By Neva Tippetts What made Mary Hansen, my mother, an inspiration to her five children, as well as her orphaned grandson whom she raised from infancy, and the children and people she associated with? Her real test of character came when she got a divorce after twenty years of marriage. I was enrolled in my sophomore …
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By Ken Hansen It’s only natural for one to eulogize their departed loved ones, especially a parent. But I feel I can objectively say our mother was a very special spirit whom we were all privileged to know in this life. She will be numbered among the Saints of this generation though she had shortcomings and was …
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(Book of Remembrance Entry) 8 November 1963 Ontario, California Doug and Pat Hansen, along with myself at 6 am, started on a journey to the Los Angeles Temple to meet Kenneth Hansen and his sweet family who have come to the temple to be sealed for time and all eternity. Ruth, my daughter, met us …
By Irene Lindley Mary was born in Elkhorn, Idaho, April 27, 1896, in a little sod roof log cabin with earth for its floor. All the neighborhood homesteaders had similar ones, a few had two room sod or log cabins. In nearby hills a few had dug out cave homes with a log front with …
By Adele Thomas Harker Adele Thomas Harker, daughter of David Phillip Thomas and Anna Davis Thomas, was born 27 May 1920 at Samaria, Oneida Co., Idaho. My paternal grandparents were David Bynon (Beynon) Thomas and Martha Ann Reese (Rees) Thomas. My maternal grandparents were Samuel Watkins (Williams) Davis and Mary Ann Martin Davis. My family …
By Max & Adele Thomas Harker We’re going to write our memories of Samaria, Idaho, and its people in the form of a letter. Max C. Harker and I spent two years (1942 to 1944) teaching in my hometown of Samaria. As the years come and go we remember those years as choice years and two of …
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I was born to Alfred Harker and Mary Edna Osguthorpe Harker on October 26, 1917. The sixth of seven children. My youngest brother was born on my birthday in 1919 but died the following spring so I do not remember him. My parents had built a new home on their farm which was three miles east of …
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(Picture of Adele Thomas Harker) (Picture of Max Clinton Harker) Max and Adele were married 12 April 1939 in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. It was a happy day when Max came into my life. Max has been a kind and loving husband. I have never met a more gentle, loving individual in all my life. He’s slow to …
by Betty Jean Jones Richards 6 June 1965 Introduction: GRAY’S LAKE–GRAY’S LAKE. The words kept coming back into my memory like the half forgotten melody of a once heard song. We had just opened our shoe repair shop in Soda Springs, Idaho, and one of our first customers said he would be in town for the afternoon, …
Lorna HillMay 7, 1941 — July 25, 2025DuchesneLorna Willie Hill, age 84, passed away at her home in Duchesne on July 25, 2025.Lorna was born on May 7, 1941, in Malad, Idaho—just seven minutes before her twin sister, Lynda. She was the third of four children born to Arthur Golden Willie and Selina Fern Atkinson, …
