1945 (Monday) – Washed, then went shopping. Afternoon – Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas) and family came here and Della (Della Lunt) and all children (Ivy Joan, Larry Lunt, Judith Ann and Ted Lunt Gabbitas) except Chip (Gordon Lewis Gabbitas), stayed here while me and the boy went shopping. They had dinner with us. Before Dad […]
Read More Journal: Jeanette Sperry1945 (Saturday) – Right after breakfast Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) and I went out to Della’s (Della Lunt) with their gifts and up to Bert’s (Charles Gilbert Lunt) with theirs. Found them finishing last wrappings, and up to their necks in work, poor little Mary Beth (Mary Elizabeth Lunt) was in bed, has probably had […]
Read More Journal: Jeanette Sperry1945 (Friday) – Did most of Saturday’s cleaning and finished typing four more copies of Earl’s (Earl Sperry Lunt) pageant. Just before the stores closed, Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) took me up to the Salt Lake Knitting Store.
Read More Journal: Jeanette Sperry1945 (Thursday) – Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) took me out to Della’s (Della Lunt), she was able to make another apron for Mary Beth (Mary Elizabeth Lunt), and wrap a pretty pin for Jean (Jean Snader). Dad came for me about four o’clock. Evening at home. I have developed quite a cough during the night. […]
Read More Journal: Jeanette Sperry1945 (Monday) – I am feeling much better today but still quite weak. Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) was almost an hour late getting home, so I naturally thought he might have met with an accident as the roads are so slippery, it quite upset me, but when he came walking in, I learned his battery […]
Read More Journal: Jeanette Sperry1945 (Tuesday) – Dad’s (Alfred Oscar Lunt) seventieth birthday. I celebrated it by being ill, something going the rounds, but I don’t think it’s the flu, not a bit like Della’s (Della Lunt) family, had. Wednesday to and including Sunday, I remained in the house, have been quite sick. On Saturday, Brother Durham came in […]
Read More Journal: Jeanette SperryDecember 3, 1945 (Monday) – Phoned to Della (Della Lunt), she is feeling some better, Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas) is a little better, was going down to see the doctor. Larry (Larry Lunt Gabbitas) is home from school as he has a cold. I went shopping, walked to Third South on Main, bought five Christmas […]
Read More Journal: Jeanette Sperry1945 (Tuesday) – My Husband (Alfred Oscar Lunt) took me out again to Della’s (Della Lunt), in the afternoon she was feeling much better, although she is very weak. I learned one thing from her doctor’s instructions, that a cloth dipped in alcohol around the throat is very good to relieve the congestion there and […]
Read More Journal: Jeanette Sperry1945 (Friday) – Oscar (Alfred Oscar Lunt) took me out to Della’s (Della Lunt) where I spent the day working. Della, quite bad, towards evening she sat up for awhile.
Read More Journal: Jeanette Sperry1945 (Thursday) – Thanksgiving Day. Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) and I went up to Bert’s (Charles Gilbert Lunt) for dinner, the first time for years we had not prepared one for some of our family. They had a turkey and everything that goes with it. We found Jean (Patricia Jean Lunt) has been sick with […]
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Loony Lunts and Company 