I was born in Ogden, Utah in a little adobe cottage located on Adams Avenue between twentieth and twenty-first streets. My mother had five children. My brother Peter was a twin, but the twin died at birth or shortly after.

My mother did "French" laundry to help support the family (Baby clothes for wealthy families).

I was between four and five years of age when Mother died of Typhoid pneumonia, at the time an epidemic. My brother Peter and sister Maggie Mae had died within the week with black diphtheria. My Mother died 26 Nov 1889, Maggie Mae 23 Nov 1889 and Peter Jr. 20 Nov 1889.

My older sister Alice and I went to live with my Father and his second wife who proved herself to be an Angel. She raised me with high standards and the best in the land. Educating me with the finer arts.

At the age of seven I moved with my family to Glasgow Addition (17 Street below Wall Avenue, Ogden, Utah) in a modern home my father had had built by Peter Ipson, a contractor; bath, furnace folding doors and outside a windmill. We lived very happy years at this home. My Grandmother Kari Anderson spent her last years with us there.

In 1907 we moved to our new home, my Father had contracted a beautiful home at 242 23rd Street, Ogden, Utah. A few weeks after we moved into the home, my brother Lewis died with Spinal meningitis. 1907.

I started to play the piano at the age of nine years. Organ first and then piano under Professor Squire Coop. At that time Ogden's finest professor of music. I studied at intervals until I was about twelve, when Professor Coop went to Paris to Study. Then I studied with John Salter, a graduated pupil of Professor Coop.

I began my career in the church in the third ward. I taught Religion class under the supervisor Janie Nelson and played for first intermediate class Sunday School which met in the Amusement Building. Then I was sustained as Sunday School and Mutual Organist which I held for years. I later was Ward Organist for ten years and played for Priesthood in the Third Ward for several years on Monday Nights. On these nights I would play Preliminary music and leave when classes would begin.

Carol was married in 1907 and moved to Chicago. Later, she became ill and I visited her in Chicago and took care of her. While there I attended church and conference, studied organ from Professor Yost, Organist in the First Presbyterian Church. A missionary from the Northern States Mission called on me to discuss conference. He was W. D. Van Dyke from Ogden, Utah. This was the beginning of a later courtship after he returned home and became Bishop of Ogden Third Ward.

I married William D. Van Dyke 26 May 1914 in the Salt Lake Temple. We had one son Spencer Ellsworth Van Dyke on 31 December 1913. He was blessed by his father on 31 March 1914. On 22 May 1914 when Bob as we called was four months old, his father passed away at the age of thirty-five, at which time I returned home with my parents. At the age of four Bob and I took a trip to St. Louis, Missouri where my sister Carol and her husband Joe had moved to spend fifteen months. I studied music, tailoring and went to night school. World War broke out, my brothers Pete, Mick, and Parley had to leave for war. I returned home to stay with mother. It was during this time the Flu Epidemic of 1918 broke out and I did much nursing but did not contact the disease.

Pop was down to his third wife Julia's home when he contacted the flu and I went down there. Both Pop and Julia were sick in bed. So I stayed and took care of both and nursed them back to health. This is when I changed my name to Jule. Pop's toenails were black and almost gone. I stayed up with them all night and broke the fever. Dr. Jensen of Sugarhouse wanted to take me around with him as a nurse.

I met Edwin M. Bingham and married him in 1920 and had a daughter 20 December 1920. We lived in Wilson Lane. Ed's wife had died previously leaving four children: Edwin, Marion, Maxine, and Myra. Myra was just a baby, I raised and claimed these children as my own.

I was Ward Organist in Wilson Ward for many years and Ed was Ward Chorister.Also I was Relief Society Organist, and held the position as Stake Relief Society Organist in 1934 for six years. When I played the organ in the Wilson Ward, I had an old pedal organ but I never went to play that I didn't ask the Lord to help me bring out what the composer wanted me to bring out. I would put my whole soul into it.

Maxine and I went went to Washington, D.C. when Bob passed the Bar to become a lawyer after attending George Washington Law School in George Washington University, and stayed six weeks with he and Jess his wife. Marion was there too living in an apartment and we enjoyed so much visiting with him.

I resigned all church duties when we sold the "Ipson House" and moved to Layton in the Spring of 1946.

We moved back to Wilson Lane in 1950 and built a house on our son's basement home on his property at 2449 South 2800 West in 1968. Here Eddard as I often called him enjoyed his home for almost two years before he passed away 1 February 1970.