Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1947 (Monday) – Lillian (Lillian Lunt) was busy all day bottling grape juice and making jelly. I washed the dirty bottles, dug up from the cellar and kept busy most of the day. At eleven o’clock pm, after we had gone to bed, the telephone rang. Both Lillian and I hurried to answer it, she […]

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1947 (Sunday) – Lillian (Lillian Lunt) attended Sunday School and in the evening she and I went to Sacrament Meeting. It was a farewell for Orma Peterson. It was the first time we had left Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) alone and he became quite perturbed as the meeting was so long and he hadn’t had […]

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1947 (Saturday) – I called a cab and went up to the City and County Building to pay Dad’s (Alfred Oscar Lunt) insurance. I then went up to Tedesco’s office to see Al Emery. Then I walked down to the Boston Building and went in and paid my doctor’s bill. Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas) and […]

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1947 (Friday) – About one o’clock I went up to meet Grace, (Grace Viola Harper) and Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) took us up to the Center Theater where we went to a picture show. We rode home in a cab. Grace and I called at Sister Spitzbardt’s to find out how Brother Spitzbardt is feeling. […]

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1947 (Tuesday) – Lillian (Lillian Lunt) went down to The Relief Hall for work meeting. Helped for about five hours.  I cleaned my cellar and Lillian put away the fruit we had done. Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas), Della (Della Lunt) and two children, Judy (Judith Ann Gabbitas) and Teddy (Ted Lunt Gabbitas) came in as […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1947 (Monday) – Lillian (Lillian Lunt) and I bottled the fruit. We put up 27 quarts of peaches and 27 quarts of prunes, besides 15 bottles of prune jam. Course, Lillian did most of the bottling, but I washed all of the dirty bottles besides helping in other ways. We are very tired this evening.  […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1947 (Sunday) – About eight o’clock, Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) and Edna (Edna Viola Nelson) came over and brought us a bushel of peaches and one of prunes, some tomatoes and three dozen eggs. They brought them up from Pleasant Grove the night before.  Lillian (Lillian Lunt) went to Sunday School and I attended Fast […]

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1947 (Saturday) – We had received some money from Nephi and I took most of it up to the Federal and Deseret National Banks. I walked home, calling at the market for some groceries.  I’m quite tired this evening, but am glad I can begin to walk again.

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1947 (Friday) – In the afternoon I went up to the doctor’s office. He thinks my leg is doing quite nicely, wants me to exercise it more. My blood pressure was up to 180, so that’s got to come down, perhaps the shock of my fall caused it to go up. He said that more […]

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