Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1946 (Written on this day) – **It has been two weeks since I wrote last and it is hard to remember details. Have been doing a lot of shopping for Christmas. Sent packages to Alfred (Alfred Oscar Lunt, Jr.), Georgetta (Georgetta Marie Lunt), Eva (Eva Ruth Lunt) and Lillian (Lillian Lunt). Gave Agnes (Agnes Coalter […]

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1946 (Friday) – Evening – I went down to the ward house. Up in the Amusement Hall, there the Relief Society was holding their Bazaar. It was crowded with people, they had many lovely things to sell. I had prepared a Book of Remembrance, just the cover with some pedigree charts, one being for pictures, […]

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1946 (Thursday) – Have washed and ironed my curtains for the kitchen, pantry and bathroom, cleaned part of the woodwork this week.  This afternoon I went to the Library, worked there for an hour or more then went into the Index Bureau and did some checking on the Brocket line. I think I have found […]

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1946 (Wednesday) – It is Father’s (Alfred Oscar Lunt) birthday. I gave him a lovely jacket. He received some candy from Dorothy (Dorothy Snader), Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) and Eva (Eva Ruth Lunt) and some lovely birthday cards. 

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1946 (Tuesday) – It was today that I bought my Christmas gifts. I was thinking it was Monday. At 1:15, I went to Relief Society to teachers report meeting, followed by the Theology lesson. Sister Bagley gave it. She has been very ill, but is feeling better now. A few testimonies were given. There was […]

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1946 (Monday) – I spent most of the morning uptown shopping, have over half of my Christmas shopping done now, but I wonder if I will be able to send the packages. Right now our country is surely a mess, a coal strike, in which John A. Lewis is defying the U. S. government and […]

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1946 (Sunday) – Attended Sunday School and Fast Meeting. I was the first to bear my testimony. Evening – Went to church, Sunday School was in charge of program. The Mortensen family gave a demonstration of the Home Evening. It was very lovely. 

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1946 (Friday) – Morning – Busy with cleaning. Afternoon, my sister Pearl (Eva Pearl Sperry) visited with me. She painted our group picture for me, the one we had taken last June of we six sisters. We went shopping, then she went to Esther’s (Emily Esther Sperry). Did not go to the Library tonight as […]

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1946 (Thursday) – Thanksgiving Day. Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt), Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) and I went up to Bert’s (Charles Gilbert Lunt) at Clearfield for Thanksgiving Dinner. They had a lovely meal. Turkey and all its trimmings, including some lovely pudding. We just about stuffed and then to top it off, before leaving for home, […]

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