24 April 2012

Roy WWI photos

The following is an additional collection of photos concerning Roy Huber in WWI.  Many thanks to Clayton Huber for keeping them all together and in such great shape- it's crazy to think these original panoramic photos are nearly 100 years old.
Roy Huber left, unknown in middle, Vern Probst on right

Likely at Camp Kearny

Bottom reads: "Co. F. 16th Amunition Train Camp Kearny Calif. Captain Earl Logan Commanding"
This is a rather big file so I compressed it a bit and highlighted where Roy was in the lineup.
If you'd like a better copy than this, just let me know.  :)

Camp Kearny panorama.  Bottom right reads, "Liberty Studio. Camp Kearny.  No. 325"
I LOVE this photo.  If you look closely at it, Roy wrote in the background where various buildings were: present home,  college, recruit camp, etc.  So fascinating... although I have yet to locate him in this massive group.
He also wrote this on the back before he sent it home:
Transcribed:
"Very poor photographer so judge accordingly.  We really look better and rec'd you letter today. Roy (1-18-19)"
SO cute.
Click on those panorama photos to get a better look at them.  They can be enlarged for viewing with a little work.
To see more WWI photos of Roy, check THIS post, or browse through the "Military" label.

22 April 2012

Roy Huber funeral photos

The following are photos from the funeral service of Roy Huber in September of 1988.
(For funeral/death info on LeRoy Huber, click HERE)
Thanks to the personal photo album of Althea Gray for supplying these images.
If you were present on that day, look carefully and see if you can pick out yourself and other relations at the height of '80s fashion....














It's amazing what a vast posterity Roy left behind.

Take the labeling on the side with a grain of salt.  I can't account for the accuracy in the labeling, but it sure as heck beats my guess work.

19 April 2012

Taylor group photos

The following are a small collection of group photos containing mostly Taylor relations... and a lot of unknowns.  
I've listed them in the best chronological order I could assume:

Photo from the personal album of Rhea Merkley
Identified as "Miss Della Taylor, Lapoint, Utah"
I'm assuming Della is the tallest girl standing and those around her are siblings or cousins, but I really have no idea.  An unfortunate blotch on the face of that one girl holding the doll too.  Della looks about 10 years old so I'm assuming this was taken around 1920 or so.


Photo from the personal album of Althea Gray
Identified as, "Taylor Reunion"
There's a row of people seated on chairs in the middle, and Roy Taylor is the 2nd to right seated with Roxa standing behind him.  I'm assuming all those seated are Roy Taylor siblings with their spouses standing behind them and posterity surrounding on grass and farther in back.  I'm told Zelma Taylor is the girl on the grass on the far left (just about cropped out of the photo)  And looking at the ages of those standing in the back on the far left, I'm assuming those could be Roy Taylor siblings as well.  I'd love to have names for all these people...


Photo from the personal album of Althea Gray
Identified as, "BACK Vera, Roxa, Doris, FRONT Zelma, Della, Cora"
Another derivative setup of other photos, but I was excited to find this one with them all posing different.


Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber
Listed in the album as "Back, Mom, Mae Warburton"
I couldn't tell you who or where "Mae Warburton" is in this photo, but I recognize Vera as the 3rd one on the left in back holding a baby, and it looks like Ardith Huber is two to the right from her holding another baby, and I'd LIKE to say that looks like Roxa standing on the far right with the coat on, and Della on on the far left standing, but I'm not certain on either of those guesses... Lots of kids not cooperating in this photo.


Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber
Listed out in the album as
"Myrtle Golding, Aunt Ardith, Vera H, Pearless T,
Fern Hansen, June, Lyle Taylor
Evis Taylor, Jerold Golding, Lynn H"
If they're not family in this photo, I'm assuming they're neighbors.


Photo from the personal album of Rhea Merkley
Identified as, "BACK LeRoy Taylor, Sherman, 3 unknown heads, Coy Hayward, Dean Sessions (maybe), Dean Huber, Roy Huber, Byron Taylor, Lynn Huber,  FRONT Gene Nyberg, Leslie Taylor, George Nyberg, Della, unknown.
Based on the similarities in age, style and photo setup, I'm assuming the next photo was taken at the same time.  I'm guessing a family event of some kind.
Photo from the personal album of Rhea Merkley- cropped from its original state
Identified as, "BACK Unknown head hiding behind another unknown (my guess= Cora), Vera, June, Deltha, unknown with baby, Kathryn Huber, maybe Roxa, unknown turned, Beulah holding child, FRONT Rhea, Doris, unknown, unknown girl, unknown, unknown.

Photo from the personal album of Rhea Merkley
Identified as "Vera & Roy in back, MIDDLE Roxa, Daun, Rhea, Doris & Keith Ross, FRONT Gene Nyberg, Clayton, Ross boys"
Photo is dated on the bottom as Sept 1946


Photo from the personal album of Rhea Merkley
Identified as, "Family- Vera second from left"
As she's linking arms with people and the Manti Temple is in the background and the period dress is about the 1940s, I'd like to assume this is family here for a wedding, but I can't identify ANYBODY else in this photo.  Dang.


Photo from the personal album of Althea Gray
Identified as, "Daun maybe, Zelma, Cora, Cynthia Taylor, Della, Vera, Nana with cat, little Allen"
Nice shot of most of the Taylor sisters... and actually, that cat looks like a dog to me...

18 April 2012

Death info on Coy Hayward

Coy James Hayward was Vera's brother-in-law.  He married Vera's sister, Cora.
Photo from the personal albums of Della/Gene Nyberg.
According to these documents, the following dates apply:
BIRTH: 27 Oct 1897- Mayfield, Sanpete, Utah
DEATH: 25 Dec 1984- Bountiful, Davis, Utah
He was 87 years old when he passed away.

Newspaper notice:
Article from the personal album of Clayton Huber-
I have yet to obtain the actual newspaper source, although it looks like it's from the Salt Lake Tribune 1984, Dec 28
Newspaper article transcribed:
Funeral Today for C. Hayward, Grocery-Chain Businessman
Special to The Tribune
BOUNTIFUL- Funeral service for Coy James Hayward, co-founder of Utah's first chain of self-serve grocery stores, will be Friday at noon in the Bountiful LDS Stake Tabernacle, 51 S. Main.
The civic leader and former Bountiful businessman died Tuesday.  He was 87.
Friends may call at the tabernacle one hour prior to services.  Interment will be in Bountiful City Cemetery.
Mr. Hayward was a former president of the Bountiful Main Street Merchants Association and Bountiful Area Chamber of Commerce and was a director of the Bountiful State Band and regional director of Zions First National Bank.
He began his business career in 1926 when he and his brother purchased several Skaggs franchises, operating them as Utah's first self-serve grocery stores.  The chain was sold three years later and in 1932, Mr. Hayward and his wife returned to Bountiful and opened a supermarket at Main Street and 100 North.  The supermarket featured such innovations as a self-service meat counter and refrigerated vegetable counters.
Mr. Hayward's most recent project was raising $400,000 to build the Davis County senior citizens center.  The complex, dedicated in 1977, was completed in one year.
Mr. Hayward donated 12 medical scholarships annually at the University of Utah and annual scholarships to Davis, Bountiful and Viewmont high school juniors and seniors.
He is survived by a brother, Aldin O., Bountiful; sisters Thelma H. Christensen and Velda H Hocking, Bountiful; and several nieces and nephews.

Obituary:
SOURCE: Deseret News 1984, Dec 26-27, p.4G
This copy obtained from the personal albums of Althea Gray
 Obituary transcribed:
Coy J. Hayward
BOUNTIFUL- Coy James Hayward, age 87, died December 25, 1984, in Bountiful, Utah.
Born October 27, 1897, Mayfield, Utah, son of Thomas Henry and Eliza Bridget Munson Hayward. Married Cora Louise Taylor, September, 1915, in the Manti LDS Temple.
Throughout their lives they worked together as a team.  Professionally they raised and showed show horses all over America, winning many coveted awards.  Cora was known as one of America's Outstanding Horseshow Women.  Coy served as President of the Bountiful Main Street Merchants Assoc. and as President of the Bountiful Area Chamber of Commerce.  Served as Scout Master, and was affiliated with many Scout programs and projects.  He also served as President of the Davis County Riding Posse, and judged many horse shows.  Sponsored many boys and girls baseball teams over they years.  Has served as Director of the Bountiful State Bank, Regional Director of Zions First National Bank, served as President, Secretary/Treasurer, and on the Board of Directors of the Bountiful irrigation Water System for 29 years.  Served as Vice President to start the Senior Citizen Program in Davis County, Chairman Building Committee to build Utah's most outstanding Senior Citizens building, which was built, paid for, and dedicated in one year's time, with no Federal Aide, but paid for by all local donations of $404,000.  He has been associated in the Davis County Senior Citizens project and activities since it began, and to the present time.  In 1926, with his brother Aldin, he went into business opening the first self service grocery stores in Utah with stores located in Layton, Bountiful, Provo.  Later had stores in Pocatello, Idaho Falls, Blackfoot, and Rupert, Idaho.  After being persuaded to sell the chain of stores, he returned to Bountiful and opened a modern supermarket.  They soon obtained the name of having the largest volume per sq.ft. of floor space of any store in Utah.  The customers were number one in every phase of the operation.  He gave scholarships to 12 College of Medicine students annually at the University of Utah.  He also gave 2 scholarships annually to Senior students of Davis, Bountiful, and Viewmont High Schools, $500 for 1st place, $400 for 2nd place, for students who have made the greatest improvement since starting school  He also gives 2 scholarships to each Junior class, these awards are given in memory of his deceased wife.  He donated a considerable amount of money to The University of Utah Eye Bank.  Coy has worked as an Ordinance Worker in the Salt Lake LDS Temple for the past 22 years.  Has been High Priest Group Leader for many years.
Survivors: brother and sister-in-law, Aldin O. and Etta Hayward, Bountiful; sisters, Thelma H Christensen; Velda H Haacke, both of Bountiful; many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Friday December 28th at 12 noon in the Bountiful Tabernacle, 51 South Main, with Bishop Darrell Parkin, officiating.  Friends may call Thursday evening 6-8 p.m. at Russon Brothers Bountiful Mortuary, 295 North Main, and at the Church 10:45-11:45 a.m. Interment Bountiful City Cemetery.
*Punctuation and spelling adjusted wherein I was aware.

Funeral program:
Program from the personal albums of Althea Gray
 Because Coy passed away in the last 50 years, his death certificate will not be publicly available until around the year 2034.  When it is available I will post it here.

Photo is from the personal album of Clayton Huber

17 April 2012

Death info on Ardith Huber

Ardith N. Huber was Roy's sister-in-law.  She married Roy's brother, Frank.
Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber- photo cropped from it's original state.
According to this document, the following dates apply:
BIRTH: 8 Mar 1903- Chester, Sanpete, Utah
DEATH: 11 Jul 1992- daughter's home (Lapoint, Uintah, Utah?)

Newspaper obituary:
SOURCE: Deseret News 1992, Jul 13, p.A-10
Obituary transcribed:
Ardith N. Huber
LAPOINT-- Ardith Nielson, age 89, died July 11, 1992 at her daughter's home.
Born March 8, 1903 in Chester, Utah, a daughter of Jacob and Eliza Pearl Kump Nielson.  Married Frank Ervin Huber December 28, 1922 in Vernal; their marriage was later solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple.  She was an active member of the LDS, Lapoint Ward.
She is survived by daughters and sons, Mrs. ElRoy (Kathryn) Walker, Glenn J. Huber, Kenneth Huber, and daughter-in-law, Mary Lou Huber, all of Lapoint; 27 grandchildren; 56 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren; brothers, Travers Nielson, Lapoint; Lamont Nielson, Sheridon, Oregon; and Vernon Nielson, Brigham City.
Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, July 15, at the Lapoint Ward Chapel.  Friends may call at Thomson's Vernal Mortuary, Tuesday 7-9 p.m. and Wednesday, one hour prior to services at the  Lapoint Ward Chapel.  Burial will be in the Lapoint Cemetery.
*Punctuation adjusted where necessary.
Ardith's final resting place in the Lapoint Cemetery
Photo taken by me.
Photo from the personal album of Rhea Merkley- photo cropped from it's original state.
Because Ardith passed away in the last 50 years, her death certificate will not be publicly available until around the year 2042 (whoa.)  When it is available I will post it here.

16 April 2012

Death info on Irva Huber

Irva Huber was Roy's sister-in-law.  She married Roy's brother Elmer (Dutch).
Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber
According to these documents the following dates apply:
BIRTH: 14 Oct 1903- Colonia Diaz, Mexico
DEATH: 5 May 1987- Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
She was 83 years old when she died.

 Obituary:
SOURCE: Deseret News 1987, May 7-8, p.F9
Obituary transcribed:
Irva Huber
Irva Huber, 83, passed away May 5, 1987 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Born October 14, 1903, Colonia Diaz, Mexico to Erastus Kruse and Lucy Ann Johnson Fillerup.  Married Elmer Huber, May 30, 1929 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.  He preceded her in death.  She was a school teacher, elementary school piano teacher.  Loved music, piano, flowers and gardening.  Research librarian of the University of Utah.  Active in all auxiliary organizations of the LDS Church.
Survived by: children, Mrs. Berlin (Shirley) Jensen, Sandy; Marvin Huber, Lapoint; Doyle Huber, Vernal; Margaret Walton, Salt Lake City; 25 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; one great-great- grandchild.  Preceded in death by a son, Merlin.
Funeral services Saturday, May 9, 1987, 11 a.m., Cannon 6th Ward, 934 Fremont Ave. (1150 South), where friends may call one and one half hour prior to service.  Graveside service, Lapoint Cemetery, 4 p.m.  Funeral directors, Memorial Estates Mortuary.  Family suggests contributions to Primary Children's Hospital.

Memoriam:
From the personal albums of Doris Sessions
Memoriam transcribed:
In Memory of Irva Fillmore Huber
14 October 1903- 5 May 1987
You might like to know just a bit about her background.  She was born in Colonial Dublan, Mexico.  Her father was a teacher in Juarez Academy.  He died in 1910 and because of the uprising of Poncho Villa, they were forced to leave in 1912.
She taught school in Mendon, Utah and attended the U.S.A.C. in the summers.  While teaching in Midway she met her husband and they settled in the Uintah Basin.  She worked hard as a farm wife and cooked big meals.  She told me she never ate with the family, but waiting until they were all through and then she would slowly enjoy her meals.  At that time she would read and study the scriptures and she also memorized scriptures while doing the dishes and she can still put many of us to shame.  She still ate very slowly and we have had many good laughs over that.
She loved music, gave piano lessons, and still played til she died, even though her hands were stiff and sore with arthritis.
She had made many quilts, and her stitches were small and even, displaying another special quality.
Her keen sense of humor has made her the star of the show as she participated in dramas, roadshows, and skits.
Her compassion, dedication, and perseverance were qualities once again made known to us as she served as our ward Relief Society President.
Last but not least she is admired for her beautiful yard.  Roses, geraniums, and a little garden.
-1986 tribute from Cannon 6th Relief Society, Salt Lake City, Utah
*Punctuation and spelling corrected wherein I was aware.

Irva's final resting place in the Lapoint Cemetery
Photo taken by me.
As her death occurred in the last 50 years, her death certificate will not become publicly available until around the year 2037 (whoa.)  When it is available, I will post it here.

15 April 2012

Henry Albert Huber & Margaretha Abegglen

Henry Albert Huber and Margaretha Abegglen were Roy's parents.
Photos from the personal albums of Rhea Merkley- altered and combined by me.
They were married in the Logan Temple on 9 Dec 1891 and they were both from Midway, Wasatch, Utah.  
Thus, through this marriage she became Margaret(ha) Abegglen Huber.


Marriage Certificate:
SOURCE: familysearch.org
This particular document and side note were obtained from the genealogy books of Clayton Huber.
Also from the genealogy books of Rhea Merkley.
Side note transcribed:
(To Albert & Maggie)
Dec 9th 1891.  One; made one of two;
------ in person caused them three.
May they grow faithful and true,
In the plan of purity.
Three denotes a powerful figure;
Caused by pure ----- -----
Prove true to the Laws of the Giver,
And be blessed with the ------ -------
From Your Brother in Law,
Jacob Probst
Oct 23th 1892
(Stuttgart, Germany)
(If you can better decipher that note, PLEASE be my guest...)

UPDATE (May 2012):
Found the originals of both the marriage certificate and the side note from Jacob Probst within the albums of Shirley Jensen:

Marriage certificate:

Side note from Jacob Probst:
This was MUCH easier to transcribe:
(To Albert and Maggie)
Dec 9th 1891, One; made one of two;
wich in person caused them three.
May they, grow faithfull & true,
In the plan of purity.
three denotes a powerfull figure;
Caused by pure Cupid's dart.
Proove true to the Law's of the Giver,
And be blessed with the No. on the card.
From Your Brother in Law.
Jacob Probst
Oct 23th 1892
(Stuttgart, Germany)

Photo is from the genealogy books of Rhea Merkley.
Photo has been altered (people removed) by me.

14 April 2012

Vera's life, written by Doris

The following is a history of Vera's life, written by her daughter and transcribed from it's paper form by me.  (The original paper version was found in the genealogy book belonging to Rhea Merkley). Images have been inserted to illustrate the text, with original sources below them.  Punctuation and spelling have been adjusted as well.  

Vera Johanna Taylor
Vera Johanna Taylor was born on February 3rd 1908 in Chester, Utah, the 8th child of 12 children born to Roy and Roxa Taylor.

In the Fall of 1915 they moved to the Uintah Basin that had been opened up to the white people for home-steading.  At first they lived in Hayden, and moved to Lapoint in the Spring of 1916.  Grandpa Taylor bought 80 acres of farmland and 40 acres of pastureland.
Roy Taylor home in Lapoint
Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber
There were lots of Indians in the area that passed their home everyday.  The children were afraid of them, and when anyone knocked on the door the kids would hide under the bed for fear it was Indians.
Local Indian sitting with Roy Taylor
(apparently Roy had a friendly reputation with the Indian population)
Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber
Mom said Tom Hackford stopped by their house and asked if she was a Mormon.  And she said, “No, but I’m gonna be!”

They rode horseback to school.  Grandma Taylor said it got pretty hectic getting getting them off to school with everyone trying to find their bridles, saddle blankets, etc.

When she was in High School she lived in Bountiful, Utah with her sister Cora and her husband, Coy.  Cora was very good to her and sewed many clothes for her.

She said the first time she saw Roy, she and her girlfriend Renna Stoker had gone up to the store in Lapoint in a horse and buggy.  She waited in the buggy, and Roy was standing by the window inside the store.  Every time she looked at him he would wink at her.  She would turn her head away, but when she looked up he would wink at her again.  He said he made up his mind that day, she was the girl he was going to marry.

They were married on October 24th 1924 in Vernal, Utah.  She was 16 years old, and he was 27.

Dad took a load of wheat to Vernal to the mill and had it made into flour, and sold it to Zack Kump, who ran the store in Lapoint for fifty dollars.  That is how much money they started married life with.

Their first home was a small log cabin with a dirt roof.  The ceiling was a heavy canvas, and when it rained it sagged and dripped water, so we had to put pans around to catch the water.

While living in this cabin June, Rhea, Dean and Doris were born.  They hired Abe Warburton to build them a new house made of sawed logs.  It had a kitchen, living room, dining room, and one bedroom.  Later they added upstairs bedrooms.  We got electricity about 1938 and in 1947 they added another bedroom, bathroom and laundry room.  That is when we finally got running water and indoor plumbing.  What a blessing that was.
"First House Built in Lapoint" with likely Vera's shadow casting onto 2 children.
Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber
They only moved one time in their married life, from the log house to the new one.

They were blessed with nine children, five boys and four girls; June, Rhea, Dean, Doris, Dale, Larry, Clayton, Martin, and JoAnn.

Dale died of cancer when he was nine years old, during a terrible electrical storm.  They couldn’t get Bessie Swain, the mortician, on the phone, so they wrapped him in a sheet and Mom, Dad and George Bigelow took his frail little body to Vernal.  He died on the 18th of August 1943, and we had to bury him on August 20th, as his body was in such poor (condition) and since it was so hot.
Dale Huber
Photo from the personal album of Rhea Merkley
Larry had only been married 8 months to Theda Houston, when he was injured in an automobile accident December 14, 1964 on his way to work.  It was a very foggy morning and poor visibility, when a horse crossed the highway and he hit it.  His spinal chord was severed, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.  He was rushed to the L.D.S. Hospital in Salt Lake, where he died on January 30, 1965.
Larry Huber
Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber
Mom was very good natured, always singing, humming or whistling as she worked.  She had a lot of natural musical ability, and play the piano by ear, the guitar, and had a beautiful alto singing voice.  She loved to sing and dance.

She was a very compassionate person, always taking meals to people when they had sickness, or a death in the family.  She served as president of the Primary, MIA, and was Relief Society president for 8 years, and also served on an Indian Mission for 4 years.
Vera Huber being silly with a family member or neighbor.
Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber.
Both Mom and Dad were very industrious people, and very hard workers.  Dad was an exceptionally good farmer and livestock man.  He ran large herds of sheep in the mountains, and was gone from home a lot.  This placed a great responsibility on Mom, taking care of all the chores, and keeping the farm running.  As a result, all of us kids had to learn to work hard at a very early age to help her.  They always raised a big garden, strawberry and raspberry patch, apricot and apple trees.  We sold raspberry for 2.50 a crate, they had to be picked every other day.  Oh, how I hated that job.  It was so hot and tedious.  They were very generous with the produce from the garden, sharing it with anyone that came along or that wanted or needed it.  No one ever left their home empty handed.
Roy tilling field
Photo from the personal album of Rhea Merkley
Chet Dalgleish (left) and Roy Huber (right)
Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber 
They raised all of their own meat, eggs, milk, butter, fruit and vegetables.  The root cellar was filled with potatoes, carrots, cabbage, squash, onions, apples, and sauerkraut that she put in 5 gallon crocks.

The other cellar was filled with all kinds of bottled vegetables, fruit, jam, jelly, pickles, and grape juice.
Dad always took a grist of flour to the mill in Roosevelt and got our flour, germade cereal, pancake mix, to do us for a year.
Baby Clayton sitting on top of the root cellar
Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber
We had an ice house that we stored big squares of ice in, and it lasted until almost August.  We raised practically everything we ate.

Dad was a great fisherman.  When he went fishing he had no intention of stopping with his limit.  That was the only law that I ever knew of him to break.  The fish never went to waste as he shared them with everyone in Lapoint that he knew liked good fresh trout.  And they were so good!!!!

Dad and mom always took us fishing up Whiterocks Canyon on the 4th and 24th of July.  This was to only time we ever had pop.  They would buy a case with 24 bottles, that was really a treat for us kids!

Dad’s brothers Elmer (Dutch) and Frank and their families lived on farms within a mile of each other.  They each had 5 children, and we played games together on summer nights such as “Hide and Go Seek”, “Kick the Can”, and “Run Sheep Run”.  In the winter we played cards, and a game of “Fox and Geese” which we played in the snow, went sleigh riding, ice skating.  We had such fun times together.
Many of the Huber cousins together as kids.
Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber.
Uncle Dutch was severely crippled with arthritis and was bedridden and on crutches, so Dad always helped his boys get their crops in, and they all worked together during haying season and at harvest time.
Written below: "Hay Crew during War years"
Uncle Frank far left standing, Roy directly below him sitting.  Remaining boys are all Huber cousins.
Photo from the personal album of Rhea Merkley
Mom was an exceptionally good cook, and cooked big meals for thrashers, haymen, corn men, sheep shearers, besides all the meals she cooked for her large family.  No one ever left her home hungry.  That was the first thing she asked when anyone came to her home was, “Are you hungry?”
Vera with her famous rolls
Photo from the personal album of Chris Merkley
She had a way of teaching us kids to work and making us think it was fun.  I still love to work.  It was hard to see them grow older and not be able to do the things they had always done.
Older Vera and Roy
Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber
In August of 1988 Dad caught a cold that seemed to linger longer than usual, so Martin took him to the doctor in Vernal and he admitted him to the hospital on August 28th.  He steadily went downhill from there.  He said he wanted to go home to die, so I took him home on Sept 1st.  He got so he couldn’t eat and soon dehydrated.  We took turns staying with him so mom wouldn’t be alone, as she wasn’t able to take care of him alone.  There was someone there 24 hours a day.

Doug and Rhea were serving a mission in Fair Oaks, CA and were given permission to come home and see Dad.  They arrived about 9:30 a.m. on September 21st.  Rhea went in by the bed, and said, “Dad, it’s Rhea, I’m home”.  He opened his eyes, smiled, and nodded his head like he understood, and went into a deep sleep and peacefully passed away at 1:40 p.m. that same day.  He was 91 years old.

Mom developed sugar diabetes in her later years.  She scratched her leg somehow, and it got infection in it, developing into a massive sore that the doctors couldn’t heal.

We took her to the doctor in Vernal on February 28th 1990.  She was in and out of the hospital and the care center from then until May.  This was very hard on her as she was so confused, not knowing where she was most of the time.  We took her home, and everyone took turns staying with her, and helping take care of her.

Clayton had a friend in Provo that was a specialist in the Burn Center at Utah Valley Hospital, and asked Clayton to bring her out there and see if he could heal her leg.  We took her out there and he tried very hard, but there had been so much damage done to the blood vessels that he couldn’t do much for her.  He told us they would have to amputate the leg up to her knee.  She begged us not to let them take her leg off.  All of the family held a special fast, and went to the temple together.  This was a very spiritual day.

The doctor had scheduled the surgery for May 8th for the amputation.  But on May 5th a wise and gracious Heavenly Father called her home and she didn’t have to suffer anymore. We were all grateful that she didn’t have to endure any more suffering.

Dad and Mom had been married for 64 years, and only moved one time.
Roy & Vera & Larene Jensen (wife of a nephew) sitting on porch
Photo from the personal album of Clayton Huber
I have always been grateful to our wonderful parents for the great example they were to us kids, for all of the sacrifices they made for us, for teaching us honesty, integrity, and good work ethics.

They also taught us to love our Heavenly Father.  Dad didn’t get active in the Church until Dale died.  After that we went to the temple and were sealed together as a family in the Salt Lake Temple on November 12, 1943.

We had a happy, secure childhood with many loving memories of both of our parents.


This brief history was written by a daughter, Doris Huber Sessions at the request of our cousin Daun Taylor DeJournette.