“We sold our farm in Nampa in April of 1950 and moved to town where we rented a house near the First Ward building. We bought a new Ford automobile and after school was out we did some traveling and visiting. We spent a week at Rupert, Burley and Pocatello. We went to Provo and visited Lois and Jerry. We spent a day in Salt Lake City seeing the Temple grounds and other points of interest. In June we took a ten day trip to San Francisco. Hubert and his wife Anna lived in the San Bruno area and they delighted in showing their part of California. We took in Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf and several parks. We attended the Ice Follies and a beauty contest at Santa Cruz beach. We waded in the ocean but only waded as the water was so cold. We had a boat-ride around the Bay area which included going under the San Francisco-Oakland bridge. Our whole family was along on the trip except for Lois.On August 28, 1950 we moved to a 30 acre farm one-quarter mile from the town of Kuna, Idaho. It was a small community very like Acequia and we made some good friends especially among the church members. Here was born our second son, Joseph Dean, at the Mercy Hospital on May 31, 1951. He came along to gladden our home after the others were pretty well grown. Nola especially made a big fuss over him.
My mother passed away in Pocatello, Idaho on March 31, 1965. Mother had made her home with my brother Don for a number of years before she died. She was a strong spirit. She had to be both a mother and a family to us children, and we feel she did a fine job.
John’s sister Vera hurt her knee and had to have an operation in January 1965. She spent several months in a nursing home in Nampa before she could walk again and never recovered enough to come back to live with us. She passed away on January 3, 1975. She was a courageous, very intelligent woman.
My sister MayBelle died in Pocatello on October 28, 1987. Her husband Alfred had passed away just ten years earlier on October 28, 1977. Their marriage had been solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple. We had enjoyed her visits to Nampa to spend some time with us after she was widowed.
John retired from the sugar factory in 1966. He sold off the milk cows which lightened his work load immensely. We have always had a large garden and I have done a lot of canning and freezing. We enjoyed our years in Kuna. John worked quite a bit on helping build our new church building and it was dedicated November 1, 1964. I retired as a Primary teacher in November, 1964 and then worked as Junior Primary Secretary.
In the fall of 1964 we had some leveling done on our place in Kuna to make it easier to irrigate and to improve the lay of the land. It cost us $840.00 but the government paid $240.00 under a land improvement plan. Since we first moved to our place in Kuna we added a garage and granary and John and Jack and I hand dug a basement under the house. We built a utility porch in back and a front entrance porch. In July, 1964 we bought a new blue Plymouth Fury automobile from my brother Don. It was been our fourth new car in 39 years. Our first car was a Model A Ford in 1929, a Plymouth sedan in 1939, a Ford sedan in 1950 and a used Dodge in 1958. We also had a new pickup truck. John had farmed with horses for many years but in our later years on the farm in Kuna we had a tractor.”
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