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Aunt Liza & others gave us fruit, it was such a treat for us to have so many apples. Fruit was plentiful that year. Golden & Josephine lived in Holbrook the time I had a serious attack of appendicitis. After I was healed by the Lord, I felt the healing so plainly when Forest & his father administered to me & was healed instantly. Hugh & his father administered to me before & I felt better but the pain came back but that last time I was healed & so thankful that I was spared to my family. After I got some strength Josephine invited her father & I to visit her & Golden we enjoyed the visit with them in Holbrook.
Jay started the foundation for a new house for us before his truck burned. The new truck cost too much for him to also build for us & that trucking is how he made a living. Moroni got more feeble, the paralysis he had got worse. He got so he couldn't walk alone, I helped him wherever he went. One day while I was out hoeing in the garden he got out in the yard & fell injuring his hip badly. Dr said it wasn't out of place nor broken but it was so painful & he was in bed 6 months. I read the news & other things to him every day, he was a great reader, had a wonderful memory & understood the gospel, he taught it to us constantly. He was very tender-hearted, tears came into his eyes often as he read a sad story. He was always so considerate & kind to us. His mind was clear to the last but he got so he
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couldn't talk. I tried so hard to do my part & be kind & patient with him as he had been to me in all our lives. He was so helpless for so long that it wasn't as hard to see him go as if he had been well & a hope of his getting better, but how we did miss his love & kindness. We had a happy life with peace & love for so many years. He was kind to the children too. When he was gone & while he was feeble, we missed his teachings & love. He died 12th February 1930 in the old home in St.Johns. It was hard to adjust our lives without him. He had said to me some years before that I would be likely to live longer than he & said 'Will you raise the children as I want them to be?' I wanted them all to be what we had worked & planned for them, to be true Latter-Day Saints. I felt a great responsibility when he left me alone to guide & teach them & how we wished we could remember all his teachings. As they, Vivian, Jay & Daisy began to go out with the young folks after he left us, I was always praying they would keep pure & find pure mates. Jay took the farm the first year after his father died. Daisy & I went with him. Vivian stayed in town & worked at Andersons Market & went to school. Jay drove the school bus to & from Richville & St.Johns, leaving Richville with school children & bringing them back after school. Josephine & Golden lived in the old house, Vivian stayed with them.
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