AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GLENDON KELLY STUBBS

I Glendon Kelly Stubbs was born to James Ephriam Stubbs and Martha Leonora Kelly, on July 3, 1906, in Sunnyside, Carbon Co., Utah. I was the fifth son, three living at this time, Peter Kelly, William Kelly, and Reed Kelly, and one boy died at infancy between William and Reed, he was given the name of Royal James, I was given the name of Glendon Kelly Stubbs.

My father's hometown was Provo, Utah, Utah. But he moved to Sunnyside for about two years to be foreman on the coke ovens. Shortly after my birth my family moved back to Provo, Utah.

When I was about one and a half years old my mother gave birth to another son, March 10, 1909, he just lived a few hours, and was given the name of Phil K. Stubbs. On 30 Jan 1911, mother gave birth to her seventh son, Roy Kelly Stubbs.

When I was six years old I started school at the Maeser Elementary School in Provo. During my younger years we were very poor and all we boys had to work very hard. We all started thinning beets in our seventh year and all passed papers on Sundays after that age.

We all picked up coal on the railroad tracks for fuel. The thing that made it harder was that Dad was an alcoholic and drank off and on most of his married life. A wonderful man when sober, a hard worker, but hard on all of us when he was drinking.

I never remember of Dad going to church, something always bothered him and his brothers, about some difficulty between their father and the Stake President, before I was born. My Dad's father died in May before I was born.

My Mother was a very wonderful, religious woman, she taught us all to say our prayers and go to Sunday school and Primary when we were small. She never missed going to Sunday School, Relief Society and Sacrament meeting if it was possible to get there. I remember one night when I was only about six years old, Mother had taken me to Sacrament meeting, (at this time we belonged to the Bonneville Ward), and not having a chapel we held our meetings in the Maeser school, about four and one half blocks from our home. As we left the meeting a quick thundershower came up and it became very dark, as there were no streetlights. It became very dark, so mother put me on her back and when we were about two blocks from home, a bridge had been taken out of an irrigation ditch and Mother fell in, spilling me in the mud. Mother was bruised but this didn't hurt her near as much as losing her hymnbook. I remember she cried the rest of the way home, and didn't rest all night worrying about it. The next morning we went back and were very lucky and found it, which made her very happy. She still had this book when I was fifty years old. At this writing I do not know where it is, I later found it in my brother Roy's possession.

In the spring of 1915 my Dad and oldest brother, Pete, went to Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah to operate a farm, the farm was in Christenburg, three miles from Gunnison. Dad and one other man a Mr. Sorensen in Centerfield, had the only sugar beets in the valley, a new crop in Gunnison valley. In June Dad wrote for Reed and me to come to Christenburg to thin the beets. He had about nineteen acres. The day after I got there I got poisoned on the water and being sick, I got homesick, cried and wanted to go home and this made Dad very unhappy. The next day I was feeling better and all was well again.

I was baptized in Prove, Utah on Aug. 16, 1914 by Verl S. McAdam a Priest and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Aug. 16, 1914 by Ralph Paulton, an Elder.

Reed and I stayed in Christenburg and thinned the nineteen acres of beets. I had my ninth birthday there and Reed was twelve and a half years old. The pay we received for thinning all these beets was 50 cents each. On the fourth of July we each spent 25 cents to go the ball game and I spent the other 25 cents for candy and etc., and Reed saved his 25 cents, but the next day he lost it when we all went swimming in the Sanpitch River (sad day). The summer I turned ten years of age, Reed and I again went to Gunnison on the train. I stayed in town with Ernest Swalberg, Bishop of Gunnison ward. Pete was now working for him and running his farm. I thinned his beets, and Reed stayed in Christenburg with Dad, who was working for Fred n. Swalberg a brother to Ernest. Reed thinned all of their beets.

I would like to pay tribute here to Mrs. Thomas A. Beesley, our next-door neighbor in Provo. The Beesley's lived at 477 South, 6th East, next to my mother at this time. I thought she was the most wonderful woman in the world. Whenever she gave bread and jam or any kind of goodness to her children she gave the same to us. if we got hurt in her presence she fixed us up before sending us home. She was like a grandmother to us. She was a Methodist.

The next fall (after working for Fred Swalberg all summer Dad decided to move us all to Christenburg. About 3 P.M. on Dec. 6, 1916 my Dad, my brothers Pete, Reed and I left Provo, Utah with two hayracks, loaded with furniture, drawn by horses. We drove to Spanish Fork that night and stayed with Dad's brothers Frank and his family. When we woke up the next morning there was about four inches of wet snow on the ground and snowing hard. We didn't have any boots, so we wrapped our feet in gunnysacks and as I didn't have a heavy coat, just a light sweater, Uncle Frank gave me an old overcoat of his. It was a little large, but it was warm. We only made twelve miles that day, and stayed at Santaquin with some of Dad's friends (Robinson's I believe). It was Dad's birthday. The next night we stayed at Nephi with Goldsboughs. The next night we stayed at Chas's ranch, about one half the way between Nephi and Gunnison. The next night we made the Swalberg ranch in Christenburg, 10 Dec. 1916, which was to be our new home. We had a real rough, cold trip, walking more than half of the way, with very little warm clothing; the people along the way were very wonderful to us.

Mother and Roy came on the train the next day. Bill stayed in Provo to work for Price's. Bill and his pal Tump Duke came in a few days and spent Christmas with us. Reed and I started school in Gunnison, after the Christmas holidays. I was in the fifth grade and Reed in the seventh, because we were so small for ages. Reed 68 pounds and 160 pounds they wanted to put us back a grade, but because our grades were good from the Maser school they left us in our right grades. We rode back and forth to school in a bus drawn by horses, it had a stove in it. James Fieldsted drove the bus.

We enjoyed it on the farm because we had a lot of animals on the farm, and we had lots of good food, including plenty of milk and meat, which we weren't used to.

In about three months Fred Swalberg sold the ranch to Joe Willardson from Mayfield. He then bought a ranch just below the Gunnison Depot, from Andersons, so we moved into an old frame house, three rooms and a shanty, behind the old mill owned by Marius Jensen (he was a wonderful man , gave us some work watching the mill at nights and piling flour). Reed and I would ride to town with him at night, go to a show and then walk home. Many nights we could hear the coyotes howl. We enjoyed living in Christenberg, although we lived in very humble circumstances, no electricity, no plumbing, we bathed in a #3 galvanized tub and drank water we got out of the creek. We had no daily paper, once in awhile we would get a Sunday paper off the train, we had no telephone.

In the spring of 1917, Bill came to Christenburg to help us farm. Dad planted a lot of beets. Pete had been working for Ernest Swalberg about a year now.

In April 7, 1917, United States declared war on Germany. We all worked hard on the farm that summer, and after the crops were harvested in the fall, Bill enlisted in the Army and was sent to Fort McArthur in San Pedro, California. The following January 1918, Peter enlisted in the Navy and was sent to Mare Island by San Francisco.

Dad again planted a lot of beets, and Reed and I helped do the farming. During this summer Bill was sent to France without a furlough, and Pete went to Bremerton, Washington, and was given a furlough in Sept., and came home and helped us put up the grain. During the summer one of my jobs was to take the cows to pasture and I used to drive the cows through the river during the high water to see them swim. I thought this was lots of fun. I would have to pull my feet up on the side of the horse to keep from getting wet.

Most of the boys went swimming in the river and I remember one time I almost drowned and would have, if it had been for our neighbor Howard Thulin who pulled me out, he was about 14 years of age.

The fall of 1918, while we were harvesting our beets the Flu epidemic hit the whole country and all of us came down with it. Roy and I were hit the hardest and were in bed for ten days and during all this sickness we never saw a doctor, Mother nursed us back to health. All my life I marveled and wondered why we were saved and the answer came to me after Mother died in 1964. While looking through some of her papers I found a testimony she had written down on a piece of scratch paper. She told of the instance that her two boys were so sick with a high fever, not being able to get a doctor, she closed the door, anointed our heads with olive oil, got down on her knees and prayed to her Father in Heaven to spare her boys, and shortly after she had done this the fever broke and we continually got better, "Such was the faith of my Mother".

During the flu epidemic, the schools were closed down, and we would go to school one or two hours a week, two students at a time. I had a wonderful woman for my teacher, Mr. Charlotte Villard, she was a Presbyterian, and this friendship remained with us until she died in 1964.

After the crops were harvested in the fall of 1918, Fred Swalberg sold the farm and moved to Marysville, Utah. Dad moved us to town (Gunnison) in an old three-room adobe and rock house across the road from the ballpark, north of town. The armistice was signed on November 11, 1918. In December 1918 Peter received a medical discharge from the Navy as he had been in the hospital for several months with Rheumatic fever. We had a wonderful Christmas. Bill came home from France and the Army in May 1919.

With all the boys home and having a lot of beets, and having a fair year, the next spring in 1 920 he bought a frame on the north west part of town, 40 acres with a five rooms, two story frame house with a cellar. This was quite a treat for Mother. He also bought a small farm over in Dover, about four miles west of Gunnison.

In May 1 920, I graduated from the 8th grade. We had our graduation exercises in the old Gunnison ward chapel and I was the only boy in the class who didn't have a coat. I graduated in my shirtsleeves, but I was as happy as any of the class. I weighed 84 pounds at this time, this year Centerfield 8th grade came to Gunnison, Dewey Lund from Centerfield started to teach us but John E. Metcalf finished.

When I was eight years of age living in Provo, I received three badges from the Primary. One for perfect record for one year, one for never being late, and one for preparation. When I was in the 5th grade, I went out for spring baseball practice, most of the team said I was to small to make the team, but the day the team went to Mayfield to play the last game they took me with them, and put me in centerfield. I surprised most of them and got on base every time at bat, some of the Mayfield fans called me Ty Cobb. I caught a fly in the 9th inning to help win the game. The next summer I played 2nd base on the boy scouts baseball team.

The summer of 1920, Dad planted 53 acres of beets, besides the two farms he bought we farmed for Ernest Swalberg, Maurius Jensen and Jacob Bastian. We finished harvesting the beets on the last day of November, the last week it snowed quite a bit and froze, and we had a hard time getting the beets out and the mud off them. All we boys had to stay out of school for a month to help with the harvest.

In the fall of 1920 I entered high school, all of Gunnison valley consolidated, Gunnison, Centerfield, Axtell and Fayette. There were 53 students in the freshman class from the group 8 girls graduated in the spring of 1924 from the Gunnison Valley high. One boy from the original class, Gilbert Childs graduated from Ephraim High.

We started High School in the old Gunnison City building and had classes in the several old houses north of the city hall. Some of the boys in the high school were as old as our English teacher (Ruby Jensen). At the end of my freshman year I weighed 104 pounds almost 15 years old. In the middle of our sophomore year we moved into the new Gunnison Valley High School, this was a real treat. We thought we had the best Gymnasium in the world. Three teachers that stood out to me this year were our principal Conrad Frischknecht, Ruby Jensen, our English teacher and the Music teacher El Ray Christiansen. He taught us boy's animal husbandry. I was ordained a Priest June 15, 1925 by Bishop Leslie J. Kidman

This year was a hard one on the farming as a small depression hit, and price of beets went down to $6.00 a ton and they had been $12.00 a ton when Dad bought the farms, so from this crash Dad lost both the farms. We moved into a four-room frame house 1-½ blocks east of the Gunnison City Hall for about one year. The next fall Peter went to Logan to the Utah Agriculture college on a grant from his medical discharge from the Navy This same fall I entered my junior year in high school. Ernest Halverson was the coach of the basketball team and I made the 1st sub forward on the basketball team. I now weighed about 118 pounds, and by the end of the season I weighed about 126 pounds and played regular forward on the team the last two games. By this time we had moved up to the Charles Peterson farm 1-½ miles east of Gunnison and lived in the west part of their home. The Peterson's lived in the east half of the house, had three children, Byron, two years older than I, Ada my age, and Imelda two years younger. Dad was running the farm on crop shares. About the first part of April, under pressure of so much to do on the farm and thinking I knew enough I quit school and started working on the farm. About the 1st of May I was offered a job on the bridge gang for the railroad, but when I mentioned it to Dad , he raised the roof, so I stayed and farmed. We farmed for Charles Peterson for two years, and then moved back to the old Anderson home I Gunnison, south of the ballpark.

In January of 1925, I started back to high school as a junior where I left off, but I had to take examinations in all classes I registered for, by passing these tests I didn't have to take the classes over and was declared eligible to play basketball. By a lot of hard work I was able to make the main team and played regular forward in the first league game. Deloss Rosenburg was the other forward, Mariell Hansen and Elbert Modeen were guards, Myron Myrup was center and captain. Newel Childs and Newell Mortensen were subs, Harold Bradley was our coach.

While we were living on the Charles Peterson farm we belonged to the Hamilton Ward and I became fairly active in the church and during the winter of 1923/24, I played forward on the M. M. Basketball team. I played forward with Linden Larsen, Merril Pickett and Emil Fallett were guards, Merlin (Nickleye) Christensen was center. Elbert Modeen, Upton Christensen, Oden Christensen and Arden Christensen were the subs, the shortest of the subs was 6'2", the tallest 6'5", Lyne Larsen and I were 5'7" each. Charles Embley was our coach. We won the stake championship.

In the spring the coach asked me to run in the intramural track meet, and to my surprise I won the 100-yard run.

In the school election in May 1925 I was elected as student body president for the 1925/6 school year. My senior year in high school was a very fruitful one. I took a better interest in my classes and made many wonderful friends. I was captain and guard on the basketball team. Newel Childs and Seymour Tassie were forwards, Newel Mortensen the other guard. Elbert Modeen center, the other members of the team were George Bauer, Eiray Foote and Dean Nielsen. We tied for second in our league, on the track team I ran the 100 and 220-yard dashes and broad jumped, ran the 100 yards in 10.6 seconds, fastest in the school. In basketball I was captain of the team and played shortstop. I was the leading hitter on the team, averaging one home run per game in eight games.

On the 24th of July 1924, while at a dance at Palisade Park, I met the most wonderful girl, I had ever seen. Ruth C. Nelson. She was only 15 years old, and I was 18 years of age, to me it was love at first sight.

I graduated in May 1926, along with three other boys and ten girls. Because of basketball training, we didn't go to very many dances so I didn't see Ruth very much during the winter, but went to a lot of dances in the spring and early summer at Palisade Park and Redmonto.

Dad planted thirty-eight acres of beets and after we had thinned and weeded them once, they blighted and things looked very bad in the valley. There was very little work. Bill had gone to California in the spring to work. On the 19th of July 1926, Pete, Reed, Clair Toliestrup and I left Gunnison in Reed's Ford and headed west, the next day in Ely, Nevada we found work on the 3 C Ranch We worked on this ranch for 30 days hauling hay. We received $2.50 and board per day. We slept in an abandoned chicken coop and washed in cold water in a #3 washtub.

On the 19th of August 1926 we left in the Ford for San Jose, California. We stayed in Mindon, Nevada on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains that night and arrived in San Jose the next night. We found Bill living with Clarence and Lawrence Jensen from Gunnison. We stayed in California until the 1st of November. We worked on a Prune dryer, the California State Highway and the Pratt Lowe Canning Co. The pay was 40 cents per hour. The average working day was 10 hours, we sometimes put in 13 hours a day. Betty moved to California in September, so Clair and I lived with Pete and Betty the last thirty days we were there. We lived in an apartment house in Santa Clara, across the street north from Santa Clara College.

While we were working in the cannery, in Santa Clara, I was invited to play in a baseball game between the cook room and the warehouse. I played catcher for the warehouse, and won the ball game in the 9th inning with a home run.

The first of November 1926 found Reed, Clair and I in the Ford headed for Gunnison, Utah. It took us three days to drive home, we spent the first night in sparks, Nevada, the second night in Halleck, Nevada. We slept on the ground by the road, drained the water out of the radiator, which was frozen solid the next morning During the summer of 1927 Reed and I farmed the Christensen Farm north west of Gunnison besides working for the farmers.

I was ordained an Elder October 31, 1927 by Edward M. Jolley. On November 23, 1927 Ruth and I were married in the Manti Temple, for time and all eternity, by President Lewis Anderson. This was the greatest day of my life. Ruth's mother prepared a wedding supper for us, our families and a very few close friends. Those who witnessed the ceremony were Ruth's parents, her Grandmother and Grandfather Larsen, Beiva Sorensen and Dr. Kunz who were married at the same time. My folks were unable to attend. On Nov. 24, 1927 (Thanksgiving day) we moved into a little three room frame house on 130 East, 1st North, Gunnison, Utah owned by Luvell Childs. In March 1929 we moved into a frame house on 80 West 1st North in Gunnison owned by Mrs. Hyrum Fredrickson. Ruth's sister Melba lived with us during the year and attended school in Gunnison.

On Jan 10, 1930 at 2 A.M. in the morning our first son was born. We named him Glen R. The doctor was Dr. AJ. Hagan and the nurse Mrs. Taylor. The thermometer on our house was 26 below zero.

In March 1930 we bought a four-room rock house at 386 West Center Street in Gunnison, Utah from Alma Fredrickson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum Fredrickson for $1,200.00. No down payment $20.00 a month and 8% interest.

The year of 1930 I farmed with Dad on the Ludvigson farm, in the Northwest corner of Gunnison. I did different jobs during the summer and worked some for Bert Madsen in the Consolidated Wagon and Machine Co., and a few days for Marius Jensen in his feed mill. We brooded out 500 baby chicks, had two cows and two sows with piglets. We raised a garden and Ruth canned the vegetables. The house did not have a bathroom in it. We had cold water in the house, but no other plumbing. WE had an outside cellar, where we kept our vegetables, fruit and milk. I hauled pine and cedar wood for fuel. We bought an old home comfort range for $5.00, from Parley Childs, with no legs and it had been in an old shed for several years, and was very dirty and rusty. Ruth spent many hours cleaning it up. We had a heaterola in the middle room to heat the rest of the house. We had about 75 laying hens, when we moved in Alma's home. This spring, I contracted the thinning of beets, for farmers, all over the valley. I hired about eight men to work for me, paying them by the row, making about 50 cents an acre for the extra work I did. I always led them in the thinning. In the winter I played M.M. basketball for the Gunnison Ward, and played baseball in the summer for the Gunnison town team. I played shortstop and 2nd base this year. When I was late Ruth milked the cows and did the chores About 8.00 A.M. on Thursday Feb. 5, 1931 Ruth gave birth to our second son, we named him Grant N. Ruth did not feel well the day before and during the early morning hours she started in labor. I got Mrs. Lillie Taylor, our neighbor, out of bed to call Dr. Hagan, and the nurse Minnie Taylor. They both came before daylight, and sat in the dining room and talked and laughed about so many of their past experiences together, they had delivered over 2000 babies before Grant was born. It was snowing off and on while they were waiting and I milked the cows and did the chores, making several trips into the house to see how Ruth was, and keep putting wood in the stoves to keep the house warm.

The summer of 1931, I farmed for Harry Roylance on the farm just north of town and east of the main highway. We raised alfalfa, beets and a few potatoes; we got ½ of the crop. I contracted thinning beets again this summer, and played second base on the Gunnison town team. When Grant was about one week old, Glen R. got Pneumonia, this was a real hard time for Ruth, it was good for us that Ruth's mother was with us to help take care of the babies. We brooded 500 more chicks this year, and raised some pigs and two calves. in the fall after the crops were harvested I hauled twelve loads of pitch pine wood out of the canyon in Jap Valley, two cords to the load besides hauling cedar posts for Dad and Ren Mansfield, they had a contract with the Telluride Power Co. to supply posts to snub the power poles. We rented our little southeast bedroom to Theron Clinger for $25.00 a month and supplied him with wood. We had an open grate stove that had belonged to my Grandmother Elizabeth Dunn Stubbs, that we let him use, he burned more wood in it than we used in our front room stove. I cut all the wood up with an ax. He burned the grate out of the stove because he kept it so hot. Theron taught school in Gunnison and had a car he traveled in. One night Ruth woke me up and said, someone is fooling around Theron's car. I hurried around to the back door and woke him up, someone was stealing his gas, after waiting for a few minutes and trying to get him to do something, (he seemed afraid for some reason) I yelled you dirty ----- ------- -------- ------- -get out of here, or I'll blow your heads off, they dropped their buckets and ran down to their car and beat it. Theron was a large man about 180 pounds. This winter I played basketball for the Gunnison Ward M. Men team. Theron Clinger and Luris Allen, played with us, they had both played for Snow College. I was elected the team captain. We were out of physical condition, so didn't do to well.

In the winter during January 1932, Reed, Dad and I rented the Bert Madsen farm, 80 acres east of the High School. We got a Government seed loan, through Peter C. Peterson of Ephraim. During February and March 1st, I hauled manure from town to cover 10 acres of ground for beets, I hauled it on a wagon, pulled by two horses, a gray mare of Reed's called May, and a small brown mare of mine, called Bell. The wagon held about two small spreader loads, I hauled four loads a day, pitching it on with a fork and spread it by hand, rain, snow or sunshine. We raised alfalfa, grain, corn and sugar beets. We had a good crop, of which we got ½ by the time it was divided three ways there was not very much profit, after expenses. We raised some more chickens and pigs. We had very little cash this summer as the depression had started to affect us. We traded our eggs for groceries and ate all of the roosters we raised. Ruth put the two little boys in the buggy and with two big buckets of cream she would take them up four blocks to the cream station, pushing the buggy about 100 yards and then going back for the cream, and then repeating the process along with all this work she was pregnant with Ray L. She would take the check down to Christensen's store and get her groceries. One day in the early fall, I was in the Christensen store and Alton Christensen asked me if I was interested in working in the store and told me what the future possibilities were. I told him I was interested after the crops were in. I helped haul the sugar beets from Fayette to the sugar factory this fall. I made two trips a day with 3 ½ tons per load, we hauled them on a beet rack, pulled by three horses, the total distance from the two trips was 32 miles. I would be in Fayette and have the first load on by sunup, and get home at dusk. We loaded them on with a beet fork, there were only two of us that completed two trips each day for nine days. Elmer Hansen and me. We got 90 cents a ton or $6.30 a day, for a man their horses.

October 28, 1932 Ruth gave birth to our third son, we named him Ray L. Dr.; Hagen was our Doctor and Minnie Taylor was our nurse.

I started working for Alten Christensen (Christensen's Dept Store) on November 1, 1932. We started work at 8 A.M. one hour off for dinner, and worked to 7 P.M. when we closed the store, and then after supper we would come back and work two or three hours. He paid me $15.00 a week. On Saturday night we kept the store open until 9 P.M. The first Saturday night after closing at 9 P.M. I asked him what time we should come back and he said we don't work on Saturday nights. Some nights in December we worked until midnight. One night, I was coming home late, and when I told him I was just going home from work, he said, I wouldn't work for the best --- ---- - ---- on earth until this late. During Jan and Feb. I just worked part time. One day, while Alton was in Salt Lake to a buying market, the grocery truck came about seven o'clock, I returned with the driver, to the store, unloaded the truck, and spent two hours, putting out the groceries and making displays. About midnight, our dog woke us up and Alton Christensen called us from the gate, and said he would not need me the next day as he was home. After the spring buying market, Alton Christensen moved to Richfield to manage that store. George Christensen went to Payson and opened up a Wholesale store, and George Last came as the manager of the Gunnison store, during this summer I worked part time for Christensen's and contracted thinning beets for the farmers, and hired fellows to work for me. I played second base for the Gunnison Baseball team during the summer. We had two milk cows, some chickens and some pigs and raised a vegetable garden. in the fall of 1933 I started working steady at Christensen's. Florence H. Buchanen quit and laola Sorensen started working for George and Elmer Pierce started to work after school.

In 1934, we traded our horse to Alexis Jensen for hay to feed our cows, we raised a garden, some pigs and chickens, Ruth's jersey cow got hurt and we traded her to Ervin Roberts for a little brindle cow. I bought a jersey heifer calf from a man in Sterling for $5.00 and she turned out to be a very good cow. We sold our big Holstein cow for $25.00, because we couldn't afford to keep her on account of the depression. I played 2nd base for the Gunnison town baseball team. While we were living at the Fredrickson home, Glen R. was sitting on the manger while I was feeding the horses and he fell and a nail ran through his lip. Grant fell off the back porch and cut his lip and when he was just learning to walk , he took hold of the hot bottom door of the heater that I had left open, and burned both of his hands very badly. Dr. Hagen did a good job saving his hands.

1935 was about the same as 1934, we raised a garden, our pigs and chickens and had our two cows. I worked long steady hours for Christensen's and played baseball in the summer. In October 1935 we moved up east in the Henry Knighton home. Bill and Jessie lived across the road. Bill worked for the Sugar Factory. Mother and Dad lived one block east of us. We kept our animals and a few chickens. On June 25, 1936 Ruth gave birth to our daughter, what a happy day for all of us. We named her Norma Ruth. Dr. Reese was our doctor, and Mrs. Taylor the nurse. Dr.; Hagen was away on vacation. Dr. Reese only charged us $15.00 and Mrs. Taylor $14.00. When Dr. Hagen got home he came to see Ruth and the baby, and he would not take any money for his services prior to the birth, he said getting a girl was plenty of pay for him, he was happy for Ruth. Dr. Hagan was not only our Dr. but a very good friend, and we loved and respected he and Mrs. Taylor very much. Glen R. was big enough now to help take care of the animals and chickens. Henry's home was the first home we had lived in that had a bathroom. We raised a good garden this summer, worked steady for Christensen's. I was now getting $66.00 a month and leaving $10.00 a month in the company. I also played 2nd base on the Gunnison baseball team.

On July 5th, 1936 Christensen's sent me to Ephraim to manage the store, with a salary of $75.00 a month. I came up Monday morning and went home Saturday night, mostly hitchhiking. I ate in the cafe, and slept in the back of the store. Geneal Reid was my only clerk. On Sat. Sept. 5, 1936 we moved the family to Ephraim in a little four room home with a one-room cellar and no bathroom. The home is on 3rd South and 1st East, and belonged to Jennie Hansen. We paid her $10.00 a month rent. I played shortstop for the Ephraim town team the second half. Wayne Christensen who had managed the Ephraim Store went to Lehi and opened a new store. The Ephraim store had failed to make a profit this far. On Monday Sept. 7, 1936 Glen R. started school on the first grade in the Snow College building. Miss Anna Jensen was his teacher.

In October, Grant got scarlet fever, it was a very cold winter, below zero for forty days straight, and all the children were sick. We had our first knowledge of "trick or Treat". We didn't have any treats for the kids, and they really got nasty with us, they threw dirt and water on the porch and threw rocks at the door. During the first year we were in Ephraim all four of the children had stitches put in them. Grant cut his forehead with a butcher knife. Up at the store Norma fell on a buckle on an overshoe. Grant accidentally hit Ray with the back of an ax while they were digging a hole, and Glen R. got hit with a bat.

In the spring of 1937, we bought our first car. A used Model A Ford, from L.R. Burr for $150.00. We got a small bonus from Christensen's for the second half of 1936, The first profit the Ephraim store had made, and we gave Wayne Christensen 20% of our bonus, as a former manager. During the summer of 1937, we worked long hours in the store, during the summer I played shortstop for the Ephraim baseball team. In September Grant N. started school in the first grade. Both Glen R. and Grant N. went to kindergarten in Gunnison before we moved to Ephraim. The store showed a small increase in 1937, and we got a small bonus in March 1938. Wayne Christensen got 15% of our bonus.

In April of 1938, we traded our Ford in on a newer model Dodge from Anderson-Westenskow motors. On our return from Gunnison, the first trip with our new Dodge, it started knocking, coming up Lowry hill, south of Manti. I took it back to the garage, and they denied it and so Maurice Nielsen, the salesman who sold it to us drove it up the canyon, and it really knocked. After we returned to the garage, the mechanic, said they all knew it had a bearing burned out, and they had filled it with heavy oil to keep it from knocking. Clair Anderson talked me into buying a new Hudson II 2 sedan. The first trip to Salt Lake City to get it, the dealer there would not release the car because the Anderson Westenskow credit was no good. On my second trip to Salt Lake I got a new Hudsen II 2 sedan. Alten Christensen financed me for the balance of the money and I paid him off with monthly payments. The Hudson cost $1,000.00 this was in May 1938. We continued to work long hours in the store and Ruth helped me many nights. We still had our Jersey cow and raised two pigs for meat. I played shortstop for the Ephraim town team and the boys started to play ball on the lot. We had an increase again this year, and received a bonus in March 1939. Wayne Christensen got 10% of it. George Christensen forgot to give Wayne the 10% so he paid him and took it out of our bonus in 1940, and charged us 8% interest on his mistake.

We paid Alton off for the car and continued to put some money in Christensen Investment Co. Ray started to school in Sept. 1938. He was only 5 years old, he turned six on October 28, 1938. Ruth Hack well started to work for us in the store. We continued to work long hard days in the store. In July 1939 we drove down to Napa, California. The four children stood up behind the front seat all the way. On the way down Ray L. continually said he wanted to see a policeman. My brothers Roy, Reed and Bill were all living in Napa, California at this time, working in the roofing business. We stopped at Roy's home first and had only been there about one hour, when Ray L. was missing. One of Roy's children said he rode off on a tricycle. We searched for him for about an hour and was ready to call the police dept. when a police car drove up and had Ray and the tricycle. Ray was smiling and eating an ice cream cone. When the policeman asked him who he was he told him and said he was staying with uncle Roy Stubbs. The policeman knew Roy and where he lived, so he brought him to Roy's and Ray got to meet his policeman.

The World Fair was in San Francisco, so we all went to the Fair and had a good time. Reed went with us and sure got a real kick out of the children.
We continued to have an increase in the store, and got a bonus in March 1940. We decided to buy a home, and looked at several. We liked Annie (Taller) Christensen's home on 1st west and second south, she was asking $1,000.00 for it. James Frost heard about the deal and said he would get it for us for $900.00 if I would give him a half of pig, which we did. We had $300-00 cash saved and borrowed $600.00 from the bank, and paid her and got a clean title to the home. On April 14, 1940 we moved into our new home. During the next few years we kept very busy in the store, having an increase in volume and getting a bonus each March. We had a lot of fun improving our home. We put a new roof on. The big room over the kitchen was not finished, so we had Emil Olsen frame it into a bedroom and two clothes closets, with the boys help we put the lath on at night, and Marlin Bjerregaard plastered it, and Ruth painted it, We finished paying for the home in the spring of 1941. On the outside we built a small garage, a coalhouse and a chicken coop. Emil Olsen built these. During these years I continued to play baseball in the summer for the Ephraim town team, and both managed and helped manage the team. The boys played baseball on the lot. We always had a crowd of boys at our place, if they weren't playing ball they were playing rubber guns and other games.

The boys started helping with the chores, and Glen R. milked Jersey at night, for a short time in the summer Glen R. and Grant N. herded cows for Mike Hermansen, south of town, about two miles from home. Glen R. got paid extra for helping them milk cows. Glen R. walked home after dark, because he wouldn't sleep in the camp wagon, he said the bed looked dirty. Norma started school in the fall of 1942. During the spring of 1942 we put a bathroom in the large pantry north of the kitchen, we put a partition wall in and had a door to the cellar, taking out the trap door. We continued to have a cow, two pigs and some chickens. In the fall we traded groceries to Orval Christensen for muttons and barley.

After we paid the bank off for the home, it was the last time we ran in debt for anything personal. Each year we raised a good garden, Ruth put up the beets, pickles, corn, string beans and peas, and we had a root cellar to put our potatoes and carrots in. During the next few years we put new cabinets in the kitchen, built a new garage in 1946. We stuccoed the whole house on the outside, the boys and I nailed the chicken wire on the old adobes.

In 1942, Christensen's sold us 20% of the Ephraim Store, and gave us an option to buy up to 49% of the store. In 1943, Christensen's bought the building we are now in from Andrew Armstrong and Mrs. A.I. Tippits, for a little over $4,000.00. They put on a new roof for $1,000.00 and new tile floor for $1,000.00. Emil Olsen made new counters and tables and grocery shelves for the entire store. He worked 8 hours a day for $6.00 a day. Brienholts plastered the walls. We moved into the new building the 1st of October 1943. The girls who worked for us up to this time were Geneal Reid, Maurine Hermansen, Young, Ruth Hackwell and Edna Larsen. Dale Thompson helped us at Christmas time for a couple of years in the old building.

In October 1 943 I went with George Christensen on the train to St. Louis, Missouri to buy merchandise. We stopped in Kansas City and got in the H.D. Lee Co. In St. Louis I went to my first world Series baseball game, between the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Yankees. The Yankees won 4-2. George Christensen was not interested in baseball, so he went on to Chicago, Illinois. I went to Chicago alone the next day. In Chicago I went up to see Lake Michigan and got in a traffic jam, and got back to the depot just as the train was pulling out. I asked a Red Cap where my car was and George Christensen answered he was waiting on the train.

I was exempt from the draft, and put 4 A, because of my job and having four dependent children. Dale Thompson was working full time with us now, and we raised some pigs to help us get more points to avoid the draft. In 1944 we put in some new cabinets in the kitchen and bought a new kitchen range. We had a cow, 2 pigs, some chickens and raised a good garden. in the summer I played second base on the baseball team and helped manage the team. Glen R. helped in the store after school and on Saturdays Grant worked for Mortensen's during the summer and helped sweep the store after school. The boys played baseball in the summer and became interested in basketball, all four of the children were going real well in school. During these summers Ruth canned between 500 and 600 quarts of fruit, vegetables and pickles besides doing the sewing for herself and the children. We bought some furniture from Christiansen's.

In 1945 we stuccoed the house. Dorsey Brienholt put the stucco on, he also built us an outside chimney for the front room, Emil Olsen made a room out of the back porch. We put a new porch on the front of the house, and put in a cement sidewalk from the street, and around the house. We continued to work long hours in the store, business continued to increase.

Glen R. graduated from the 10th grade and was one of the top four students. We bought our first deep freeze from Christiansen's a 6' one for $149.00. We continued to raise our own pork and cured them with Mortons smoke salt.

1947 was about the same as 1946, Grant N. graduated from the 10th grade, and was one of the top four students. Grant and Ray L were on the Jr. high basketball team who won all 10 of their league games and took second in the region playoffs in 1948 we put in an oil furnace in the cellar. We had to dig the cellar 2 feet deeper, by hand. The boys filled the buckets and I carried them up the stairs. Ray L. graduated from the 10th grade with honors. We bought us a new Kelvinator refrigerator and some new furniture and an electric range, an oil water heater, which caused us a lot of trouble and smell. We finally traded it back to Jensen's plumbers and got an electric water heater.

Glen R. graduated from High School as an Honor Student. Glen R. and Grant N. were on the basketball team that won the league, and lost to BYU high in the state tournament by one point . Ruth and I went to the tournament and sat through every game. Ray L. played on the Jr. High basketball team. I managed the American League baseball team this summer. Glen R. played third base, Grant N. catcher, Ray L. second base. We won every game we played. Glen R. and Grant N. played on the high school baseball team that won second in the region. I continued to play second base on the town team.

We continued to work hard in the store and business continued to increase. During these years Ruth and I took our boys, and three friends on the team to the games out of town, in our old Hudson. We would work in the store until it was time to go, and put sandwiches in the car, that Ruth had prepared. In 1949 Grant N. graduated from high school with honors. Grant and Ray played on the Snow High Basketball team that won all their league games. Grant played regular guard and Ray was the 6th man, he weighed only 115 lbs. In the state tournament they lost only one game by two points to BYU High, who won the state. Glen R. played center field on the town baseball team I just played part time and helped coach the team.

In Feb. 1944 we bought a second hand player piano from Mira Hackwell for $225.00. When we tuned it, we had the player part taken out. Norma started to take piano lessons from Mrs. Ellison, and in the summer she took lessons from Mr. Jensen. In the summer in her first piano recital, she was so small she had to stand up to play her piece, during the next few winters she took piano lessons from Paul Peterson and Mrs. Ethel Peterson, and in the summer she took lessons from Mr. Jensen. She liked the piano very much and practiced very faithfully and improved each year. On June 11, 1949, we bought a new Pontiac car from Everett Strate in Spring City for $2,420.73 we gave him a check for the full amount. In 1950 Ray L. played guard on the high school basketball team, and was their playmaker. He graduated from high school and seminary this spring.

Glen R. and Grant N. both graduated from seminary when they graduated from high school. Glen R. was the athletic manager for the Snow College Basketball team in 1950 and played center field for the Snow Baseball team in 1949 and 50. Grant played on the Snow baseball team in 1950 and the #2 hitter. They both played M.M. Basketball for the West Ward. I bought 112 of the basketball uniforms for the West Ward team. On June 5, 1950 Glen R. went into the mission home and went to the Great Lakes Mission, comprising Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. The Korean war broke out this year. We continued to work hard in the store, Ruth had been working full time in the store since 1945. During the summer of 1949, all three boys played on the Ephraim town team, I coached. Anthony W. Ivans set Glen R. apart for his Mission and ordained him a Seventy. I assisted him. Business continued to get better, Edith Olsen, and Dale Thompson were working full time. The girls who worked for us up to this time were, Geneal Reid, Ruth Hackwell, Edna Larsen, Maurine Young, Ruby Anderson, Fae Anderson, Cathleen and Geraldine Thompson.

On March 15, 1951 Grant N. married Iris Johnson in the Manti Temple. The last of March Ruth, Ray, Norma and myself drove down to Phoenix, Arizona for a week in the sun. We saw the Yankees and Chicago Cubs in Phoenix and Mesa, and visited the temple grounds and the Capital grounds. We went through the Kaibab forest and saw the Indian Hogan's for the first time. We went by way of Prescott, and had a real good time.

In the summer of 1949 we took our family and drove to Napa, California to visit my brothers Bill and Toy and their families. Roy had his own roofing business, and Bill was working for Roy. We stayed in Reno on our way down. We drove down highway 101 to Los Angeles, visiting many places of interest including Hollywood. On the way home we visited Boulder Dam. We had a very interesting and enjoyable time.

Going back to 1945, we had several sad experiences, Ruth's mother, Myrtle L. Nelson died, Jan. 18, 1945 in the Salt Lake City L.D.S. Hospital and was buried in Manti Jan. 21, 1945. Betty's mother died in June 1945, Loraine's father died Oct 11, 1945 in Gunnison, Utah and was buried in the Gunnison Cemetery on Oct 17, 1945. My brother Reed K. Stubbs died in Gunnison, Utah September 11, 1946 and was buried in the Gunnison Cemetery. He never married. In the summer of 1944 we bought the home my Mother and Father were living in for $2,750.;00 from LaBarth Fjeldsted. My St and 6th grade school teacher, so my folks would not have to move. It was an old 5-room brick home with a bath it was at 85 East 1st South, in Gunnison, Utah. Grant and Iris got a son, they named him Grant J. Stubbs, our first grandchild. Business continued to increase. By 1945 Christensen's sold us st

On December 9, 1951 ock in the Ephraim store, making our interest 49% of the store. In 1951, Christensen's sold 7% of the stock in the Springville and Roosevelt stores. Grant graduated from Snow College in the spring of 1951, he played baseball that spring for Snow College, and he and Ray played baseball for the Ephraim town team, and I coached for them. Grant started to work for Christensen's in the fall of 1951, Dale Thompson, Edith Brady and Ruth were all working for the store now. Business continued to increase, and we made a fair profit. Grant enlisted in the United States Army Reserve in 1950 and remained in for eight years. In the spring of 1951 Iris graduated from Moroni High School. In February 1952 Norma won the talent contest with a piano solo, Warsaw Concerto, and graduated from Jr. High in the spring. During the summer of 1950/1 Grant and Ray played baseball and I coached. In May 1952 Ray L. graduated from Snow College and Ephraim Institute, and played Baseball for Snow College and he and Don Frischknecht won the Jr. College doubles in tennis, conference championship.

On June 14, 1952, Ruth and I boarded a train in Salt Lake City and went by way of Ogden and Cheyenne, Wyoming to Chicago, III, changed trains and rode it to Ft. Wayne, Indiana where we met Glen R. We went to his testimonial where he was released on June 17, 1952. We rode a bus up to Pontiac, Mich. where we picked up a new Pontiac Car, we drove up to Port Huron, where we crossed into Canada, we drove about 50 miles before we came to a motel, and was unable to get a room, the owner who spoke broken English, was very nice and drove back with us to Port Huron, where he helped us get some rooms, it was an old fashioned place that looked like it had not had any paint or remodeling for 75 years. There was no running water, or bathroom in the rooms, with an old rag carpet on the floor, and an old bowl and picture on the dresser. The next day we traveled to Niagra Falls. The following day we went to Palmyra and visited the Joseph Smith home, the Sacred Grove, and the Hill Cummorah. We met some returned missionaries, and two women from the LDS Reorganized church and had a testimony meeting. We stayed at Rochester, New York. We drove down through New York State past the Finger Lakes, stopped at the Endicott Johnson Shoe Corp., which was closed because of a holiday. We drove down to New York City, spent two nights there, and drove down the New Jersey Turnpike to Washington D.C. We drove through the mountains of West Virginia, crossed the Mississippi River at St. Louis. We drove across Kansas where they were cutting wheat, across Colorado and stayed in Denver. We drove on highway 50 most of the way, stopped in Vernal, Utah and through Provo to Ephraim, arrived on June 27, 1952 and found Ray and Norma happy but cold. They had a cold spell and the furnace was not working.

In 1952 the old West Ward Chapel and Stake House was torn down and the construction of a new building was started, and the members of the West Ward held their meetings in the North Ward Chapel and in the institute building. While we were attending meetings in the North Ward, Phil Olson was set apart as President of the West Ward Elders Quorum. I was his first counselor and Glen E. Nielsen 2nd counselor, and DeLone Anderson, Secretary, Clayton Stout was our teacher. We held our meetings in the kitchen of the Institute building, with about eight to ten members present, this was the first time the West Ward Elders had their own meeting, prior to this time they met with the High Priests. While we were in the presidency, the attendance continually increased, we helped sponsor banquets and auctions, and had all the Elders participate. We had fifteen Elders and fourteen of their wives to one session in the Manti Temple. During the Korean War we helped several farmers harvest their hay. After Glen R. returned from his mission, he worked on the new chapel and then went to summer school at the BYU.

On the 24th of February 1953 Ray L. was drafted into the Army and went to Fort Ord, California. While Glen R. was going to the BYU in 1953 he got tired of waiting for his induction papers, so he enlisted in the Army April 14, and was sent to Fort Ord. Grant was in the Reserve, and went to summer camp each summer. Glen R. and Ray L. were both sent to Camp Roberts. Ray L. came home in August 1953, on a furlow from the Army, Glen R. and Ray L both came home for Christmas in 1953. Ray went from Camp Roberts to Camp Polk, La. from there to Fort Riley, Kansas in May. In March 1954 we took Dale and Florence Thompson to Phoenix and Mesa, Arizona and returned by way of Needles, Nevada.

On the 15 May 1954, Iris J. Stubbs, gave birth to a baby girl. Grant and Iris named her Debra Kay Stubbs. In May 1954 Norma Ruth graduated from High School with honors, and did all the Piano accompaniment. After Glen R. left Camp Roberts, California he was sent to Fort Lewis, Wash. In July he left for Korea. In 1953 we went out of the grocery business, but business was good and increased. In Jan 1955, Ray got an honorable release from the Army, and came home in a new red convertible Oldsmobile. Glen R, got his honorable release in April and came home from Korea.

We started to build a new home on April 14, 1955. Willis Candiand had the contract. On June 19, 1955, Iris gave birth to a pre-mature baby boy, he lived just long enough to receive the name of Kelly N. Stubbs. He was buried in the Ephraim City Cemetery Glen R. spoke at his graveside service. This was a very hard experience for all of us, especially Grant and Iris. Iris was never well after that. In 1954 Grant built a new basement home on second east, first south in Ephraim. On August 22, 1955, we moved into our new home, all paid, "Happy Day" We sold our old home to Douglas Olson and he moved in the day we moved out. During the summer of 1955, baseball was reactivated. All three of our boys played on the Ephraim Town Team. In a baseball tournament held in Ephraim, for Snow College scholarships in the fall, Ephraim won the tournament. Ray L was voted the outstanding player of the tournament, Grant managed the team and I coached third base.

In 1956, Glen R. went to the BYU. Norma graduated from Snow College and played a piano solo with Mr. LaVar Jensen accompanying on a second piano, in their commencement exercises.

In April 1956, Stake conference, I was set apart as Stake Clerk. On Sept. 30, 1956 Hugh B. Brown, here for dinner during our Stake Conference, Elder Kimball had a nap on our living room rug, with a book under his head for a pillow. In the afternoon session, President Ruel E. Christensen was called as a Mission President over the Great Lakes Mission. I was released as Stake Clerk, and was set apart as a member of the Stake High Council, along with five others. Ray and Norma started school at the Utah State University in Logan, in the fall of 1956. In Jan. 1 957, 1 had a hernia operation in the Mt. Pleasant Hospital, Dr. McQuairre did the surgery and Dr. Rigby assisted. On Jan 5, 1957 Ruth had major surgery, a hysterectomy, gall bladder removed and an appendectomy, all in one incision. Mr. Marion Noyes did the surgery. Dr. Macquarie assisted. In March 1957 Bill's wife Jessie T. Stubbs, died and was buried in Napa, Calif. I took Pete and Betty Stubbs down to the funeral. Ruth was advised by Dr. Macquarie not to travel, so she remained home.

On June 5, 1957 Glen R. married Kay Broadbent in the Manti Temple. They had a reception in Helper, Utah, and an open house in Ephraim The last of June 1957 James D. Stubbs, married Rae in the Los Angeles Temple. We went down to the wedding and then rode up to Napa, California for the reception. On September 6, 1957, Ray L. Stubbs married Marlene Larsen in the Manti Temple. There reception was in the South Ward Chapel. In June 1957, Glen R. graduated from the BYU with a bachelor degree. In the fall of 1957 Glen R. and Kay moved to Huntington, Utah, where he taught Seminary for three years. Ray L. and Marlene moved to Logan, Ray and Norma went to Utah State University. On June 8, 1 958 Norma married Richard R. Olson in the Manti Temple. Their reception was held in the Ephraim West Ward. Ray and Marlene moved to Ogden, when Ray worked as a bookkeeper for a Big Co. In the spring of 1959 we bought us a new Chevrolet Impala. In March 1959, we took Phil and Blodwin Olson to Phoenix and Mesa, Arizona for a weeks vacation

In June 1959 we took Glen R. and Kay on a trip up North. We went through the Idaho Falls Temple. (Glen and Kay were witnesses), visited the Ricks College Campus. We stayed one night in Yellowstone Park, visited most of the park, went across Montana, visited two College Campus's. We went to Canada and went through the Cardston Temple, (Ruth and I were witnesses), took Stubbs names through and did some sealings. We met Ernest Dennison and his wife from Ephraim at the temple grounds. They were on their way home from Alaska. We drove a half day more in Canada, came down through the pan handle of Idaho into Washington, visited the Coolie Dam, toured into California, went through the big Redwood forest, visited with my brother's Bill and Roy and their families in Napa, California., crossed the state of Nevada back to Ephraim, Utah, a fine trip.

On June 18, 1960 I was released from the High Council, and was ordained and set apart as Bishop of the Ephraim West Ward by ElRay L. Christiansen, assistant to the twelve. He was one of my schoolteachers during my sophomore year in the Gunnison High School. My Counselors were Phil Olson and Glen W. Lee; Clerks: Robert J. Olson, DeLone E. Anderson, Edgar R. Anderson, E. Ivan Alder.

In the fall of 1958, Dick and Norma moved to Brigham City, Utah where she taught Home Economics and Dick went to Logan to the Utah State University. He graduated in the spring of 1959.

In Feb. 1958 Grant and Iris moved to Salina, Utah and took over the management of Christensen's store. Iris was not very well. Ray and Marlene moved to Monterey Park, California in 1959. Ray worked for the I.R.S.

On May 5, 1959 Norma gave birth to a baby boy, they named him Terry Richard Olson. They moved into the home they bought from Dick's grandma Olson's estate. Dick and Doug bought their Dad's farm, and started in the turkey business. Marlene came back to Ephraim in March, 1960 and gave birth to a baby boy on May 3, 1960, they named him Brad Ray Stubbs. Ray L. stayed on the summer of 1 960, they worked for the Utah Parks Co. on the North Rim of Grand Canyon.

In July 1960 Glen R. received his Masters degree from the BYU. On June 18, 1961 Norma gave birth to her second son, they named him Gary S. Olson. Grant N. built a new home in Salina in 1961 for Iris, she is not well. On July 13, 1961 Marlene gave birth to her second son, they named him Chad M. Stubbs. Glen R. and Kay moved to Provo, Utah for the summer of 1961 and Glen R. went to summer school. Glen R. and Kay moved to Ogden in 1961 and started teaching Institute at Weber College in the fall.

We went to California in 1961 and 1962 to visit with Ray, Marlene and boys. The year 1962 was a very hard year on Grant, Iris was very sick, and was in and out of the hospital for treatments. The hardest blow we had up to this time was the passing away of Iris in the LDS hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah on Dec 13, 1962. Services for her were held in Salina, Dec. 17, 1962 and she was buried in the Ephraim City Cemetery by the side of her son Kelly.

On 18 June 1963 Glen R. and Kay adopted a baby girl, they named her Diane Stubbs. On July 6, 1963 Norma gave birth to a baby girl, they named her Signe Olson. In August 1963 Glen R. and Kay moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Glen will be the director of the Institute, next to the Phoenix Jr. College. Grant did a good job of taking care of Grant J. and Debra Kay.

On Oct. 6, 1963 Marlene had a baby girl, they named her Brenda Stubbs, I had the honor to name her. On Oct. 26, 1963 my brother Bill passed away in Napa, California from stomach problems. We took Peter, Betty and Barbara down to the funeral, they had a nice service, and he was buried next to his wife in the Napa City Cemetery, on Oct. 30, 1963, he was 66 years old.

We drove to California in October 1966 and visited with Glen and Kay and girls, visited with Roy and Loraine in Napa, and then drove to Los Angeles and visited with Ray and Marlene and family. On about May 8, 1964 mother broke a hip, we had the Dr. in Napa put in a new hip, the shock and stress was to much for her, and three days later on May 15, 1964 died. We had her body brought to Gunnison, Utah, had a very nice funeral for her, and buried her next to Dad and Reed on May 20, 1964. She was just a few days short of being 95 ½ years old in the early part of 1965, Grant quit Christensen's and investigated buying a large Furniture business in Pocatello, Idaho. This didn't work out so he bought Mom's cafe in Salina and ran it for several years. We bought the Salina store from Christensen's in Jun. 1967, and formed Stubbs Inc. stockholders being Glendon K. Stubbs, Grant N. Stubbs, Roland K. Hart and O. Ray Olson with Grant as manager. Glendon K. Stubbs, President, and Grant N. Stubbs, secretary. On Jan 8, 1967, Norma gave birth to her second daughter, they named her Denise Olson. On May 1, 1967 Karen gave birth to her first son, they named him Brett K. Stubbs. Glen R. and Kay and girls came home for a short visit in June 1967.

Ray and Marlene came home for a visit in August 1967, Roy and Loraine came up and we had a James E. Stubbs family reunion at the Peter K. Stubbs home in Salt Lake City. Grant and Karen came. Glen R. and Kay were not able to come. Glen R. and Kay had Julie Ann sealed to them Oct. 4, 1967 in the Oakland Temple. We had good business in both stores in 1967. In Feb. 1968, Christensen's sold us the Ephraim Store and we put it into the Stubbs Inc. Glen R. went to summer school at the BYU in 1968, and lived on campus. Ray, Marlene and children came to Ephraim for a visit.

In February 1968, Ruth had a sick spell, and Dr. McQuarrie called it heart Fatigue and nervous exhaustion.

In September 1968, we took a trip to California and visited with Toy and Loraine and families. Glen R. Kay and girls, Ray, Marlene and children. Grant was set apart as councilor to the Bishop, the third Bishop he has been a councilor to.

We bought a new Chrysler car, business was good for the new Stubbs Inc. On Feb. 9, 1969 I was released as Bishop of the Ephraim West Ward and Richard R. Olson was sustained as the new Bishop. In March 1969 Glen R. and Kay bought a home in Rexburg, Idaho where is to teach religion and be on the religion faculty at Ricks College. Being Bishop was the most wonderful and rewarding experience I had ever had. I had a few sad experiences, but the good one's were I 0-1. It was always hard to conduct funerals and hard to express my true feelings over the microphone. I learned to love the members of the ward very much.

In March 1969, we took a weeks vacation in Phoenix and Mesa, Arizona. On April 25, 1969, Norma gave birth to her third daughter, they named her Melissa Olson. Glen R. finished his teaching in San Jose Institute in June 1969. He was in the high Council the last two years he was there. They are going to Cedar City, stay with Kay's folks and take German from Kay's Dad for 10 hours credit on his Doctorate Kay is taking German with him. Glen R. and Kay moved to Rexburg in August 1969, and started his teaching the next week. Ray, Marlene and children came to Ephraim for a visit. We made a short visit to Rexburg. Karen had her second daughter on November 20, 1969, they named her Becky Nicole Stubbs. We went down to West Covina, and spent our 42nd anniversary and had our Thanksgiving dinner with them. Glen and Kay came down and spent Christmas with us. It was a good year for Stubbs Inc. We opened a Hardware Store in Salina, Utah in 1971, and added it to the Stubbs Inc.

In March of 1970 we spent a nice week vacation with Roy and Loraine in Mesa, Arizona. In my 1970 Glen R. had surgery for a double hernia. In May 1970 Grant J. graduated from the North Sevier High School as the top honor student and also the outstanding athlete in the school. Glen R. went to summer school at the BYU working on his Doctorate. We drove down to West Covina and had a nice visit with Ray and Marlene and children. Grant J. started school at Snow College and is living with us. We planned on taking Dick, Norma and children to Rexburg for Thanksgiving, but Mark got the Chicken Pox, so we all stayed home and had thanksgiving dinner at Dick and Norma's. We had a good Christmas business in both stores. During the past four years we averaged doing 4050 endowments a year in the temple.

In March 1971 we went to Phoenix and Mesa and spent a nice week with Roy and Loraine, Ruth was having troubles with her back. On April 8, 1971 we were set apart as Ordinance workers in the Manti Temple. President Reuel E. Christensen set me apart and President George set Ruth apart, and gave her a special blessing for her health, as she was having much pain in her back. My brother Peter Stubbs died on March 2, 1973 this was a terrible loss to all of us. They had a nice funeral service for him, and he was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. In May we went to Idaho (Rexburg) for a visit. While we were there Glen and Kay got a call from Idaho Falls Hospital that they had a boy for them. He was born May 20, 1971. We rode over to Idaho Falls with them to get him. They named him David Glen Stubbs. We wen