in December 1869 in Caldwell County, Missouri. He was the third child born to this couple. He had two sisters which were older and two brothers that were younger....
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William Addison Hogsett Mrs M. I. Hogsett(Margaret) Mary Hogsett. Their Story

William Addison Hogsett Mrs M. I. Hogsett(Margaret) Mary Hogsett. Their Story       William A. Hogsett was born on Nov.5, 1821 in Augusta Co. Virginia to James Hogsett (1785-1826) and Elizabeth (Manuell) Hogsett (1794-1867). He lived with his family in Virginia until he joined in marriage to Margaret I. Cauffman...
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Lana Horrocks

Dad's Legacy

Dad's Legacy
  The summer of 2009 a strong impression came to me, even urgent feeling, to go home to Colorado to transcribe and publish my parents and grandparents life stories. In Nauvoo 25 years earlier I videoed my parent’s life story and they in turn videoed my grandparents.  I thought our family...
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Lana Horrocks

Ephraim Rescues My Great Grandmother Thisbe Read

Ephraim Rescues My Great Grandmother Thisbe Read
Ephraim Hanks is my 4x Great Grandfather. The new movie “Ephraim’s Rescue” shows the wintery harrowing rescue of the Martin Handcart Company.  A divine messenger asked him to help the handcart company and he went straight away to Brigham Young.  This is the rest of the story the movie doesn’t tell...
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Alison B. Pack

Milestones & Defining Moments

    MILESTONES--or maybe Highlights?   GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE, SCOTLAND   when we moved into our very own house (even a new one) in Drumchapel and I spied a friend outside when I fell in love with a cylindrical satin-wood post-box, my favorite toy when I played my first real song on the...
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Alison B. Pack

Things I feel you should know about me

A. Hmmh. Okay:  Mum was not a willing housewife, and I have struggled with housewifery all my life. It has been a real handicap that I hope I can overcome one of these days!  I surely hope my daughters have gone beyond what they learned from me. B. I have a...
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