Summer 1915 to Dec 1915- Montpelier, Idaho

With parents, brother Don, and sister Reva.

Reva tells me she remembers my learning to walk- also, that she was jealous because my parents gave me lots of attention and affection.

Dad taught mathematics in the high school in Pocatello (neighboring town)

Don did not go to school that year on schedule because there was too much snow that year for children to walk and the schools were closed much of the winter. He started again the next year (in Ephraim) in the first grade with Reva.

Dad died in Dec. 1915 of peritonitis from an infected, ruptured appendix.

Mother later told me that one early afternoon after Dad died I cam running into the house from outdoor play and said I had just seen Dad. Mom tried to explain to me that sometimes someone a distance away might look like someone we know but that Dad was not anywhere near us, he was gone. I said "No, he was on the path leading to the back door, where I was playing, and he told me that he had to leave us and be gone but everything would be alright."

We left to return to Utah soon after.