Guy was born January 14, 1901 at Malad, Idaho, to Charles E and Margaret Elizabeth Roberts Bolingbroke. He lived with his parents in Arbon, Idaho. He was the youngest in the family of ten children.
He attended grade school at Arbon in the fall and spring and in Malad during the winter months.
He helped his father on the farm. They had to harness 18 heads of horses every day to pull the machinery to do their farming, for in those days they didn’t have any tractors. It was about the early 1930’s when they bought their first caterpillar tractor. What a great improvement that was.
When Guy was in his youth he had some severe illnesses such as smallpox and liver trouble. Later in his married life he had Hepatitis and spotted fever.
He liked sports such as baseball and was a pitcher in one of the Arbon ball teams for many years. He also liked to fish and go deer hunting every fall.
(Photo of five young men. Heading says: Back row: Welling Evans and LaVern Munn. Front: Guy Bolingbroke, Milt Evans and Alfred Bolingbroke, in 1920.)
In 1931 he met his future wife, Hazel Stone at a Saturday night dance in Malad, Idaho. We were married in 1932 at Brigham City, Utah. Our marriage was later solemnized in the Logan Temple.
Hazel was born May 25, 1911 at Logan, Utah to David Lehi and Sarah Emma Crowther Stone. She spent her childhood days at Daniels, Idaho and went to High School in Malad.
After our marriage we lived at Malad in Guy’s folk’s winter home till the next spring. It was there our first child, a darling baby girl named Connie Ray, was born May 20, 1933 with Dr. Mabey attending and my mother assisting.
When she was one month old we moved to Arbon and lived with Guy’s parents for a while. Finally we got our 2 room log house built a short distance from his folks and not far from the Pauline Store as it was called then. The school house was about one half mile from our home where our children went to grade school. There was only one teacher for all the grades for several years.
Some of the teachers who taught were Mrs. Loofbourrow, Ruby Parr, Harold Sackett, Mr. Miller, Miss Freisen and Mr. Fackrell.
After our house was completed, Guy dug us a well by the house and struck water at about 14 feet. Later we dug a deeper one and had the water piped into the house.
At first we had a Delco system for lights and power. We had an old fashioned cook stove to cook on and had to heat all our water on it to wash with and everything. It wasn’t too long before we added 3 more rooms to our log house, a kitchen, bedroom and a bathroom. We finally got electricity so we bought us an electric stove and refrigerator, which seemed wonderful.
We raised a few chickens and some cattle. We always went to Pocatello at least once a week to do our shopping and take in a movie as we didn’t have television then, only a radio.
We had some wonderful neighbors who lived quite close by that we would go visit very often. These are some of them, Luther Estep Family, Tom Daniels Family, Dale Butler Family, Jack Price Family, John Bolingbroke Sr. and Family, Ed England Family and Dave Lusk Sr. and Family.
In Malad, at my parents home, our second child was born November 22, 1937. It was another beautiful baby girl, which we named Darlene. They both grew up on the farm.
In the fall of 1947 we bought a home in Pocatello at 199 Hawthorne Avenue and moved in for the winter so Connie Ray could attend High School. On November 21, 1947 at the St. Anthony Hospital in Pocatello, Idaho our third precious little daughter was born. We named her Judy Kay. In the fall of 1948 as I was recuperating from an operation at our home in Pocatello, we received the sad news that our home at Arbon had burned down. The only thing we saved was our piano which we had moved to Pocatello that fall. We were very thankful for that, but it was a terrible shock to us.
On December 3, 1948, Connie Ray was married to a fine young man, Lenard Nielsen from Hawkins Basin. We gained a son we had always wanted.
They have six lovely children, 2 girls and 4 boys. She teaches school and he works for Garrett Freight Lines, also has a small farm.
Darlene was married November 5, 1954, to Eldeen Hansen of Pocatello, Idaho. He worked for the Mountain Bell Telephone Company in Pocatello. She also worked for the Telephone Company for about 4 years. They had one son.
In the spring of 1958 another terrible tragedy came to our family. On March 30, 1958 we received the sad news that our daughter Darlene had passed away leaving a nine month old baby boy, Kerry Dean. They lived in Twin Falls, Idaho at that time. It was a very shocking and sad occasion for us.
Our third daughter Judy Day [Kay] was married November 10, 1967 to Steven Carter, a fine ambitious young man of Grace, Idaho. They have 4 lovely children, one girl and 3 boys. They have two stores, one in Aberdeen and one in Blackfoot. They live in Aberdeen. Idaho.
We are proud to say we have eleven grandchildren and 6 ½ great grandchildren. In 1973 we took a trip to Hawaii and in 1976 went to Mesa Arizona for a month to visit my brother and wife.
After living in Arbon for 44 years we retired in 1976 and now reside at our home at 199 Hawthorne Avenue, Pocatello, Idaho.
Written by Hazel Bolingbroke.
(From the Book ‘Bannock Valley’ by Laurie Wara.)