*Written 30 June 1947
It has been almost a month since I wrote in my journal. On Monday June 2nd, in the evening, two young men, Brothers Buck and Bureson commenced papering my dining room. They came again on Tuesday evening, but missed Wednesday. Again, they came on Thursday and Friday evenings and came in the afternoon on Saturday and finished the job. They papered the dining room, front room and hall and kemtoned the kitchen, pantry and bathroom. During the week, I scrubbed what woodwork I could, but didn’t begin to get all of my cleaning done during the week. I never left the place, but once, and that was Saturday, to go down to the grocery store. I marvel that I have had the strength to work so hard every day. I didn’t think I could do it.
On Sunday the 8th, I intended going to Sunday School, but laid down for a little nap and forgot to wake up in time (I’m not absolutely sure of that, I may have gone to Sunday School), seems like I did. I know I went to church in the evening and while walking down the aisle. Afterwards, a pain struck my left leg opposite the knee. I could barely walk home. Later while listening to the church services over the radio, I massaged my leg with Bengay. It relieved the pain, but drove it into the knee and I could hardly put my foot to the floor.
The next morning, it was still bad so I could not go to the funeral of William Hofer, husband of Fredereicah, who is a researcher in the Genealogical Society.
I kept on plodding away all week, except that I had to go shopping two afternoons and on Saturday afternoon Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) took Esther (Emily Esther Sperry) and I down to Pleasant Grove where Edna’s (Edna Viola Nelson) mother (Grace Viola Harper) gave her a trousseau tea. A large group of people called at the home and the display of gifts and her belongings was simply wonderful, such beautiful quilts, etc. she has surely got a lovely set up.
On Sunday the 15th it was Father’s Day and my birthday. I received some lovely gifts. We bought a big birthday cake and early in the morning, about eight o’clock. Bert’s (Charles Gilbert Lunt) family (Agnes Coalter Golightly; Mary Elizabeth, Robert Gordon and Judith Ann Lunt) came down, even including Jean (Patricia Jean Lunt). It was sure good to have her with us again. I went with them to an early testimony meeting and stayed on to conference session. Bert’s family had dinner with me and spent most of the afternoon. Father (Alfred Oscar Lunt) doesn’t seem to feel very good lately, in fact he hasn’t been so well since our car accident.
On Tuesday the 17th, I persuaded him to let me call Dr. White. He was too busy to come down as he had an office full of people and had to perform an operation in the afternoon, but he gave us an appointment for the next day at eleven o’clock. Dad’s breath was so very short, he could hardly breath.
On Wednesday the 18th we went up to the doctors office and he found that Oscar has a very bad heart and high blood pressure, besides albumen in the urine. The Dr. made arrangements for him to go into the L.D.S. Hospital at once and called Dr. Taylor, a heart specialist, to go up there and see him. We went in a taxi right from the Dr.’s office. I remained with him for an hour or two and then came home. When Earl and I went up again in the evening we found him under an oxygen tent. I guess he was more seriously ill than we knew.
Since then, I have been trying to finish the ragged ends of house cleaning, but seems like I can’t come to the end.
On the 20th of June, Sister Nelson and I went to the Temple with Earl and Edna and they were married by Brother Ben Bowering. Immediately after, they started a little trip, going first to Pleasant Grove to leave Grace, Edna’s mother, then they started for Yellowstone Park, intending to be gone for a week, but returned home in three days, said they had had a lovely trip, had seen all they wanted to, so returned home. They have been rearranging things to get the new things in place and make room for some of Earl’s things and to transplant flowers about the place.
Saturday they went down to Peasant Grove, expect to return home this evening.
Each day I go to the hospital and once or twice in the evening.
One evening some elders came into Father’s room and administered to him. He seemed much better the next afternoon when I went to see him. On Saturday the 21st Bert and Agnes were coming down to see him, but Agnes became very ill and the doctor pronounced it asthma and put her to be for a few days. Tuesday the 24th, Port’s (Porty Lewis Gabbitas). He and Della (Della Lunt) came in and they went up to the hospital instead of me and in the evening Earl and Edna went in.
On Wednesday the 25th Vera Moore, Maria Heninger and I gave a little party here for the group from the Genealogical Library, the old group. I have been planning this party here ever since May. I couldn’t give it then because Eva (Eva Ruth Lunt) was here and my house cleaning wasn’t done, have known about it ever since December, so I thought it would be better to get it done before Dad gets home than try and have it after he came as he does not like parties. It is the first time in all the time I worked there that I have had the group here. A Sister Cameron entertained us with pictures she had taken of different animal life, including birds, butterflies, etc., it was a movie. Maria contacted her and Earl went after her and her equipment, it was a movie, and Stella Mallory saw that she got home all right.
Besides we three hostesses there were present: Leah Yates, Sister Hofer (Fredereicah), Elizabeth Jones, Sister Ockey, Edna and Ellen, Clara Woodbury and another Sister (friend of Maria), Birdie, (Ethel Kirby), Stella and Grace.
They all seemed to enjoy themselves very much and they should as the pictures were very lovely and instructive. Nine of the bunch were not present.
We served gelatin fruit salad, fruit punch and crax. I was sure glad that everything went off as well as it did.
On Friday the 27th, they let Father sit up on the side of the bed with his feet on a chair for about twenty minutes.
Evening – Earl took me up again in the evening, he was feeling pretty good, looks a lot better too.
On Saturday the 28th – Father was permitted to sit up again, this time with feet on the floor, that was before I got up to see him. Earl and Edna went down to Pleasant Grove.
Sunday morning, I got up early, pottered around getting everything done, then decided to take a little nap. I seemed to be tired all the time, I sleep good at nights too, well, I went to sleep and slept nearly two hours. It was ten thirty when I woke up, so it was too late to go. Afternoon – I went up to the hospital, Dad had been up once and then they had me help him up on the bed again.
It was about four o’clock when I left the hospital and five by the time I reached home. The car service up there sometimes is terrible, the cars so crowded when you do get up, crowds standing up all the way down. It is longer between runs on Sunday. I must have just missed one car, and the next one, something got wrong with it a couple of blocks above where we were waiting, so we had to wait for another one. That was the reason for the long time. I rushed in the house and grabbed a cookie and a glass of milk and hurried down to church. They had changed the time to five o’clock instead of five thirty, so I was late. It was a good meeting. Melvin Peterson sang two numbers and led the music for us to sing. Ileene Bagley and her husband were the speakers. The bishop made a mistake in announcing who the speaker would be, he said “Brother and Sister Ileene Bagley would be the speakers”, it caused a little ripple of laughter, but the mistake was quickly rectified. Earl and Edna brought me some lovely flowers from Pleasant Grove. Boy, but is seems lonesome here. I keep busy, but when I have to eat my meals alone, also in the evenings, well one just seems a little bit all alone in the world, that’s all.
Loony Lunts and Company 