AFTON DIXON WAGSTAFF
On November 20, 1906, I made my entrance into this world, the daughter of Parley Smith and Mary Etola Dangerfield Dixon, I was the second child of seven children, four brothers and two sisters: Vern, Eugene, Reed, Inez and Anna.
I was blessed with the name of Afton. Mom and Dad built their first home on the corner of 6th West and 3rd North in Provo, Utah. On their second wedding anniversary they moved into their new home, and I was born in this home.
It wasn't very long after this that they built their large two story home on the corner of 2nd North and 3rd West and this is where I lived until I was fourteen years old. I was baptized June 27, 1915.
I have many fond memories of my childhood and teenage years, and I had the most wonderful parents any girl ever had. Some of my most cherished memories were the ones I spent with my friends and cousins in Wildwood at Aunt Rye's and Aunt Alice's cabins .
I attended the Timpanogos Grade School, the Central Junior High, and the Provo High School.
In 1924 I met my husband, Dermont (Mont) Wagstaff, at a Mutual dance in the Third Ward Amusement Hall (as it was called then).
On October 6, 1926, we were married in the Salt Lake Temple.
When our oldest daughter was a year old, we moved to Ogden, Utah where Mont worked for his Uncle Ben Hunsaker in the Gateway Garage. After two years the depression hit, business slowed down in the Garage, so we moved back to Provo,
Soon after our return to Provo, Uncle Jabez Dangerfield asked us to take over the operation of his Royden House Hotel. We managed the Hotel for five years. About a year after we left the Hotel, we bought a store and service
station in Grandview, which we operated for about five years.
We were blessed with four wonderful children, three daughters and one son: Donna, Norma, Gary, and Kathleen (Kathy). We are very proud of all of them. We have twenty one grandchildren and eleven great, grandchildren, of whom we are also very proud.
We have four grandchildren who have served full time missions, and one grandson who is serving in the Louisiana, Baton Rouge Mission now. Donna and Jerry's sons: David Russell Olson in Austrian Mission. Kurt Dixon Olson in Louisiana. Norma and Lorus' sons: Jay Ladd Johnson in California, Los Angeles Mission. Jerry Dixon Johnson in Washington D.C.. Lori Johnson in Minnesota
Mont and I were called to serve on a Building Mission in the North Eastern States. We received our call from the First Presidency on April 16. 1964.
In May of 1963, we went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Mont was a building supervisor on a new L.D.S. Church chapel being built there. We were here a year when we received a mission call to go on a building mission for the Church. We served for two years and six months at Long Island, New York, building an addition to a chapel there. For the next year and a half, we worked on two chapels in New England. We enjoyed our mission very much and made many friends. We were released January 31, 1966.
After we returned home, I went back to work for BYU until June 1973, On January 2, 1974 we received a call from President Harold Glen Clark to work in the Provo Temple. Mont was called as an Ordinance Worker, and I was called as a Receptionist, which we are still doing at the present time, November 1979.
We have enjoyed working in the Temple very much and are grateful for the opportunity and blessings that are ours.
On April 26, 1979 we were saddened by the death of our lovely daughter, Donna, and we miss her very much. She was a beautiful girl and a very spiritual one.
We want our family to know we love them very much, and are very proud of them. Our family has grown to forty- seven members.
I have held many positions in the Church including a Teacher in the Primary for a great number of years, a Relief Society President, Counselor, Secretary, Teacher and Librarian; a MIA Counselor and Teacher, a Jr. Sunday School Coordinator and Librarian, and a Counselor in the Stake Relief Society.
My Father in Heaven has blessed me so much, and I'm proud to be a member of His Church.
My most cherished experiences were going to the Temple with all of our children and three of our grandchildren to see them married and sealed to their mates. Another grandson was married and sealed in the Swiss Temple. Donna and Jerry were there with him.
I have a wonderful husband and we have had fifty-three happy years together.
On November 20, 1906, I made my entrance into this world, the daughter of Parley Smith and Mary Etola Dangerfield Dixon, I was the second child of seven children, four brothers and two sisters: Vern, Eugene, Reed, Inez and Anna.
I was blessed with the name of Afton. Mom and Dad built their first home on the corner of 6th West and 3rd North in Provo, Utah. On their second wedding anniversary they moved into their new home, and I was born in this home.
It wasn't very long after this that they built their large two story home on the corner of 2nd North and 3rd West and this is where I lived until I was fourteen years old. I was baptized June 27, 1915.
I have many fond memories of my childhood and teenage years, and I had the most wonderful parents any girl ever had. Some of my most cherished memories were the ones I spent with my friends and cousins in Wildwood at Aunt Rye's and Aunt Alice's cabins .
I attended the Timpanogos Grade School, the Central Junior High, and the Provo High School.
In 1924 I met my husband, Dermont (Mont) Wagstaff, at a Mutual dance in the Third Ward Amusement Hall (as it was called then).
On October 6, 1926, we were married in the Salt Lake Temple.
When our oldest daughter was a year old, we moved to Ogden, Utah where Mont worked for his Uncle Ben Hunsaker in the Gateway Garage. After two years the depression hit, business slowed down in the Garage, so we moved back to Provo,
Soon after our return to Provo, Uncle Jabez Dangerfield asked us to take over the operation of his Royden House Hotel. We managed the Hotel for five years. About a year after we left the Hotel, we bought a store and service
station in Grandview, which we operated for about five years.
We were blessed with four wonderful children, three daughters and one son: Donna, Norma, Gary, and Kathleen (Kathy). We are very proud of all of them. We have twenty one grandchildren and eleven great, grandchildren, of whom we are also very proud.
We have four grandchildren who have served full time missions, and one grandson who is serving in the Louisiana, Baton Rouge Mission now. Donna and Jerry's sons: David Russell Olson in Austrian Mission. Kurt Dixon Olson in Louisiana. Norma and Lorus' sons: Jay Ladd Johnson in California, Los Angeles Mission. Jerry Dixon Johnson in Washington D.C.. Lori Johnson in Minnesota
Mont and I were called to serve on a Building Mission in the North Eastern States. We received our call from the First Presidency on April 16. 1964.
In May of 1963, we went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Mont was a building supervisor on a new L.D.S. Church chapel being built there. We were here a year when we received a mission call to go on a building mission for the Church. We served for two years and six months at Long Island, New York, building an addition to a chapel there. For the next year and a half, we worked on two chapels in New England. We enjoyed our mission very much and made many friends. We were released January 31, 1966.
After we returned home, I went back to work for BYU until June 1973, On January 2, 1974 we received a call from President Harold Glen Clark to work in the Provo Temple. Mont was called as an Ordinance Worker, and I was called as a Receptionist, which we are still doing at the present time, November 1979.
We have enjoyed working in the Temple very much and are grateful for the opportunity and blessings that are ours.
On April 26, 1979 we were saddened by the death of our lovely daughter, Donna, and we miss her very much. She was a beautiful girl and a very spiritual one.
We want our family to know we love them very much, and are very proud of them. Our family has grown to forty- seven members.
I have held many positions in the Church including a Teacher in the Primary for a great number of years, a Relief Society President, Counselor, Secretary, Teacher and Librarian; a MIA Counselor and Teacher, a Jr. Sunday School Coordinator and Librarian, and a Counselor in the Stake Relief Society.
My Father in Heaven has blessed me so much, and I'm proud to be a member of His Church.
My most cherished experiences were going to the Temple with all of our children and three of our grandchildren to see them married and sealed to their mates. Another grandson was married and sealed in the Swiss Temple. Donna and Jerry were there with him.
I have a wonderful husband and we have had fifty-three happy years together.
AFTON DIXON WAGSTAFF
On November 20, 1906, I made my entrance into this world, the daughter of Parley Smith and Mary Etola Dangerfield Dixon, I was the second child of seven children, four brothers and two sisters: Vern, Eugene, Reed, Inez and Anna.
I was blessed with the name of Afton. Mom and Dad built their first home on the corner of 6th West and 3rd North in Provo, Utah. On their second wedding anniversary they moved into their new home, and I was born in this home.
It wasn't very long after this that they built their large two story home on the corner of 2nd North and 3rd West and this is where I lived until I was fourteen years old. I was baptized June 27, 1915.
I have many fond memories of my childhood and teenage years, and I had the most wonderful parents any girl ever had. Some of my most cherished memories were the ones I spent with my friends and cousins in Wildwood at Aunt Rye's and Aunt Alice's cabins .
I attended the Timpanogos Grade School, the Central Junior High, and the Provo High School.
In 1924 I met my husband, Dermont (Mont) Wagstaff, at a Mutual dance in the Third Ward Amusement Hall (as it was called then).
On October 6, 1926, we were married in the Salt Lake Temple.
When our oldest daughter was a year old, we moved to Ogden, Utah where Mont worked for his Uncle Ben Hunsaker in the Gateway Garage. After two years the depression hit, business slowed down in the Garage, so we moved back to Provo,
Soon after our return to Provo, Uncle Jabez Dangerfield asked us to take over the operation of his Royden House Hotel. We managed the Hotel for five years. About a year after we left the Hotel, we bought a store and service
station in Grandview, which we operated for about five years.
We were blessed with four wonderful children, three daughters and one son: Donna, Norma, Gary, and Kathleen (Kathy). We are very proud of all of them. We have twenty one grandchildren and eleven great, grandchildren, of whom we are also very proud.
We have four grandchildren who have served full time missions, and one grandson who is serving in the Louisiana, Baton Rouge Mission now. Donna and Jerry's sons: David Russell Olson in Austrian Mission. Kurt Dixon Olson in Louisiana. Norma and Lorus' sons: Jay Ladd Johnson in California, Los Angeles Mission. Jerry Dixon Johnson in Washington D.C.. Lori Johnson in Minnesota
Mont and I were called to serve on a Building Mission in the North Eastern States. We received our call from the First Presidency on April 16. 1964.
In May of 1963, we went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Mont was a building supervisor on a new L.D.S. Church chapel being built there. We were here a year when we received a mission call to go on a building mission for the Church. We served for two years and six months at Long Island, New York, building an addition to a chapel there. For the next year and a half, we worked on two chapels in New England. We enjoyed our mission very much and made many friends. We were released January 31, 1966.
After we returned home, I went back to work for BYU until June 1973, On January 2, 1974 we received a call from President Harold Glen Clark to work in the Provo Temple. Mont was called as an Ordinance Worker, and I was called as a Receptionist, which we are still doing at the present time, November 1979.
We have enjoyed working in the Temple very much and are grateful for the opportunity and blessings that are ours.
On April 26, 1979 we were saddened by the death of our lovely daughter, Donna, and we miss her very much. She was a beautiful girl and a very spiritual one.
We want our family to know we love them very much, and are very proud of them. Our family has grown to forty- seven members.
I have held many positions in the Church including a Teacher in the Primary for a great number of years, a Relief Society President, Counselor, Secretary, Teacher and Librarian; a MIA Counselor and Teacher, a Jr. Sunday School Coordinator and Librarian, and a Counselor in the Stake Relief Society.
My Father in Heaven has blessed me so much, and I'm proud to be a member of His Church.
My most cherished experiences were going to the Temple with all of our children and three of our grandchildren to see them married and sealed to their mates. Another grandson was married and sealed in the Swiss Temple. Donna and Jerry were there with him.
I have a wonderful husband and we have had fifty-three happy years together.
On November 20, 1906, I made my entrance into this world, the daughter of Parley Smith and Mary Etola Dangerfield Dixon, I was the second child of seven children, four brothers and two sisters: Vern, Eugene, Reed, Inez and Anna.
I was blessed with the name of Afton. Mom and Dad built their first home on the corner of 6th West and 3rd North in Provo, Utah. On their second wedding anniversary they moved into their new home, and I was born in this home.
It wasn't very long after this that they built their large two story home on the corner of 2nd North and 3rd West and this is where I lived until I was fourteen years old. I was baptized June 27, 1915.
I have many fond memories of my childhood and teenage years, and I had the most wonderful parents any girl ever had. Some of my most cherished memories were the ones I spent with my friends and cousins in Wildwood at Aunt Rye's and Aunt Alice's cabins .
I attended the Timpanogos Grade School, the Central Junior High, and the Provo High School.
In 1924 I met my husband, Dermont (Mont) Wagstaff, at a Mutual dance in the Third Ward Amusement Hall (as it was called then).
On October 6, 1926, we were married in the Salt Lake Temple.
When our oldest daughter was a year old, we moved to Ogden, Utah where Mont worked for his Uncle Ben Hunsaker in the Gateway Garage. After two years the depression hit, business slowed down in the Garage, so we moved back to Provo,
Soon after our return to Provo, Uncle Jabez Dangerfield asked us to take over the operation of his Royden House Hotel. We managed the Hotel for five years. About a year after we left the Hotel, we bought a store and service
station in Grandview, which we operated for about five years.
We were blessed with four wonderful children, three daughters and one son: Donna, Norma, Gary, and Kathleen (Kathy). We are very proud of all of them. We have twenty one grandchildren and eleven great, grandchildren, of whom we are also very proud.
We have four grandchildren who have served full time missions, and one grandson who is serving in the Louisiana, Baton Rouge Mission now. Donna and Jerry's sons: David Russell Olson in Austrian Mission. Kurt Dixon Olson in Louisiana. Norma and Lorus' sons: Jay Ladd Johnson in California, Los Angeles Mission. Jerry Dixon Johnson in Washington D.C.. Lori Johnson in Minnesota
Mont and I were called to serve on a Building Mission in the North Eastern States. We received our call from the First Presidency on April 16. 1964.
In May of 1963, we went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Mont was a building supervisor on a new L.D.S. Church chapel being built there. We were here a year when we received a mission call to go on a building mission for the Church. We served for two years and six months at Long Island, New York, building an addition to a chapel there. For the next year and a half, we worked on two chapels in New England. We enjoyed our mission very much and made many friends. We were released January 31, 1966.
After we returned home, I went back to work for BYU until June 1973, On January 2, 1974 we received a call from President Harold Glen Clark to work in the Provo Temple. Mont was called as an Ordinance Worker, and I was called as a Receptionist, which we are still doing at the present time, November 1979.
We have enjoyed working in the Temple very much and are grateful for the opportunity and blessings that are ours.
On April 26, 1979 we were saddened by the death of our lovely daughter, Donna, and we miss her very much. She was a beautiful girl and a very spiritual one.
We want our family to know we love them very much, and are very proud of them. Our family has grown to forty- seven members.
I have held many positions in the Church including a Teacher in the Primary for a great number of years, a Relief Society President, Counselor, Secretary, Teacher and Librarian; a MIA Counselor and Teacher, a Jr. Sunday School Coordinator and Librarian, and a Counselor in the Stake Relief Society.
My Father in Heaven has blessed me so much, and I'm proud to be a member of His Church.
My most cherished experiences were going to the Temple with all of our children and three of our grandchildren to see them married and sealed to their mates. Another grandson was married and sealed in the Swiss Temple. Donna and Jerry were there with him.
I have a wonderful husband and we have had fifty-three happy years together.
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