Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1947 (Thursday) – In the evening, Sister Smith and I dressed in our pioneer outfit and attended a meeting of The Daughters of The Pioneers, held at the homes of Mrs. Durham and Mrs. Ward. We enjoyed ourselves. Howard R. Driggs was the speaker. Refreshments were served in the home of Mrs. Ward, but Sister […]

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1947 (Wednesday) – Took a taxi up to the bank. Lillian (Lillian Lunt) and I went up together. She went to the drug store and then met me and walked with me to the Hotel Utah where I got a cab and came home.  Grace (Grace Viola Harper) came down in the afternoon and visited […]

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1947 (Tuesday) – Received letters from Alfred (Alfred Oscar Lunt, Jr.) and Mary (Mary Etta George) and from Georgetta (Georgetta Marie Lunt). Georgetta and family (Charles Mayhew, Jr., David Warren, Kathleen and Janice Marie Astle) were feeling fine when she wrote, but Mary said she had another attack of asthma last Thursday. Mary has spent […]

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1947 (Monday) – Lillian (Lillian Lunt) left this morning about seven a.m. to spend the day with Earl’s (Earl Sperry Lunt) folks riding, they plan to visit Mirror Lake.  About noon, Bert’s (Charles Gilbert Lunt) family (Agnes Coalter Golightly; Patricia Jean, Mary Elizabeth, Robert Gordon and Judith Ann Lunt), all except Jean, who was working, […]

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1947 (Sunday) – Lillian (Lillian Lunt) went to Sunday School. In the afternoon, Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt), Edna (Edna Viola Nelson) and Grace (Grace Viola Harper) called for me and I went for a ride with them. We went out to Bountiful, then back to Port’s (Porty Lewis Gabbitas). Della (Della Lunt) and the children […]

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1947 (Saturday) – Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) took his first trip from home since being ill. Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) took him down to the Rasmusson Barber shop to get a shave and hair cut, my but those are things are expensive now, one dollar for a hair cut and seventy five cents for a […]

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1947 (Friday) – Esther (Emily Esther Sperry) phones to find out how Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) and I were feeling. She said she started to business school at the LDS School to study typing. I phoned to Bert’s (Charles Gilbert Lunt). The children (Patricia Jean, Mary Elizabeth, Robert Gordon and Judith Ann Lunt) are feeling […]

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1947 (Thursday) – As we were finishing breakfast, Edna (Edna Viola Nelson) came over and brought us some eggs and butter. They returned from Pleasant Grove late last night and brought Grace (Grace Viola Harper) with them. Charles Harper (Charles Benjamin Harper, Jr.), Grace’s brother, was buried there on Tuesday. A few minutes after Edna […]

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1947 (Wednesday) – It has been cloudy most of the day and we had quite a shower during the day. Lillian (Lillian Lunt) and Esther (Emily Esther Sperry) had planned to go to the Fairgrounds this evening, and it kept them guessing whether they would be able to go or not, but it cleared up […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1947 (Tuesday) – Lillian (Lillian Lunt) received a letter from Dorothy (Dorothy Snader) stating that word had been received from the Veteran’s Hospital that Willard (Willard Eby Snader) was worse and that they were doing all they could to comfort him. 

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