Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1947 (Tuesday) – Lillian (Lillian Lunt) went down to The Relief Hall for work meeting. Helped for about five hours.  I cleaned my cellar and Lillian put away the fruit we had done. Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas), Della (Della Lunt) and two children, Judy (Judith Ann Gabbitas) and Teddy (Ted Lunt Gabbitas) came in as […]

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1947 (Monday) – Lillian (Lillian Lunt) and I bottled the fruit. We put up 27 quarts of peaches and 27 quarts of prunes, besides 15 bottles of prune jam. Course, Lillian did most of the bottling, but I washed all of the dirty bottles besides helping in other ways. We are very tired this evening.  […]

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1947 (Sunday) – About eight o’clock, Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) and Edna (Edna Viola Nelson) came over and brought us a bushel of peaches and one of prunes, some tomatoes and three dozen eggs. They brought them up from Pleasant Grove the night before.  Lillian (Lillian Lunt) went to Sunday School and I attended Fast […]

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1947 (Saturday) – We had received some money from Nephi and I took most of it up to the Federal and Deseret National Banks. I walked home, calling at the market for some groceries.  I’m quite tired this evening, but am glad I can begin to walk again.

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1947 (Friday) – In the afternoon I went up to the doctor’s office. He thinks my leg is doing quite nicely, wants me to exercise it more. My blood pressure was up to 180, so that’s got to come down, perhaps the shock of my fall caused it to go up. He said that more […]

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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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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

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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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

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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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

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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