Archibald Isaac "Arch" Tueller
1904 - 1982
Father: Jacob Tueller Jr.
Mother: Emma Louise Rogers Tueller
Spouse: Edith Mary Housecraft
Married: 20 July 1925
............
"I, Archibald Isaac Tueller, was born in Paris, Idaho on February 9, 1904, the 18th child of Jacob Tueller, Jr. and the 9th child of my mother, Louise Rogers Tueller. My Mother received a little bonnet from Mrs. Sam Lewis, the store keeper in Montpelier for naming me Isaac, and that gave our Tueller family an Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The name Isaac had always been a source of embarrassment to me, but as the years go by, it doesn't seem so hard to bear.
"When I was a few weeks old, in my mother's arms, my brother Arnold (who was quite an excellent violin player) said he was going to make a violinist out of me and tried to experiment to find out if I was adapted to the violin. He struck several chords as loud as he could across the strings with the bow, and because I did not flinch, it was decided I was to be a musician. So that accounts for my name and profession. Music has always been a great source of enjoyment during my life. When I was five years of age, I left Paris with Arnold and went to Evanston, Wyoming to study violin with him. He had a group of young violinists and wanted me to have the experience of playing with them. In the spring I had an engagement to play in the Theatre at Rock Springs. They paid Arnold $10.00 and room for three days, for me to play "Melody in F." This was the first money I had earned and felt like quite a "big shot". I remember how terribly lonesome I felt to be away from my Mother. From then on I was a member of our family orchestra. In the wintertime we would travel in a covered sleigh, with a stove in it, and give concerts all over the Bear Lake Valley. We had a very happy home life - never a dull moment.
"I remember mother telling of the time when Dad went on his mission leaving his two wives pregnant, and his first wife (Aunt Annie) passed away when Clarence was born. Mother took over the duties of raising the family (with the help of Aunt Annie's older children.) When Dad came back from his mission there was wall-to-wall woven rag carpet on the dirt floor, good underclothes and nightgowns for the children. God had been so good to the Tueller family.
"When I was about 8 or 9 years old, we got a Pinto pony to take the cows down to the pasture. Pinto was the love of my life. I was born among a bunch of girls (Imogene, Hazel, Me,Thelma and Ivy) and Abe was my closest brother. He was so handsome and a great favorite with all the girls. I looked on Pinto as another member of the family, the little animal was so close to me - I loved it dearly. We had a chicken who used Grandma's abandoned outhouse as a nest to lay her eggs. One day Dick Tueller had come from Geneva to visit us, and I told him I could lay eggs. Of course, he didn't believe it, so I took him to the old toilet to prove it and sure enough there was an egg down the hole. I did not let him see it, but sat on the toilet and pretended to be laying an egg. "See, Dick, there it is!" Childlike he believed me, or pretended to.
"Hazel, Imogene and I used to play hide and seek during the winter evenings when it was too cold to be outdoors. I remember one time trying to find Hazel, and find her I could not. I'd go in the pantry, where the shelves were built right up to the ceiling. I was looking all around peering on the shelves and suddenly I felt a sprinkle on my head. I looked up and there was Hazel on the very top shelf. How she climbed up there I'll never know, being lame has never held that wonderful sister down one bit! She was laughing so hard she nearly burst. What fun we had!
"Another of my animal friends was Copper - a huge copper greyhound. Copper would pull all the children's sleighs up the Fielding Academy hill. He was a wonderful dog, but he got into trouble occasionally snapping and tearing the sheets when they were out on the line. When Abe left for the Army we couldn't find Abe's red sweater high or low, and old Copper had the sweater in his dog house. He wanted the comfort of being close to Abe. After Abe had gone into training, Copper was my dog. I made a harness for him and he would pull me all over town to deliver groceries for Mother's store. He was so powerful and strong. He could out-pull Pinto. He was the most beautiful dog you can ever imagine and he would forage for his own food by catching jack rabbits or anything his fancy desired.
"In 1919 we moved to the Forest Dale Ward in Salt Lake City - Mother and Dad, Hazel, Imo and I. The rest of the family had married and left to make a home of their own. I continued to study at the McCune School of Music which had a staff of wonderful teachers - Wilard Weigh, Anthony Lund, Frank Asper, Tracy Y. Cannon, Edward P. Kimball, Cecil Gates and others. My dad was the supervisor of the Block Teachers and when a girl who had just come over from England moved in the Ward, I told Dad if I could go to her house as a block teacher, I would be glad to be a teacher. To make a long story short, I married this girl in 1925.
"I joined a singing and dance group call the Harmony Night Hawks, which consisted of my brother Abe (the leader), Glenn Lee, Stuart McMaster, and Alan Mann. This group was very popular in the Salt Lake area. We played our first steady work at the Newhouse Hotel and at the Playhouse Theatre. All the boys in the orchestra were interested in graduating from college and used the music as a means to further this end. Radio was just coming in to its own, and the group decided to go to New York to explore the possibilities of this field. Alan Mann and Stuart McMaster stayed in Salt Lake, so we reorganized and left Salt Lake in 1929. We didn't get as far as New York, however. We stopped over in Chicago and we were offered work with Eddie Neibauer (a former Utahn) and his orchestra - so there we stayed and I studied at the Chicago Musical College. Unfortunately the depression hit Chicago and things became pretty rough. The bank in Chicago with all our money we had saved for school went broke. Mary and I put thirty dollars in the Postal Savings and said when we get down to that we'll go home. We got there, so we came home on Thanksgiving Day 1932. We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner in Evanston with Irene and Chub, and another with Mary's family when we arrived in Salt Lake. It felt mighty good to be home, but things were awful rough in Salt Lake too. Mary was able to get a job at Auerbach's (Marilyn, our first was 5 years old.) I received my degree from the McCune School in the following spring, 1935.
"I started teaching school in the fall of 1933. Things began to look up a little. Maurie was born in 1935 and we bought a home. I joined the Tabernacle Choir in 1936. Marcia was born in 1943. We have been blessed with our children. We are proud they are all college graduates and also musicians. Maurie and Marcia are playing in the Utah Symphony Orchestra. They are married to wonderful partners, we wouldn't have chosen any better and we love them dearly.
"Through the years I have worked in the Church as Ward Choir Leader, and Stake Music Director for the MIA. Mary was Secretary of the Primary for 6 years, then 2nd Counselor. Our children are carrying on the good work in the Church. They have all been married in the temple, and this is a great joy to us.
"I have finished my 31st year of teaching school and am looking forward to retiring. There is so much I want to do yet. I am grateful for my heritage and so proud I was born a Tueller."
--Source: Arch Tueller, May 11, 1966 | courtesy of Angie Bush | accessed and transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley
1904 - 1982
Father: Jacob Tueller Jr.
Mother: Emma Louise Rogers Tueller
Spouse: Edith Mary Housecraft
Married: 20 July 1925
............
"I, Archibald Isaac Tueller, was born in Paris, Idaho on February 9, 1904, the 18th child of Jacob Tueller, Jr. and the 9th child of my mother, Louise Rogers Tueller. My Mother received a little bonnet from Mrs. Sam Lewis, the store keeper in Montpelier for naming me Isaac, and that gave our Tueller family an Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The name Isaac had always been a source of embarrassment to me, but as the years go by, it doesn't seem so hard to bear.
"When I was a few weeks old, in my mother's arms, my brother Arnold (who was quite an excellent violin player) said he was going to make a violinist out of me and tried to experiment to find out if I was adapted to the violin. He struck several chords as loud as he could across the strings with the bow, and because I did not flinch, it was decided I was to be a musician. So that accounts for my name and profession. Music has always been a great source of enjoyment during my life. When I was five years of age, I left Paris with Arnold and went to Evanston, Wyoming to study violin with him. He had a group of young violinists and wanted me to have the experience of playing with them. In the spring I had an engagement to play in the Theatre at Rock Springs. They paid Arnold $10.00 and room for three days, for me to play "Melody in F." This was the first money I had earned and felt like quite a "big shot". I remember how terribly lonesome I felt to be away from my Mother. From then on I was a member of our family orchestra. In the wintertime we would travel in a covered sleigh, with a stove in it, and give concerts all over the Bear Lake Valley. We had a very happy home life - never a dull moment.
"I remember mother telling of the time when Dad went on his mission leaving his two wives pregnant, and his first wife (Aunt Annie) passed away when Clarence was born. Mother took over the duties of raising the family (with the help of Aunt Annie's older children.) When Dad came back from his mission there was wall-to-wall woven rag carpet on the dirt floor, good underclothes and nightgowns for the children. God had been so good to the Tueller family.
"When I was about 8 or 9 years old, we got a Pinto pony to take the cows down to the pasture. Pinto was the love of my life. I was born among a bunch of girls (Imogene, Hazel, Me,Thelma and Ivy) and Abe was my closest brother. He was so handsome and a great favorite with all the girls. I looked on Pinto as another member of the family, the little animal was so close to me - I loved it dearly. We had a chicken who used Grandma's abandoned outhouse as a nest to lay her eggs. One day Dick Tueller had come from Geneva to visit us, and I told him I could lay eggs. Of course, he didn't believe it, so I took him to the old toilet to prove it and sure enough there was an egg down the hole. I did not let him see it, but sat on the toilet and pretended to be laying an egg. "See, Dick, there it is!" Childlike he believed me, or pretended to.
"Hazel, Imogene and I used to play hide and seek during the winter evenings when it was too cold to be outdoors. I remember one time trying to find Hazel, and find her I could not. I'd go in the pantry, where the shelves were built right up to the ceiling. I was looking all around peering on the shelves and suddenly I felt a sprinkle on my head. I looked up and there was Hazel on the very top shelf. How she climbed up there I'll never know, being lame has never held that wonderful sister down one bit! She was laughing so hard she nearly burst. What fun we had!
"Another of my animal friends was Copper - a huge copper greyhound. Copper would pull all the children's sleighs up the Fielding Academy hill. He was a wonderful dog, but he got into trouble occasionally snapping and tearing the sheets when they were out on the line. When Abe left for the Army we couldn't find Abe's red sweater high or low, and old Copper had the sweater in his dog house. He wanted the comfort of being close to Abe. After Abe had gone into training, Copper was my dog. I made a harness for him and he would pull me all over town to deliver groceries for Mother's store. He was so powerful and strong. He could out-pull Pinto. He was the most beautiful dog you can ever imagine and he would forage for his own food by catching jack rabbits or anything his fancy desired.
"In 1919 we moved to the Forest Dale Ward in Salt Lake City - Mother and Dad, Hazel, Imo and I. The rest of the family had married and left to make a home of their own. I continued to study at the McCune School of Music which had a staff of wonderful teachers - Wilard Weigh, Anthony Lund, Frank Asper, Tracy Y. Cannon, Edward P. Kimball, Cecil Gates and others. My dad was the supervisor of the Block Teachers and when a girl who had just come over from England moved in the Ward, I told Dad if I could go to her house as a block teacher, I would be glad to be a teacher. To make a long story short, I married this girl in 1925.
"I joined a singing and dance group call the Harmony Night Hawks, which consisted of my brother Abe (the leader), Glenn Lee, Stuart McMaster, and Alan Mann. This group was very popular in the Salt Lake area. We played our first steady work at the Newhouse Hotel and at the Playhouse Theatre. All the boys in the orchestra were interested in graduating from college and used the music as a means to further this end. Radio was just coming in to its own, and the group decided to go to New York to explore the possibilities of this field. Alan Mann and Stuart McMaster stayed in Salt Lake, so we reorganized and left Salt Lake in 1929. We didn't get as far as New York, however. We stopped over in Chicago and we were offered work with Eddie Neibauer (a former Utahn) and his orchestra - so there we stayed and I studied at the Chicago Musical College. Unfortunately the depression hit Chicago and things became pretty rough. The bank in Chicago with all our money we had saved for school went broke. Mary and I put thirty dollars in the Postal Savings and said when we get down to that we'll go home. We got there, so we came home on Thanksgiving Day 1932. We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner in Evanston with Irene and Chub, and another with Mary's family when we arrived in Salt Lake. It felt mighty good to be home, but things were awful rough in Salt Lake too. Mary was able to get a job at Auerbach's (Marilyn, our first was 5 years old.) I received my degree from the McCune School in the following spring, 1935.
"I started teaching school in the fall of 1933. Things began to look up a little. Maurie was born in 1935 and we bought a home. I joined the Tabernacle Choir in 1936. Marcia was born in 1943. We have been blessed with our children. We are proud they are all college graduates and also musicians. Maurie and Marcia are playing in the Utah Symphony Orchestra. They are married to wonderful partners, we wouldn't have chosen any better and we love them dearly.
"Through the years I have worked in the Church as Ward Choir Leader, and Stake Music Director for the MIA. Mary was Secretary of the Primary for 6 years, then 2nd Counselor. Our children are carrying on the good work in the Church. They have all been married in the temple, and this is a great joy to us.
"I have finished my 31st year of teaching school and am looking forward to retiring. There is so much I want to do yet. I am grateful for my heritage and so proud I was born a Tueller."
--Source: Arch Tueller, May 11, 1966 | courtesy of Angie Bush | accessed and transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley
Archibald Isaac "Arch" Tueller
1904 - 1982
Father: Jacob Tueller Jr.
Mother: Emma Louise Rogers Tueller
Spouse: Edith Mary Housecraft
Married: 20 July 1925
............
"I, Archibald Isaac Tueller, was born in Paris, Idaho on February 9, 1904, the 18th child of Jacob Tueller, Jr. and the 9th child of my mother, Louise Rogers Tueller. My Mother received a little bonnet from Mrs. Sam Lewis, the store keeper in Montpelier for naming me Isaac, and that gave our Tueller family an Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The name Isaac had always been a source of embarrassment to me, but as the years go by, it doesn't seem so hard to bear.
"When I was a few weeks old, in my mother's arms, my brother Arnold (who was quite an excellent violin player) said he was going to make a violinist out of me and tried to experiment to find out if I was adapted to the violin. He struck several chords as loud as he could across the strings with the bow, and because I did not flinch, it was decided I was to be a musician. So that accounts for my name and profession. Music has always been a great source of enjoyment during my life. When I was five years of age, I left Paris with Arnold and went to Evanston, Wyoming to study violin with him. He had a group of young violinists and wanted me to have the experience of playing with them. In the spring I had an engagement to play in the Theatre at Rock Springs. They paid Arnold $10.00 and room for three days, for me to play "Melody in F." This was the first money I had earned and felt like quite a "big shot". I remember how terribly lonesome I felt to be away from my Mother. From then on I was a member of our family orchestra. In the wintertime we would travel in a covered sleigh, with a stove in it, and give concerts all over the Bear Lake Valley. We had a very happy home life - never a dull moment.
"I remember mother telling of the time when Dad went on his mission leaving his two wives pregnant, and his first wife (Aunt Annie) passed away when Clarence was born. Mother took over the duties of raising the family (with the help of Aunt Annie's older children.) When Dad came back from his mission there was wall-to-wall woven rag carpet on the dirt floor, good underclothes and nightgowns for the children. God had been so good to the Tueller family.
"When I was about 8 or 9 years old, we got a Pinto pony to take the cows down to the pasture. Pinto was the love of my life. I was born among a bunch of girls (Imogene, Hazel, Me,Thelma and Ivy) and Abe was my closest brother. He was so handsome and a great favorite with all the girls. I looked on Pinto as another member of the family, the little animal was so close to me - I loved it dearly. We had a chicken who used Grandma's abandoned outhouse as a nest to lay her eggs. One day Dick Tueller had come from Geneva to visit us, and I told him I could lay eggs. Of course, he didn't believe it, so I took him to the old toilet to prove it and sure enough there was an egg down the hole. I did not let him see it, but sat on the toilet and pretended to be laying an egg. "See, Dick, there it is!" Childlike he believed me, or pretended to.
"Hazel, Imogene and I used to play hide and seek during the winter evenings when it was too cold to be outdoors. I remember one time trying to find Hazel, and find her I could not. I'd go in the pantry, where the shelves were built right up to the ceiling. I was looking all around peering on the shelves and suddenly I felt a sprinkle on my head. I looked up and there was Hazel on the very top shelf. How she climbed up there I'll never know, being lame has never held that wonderful sister down one bit! She was laughing so hard she nearly burst. What fun we had!
"Another of my animal friends was Copper - a huge copper greyhound. Copper would pull all the children's sleighs up the Fielding Academy hill. He was a wonderful dog, but he got into trouble occasionally snapping and tearing the sheets when they were out on the line. When Abe left for the Army we couldn't find Abe's red sweater high or low, and old Copper had the sweater in his dog house. He wanted the comfort of being close to Abe. After Abe had gone into training, Copper was my dog. I made a harness for him and he would pull me all over town to deliver groceries for Mother's store. He was so powerful and strong. He could out-pull Pinto. He was the most beautiful dog you can ever imagine and he would forage for his own food by catching jack rabbits or anything his fancy desired.
"In 1919 we moved to the Forest Dale Ward in Salt Lake City - Mother and Dad, Hazel, Imo and I. The rest of the family had married and left to make a home of their own. I continued to study at the McCune School of Music which had a staff of wonderful teachers - Wilard Weigh, Anthony Lund, Frank Asper, Tracy Y. Cannon, Edward P. Kimball, Cecil Gates and others. My dad was the supervisor of the Block Teachers and when a girl who had just come over from England moved in the Ward, I told Dad if I could go to her house as a block teacher, I would be glad to be a teacher. To make a long story short, I married this girl in 1925.
"I joined a singing and dance group call the Harmony Night Hawks, which consisted of my brother Abe (the leader), Glenn Lee, Stuart McMaster, and Alan Mann. This group was very popular in the Salt Lake area. We played our first steady work at the Newhouse Hotel and at the Playhouse Theatre. All the boys in the orchestra were interested in graduating from college and used the music as a means to further this end. Radio was just coming in to its own, and the group decided to go to New York to explore the possibilities of this field. Alan Mann and Stuart McMaster stayed in Salt Lake, so we reorganized and left Salt Lake in 1929. We didn't get as far as New York, however. We stopped over in Chicago and we were offered work with Eddie Neibauer (a former Utahn) and his orchestra - so there we stayed and I studied at the Chicago Musical College. Unfortunately the depression hit Chicago and things became pretty rough. The bank in Chicago with all our money we had saved for school went broke. Mary and I put thirty dollars in the Postal Savings and said when we get down to that we'll go home. We got there, so we came home on Thanksgiving Day 1932. We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner in Evanston with Irene and Chub, and another with Mary's family when we arrived in Salt Lake. It felt mighty good to be home, but things were awful rough in Salt Lake too. Mary was able to get a job at Auerbach's (Marilyn, our first was 5 years old.) I received my degree from the McCune School in the following spring, 1935.
"I started teaching school in the fall of 1933. Things began to look up a little. Maurie was born in 1935 and we bought a home. I joined the Tabernacle Choir in 1936. Marcia was born in 1943. We have been blessed with our children. We are proud they are all college graduates and also musicians. Maurie and Marcia are playing in the Utah Symphony Orchestra. They are married to wonderful partners, we wouldn't have chosen any better and we love them dearly.
"Through the years I have worked in the Church as Ward Choir Leader, and Stake Music Director for the MIA. Mary was Secretary of the Primary for 6 years, then 2nd Counselor. Our children are carrying on the good work in the Church. They have all been married in the temple, and this is a great joy to us.
"I have finished my 31st year of teaching school and am looking forward to retiring. There is so much I want to do yet. I am grateful for my heritage and so proud I was born a Tueller."
--Source: Arch Tueller, May 11, 1966 | courtesy of Angie Bush | accessed and transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley
1904 - 1982
Father: Jacob Tueller Jr.
Mother: Emma Louise Rogers Tueller
Spouse: Edith Mary Housecraft
Married: 20 July 1925
............
"I, Archibald Isaac Tueller, was born in Paris, Idaho on February 9, 1904, the 18th child of Jacob Tueller, Jr. and the 9th child of my mother, Louise Rogers Tueller. My Mother received a little bonnet from Mrs. Sam Lewis, the store keeper in Montpelier for naming me Isaac, and that gave our Tueller family an Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The name Isaac had always been a source of embarrassment to me, but as the years go by, it doesn't seem so hard to bear.
"When I was a few weeks old, in my mother's arms, my brother Arnold (who was quite an excellent violin player) said he was going to make a violinist out of me and tried to experiment to find out if I was adapted to the violin. He struck several chords as loud as he could across the strings with the bow, and because I did not flinch, it was decided I was to be a musician. So that accounts for my name and profession. Music has always been a great source of enjoyment during my life. When I was five years of age, I left Paris with Arnold and went to Evanston, Wyoming to study violin with him. He had a group of young violinists and wanted me to have the experience of playing with them. In the spring I had an engagement to play in the Theatre at Rock Springs. They paid Arnold $10.00 and room for three days, for me to play "Melody in F." This was the first money I had earned and felt like quite a "big shot". I remember how terribly lonesome I felt to be away from my Mother. From then on I was a member of our family orchestra. In the wintertime we would travel in a covered sleigh, with a stove in it, and give concerts all over the Bear Lake Valley. We had a very happy home life - never a dull moment.
"I remember mother telling of the time when Dad went on his mission leaving his two wives pregnant, and his first wife (Aunt Annie) passed away when Clarence was born. Mother took over the duties of raising the family (with the help of Aunt Annie's older children.) When Dad came back from his mission there was wall-to-wall woven rag carpet on the dirt floor, good underclothes and nightgowns for the children. God had been so good to the Tueller family.
"When I was about 8 or 9 years old, we got a Pinto pony to take the cows down to the pasture. Pinto was the love of my life. I was born among a bunch of girls (Imogene, Hazel, Me,Thelma and Ivy) and Abe was my closest brother. He was so handsome and a great favorite with all the girls. I looked on Pinto as another member of the family, the little animal was so close to me - I loved it dearly. We had a chicken who used Grandma's abandoned outhouse as a nest to lay her eggs. One day Dick Tueller had come from Geneva to visit us, and I told him I could lay eggs. Of course, he didn't believe it, so I took him to the old toilet to prove it and sure enough there was an egg down the hole. I did not let him see it, but sat on the toilet and pretended to be laying an egg. "See, Dick, there it is!" Childlike he believed me, or pretended to.
"Hazel, Imogene and I used to play hide and seek during the winter evenings when it was too cold to be outdoors. I remember one time trying to find Hazel, and find her I could not. I'd go in the pantry, where the shelves were built right up to the ceiling. I was looking all around peering on the shelves and suddenly I felt a sprinkle on my head. I looked up and there was Hazel on the very top shelf. How she climbed up there I'll never know, being lame has never held that wonderful sister down one bit! She was laughing so hard she nearly burst. What fun we had!
"Another of my animal friends was Copper - a huge copper greyhound. Copper would pull all the children's sleighs up the Fielding Academy hill. He was a wonderful dog, but he got into trouble occasionally snapping and tearing the sheets when they were out on the line. When Abe left for the Army we couldn't find Abe's red sweater high or low, and old Copper had the sweater in his dog house. He wanted the comfort of being close to Abe. After Abe had gone into training, Copper was my dog. I made a harness for him and he would pull me all over town to deliver groceries for Mother's store. He was so powerful and strong. He could out-pull Pinto. He was the most beautiful dog you can ever imagine and he would forage for his own food by catching jack rabbits or anything his fancy desired.
"In 1919 we moved to the Forest Dale Ward in Salt Lake City - Mother and Dad, Hazel, Imo and I. The rest of the family had married and left to make a home of their own. I continued to study at the McCune School of Music which had a staff of wonderful teachers - Wilard Weigh, Anthony Lund, Frank Asper, Tracy Y. Cannon, Edward P. Kimball, Cecil Gates and others. My dad was the supervisor of the Block Teachers and when a girl who had just come over from England moved in the Ward, I told Dad if I could go to her house as a block teacher, I would be glad to be a teacher. To make a long story short, I married this girl in 1925.
"I joined a singing and dance group call the Harmony Night Hawks, which consisted of my brother Abe (the leader), Glenn Lee, Stuart McMaster, and Alan Mann. This group was very popular in the Salt Lake area. We played our first steady work at the Newhouse Hotel and at the Playhouse Theatre. All the boys in the orchestra were interested in graduating from college and used the music as a means to further this end. Radio was just coming in to its own, and the group decided to go to New York to explore the possibilities of this field. Alan Mann and Stuart McMaster stayed in Salt Lake, so we reorganized and left Salt Lake in 1929. We didn't get as far as New York, however. We stopped over in Chicago and we were offered work with Eddie Neibauer (a former Utahn) and his orchestra - so there we stayed and I studied at the Chicago Musical College. Unfortunately the depression hit Chicago and things became pretty rough. The bank in Chicago with all our money we had saved for school went broke. Mary and I put thirty dollars in the Postal Savings and said when we get down to that we'll go home. We got there, so we came home on Thanksgiving Day 1932. We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner in Evanston with Irene and Chub, and another with Mary's family when we arrived in Salt Lake. It felt mighty good to be home, but things were awful rough in Salt Lake too. Mary was able to get a job at Auerbach's (Marilyn, our first was 5 years old.) I received my degree from the McCune School in the following spring, 1935.
"I started teaching school in the fall of 1933. Things began to look up a little. Maurie was born in 1935 and we bought a home. I joined the Tabernacle Choir in 1936. Marcia was born in 1943. We have been blessed with our children. We are proud they are all college graduates and also musicians. Maurie and Marcia are playing in the Utah Symphony Orchestra. They are married to wonderful partners, we wouldn't have chosen any better and we love them dearly.
"Through the years I have worked in the Church as Ward Choir Leader, and Stake Music Director for the MIA. Mary was Secretary of the Primary for 6 years, then 2nd Counselor. Our children are carrying on the good work in the Church. They have all been married in the temple, and this is a great joy to us.
"I have finished my 31st year of teaching school and am looking forward to retiring. There is so much I want to do yet. I am grateful for my heritage and so proud I was born a Tueller."
--Source: Arch Tueller, May 11, 1966 | courtesy of Angie Bush | accessed and transcribed by Annie Duckett Hundley
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