Journal: Jeanette Sperry

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 (Saturday) – Listened to both morning and afternoon to Conference meetings. After church, Edgar (John Edgar Lunt) and Jennie (Lydia Jane Kendall) came to see us, he brought a check of eighty-five dollars, rent from drug store. Before they left Bert (Charles Gilbert Lunt) and Agnes (Agnes Coalter Golightly) came in, Edgar and wife […]

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1945 (Friday) – Sister Smith and I attended the forenoon session of conference, the voting to sustain the officers was different than I had ever seen it and was in accordance with rules laid down by President John Taylor. The priesthood almost filled the bottom of the Tabernacle with some in the gallery, there were […]

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1945 (Thursday) – I attended Relief Society Conference in the Tabernacle. The singing mothers of Salt Lake Stake furnished the music. The music was wonderful, it was very interesting. It’s the first time I have had a chance to attend such a conference for years.  Afternoon – I attended again, President George Albert Smith was […]

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1945 (Wednesday) – I spent about three hours at the library typing charts for patron and archive for Mrs. Lunt. Evening – My husband (Alfred Oscar Lunt) and I went to Memory Grove to witness the marriage of Raymond Howarth and Shirley Butters of Magna, he is son of Nephi Howarth and Della Shaw Howarth. […]

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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 (Monday)* – Evening – I went to an officers and teacher’s meeting, met with the Bishopric. During the meeting, I left and went to the Daughters of the Pioneers, in the Relief Hall. They had a splendid program and nice refreshments. One evening, I just can’t remember when, Sister Smith and I went to […]

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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 (Wednesday) – Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) took me out to Della’s (Della Lunt). We canned seven quarts of tomato juice and 16 quarts of peaches. When Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas) got home from work we had to race with time to get to a store before closing time to get Larry (Larry Lunt Gabbitas) […]

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