In 1939, Berryman stopped working on her thesis, "The Psychological Phenomena of the Homosexual," which she had hoped to turn in to Temple Bar College in Seattle, WA, which may have been an organization operating through correspondence courses. During World War II, Berryman worked at a small arms defense plant at Hill Air Force Base, where she met Ruth Uckerman Dempsey. At the end of the war, the couple opened a manufacturing company called Berryman Novelty Manufacturing. They remained together for thirty-three years until Berryman died at the age of 71. Her obituary lists that she was a member of the Bountiful Community Church, past president of the Business and Professional Women Organization, and past president of the American Legion Auxiliary. Parts of Berryman's unpublished thesis were published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society in 1978.
Mildred J. Berryman died of natural causes on November 7, 1972 at the age of 71. Her obituary lists that she was a member of the Bountiful Community Church (which, since 1966, was a combination of the Congregational and Episcopal Churches), past president of the Business and Professional Women organization, and past president of the American Legion Auxiliary. Her obituary does not even mention Ruth Uckerman. At Barrie's death, her relatives descended on their home, "to take whatever they could". Fortunately for Ruth, the house and shop were legally protected and belonged to her. However, Ruth did have to hide the manuscript thesis of Mildred's from the prying eyes of her relatives. Once things settled, Ruth sent Vern and Bonnie the manuscript, asking that they publish it, however keeping Mildred (and her other subjects) anonymous, as she would have wished. Vern and Bonnie Bullough published some of Mildred's findings in the 1978 issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
One source indicates that Ruth Uckerman then moved to Idaho to live with her son Clyde.17 However, Nellie Mathis, a neighbor of the two women, told me that rumors spread in Bountiful, Utah that Ruth had joined the People's Temple (led by Rev. Jim Jones) and had died in the Guyana tragedy in November 1978. Ruth Uckerman is not listed among the known victims of Jonestown, and the Social Security Death Index reports that Ruth Uckerman died in July, 1979 in Bountiful. She was also buried in the Delta City Cemetery, Millard County, Utah on July 12, 1979.
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Mildred Berryman was a researcher, writer, photographer, and stenographer and a lesbian member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She attended Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where she intended to study lesbi- anism, which the school refused. Berryman married "to try and escape her homosexuality" but soon left her husband. In 1920, Berryman had her first lesbian relationship with a music teacher named Mae Anderson. Their relationship lasted a year. Anderson would eventually become a faculty member of the Latter-day Saint School of Music, teaching alongside Willard Weihe, who was the president of the Bohemian Club, a social group for homosexuals founded in 1886. Around 1920, Berryman joined the LDS Church and received a Patriarchal Blessing in 1921. After another failed attempt at heterosexual marriage, she met Edith Mary Chapman in 1924 and they lived together for four years in Edith's home, which she later turned into a boarding house for lesbians.
Berryman began working as a photographer, processing and taking photographs for the Superior Photo Company. She moved back home and resumed work on her thesis on homosexuality, gathering data for her case studies over the next several years, primarily with people she had met through the Bohemian Club. In her study, she included data on 24 lesbians (including herself) and 9 gay men. In 1936, she met her next companion, known only as Z in case study #24. They were together for twelve years.
sources:
http://csw.pre.ss.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/MakingInvisibleHistoriesVisiblePartII.pdf
http://www.connellodonovan.com/berryman.pdf
In 1939, Berryman stopped working on her thesis, "The Psychological Phenomena of the Homosexual," which she had hoped to turn in to Temple Bar College in Seattle, WA, which may have been an organization operating through correspondence courses. During World War II, Berryman worked at a small arms defense plant at Hill Air Force Base, where she met Ruth Uckerman Dempsey. At the end of the war, the couple opened a manufacturing company called Berryman Novelty Manufacturing. They remained together for thirty-three years until Berryman died at the age of 71. Her obituary lists that she was a member of the Bountiful Community Church, past president of the Business and Professional Women Organization, and past president of the American Legion Auxiliary. Parts of Berryman's unpublished thesis were published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society in 1978.
Mildred J. Berryman died of natural causes on November 7, 1972 at the age of 71. Her obituary lists that she was a member of the Bountiful Community Church (which, since 1966, was a combination of the Congregational and Episcopal Churches), past president of the Business and Professional Women organization, and past president of the American Legion Auxiliary. Her obituary does not even mention Ruth Uckerman. At Barrie's death, her relatives descended on their home, "to take whatever they could". Fortunately for Ruth, the house and shop were legally protected and belonged to her. However, Ruth did have to hide the manuscript thesis of Mildred's from the prying eyes of her relatives. Once things settled, Ruth sent Vern and Bonnie the manuscript, asking that they publish it, however keeping Mildred (and her other subjects) anonymous, as she would have wished. Vern and Bonnie Bullough published some of Mildred's findings in the 1978 issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
One source indicates that Ruth Uckerman then moved to Idaho to live with her son Clyde.17 However, Nellie Mathis, a neighbor of the two women, told me that rumors spread in Bountiful, Utah that Ruth had joined the People's Temple (led by Rev. Jim Jones) and had died in the Guyana tragedy in November 1978. Ruth Uckerman is not listed among the known victims of Jonestown, and the Social Security Death Index reports that Ruth Uckerman died in July, 1979 in Bountiful. She was also buried in the Delta City Cemetery, Millard County, Utah on July 12, 1979.
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Mildred Berryman was a researcher, writer, photographer, and stenographer and a lesbian member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She attended Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where she intended to study lesbi- anism, which the school refused. Berryman married "to try and escape her homosexuality" but soon left her husband. In 1920, Berryman had her first lesbian relationship with a music teacher named Mae Anderson. Their relationship lasted a year. Anderson would eventually become a faculty member of the Latter-day Saint School of Music, teaching alongside Willard Weihe, who was the president of the Bohemian Club, a social group for homosexuals founded in 1886. Around 1920, Berryman joined the LDS Church and received a Patriarchal Blessing in 1921. After another failed attempt at heterosexual marriage, she met Edith Mary Chapman in 1924 and they lived together for four years in Edith's home, which she later turned into a boarding house for lesbians.
Berryman began working as a photographer, processing and taking photographs for the Superior Photo Company. She moved back home and resumed work on her thesis on homosexuality, gathering data for her case studies over the next several years, primarily with people she had met through the Bohemian Club. In her study, she included data on 24 lesbians (including herself) and 9 gay men. In 1936, she met her next companion, known only as Z in case study #24. They were together for twelve years.
sources:
http://csw.pre.ss.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/10/MakingInvisibleHistoriesVisiblePartII.pdf
http://www.connellodonovan.com/berryman.pdf
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