Bee

Bee was born in a small town called Lovell, Wyoming.  She had 2 sisters and 2 brothers.  They didn't have an indoor bathroom or running water but they did have enough to eat cause they lived on a 160 acre farm.  Her dad was a farmer and rancher.

She used to sing duets with her sister and taught herself to yodel in the sugar beet field.  Her favorite childhood memory is when she would sit on the bank of the ditch and make doll furniture out of mud.  She would let it dry really hard and then paint it with scraps of house paint.

Bee had a blessing from a Stake Patriarch which said she would be the mother of a great posterity.  It took them 8 years to have their first child but ended up with four girls and one boy.  She has 34 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

Bee has served in many church callings in the junior sunday school and Relief Society and loved them all.  She and her husband served in San Paolo, Brazil, as the President of the missionary training center there from 1986 to 1989.

Shirley

Shirley was born in Panguitch, Utah.  She had one brother and three sisters.  She is the last surviving member in her family.  

Shirley married her husband Wes in 1943.  They have two sons and five daughters.  One daughter died at birth.

Her favorite memory is going through the Idaho temple and being sealed to her husband and the two children who were born at that time.  Wes' mom and brother were at the temple with them.

Shirley served for 30 years as a Primary teacher and in Cub Scouts but her favorite calling was as the Homemaking Leader in Relief Society because she loves crafts.

Piece of advice:  "Don't brag about how well you've been, cause it'll come to hit you."  She was very healthy until she turned 75 and since then has been in the hospital "too much."

Grace

Grace Mackay was born in Garfield, Utah. She graduated from South High School in Salt Lake City. She served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints in the Spanish American Mission from 1948-1950.


She married Theron in the Salt Lake Temple. They later moved to California, where they raised 6 children: 4 sons, 2 daughters. They also served as parents to Indian Placement Students.

She was active her entire life in the LDS Church; serving in all organizations with various callings. She especially loved working in Cub Scouting, where she taught hundreds of boys and their adult leaders, over the decades.
Her most important priority was her family. She was generous in spending her time with them and showing her support by atterlding events and volunteering for her children's teams.

Her legacy of faith and missionary work is exemplified by having five children and one foster daughter serve as missionaries. Grace and Theron served a mission together in the Ivory Coast Abidjan Mission from 1991 -1993. So far three grandsons have served missions. She was an active member ofthe Grandview Camp, Salt Lake Canyon Trails Company, Daughters ofthe Utah Pioneers.

Her love = family, her life = service to others, her legacy = her testimony ofand faith in the Savior to guide us in helping others.

Ruby

Ruby was born a few years ago on October 28th in Salt Lake City, Utah, to parents who immigrated from Norway.  Her father died when she was 12 years old.  Ruby's mother had a chicken farm, from which she supported her family.  Ruby and her three brothers learned the value of hard work while very young.  Ruby lived with her family on Atkin avenue and 20th East from the age of six until she married her husband, Cal.  They married in the Salt Lake Temple after Cal was released from the service.  She and Cal built their home on Atkin Avenue and have lived there ever since.  Cal passed away in January 2009.

Cal and Ruby have always had an orchard with fruit trees and a large garden.  Ruby has done extensive canning from their garden.  In addition she sewed most of her four children's clothes when they were young.  In recent years she has done arts and crafts for her daughters to enter in shows.

Ruby remembers when the ward was built.  She remembers the groundbreaking ceremony as well as President Grant's dedication of the building.  Before that she and her family attended the East Millcreek Ward and then the Wilford Ward.  President Hinckley was a counselor in the stake presidency in the East Millcreek Stake at the time this area was part of that stake.

Ruby has many fond memories of Relief Society.  She made many quilts, aprons, pajamas and embroidered items for bazaars.  In those early days the Relief Society had bazaars to raise money to pay their expenses; anything extra was donated to the ward budget.  She and Bea served as Relief Society counselors.  Ruby also served as a counselor and a secretary in the Primary.  She remembers the carnivals hosted by the Primary each summer for the Primary fun raising effort.  Ruby has many fond memories of serving in the church.

Ruby taught cooking classes in Relief Society for the ward and the stake.  She taught many cooking skills - even candy making which requires a high level of expertise.  She is an excellent cook and even worked in catering.  Ruby has had a rich, full life filled with hard work, discipoine and much service to the church.

Helen

Helen was born in Pleasant Grove, Utah.  She has four children, 2 boys and 2 girls, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.  Her greatest accomplishments are her family and being in the Marine Corps serving back east in North Carolina.

She remembers going with her parents as they went to many different places where her father worked on construction.  Helen says the Relief Society has always been very kind to her and she has loved being a part of it.

Faye

Faye was born in Castledale, Utah, in the back of the drugstore her father owned.  She still has the soda fountain from that drugstore in her basement!

Faye has four daughters, one deceased.  She also has fourteen grandchildren and twenty-four great grandchildren.

She remembers going with her parents, as a child, to Salt Lake City to visit her grandparents.  She would stay with them for a day or two and felt like she was treat like a queen.

Faye has moved twenty four times in her lifetime and remembers how warmly she was welcomed in Seattle.  Her greatest accomplishments are:  her family, graduating from college and receiving a scholarship from Columbia University.

Marian

Marion (left) and Faye

Marian was born in Ogden, Utah.  She has five children, four boys and one girl.  She has twenty-one grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Marian's greatest accomplishment is her family.  Marian is very warm, bright and patient.  One of her favorite memories is from when she was nine years old.  Marian had a fine brother three years younger than her but she wanted a sister.  When her mother was expecting she was very excited.  As the months went forward, she wanted a baby sister more and more.  Early one morning, as she slept, her father came into her room to gently wake her.  As he woke her he said, "Marian, youhave a new baby sister."  Her heart jumped with joy.  She remembers this story with clarity andhappiness after all these years.  Her "baby sister" has been a blessing.

Wilma

Wilma was born in Salt Lake City across the street from where she now lives on Melbourne.  She has four children and three great grandchildren.  Her greatest accomplishment is her family.

Wilma's favorite childhood memory is of going to church with her Granddad and having Sunday School next to the Ward being built in a flower patch.  She also remembers walking with her Granddad as he taught her about the beauty of God's world.

The words that best describe Wilma are friendly and sassy. 

She remembers a Relief Society lesson where the teacher gave everyone a paper bag to put all their troubles in.  The bags were placed on a table and mixed up all around.  At the end each sister decided she would keep her own troubles.

Juanita

Juanita was born in Ogden, Utah.  She has four children: 2 girls and 2 boys.  Her greatest accomplishment is her family.  Listening to lessons in Relief Society has strengthened her testimony.  Her favorite memory is of spednding time with her maternal Grandmother.  She learned all of her knitting and crocheting skills from her Grandmother.  Her Grandmother was around from the time Juanita was 2 until Juanita's oldest son was one.

Spotlight on Elizabeth

This month in Relief Society one of our young women (pictured above on the left) spotlighted Elizabeth Z. (on the right).  We found out that Elizabeth loves the color purple and sugar cookies.  She is the mother of two boys and two girls.  Her oldest son says that she makes "the best" Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies.  Elizabeth loves her family, flipflops, scrapbooking, goodreads.com, nertz, Macaroni Grill and girls night out.   Elizabeth was given an award for being the Best Neighborhood Mom as she always has a yard full of children hanging out and playing games.  Elizabeth is currently serving as a Cub Scout Den Leader and schedules activities for the Ward Building.