Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1945 (Thursday) – For some reason or other I have neglected to write for almost two weeks. I am a busy woman and the days pass so quickly. I thought  when I stopped work I would have plenty of time to do a lot of things, but I don’t accomplish as much as I want […]

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1945 (Sunday) – Art (Athur David Sperry) and Gertrude (Gertrude Barton) called at eight o’clock and took Esther (Emily Esther Sperry), Lillian (Lillian May Sperry) and Me with them up to Logan to visit with Pearl (Eva Pearl Sperry) and family. The drive was very pleasant and the scenes in the canyons were gorgeous, everything […]

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1945 (Tuesday) – I never realized how long it had been since I wrote in my journal, almost two weeks. Have been very busy at home and at the library trying to prepare my Sunday School lessons and finish Mrs. Lunt’s record, have carried her Fitz Randolph line to the Emigrant Ancestor and across the […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1945 (Thursday) – I bottled 11 quarts of peaches. Went to the bank and over to the library where I worked on the Fitz Randolph line for a couple of hours, besides checking a pedigree chart for Howard Allen (William Howard Allen).  Just as we were getting down to the table for dinner, Agnes (Agnes […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1945 (Tuesday) – I went up to the library for an hour or two, went to the bank then home. When Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) got up, we went to the post office to send a parcel to Eva (Eva Ruth Lunt), then over to see Cleo Reid. Just as we were about to have […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1945 (Friday) – George (George Thornton Holman) and Eva (Eva Ruth Lunt) went to the clinic for Eva to have further examination. I took Darlene (Darlene Lunt Holman) and Sharon (Sharon Alice Holman) through the Bureau of Information and to an organ recital.  We returned home and found Holman’s here waiting to take George and […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1945 (Thursday) – George (George Thornton Holman) and family has gone out to spend the day with his family. I am home just relaxing, typing and doing anything I wish. It seems quiet after having Eva (Eva Ruth Lunt) and the girls (Darlene Lunt and Sharon Alice Holman) with me. They are celebrating V.J. Day’s […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1945 (Wednesday) – In the afternoon, Howard Allen (William Howard Allen) came and took Esther (Emily Esther Sperry), Eva (Eva Ruth Lunt) and her two girls (Darlene Lunt and Sharon Alice Holman) and me up to his home to spend a few hours and have dinner with them. We sure did enjoy it, and they […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1945 (Tuesday) – At 5 p.m. word was received from White House in Washington D.C. where President Truman (Harry S. Truman) announced the surrender of the Japs, said all government employees could have two days vacation, but that V.J. Day would not be proclaimed until the documents had all been signed.  The man came and […]

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