Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1947 (Saturday) – I bottled nine quarts of pears. I was very tired when I got through. Eva (Eva Ruth Lunt) came home in time to help with dinner. Evening – Edna (Edna Viola Nelson), Grace (Grace Viola Harper) and Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) came in for an hour or two. We just visited and […]

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1947 (Friday) – Willard (Willard Eby Snader) was buried today in Ontario, Oregon. We received a letter from Lillian (Lillian Lunt) giving us the details. We also received one from Alfred (Alfred Oscar Lunt, Jr.) and Mary (Mary Etta George) with a check for one thousand and fifty dollars. Alfred sold his car and kept […]

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1947 (Thursday) – Morning – Eva (Eva Ruth Lunt) rode up to the clinic with Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) and Edna (Edna Viola Nelson), as he took Edna to school. She had to have some x-rays. The doctors were more than delighted with her condition, said everything was even better than they expected. She sure […]

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1947 (Tuesday) – Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) and Edna (Edna Viola Nelson) took Lillian (Lillian Lunt) to the bus at one thirty am We later learned from a letter that Dorothy (Dorothy Snader) and Carl (Carl Hatch Hunter) (I suppose it was them, or else Donald (Donald Snader)), she referred to the as the kids, […]

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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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