....Since my wife Joy declines the offer to have her story recorded I think it most fitting and proper that I make a short sketch. She was born in Burlington, Wyoming, April 2,1908 to Warren Franklin Reid and Jannette McNiven. Soon after Joy was a year old, her parents moved to Canada. As I stated, in my record, they occupied the same house there that my parents vacated to move to Cardston. They lived in Magrath for some three years and then moved back to Burlington, where Joy started to school.
Joy was the second child in their family, as she had an older brother, Dean. Her younger sister, May, was born while they lived in Canada. Then another boy, Lester, was born after they came back to Burlington. Not too long after this, when Joy was about nine years old, a tragedy happened in their family. Her mother had complications from appendicitis and passed away. These were trying times for her father for the next few years. The children, or part of them, lived with their grandmother. Then the father hired housekeepers for a time. One of these was a widowed woman with two children about the age of some of theirs. Joy's father soon married this woman, but after a few years it did not work out and she left and went to some of her folks in southern Utah.
After this Joy's father again moved to Canada to the same town of Magrath where Joy entered school with her brothers and sister. Joy had to be the mother of the house and still go to school. She did a very good job of this as evidenced in her ability to sew most of her own clothes as well as for her younger sister....
Joy was the second child in their family, as she had an older brother, Dean. Her younger sister, May, was born while they lived in Canada. Then another boy, Lester, was born after they came back to Burlington. Not too long after this, when Joy was about nine years old, a tragedy happened in their family. Her mother had complications from appendicitis and passed away. These were trying times for her father for the next few years. The children, or part of them, lived with their grandmother. Then the father hired housekeepers for a time. One of these was a widowed woman with two children about the age of some of theirs. Joy's father soon married this woman, but after a few years it did not work out and she left and went to some of her folks in southern Utah.
After this Joy's father again moved to Canada to the same town of Magrath where Joy entered school with her brothers and sister. Joy had to be the mother of the house and still go to school. She did a very good job of this as evidenced in her ability to sew most of her own clothes as well as for her younger sister....
....Since my wife Joy declines the offer to have her story recorded I think it most fitting and proper that I make a short sketch. She was born in Burlington, Wyoming, April 2,1908 to Warren Franklin Reid and Jannette McNiven. Soon after Joy was a year old, her parents moved to Canada. As I stated, in my record, they occupied the same house there that my parents vacated to move to Cardston. They lived in Magrath for some three years and then moved back to Burlington, where Joy started to school.
Joy was the second child in their family, as she had an older brother, Dean. Her younger sister, May, was born while they lived in Canada. Then another boy, Lester, was born after they came back to Burlington. Not too long after this, when Joy was about nine years old, a tragedy happened in their family. Her mother had complications from appendicitis and passed away. These were trying times for her father for the next few years. The children, or part of them, lived with their grandmother. Then the father hired housekeepers for a time. One of these was a widowed woman with two children about the age of some of theirs. Joy's father soon married this woman, but after a few years it did not work out and she left and went to some of her folks in southern Utah.
After this Joy's father again moved to Canada to the same town of Magrath where Joy entered school with her brothers and sister. Joy had to be the mother of the house and still go to school. She did a very good job of this as evidenced in her ability to sew most of her own clothes as well as for her younger sister....
Joy was the second child in their family, as she had an older brother, Dean. Her younger sister, May, was born while they lived in Canada. Then another boy, Lester, was born after they came back to Burlington. Not too long after this, when Joy was about nine years old, a tragedy happened in their family. Her mother had complications from appendicitis and passed away. These were trying times for her father for the next few years. The children, or part of them, lived with their grandmother. Then the father hired housekeepers for a time. One of these was a widowed woman with two children about the age of some of theirs. Joy's father soon married this woman, but after a few years it did not work out and she left and went to some of her folks in southern Utah.
After this Joy's father again moved to Canada to the same town of Magrath where Joy entered school with her brothers and sister. Joy had to be the mother of the house and still go to school. She did a very good job of this as evidenced in her ability to sew most of her own clothes as well as for her younger sister....
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