In Kenneth's own words, part 16

I will now summarize some important information about our children that I didn’t cover before this point in my history.

Lana, our oldest daughter, graduated from BYU with a bachelor’s degree in Nutrition. She completed training as a Dietitian, while living in Denver Colorado, where she met and married Don Shultz. He had served as a U.S. Army nurse during the Viet Nam war, became a Physicians Assistant and currently owns his own ambulance service. He had been a Lutheran but he joined the church after he met her and he said he hadn’t had a moments rest since because they made him Elders Quorum President shortly after he was a member and then he went in the Bishopric for several years and then on the High Council and now he’s Bishop. They have six children, Jason, Jared, Darcie, Dianna, Darren and Daniel. They also have 3 grandchildren.

Ron served an honorable mission In the New York Cumorah mission. Following his return he served in the Navy during the Viet Nam War and he met a girl, originally from Cannes France, but he met her while he was stationed in Boston. Her name was Danielle Favay and they came out and were married in the Salt Lake Temple. Then he finished his naval service and came out to Salt Lake to live. He had a good job with a computer company and as Danielle knew several languages she got a job with Beehive Machinery International and so Ron got a good job there and he made good money and he was very successful for a number of years but they finally ended up in divorce. He later married Kerry Ferguson, and they had 3 children, Tyson, Justin and Kristin. Unfortunately that marriage failed as well. He has since married a wonderful woman named Kathleen Brady and they are very happy.

Valerie graduated from BYU with a bachelor’s degree in Recreation Therapy where she met her future husband Darel Nakai a Navajo, and a wonderful man. He served this country as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army during the Viet Nam war. He returned from the war and graduated from BYU with his bachelor’s degree in Accounting and received an MBA from Utah State University. He has been in the Stake Presidency twice and on the High Council and in the Bishopric. He currently works for Northrop Grumman in Layton Utah. They have 4 children, Maureen, Melissa, Madeline and Edmund. They also have 11 grandchildren.

John moved to Salt Lake for a few years and became a Journeyman Drywall finisher and made good money until the housing bust in Salt Lake in the late 1970’s. He then moved back to Hamer and got a job as the new Janitor and bus driver for the Hamer Elementary. That is where he met and married a girl by the name of Tammy Anderson and they live in Hamer, in our old house up there they eventually bought it. They have two girls, Kelsey and Kylei.

Sheryl attended BYU for a year where she met her future husband Hugh DeHart. She was able to have a wonderful experience, where she went to Switzerland with her best friend, Lisa Anderson for six months. She lived in Interlaken and she was able to get a job there and work while waiting for Hugh to return from his mission. When he got home, they were married. Hugh’s mother taught at the Y. Hugh currently works in Sales for Wing Enterprises and is also serving as a Bishop in their ward. They have 5 children, Matthew, Adrian, Dane, Heather and Devin. They also have 1 grandchild.

Evan was a very independent person. He never wanted any help and he made his own way, pretty well. He worked for several people in our area (Hamer) and then he moved to Salt Lake and started with Larry Miller, when Larry Miller first started in the car business. In fact he sold the first car for Larry Miller. They did very well. He later managed and was a part owner with Larry Miller, of a used car dealership on State Street in Salt Lake City. He married Dorothy Sinfield and they had one daughter Haley. They were able to adopt another boy Austin and they are both the same age.

David served an honorable two years in the North Carolina Raleigh Mission. He returned home and attended Ricks College for one semester where he met his future wife Andrea Hill. They both transferred to BYU and were married a year later. David earned his bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical (Design) Engineering and he has worked for The Boeing Company as a Flight Test engineer, ever since. He has served in the Young Men’s Presidency, Stake Presidency and High Priest Group leadership. They have four children, Nicole, Sean, Troy and Olivia. He’s done a wonderful job.

Mike graduated from High School and moved to Salt Lake and worked installing stairs and railings. He got a job laying carpet for Summers Carpets, where he still works. He has a side carpet business of his own. He is married to Julie Malstrom. He has two goats and two geese and three cats.

Emily was able to get a year of college in while we were on our mission. She later married Glade Walker, who is a wonderful person. He wasn’t active when she married him, but he became active and they went through the temple a year later. They have four children, Connor, McKenna, Riley and Ethan. Emily works at the Copper Hills High School and supervises the nursery. Glade is an Assistant Manager for Smith’s Marketplace. They have a wonderful family.

In Kenneth's own words, part 15

(1982) Retirement and Mission

I retired from teaching in 1982. At that time they had an insurance agency there that had failed as the agent hadn’t been honest. He had been caught pocketing the premiums, so they fired him and they needed somebody to take his place. They wanted me to take over that insurance agency. I was able to retire, I had taught long enough and was due for retirement but I could have taught three more years. But anyway they wanted me to take it over so I did. It was a wonderful experience. I sold insurance and took care of the agency for five years and then I just got it on its feet where it was making good money and the Bishop called us on a mission in the fall of 1985. We were called to the Oregon Portland mission. We left on our mission the first of January of 1986. John and Tammy moved into the house while we were gone and so we filled our mission in the Oregon Portland mission but we spent our whole mission in Northern California in Siskiyou County. A strange thing happened the mission presidents wife and I had been in the mission home together when I went out. When we first got to the mission home in Beaverton Oregon, we spent the whole evening going over old pictures and stuff, then in the morning, President Larsen sent us clear down to Northern California and mother griped all the way down. She said “If you hadn’t a been so friendly to his wife he wouldn’t have sent us so far away”. But anyway, we had a wonderful time there. We had so much fun that we felt guilty. We were on leadership and inactives and we visited all the inactive families, but we kept finding more that weren’t even on the records. They all wanted to visit with us and have us come out to dinner, but they were perfectly comfortable not being active. But we were able to activate a former Bishop and his wife. When we went back a year later, he was teaching the High Priests and she was Relief Society President. Anyway, we had a reason for going down there. I told you about Lamar Sayer earlier, anyway, we hadn’t heard from them for, oh, nearly 30 years. So we got down to Yreka and I looked up the inactive list and there was Lamar and Mary Sayer so we activated them. Lamar and Mary never really took a job in the church but they did become active and come to church. We didn’t have too much luck with a lot of the others. They were glad to have us come and visit, but they didn’t become active. One incident I’d like to tell about. We were told not to go to this family because, they were not only inactive, they had joined another church and didn’t want anything to do with our church. So, you know me, I had to go out and try it, so we went out to visit and walked up to the door and he saw my badge and he says, “Go away, I don’t want anything to do with you, stay away from here we want nothing to do with the church”. So, I said, “Well what are you doing with all those wagon wheels you’ve got in the garage”. The garage door was open and I could see the wagon wheels. He says, “Oh I want to show you”. So we went around there and he polished those wagon wheels up and made coffee tables out of them and the axle part stood up through and he’d make a bowl out of it, and it was quite interesting. And so he showed us all about it, and he said, “Would you like some garden stuff”, “yes”. So we went out and he gave us carrots and tomatoes and cucumbers and really loaded us up and all the way out to the car he put his arm around me and walked out to the car with us and he says, “Now you be sure and come back when my wife is home”. And so it is interesting, you never know when the opportunity will come.

(1986) July End of Mission

We had such a wonderful time, like I say we felt guilty. Time went on and our mission came to a close and we had Mike come out and live with us the last three months of our mission and he was able to get a job out there and he attended church and we enjoyed having him. He’s a cheerful person. Anyway we finished our mission in July of 1986. We should have finished in the end of June, but anyway, we were working with a lady that was going to be baptized and so we didn’t want to leave before we baptized her so we stayed longer and I baptized her toward the end of July. And then we came home, and of course, John and Tammy were living in the house and she was expecting a baby and so we couldn’t move them out, so we moved to Salt Lake. I bought this house in 1982, but Evan was living here until he got married, about 1986 sometime about there. We moved in and lived here ever since. We went back to the mission field on a visit one time. A year after we had left and saw how everything was going there and just had a wonderful time, people were so glad to see us.

In Kenneth's own words, part 14

(1954) Summer in Salt Lake

I took 19 hours that summer and worked at Continental Bakery an eight hour shift. I started college at 7:00 and got through at ten minutes to four. It just gave me enough time to run down to 4th Street to the bakery, get my whites on and get ready to start at 4:00. Then I worked from 4 till 12. Then I’d come home and I’d try to do a little studying, get some sleep and be ready to go to school again at 7:00 am, which I did all that summer. We had Saturday off; I didn’t go to the bakery until 12:00 Sunday morning and worked till 8:00 am Sunday morning. So then I’d come home and take a shower and go to church for Priesthood meeting and Sunday school. It made it a little difficult, I still went to

church but I mostly slept through, I must admit. We had Sacrament meeting in the evening then and so by that time I was generally awake for that. But it was interesting because I was a High Priest at the time and our High Priest quorum had several of the professors from the University of Utah and also Aldus the President of the University of Utah was one of our High Priests. So it was quite exhilarating, so had I been awake, I could have really enjoyed that meeting. Any way, I completed most of my junior year at the University of Utah and then we returned home.

(1954 Fall)

We came back to Hamer and I was called right back into the Bishopric. Before we went to Salt Lake, in the summer of 1954, I had been the Principal at Roberts Junior High and Elementary, and I had also taught the music in the High School. So after we returned to Hamer, I transferred out to Terreton Elementary and taught there for two years and then I transferred back up to Hamer and I was there till I got my degree, finally in 1957. During that time Sheryl was born on August 22nd 1955 and Evan was born on January 15th 1957. Then they called me out to Terreton to be the principal of the elementary school for three years. We knew that Valerie was about ready to come in to regular school, we had her out at Gooding at the school for

the deaf. We had John out there for half a year. He was able to get by in regular school so we thought we’d try it with Valerie. She was an exceptional girl and she did very well. She was able to get along in regular school very well. Anyway, I transferred back to Hamer so I’d be there if she needed help, but she didn’t. Melvin Hansen quit his teaching job there and went to selling something. So I took his place at Hamer from 1960 to 1979. During that time we finished building the house, we put the whole farm in. That first year back at Hamer, David was born on November 17th 1960 followed three and a half years later by Michael on May 30th 1964 and finally Emily on August 14th 1967. Jeanne and I received an inheritance from the settlement of her fathers estate and so we were able to buy the other one hundred and twenty five acres which gave us two hundred and thirty acres.

Because Cooks wanted ten acres where the house was so I didn’t get that but I had two hundred and thirty acres which I still have and we made a wonderful farm out of it and it is still making fairly good money. In 1979, Reese Sanders retired and I took over as principal for my last 3 years. I served in bishoprics with five bishops during this time and I sat on the stand for twenty-five years and took care of all you kids in the audience. After that I was called to be a stake Heber Barzee.