Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1947 (Sunday) – We had a splendid program this morning at Sunday School. It was a Mother’s Day program. They gave the mothers a little book of splendid verses. Fast Meeting was held immediately after. There were no babies to be blessed and only a few children. Many testimonies were born, mostly by those who […]

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1947 (Monday) – Washed, then went up to the Library to check, in the Index Bureau, some family group sheets sent to me by my sister Della (Emma Della Sperry). They were all done.  When dinner was almost done Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas), Della (Della Lunt), Teddy (Ted Lunt Gabbitas) and Della (my sister) came […]

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1947 (Wednesday) – Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) took me out to Della’s (Della Lunt). It is the first time I’ve been there for a long time. They were well. One of the neighbors had a very sick child, she had been unconscious for three hours. They left their baby with Della and two more little […]

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1947 (Sunday) – I remained home all day and listened to Conference over the radio. Chuck (Charles Mayhew Astle, Jr.) and Georgetta (Georgetta Marie Lunt) stayed. Also, Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas) and Della (Della Lunt) came in with the children (Ivy Joan, Gordon Lewis, Larry Lunt, Judith Ann and Ted Lunt Gabbitas) about one o’clock. […]

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1947 (Monday) – Was busy at home all day washing, etc. Eva (Eva Ruth Lunt) went to the Clinic in the afternoon and it was six o’clock before she got home. They had been taking x-rays of her. Georgetta (Georgetta Marie Lunt) and Chuck (Charles Mayhew Astle, Jr.) went shopping, coming home while Port (Porty […]

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1947 (Tuesday) – Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas), Della (Della Lunt) and two youngest (Judith Ann and Ted Lunt Gabbitas) came in as we were eating breakfast. They wanted the children to stay with me while they went down to Provo. Eva (Eva Ruth Lunt) decided to ride with them as far as Orem. They returned […]

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1947 (Tuesday) – I didn’t go to Relief Society as I had to tend Judy (Judith Ann Gabbitas) and Teddy (Ted Lunt Gabbitas) while Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas) and Della (Della Lunt) went to a funeral. Della is not feeling too good as she is very nervous and has had to give up her missionary […]

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This Day In Our Family History

1705 Japhet Sperry was born in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States to Richard Sperry, Jr., age 53, and Martha Mansfield, age 44. He was the 12th of 12 children, and the 7th of 7 sons, born to the couple. He was born to his parents only known marriage 1775 Moses Blakeslee, age 47, […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1947 (Tuesday) – Yesterday and today I have been writing very hard, washed the curtains in the back part of the house and ironed, cleaned the windows, scrubbed the front porch, etc. I was already to go to the hospital when Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas) and Della (Della Lunt) came in, so I took care […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1947 (Thursday) – Feeling a little tired with a throbbing nerve in my left temple. Della (Della Lunt) came in early, they have a street car running out by Val Verda. Now she can come in once in a while. She has been having a toothache a lot lately, so she went to the dentist […]

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