Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1946 (Sunday) – Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) and I went down to Nephi to attend the funeral of Will Burton (William Pass Burton). There was a large crowd at the home and the services and they had some beautiful flowers. Will looked good but very thin. He weighed only seventy-five lbs. before he died, but […]

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1946 (Friday) – All morning I was cleaning. Afternoon – I went to the Genealogical Library. Evening – home. I am trying to trace the Mansfield and Drake families in England. Do not find many Mansfield in Devonshire, those found in the early records are spelled Manfield.

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1946 (Thursday) – Sister Smith and I went out as visiting teachers on our district. Many families were not at home, so we went again in the evening. We enjoyed our visits with the people and gave the message to all the homes where they were at home.

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1946 (Wednesday) – I went up to the library at nine o’clock and worked until noon. Had a good sleep in the afternoon. Evening – Sister Smith and I went to the Nineteenth Ward to a show put on by the Mutual Stake Board. It was very good.

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1946 (Tuesday) – About noon, Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas) and Della (Della Lunt) and two younger children (Judith Ann and Ted Lunt Gabbitas) came in, had lunch with me and left the children with me while I shopped and took care of other business. Della waited two hours in Cresses for Port. He came there […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1946 (Monday) – I received some records on family group sheets and pedigree charts from my sister Della (Emma Della Sperry). Went to town and spent about three hours at the library. Evening – Went over to Sister Ereksen’s for an hour.

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1946 (Saturday) – Was home all day. Besides the housework, I cleaned two doors in the front room and cleaned the three drawers in the closet. My what a job that was as they contained the accumulations of years and I almost filled two bushel baskets of trash to be burned.

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