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Loren Edward Radford

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Loren Edward Radford

Birth
Ririe, Jefferson County, Idaho, USA
Death
29 Dec 1986 (aged 78)
Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Burial
Bonneville County, Idaho, USA Add to Map
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Told by Gladys Monroe Radford
to Louise Radford (daughter-in-law)

Loren Edward Radford

Loren was herding sheep in Osgood, Idaho when Gladys met him. He was going with her sister Dot and Gladys went with Loren Nielson and he was with Loren. Dot started to go with Elmer. Gladys wouldn't have gone with Loren but Faye Harman said they had the boys picked out that they wanted and we could have the rest. It was a fourth or twenty-fourth of July and Loren had asked me to go with him. Gladys went with Loren just to show Faye. They went together for two years and decided to get married. He had a job and burnt his car up. So they decided to get married on September 3, 1924. They lived in Aunt Maud's house in Ririe. He worked at Roger Brothers Seed House for $11.50 every two weeks.

About six months after we were married. I had a miscarriage. It was a girl and we named her Lavee. She was too premature and only lived about two hours. She was born at the home. Loren's Dad blessed and named her. That summer Uncle Walt Womack was running a sawmill. Loren, Loren's Dad, John (my brother) and I went up and worked there. I did the cooking. We lived in two tent houses. Loren and his cousin would ride motorcycles and race on Sunday.

We moved to the dry farm where Loren's Dad lived. Loren built a house for us but I was pregnant and moved down to Ririe. I tended Dellas and Theola that winter. Zane was born January 18, 1031. He was born at home. I hemorrhaged and it went clear through the mattress and onto the floor. They got my Mother to come and stay with me. She had a fit when she saw it. I was in bed fourteen days without getting up.

In April we went up to Jim Ririe's dry farm and worked until September. I tended two of Jim's kids that were herding sheep up there. While I was tending them, they had a birthday party. They were outside playing and a pig bit Max and tore a big hole in his cheek. That winter we went over and lived in our house on Loren's Dads place. We worked for Jim again the next summer and moved back to our house again the next winter. The next spring we worked on Niels Larsen's dry farm for $1.00 a day. We lived in a terrible house there. Flies by the gobs. We moved back to our house for the winter. In the spring we helped Bob Miller lamb. In the summer he cut wood on a dry farmer's place by the name of Bitters. In June we went down to Loren's sisters. Loren and Tobe (his sisters husband) thinned beets. I took care of the baby (Laverl) for one month and then moved back to our house. That fall we moved to Osgood and Loren helped top beets and pick spuds. I cooked for the guys, and one was Uncle Joe Teeples. We went back to the dry farm again that winter. The next spring Loren was working in the lambing sheds again (she didn't say where LR). My Dad died in April 7, 1934. We went back to do dry farming again until Loren went to Osgood to work in the spuds that fall.

In the winter of 1934 Loren's sister Stella had a baby and both died and was buried by Thanksgiving, 23 November 1934. Then Karel (Loren's brother) was killed by his wife's brother and was buried before Christmas.

While we were living in Milo, Loren's folks moved to Labelle. We moved our log house from the dry farm down to Loren's Dads place.

We moved to Blackfoot and worked for J. S. Gardner for four and a half years and worked on his farm.

Jay was born in the Idaho Falls Hospital June 23, 1936. I had kidney trouble and varicose veins before he was born. I had gathered breasts and they packed me in ice for three days and nights. I had to put him on a bottle. Jay was four years old when we moved to Garfield and was there for one winter. Zane was in the fifth grade. We then bought this place, in Labelle, we live in now. When we moved here, Loren had broken his leg and it was in a cast.

Thirty-four years of hard work and believe me, it was hard work. We lived here three years and then Joyce was born on March 20, 1944 at Idaho Falls Hospital. They didn't think either of us would make it on account of kidney trouble. There was a nurse and a doctor stayed right with me for hours. Before she was born, I worked at Lewisville Seed Company. I would get up and feed the pigs, get the kids off to school and pick up four women and be to work at eight o'clock.

Ten years after Joyce was born. I had LaRee on January 18, 1954 at Rigby Maternity Hospital. She was born on Zane's birthday.

Loren had broken his legs three times, twice on one leg and one on the other. He has broken his shoulder blade. In 1966 he cut off most of his right hand in a grain combine belt. He has pulled his leg out of joint and he has broken his ribs twice.

My Mother died February 3, 1948.

This is the end of the history given to me, Louise Radford. I will continue on with her history as I have received information and facts that I have knowledge of.

Gladys (Mom) was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; the same day as her son Zane, on February 5, 1939. Gladys taught Primary and Sunday School for eight years before being baptized. She taught the five year olds in Sunday School for twenty years. She loved little children. She was a visiting teacher for many years and was very dilligent in all her church callings. Gladys and Loren were married in the Idaho Falls Temple May 7, 1965.

Gladys and Loren took a couple of trips to California. In 1948 they visited Albert Askew and Walt Monroe and again in 1953. They also took a trip to LaRees when she lived in Washington, to Joyces in Arizona and Jay and Zanes in California.

Gladys loved to embroider and made lots of dish towels and pillow cases. There was always an embroidered dish towel hanging on her towel rack. She would take them to the Ririe Fair and win a prize and a small amount of prize money. She worked very hard in her garden she had every year. She canned and froze as much as she possibly could. She always had a good garden. She worked out in the fields irrigating and whatever she could do to help. She even milked the cows and fed the pigs. Her daily job she hated was washing the milking machine buckets. She was such a hard worker. She worked in the Hunter Potato House for twelve years. She worked right up to the time she got sick.

Gladys and Loren had their fiftieth wedding anniversary Serptember 3, 1979. All the children were there. Lots of friends and relativeds were there. Gladys had not been feeling well but she didn't want to go to the doctor until after the anniversary party was over. She had been to the doctor and he told she had an ulcer but she knew it was worse than that. She went to a specialist in April 1980 and he found a mass in the upper part of her stomach. She knew it was bad (cancer). They operated on her but couldn't get it all and she passed away June 15, 1980 and was buried June 18, 1980 in the Ririe-Shelton Cemetery, Ririe, Idaho.

-Told by Gladys Monroe Radford to Louise Radford (daughter-in-law)
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Loren Edward Radford

Loren Edward Radford was the son of Eva Amanda Teeples and John Edward Radford. He married Gladys Naomi Monroe September 3, 1929 In Idaho Falls, Idaho. They lost a baby girl, Gladys L. Radford, when she was just an infant due to an undeveloped heart.


Siblings: Blain Art Radford, Estella Art Radford, Dallas Lavar Radford, Karrel Willis Radford and Carl Dale Radford.


Grandson: Orson Loren Smith

Great granddaughter Rachelle Marie Sloan died in 2008.

Told by Gladys Monroe Radford
to Louise Radford (daughter-in-law)

Loren Edward Radford

Loren was herding sheep in Osgood, Idaho when Gladys met him. He was going with her sister Dot and Gladys went with Loren Nielson and he was with Loren. Dot started to go with Elmer. Gladys wouldn't have gone with Loren but Faye Harman said they had the boys picked out that they wanted and we could have the rest. It was a fourth or twenty-fourth of July and Loren had asked me to go with him. Gladys went with Loren just to show Faye. They went together for two years and decided to get married. He had a job and burnt his car up. So they decided to get married on September 3, 1924. They lived in Aunt Maud's house in Ririe. He worked at Roger Brothers Seed House for $11.50 every two weeks.

About six months after we were married. I had a miscarriage. It was a girl and we named her Lavee. She was too premature and only lived about two hours. She was born at the home. Loren's Dad blessed and named her. That summer Uncle Walt Womack was running a sawmill. Loren, Loren's Dad, John (my brother) and I went up and worked there. I did the cooking. We lived in two tent houses. Loren and his cousin would ride motorcycles and race on Sunday.

We moved to the dry farm where Loren's Dad lived. Loren built a house for us but I was pregnant and moved down to Ririe. I tended Dellas and Theola that winter. Zane was born January 18, 1031. He was born at home. I hemorrhaged and it went clear through the mattress and onto the floor. They got my Mother to come and stay with me. She had a fit when she saw it. I was in bed fourteen days without getting up.

In April we went up to Jim Ririe's dry farm and worked until September. I tended two of Jim's kids that were herding sheep up there. While I was tending them, they had a birthday party. They were outside playing and a pig bit Max and tore a big hole in his cheek. That winter we went over and lived in our house on Loren's Dads place. We worked for Jim again the next summer and moved back to our house again the next winter. The next spring we worked on Niels Larsen's dry farm for $1.00 a day. We lived in a terrible house there. Flies by the gobs. We moved back to our house for the winter. In the spring we helped Bob Miller lamb. In the summer he cut wood on a dry farmer's place by the name of Bitters. In June we went down to Loren's sisters. Loren and Tobe (his sisters husband) thinned beets. I took care of the baby (Laverl) for one month and then moved back to our house. That fall we moved to Osgood and Loren helped top beets and pick spuds. I cooked for the guys, and one was Uncle Joe Teeples. We went back to the dry farm again that winter. The next spring Loren was working in the lambing sheds again (she didn't say where LR). My Dad died in April 7, 1934. We went back to do dry farming again until Loren went to Osgood to work in the spuds that fall.

In the winter of 1934 Loren's sister Stella had a baby and both died and was buried by Thanksgiving, 23 November 1934. Then Karel (Loren's brother) was killed by his wife's brother and was buried before Christmas.

While we were living in Milo, Loren's folks moved to Labelle. We moved our log house from the dry farm down to Loren's Dads place.

We moved to Blackfoot and worked for J. S. Gardner for four and a half years and worked on his farm.

Jay was born in the Idaho Falls Hospital June 23, 1936. I had kidney trouble and varicose veins before he was born. I had gathered breasts and they packed me in ice for three days and nights. I had to put him on a bottle. Jay was four years old when we moved to Garfield and was there for one winter. Zane was in the fifth grade. We then bought this place, in Labelle, we live in now. When we moved here, Loren had broken his leg and it was in a cast.

Thirty-four years of hard work and believe me, it was hard work. We lived here three years and then Joyce was born on March 20, 1944 at Idaho Falls Hospital. They didn't think either of us would make it on account of kidney trouble. There was a nurse and a doctor stayed right with me for hours. Before she was born, I worked at Lewisville Seed Company. I would get up and feed the pigs, get the kids off to school and pick up four women and be to work at eight o'clock.

Ten years after Joyce was born. I had LaRee on January 18, 1954 at Rigby Maternity Hospital. She was born on Zane's birthday.

Loren had broken his legs three times, twice on one leg and one on the other. He has broken his shoulder blade. In 1966 he cut off most of his right hand in a grain combine belt. He has pulled his leg out of joint and he has broken his ribs twice.

My Mother died February 3, 1948.

This is the end of the history given to me, Louise Radford. I will continue on with her history as I have received information and facts that I have knowledge of.

Gladys (Mom) was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; the same day as her son Zane, on February 5, 1939. Gladys taught Primary and Sunday School for eight years before being baptized. She taught the five year olds in Sunday School for twenty years. She loved little children. She was a visiting teacher for many years and was very dilligent in all her church callings. Gladys and Loren were married in the Idaho Falls Temple May 7, 1965.

Gladys and Loren took a couple of trips to California. In 1948 they visited Albert Askew and Walt Monroe and again in 1953. They also took a trip to LaRees when she lived in Washington, to Joyces in Arizona and Jay and Zanes in California.

Gladys loved to embroider and made lots of dish towels and pillow cases. There was always an embroidered dish towel hanging on her towel rack. She would take them to the Ririe Fair and win a prize and a small amount of prize money. She worked very hard in her garden she had every year. She canned and froze as much as she possibly could. She always had a good garden. She worked out in the fields irrigating and whatever she could do to help. She even milked the cows and fed the pigs. Her daily job she hated was washing the milking machine buckets. She was such a hard worker. She worked in the Hunter Potato House for twelve years. She worked right up to the time she got sick.

Gladys and Loren had their fiftieth wedding anniversary Serptember 3, 1979. All the children were there. Lots of friends and relativeds were there. Gladys had not been feeling well but she didn't want to go to the doctor until after the anniversary party was over. She had been to the doctor and he told she had an ulcer but she knew it was worse than that. She went to a specialist in April 1980 and he found a mass in the upper part of her stomach. She knew it was bad (cancer). They operated on her but couldn't get it all and she passed away June 15, 1980 and was buried June 18, 1980 in the Ririe-Shelton Cemetery, Ririe, Idaho.

-Told by Gladys Monroe Radford to Louise Radford (daughter-in-law)
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Loren Edward Radford

Loren Edward Radford was the son of Eva Amanda Teeples and John Edward Radford. He married Gladys Naomi Monroe September 3, 1929 In Idaho Falls, Idaho. They lost a baby girl, Gladys L. Radford, when she was just an infant due to an undeveloped heart.


Siblings: Blain Art Radford, Estella Art Radford, Dallas Lavar Radford, Karrel Willis Radford and Carl Dale Radford.


Grandson: Orson Loren Smith

Great granddaughter Rachelle Marie Sloan died in 2008.



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