Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1946 (Friday) – I was almost through cleaning my front rooms when Agnes (Agnes Coalter Golightly) walked in. She had come with a neighbor. We had lunch and then went to the Temple for a session, the two o’clock. Afterwards, she returned home. Received another letter from Jacobus.

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1946 (Thursday) – I went up to the library about ten o’clock, worked on some sealing records in the archives for Ethel Wright. I had prepared them on the old sealing sheets a year or two, or longer, ago and held them Della Steed to to take care of the sealings, now they do not […]

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1946 (Wednesday) – It has been snowing all morning. At 2:45 p.m., Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) took me up to the doctors in the car, then he returned home. I shopped a few minutes, then went to the doctor’s office. Had quite a long wait. I think the doctor was more ill than I was. […]

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1946 (Tuesday) – Home all morning, but went to Relief Society in the afternoon. Sister Bagley gave the lesson on missionaries and their experiences. It was very splendid. Afterwards, it was testimony bearing and I bore mine and told how grateful I was for our safe return Sunday evening.

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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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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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