Alphabetical Alumni
Jordan, L. Eugene [Leonard Eugene]

Jordan, L. Eugene [Leonard Eugene]
Enterprise, Oregon US

Eugene and Mary Jordan

BY Academy High School Class of 1896. L. E. Jordan. Graduated May 1896 with diploma from the Commercial program. Source 1: Deseret News, May 30, 1896. ~ ~ ~ ~ L. E. Jordan of Mt. Pleasant, Utah, Commercial Class of 1896. Source 2: Graduation Program 1896. Source 3: Annual Brigham Young Academy Vol. VI, BYU Special Collections, UA 1008, Box 1, Fd 1. ~ ~ ~ ~ L. [Leonard] Eugene Jordan was born on June 22, 1874 in St. John, Tooele County, Utah. His parents were Leonard J. Jordan and Emily Maria Caldwell Jordan. He married Mary Irene Beck on August 26, 1896 in Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah. Mary was born on September 8, 1874 in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. Her parents were Hans Christian Hansen Beck and Mary Olsen Beck. Mary Jordan died on January 5, 1949 in Enterprise, Oregon. Her interment, Enterprise, Oregon. Eugene Jordan died on August 31, 1948 in Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon. His interment, Enterprise, Oregon.

Jorgensen, Enoch

Jorgensen, Enoch

Enoch Jorgensen

BY Academy High School Class of 1889. Enoch Jorgensen received Certificates: Penmanship, Elocution, and Rhetoric. Source: Utah Enquirer, May 28, 1889.

Jorgensen, Eula

Jorgensen, Eula

Eula Jorgensen

Class of 1918. Eula Jorgensen. She received a BYH Normal Certificate in 1918. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 10, page 116.

Jorgensen, Frank

Frank Jorgensen

Class of 1928. Frank Jorgensen. Graduated from Brigham Young High School on Thursday, May 24, 1928. Source: The Evening Herald, Provo, Utah, May 23, 1928. IS THIS? ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS OBITUARY: V. Frank Jorgensen, age 80, died August 30, 1990, in Lomita, California. He was born in Salina, Utah, April 30, 1910, to H. Frank Jorgensen and Bertha Olsen Jorgensen. He married Ruth Harding of Payson, Utah in Salt Lake City April 8, 1937. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. Frank graduated from Brigham Young University in 1934, and from the University of Southern California in 1940, with a Master of Arts degree. Mr. Jorgensen taught school for 40 years on all levels of education. He taught at Granite High School in Salt Lake City for 16 years, and at El Camino, College in Torrance, California for 20 years. Frank was greatly loved by his family. He is survived by: His wife, Ruth, Lomita, Calif.; one son, Vern, Chula Vista, Calif.; daughters, Mrs. Bill (Marie) Stewart, Salt Lake City, Utah; Mrs. Ronald Watkins (Phyllis), Rancho Bernardo, Calif.; Mrs. Tod Johnson (Lucille), Ramona, Calif.; and 23 grandchildren; one sister, Olean Allred, preceded him in death. Services were held Wednesday, September 5, 1990, in the Palos Verdes LDS Stake Center in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Interment was held in the El Camino Memorial Park in San Diego, California. [Deseret News, September 16, 1990] Full name: Vern Frank Jorgensen

Jorgensen, Josephine M.

Jorgensen, Josephine M.

Josephine Jorgensen

Brigham Young High School Graduate, Class of 1905. Josephine M. Jorgensen. She also received a Special Certificate in Nursing and Obstetrics. Source: Students Record of Class Standings B.Y. Academy, Book 2, Page 247.

Jorgensen, Ovena Andrea

Jorgensen, Ovena Andrea
Salt Lake City, Utah US

Ovena and William Ockey

1900 Collegiate Graduate of BYA. Ovena Jorgensen, Bachelor of Pedagogy (B.Pd.), awarded at Commencement Exercises held on Monday Evening, May 28, 1900. She delivered the Prognostication address on that occasion. Source 1: Graduation program. BY Academy Collegiate Class of 1900, BYU Special Collections, UA 1008, Box 1, Folder 2. ~ ~ ~ ~ Ovena Andrea Jorgensen received a Diploma: Bachelor of Pedagogy (B.Pd.). Source 2: Deseret Evening News, June 2, 1900. ~ ~ ~ ~ Source 3: Ovena Jorgensen, Degree, Students Record of Class Standings B.Y. Academy, Book 1, page 73. ~ ~ ~ ~ Ovena Andrea Jorgensen was born on June 19, 1874 in West Jordan, Utah. Her parents were Hans Carl Lauritz Jorgensen and Ovina [or Ovena or Ovine] Andrea Hansen Jorgensen. Their daughter, Ovena Andrea Jorgensen, married William Cole Ockey on September 14, 1898. Ovena A. Ockey died on August 11, 1963 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery, Utah.

Jorgensen, Rhoda

Jorgensen, Rhoda

Rhoda Jorgensen

Class of 1918. Rhoda Jorgensen. She received a BYH Normal Certificate in 1918. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 10, page 116.

Jorgenson, Ellen Olean

Jorgenson, Ellen Olean
Salt Lake City, Utah US

Olean and Perry Allred

Class of 1921. Olean Jorgenson [Allred]. She received a BYH Normal Certificate in 1921. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 10, page 278. ~ ~ ~ ~ Ellen Olean Jorgenson was born on June 22, 1903 in Fountain Green, Utah. Her parents were Herman Franklin Jorgensen and Bertha Ann Olsen Jorgensen. Olean married Perry Leon Allred on October 3, 1923 in Fountain Green, Utah. Olean Jorgenson Allred died on July 7, 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her interment, Fountain Green, Utah.

Jorgenson, Harry

Harry Jorgenson

Class of 1936. Harry Jorgenson. Source: 1936 BYH Wildcat yearbook. ~ ~ ~ ~ IS THIS? Harry Jorgenson born July 13, 1917; died June 6, 2004 in Derby, Kansas?

Jorgenson, Jean

Jorgenson, Jean
1381 Box Canyon Road
San Jose, California 95120 US

Jean and Kent Pedersen
  • Work: 408-554-4538
  • Toll Free: 408-554-4000

Class of 1952. Jean Jorgenson. Notre Maison. Also Faculty & Staff, 1955-56, Mathematics. Married Kent A. Pedersen on May 31, 1956 and we have two children, Chris Pedersen (married Suzanna Shurtleff) and Jennifer Pedersen Hooper (married Richard Hooper). ~ ~ ~ ~ Jean taught mathematics at BY High School during the 1955-56 school year. She is now professor of Mathematics & Computer Science at Santa Clara University. @2006 ~ ~ ~ ~ HER OBITUARY: Jean Pedersen passed away on January 1, 2016, at the age of 81. She was a professor at Santa Clara University until her retirement, and she was a member of the MAA for 49 years. Pedersen was known for her research, writing and speaking on polyhedral geometry, combinatorics, and number theory, and with Peter Hilton, Pedersen co-authored A Mathematical Tapestry: Demonstrating the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics. For the MAA, she served on the Spectrum editorial board, and she was awarded the Golden Section’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997. Much more information about her life and career can be found on this page of remembrances from Santa Clara University. There is also a wonderful photograph of Pedersen posted on the SCU web site. ~ ~ ~ ~ ADDITIONAL TRIBUTE: Jean Pedersen It is very sad and unusual to lose an active member of the faculty during the academic year, and so I acknowledge the passing of Jean Pedersen of our department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Jean arrived at Santa Clara in 1972 and made this her academic home. Jean was a popular professor and the author of 214 research papers, reviews and pedagogical works, 13 books, 3 translations, and 8 videos. She touched many lives, as I heard at her funeral from her departmental colleagues and from present students and alumni. As a member of our Santa Clara family, we remember her with deep appreciation. .... It is with sadness that I announce the death of longtime math professor Jean Pedersen, who died on January 1 with her family by her side. Our hearts go out to Professor Pedersen's children, Jenni and Chris, for such a loss, and one so soon after their father's passing. Professor Pedersen was a true pillar of the University and of its math department. Known for her kindness in welcoming newcomers to the University and her collegiality among her fellow faculty, she had a great love for Santa Clara University and a passion for teaching math. Professor Pedersen began her teaching career at Santa Clara in 1966 when she became the first woman to teach mathematics here. She later became the first woman to be granted tenure in the Mathematics Department. A published author, guest lecturer for numerous professional programs and associations, and generous member of the University community, she modeled the best of the teaching scholar. Santa Clara University has lost a leading light in Professor Pedersen, and while we mourn her loss, we remember the great gift of her life. .... Jean J. Pedersen, a long-time professor of mathematics at Santa Clara, died on New Year’s Day 2016 in a Los Gatos hospital after a long series of medical problems. She was born into a family in Provo, Utah; her father was an ophthalmologist, her mother a teacher. She had a younger brother who became an architect in Seattle, and a son and daughter, Chris a Silicon Valley engineer and Jennifer, who teaches mathematics at Utah Valley University in Orem. She had six grandchildren. Jean attended college at Brigham Young University where, given the culture of that time, she majored initially in home economics, only later discovering the beauty of mathematics. So thus motivated when she moved to the University of Utah at Salt Lake City for graduate study, she switched to mathematics. Ultimately she wrote a thesis on algebra under the direction of E. Allen Davis, a well-known mathematician at the University. There she had as a student in one of her classes, an engineering major, Kent Pedersen, whom she later married. Soon after their marriage and Kent’s accepting a position at IBM, they moved to San Jose where they remained. Kent died roughly one year before Jean’s death. After starting a family, Jean joined the Santa Clara University mathematics faculty initially teaching only part-time. Proving herself to be such a spectacularly good teacher, she was transferred to being full-time and eventually to the rank of full professor by 1996. Under the guidance of the legendary mathematician and teacher, George Polya, at Stanford University and later a long series of collaborations with the internationally known British topologist, Peter J. Hilton, Jean performed mathematical research, writing and speaking on polyhedral geometry, combinatorics,and number theory. Hilton had held positions at Oxford, Cambridge, Case Western Reserve, and Cornell, and had been one of the mathematicians that cracked the enigma code at Bletchley Park, led by Alan Turing. Pedersen’s list of publications runs to 214 research papers, reviews and pedagogical works, 13 books, 3 translations, and 8 videotapes. Others await publication. She was eventually to become an Erskine Fellow at the University of Christ Church in New Zealand, a repeated visitor at the University of Capetown in South Africa, and a repeated short-term visitor at the Forschungs Institut für Mathematikc at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule/Zurich. A populist lecturer, Jean was often asked to speak at meetings from departmental colloquia to regional meetings to international congresses. These talks spread from the Bay Area to Australia, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Kuala Lumpur, Delft, Haifa, and many other locations. These presentations often led to collaborators in mathematics (Glenn Appleby, Astrid Bonning, James H. Foster, Walter Gross, Michael Hendy, Bruce Love, Larry Somer, Jurgen Stigter, Tibor Tarnai, Byron Walden, Hans Walser, Tamsen Whitehead); in mathematics education (Franz O. Armbruster, Diane Mendence, E. Allen Davis, Derek Holton, George Polya, Peter Ross, Martin Gardner); general mathematics (Youseff Alavi, Ronald Graham) and algebra (Tibor Tarnai, Carlos Sequin). Jean was a member of numerous MAA and Association of Women in Mathematics, was a one-time member of the Editorial Board of Mathematics Magazine, and was a pioneer director of a “Women and Mathematics” lecture series to attract women into mathematics majors. She was the advisor of our own chapter of AWM. Jean always gave people the impression that being on the mathematics faculty, as teacher, advisor, and friend, was a profession that is just as good as it gets. And as members of the faculty in mathematics at Santa Clara, having Jean as a colleague, we feel that that’s just as good as it gets! Source

Joseph, John F.

Joseph, John F.

John Joseph

Brigham Young High School Graduate, Class of 1905. John Joseph graduated from the BY High School Normal Department on Wednesday, May 31, 1905, in College Hall. Source 1: Program, Normal & High School Graduating Exercises, Wednesday, May 31, 1905, College Hall. ~ ~ ~ ~ Brigham Young High School Class of 1905. John F. Joseph. He received a Normal Diploma. Source 2: Students Record of Class Standings B. Y. Academy, Book 2, Page 219. ~ ~ ~ ~ BYH Class of 1905. John Joseph, a Normal graduate. BYU [& BYH] Class of 1905 Listing of BYH Normal, High School, Commercial, Music & Arts and Industries Graduates, Catalogues & Announcements, for 30th Academic Year, 1905-1906, p. 176.

Joseph, William A.

Joseph, William A.

William Joseph

Brigham Young High School Graduate, Class of 1905. William A. Joseph graduated from the BY High School Normal Department on Wednesday, May 31, 1905, in College Hall. Source 1: Program, Normal & High School Graduating Exercises, Wednesday, May 31, 1905, College Hall. ~ ~ ~ ~ Brigham Young High School Class of 1905. William A. Joseph. He received a Normal Diploma. Source 2: Students Record of Class Standings B. Y. Academy, Book 2, Page 219. ~ ~ ~ ~ BYH Class of 1905. Wm. A. Joseph, a Normal graduate. BYU [& BYH] Class of 1905 Listing of BYH Normal, High School, Commercial, Music & Arts and Industries Graduates, Catalogues & Announcements, for 30th Academic Year, 1905-1906, p. 176.

Judd, James S., Jr.
2499 West 5780 South
Salt Lake City, Utah 84118-1927

Jim and JoAnn Judd
  • Work: (801) 996-3321, (801) 969-9620

Class of 1951. Football, Track, Lettermen, Chorus, Club Office. BYU BA 1957. Married JoAnn. Parents: James Sevey Judd, Sr. and Claree Allred (dec.), wife, Edna Bennion (dec.), wife, Arlene Grey (dec.), wife, and Dawn, wife. Eight children: James Sevey Judd, Jr. [BYH Class of 1951) (JoAnn), Salt Lake City; Richard "Pinky" Judd (dec.) [BYH Class of 1954]; Craig Judd (dec.); Mariba Judd Jacobson [BYH Class of 1956] (Paul), Orem; Muriel Kanan (Mike), Arizona; Robert Judd (Deanna), Oregon; Steven Judd (Chris), Arizona; and David Judd (Sherry), Orem. Two stepchildren: Lois Farney, Cedar City; and Paul Mecham (Peggy), Morgan, Utah.

Judd, Mariba
760 South 600 West
Orem, Utah 84058-6019 US

Mariba and Paul Jacobsen
  • Work: (801) 225-5381

Class of 1956. Mariba Judd. Debate Region, Childrens Theater, Contest Play, Pep Club, Notre Maison, Chorus, Junior Prom Committee, Senior Sluff Day Committee, Senior Hop Committee. BYU BS Elementary Instruction 1960. ~ ~ ~ ~ Mariba is the daughter of James Sevey Judd, Sr. and Claree Allred. Her siblings are James Sevey Judd, Jr. [BYH Class of 1951] (JoAnn), Salt Lake City; Richard "Pinky" Judd [BYH Class of 1954] (deceased); Craig Judd (deceased); Muriel Kanan (Mike), Arizona; Robert Judd (Deanna), Oregon; Steven Judd (Chris), Arizona; and David Judd (Sherry), Orem. ~ ~ ~ ~ After graduating from high school, I spent the next six summers working as a waitress at the Grand Canyon. (My husband and I worked there the first summer after we were married.) While attending BYU, I met and married a super young man from Orem named Paul Jacobsen. After graduating from the Y, Paul attended UCLA’s Physical Therapy Program. I taught for two years for the Los Angeles School District. Upon graduating from therapy school, we moved back to Utah Valley where we both wanted to make our home. Paul opened a private practice in Provo and I stayed at home in Orem where we raised five beautiful daughters. (We lost a baby twin sister at two days with our third daughter.) When our youngest daughter started first grade, I decided I wanted to spend a few more years teaching. I taught fourth grade for eighteen years at Cherry Hill Elementary in Orem. In 2001 Paul and I retired and spent three years traveling and serving at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City. In June of 2005, we received a call to be full-time missionaries at the Mission Training Center in Provo. We are the directors of the International Office. There are four full-time couples in our office. We help and serve all missionaries that come from outside the United States. It is a wonderful blessing and we get to sleep in our own home every night. Life has been GOOD to me! @2006 Married Paul R. Jacobson. Parents: James Sevey Judd, Sr. and Claree Allred (dec.), wife, Edna Bennion (dec.), wife, Arlene Grey (dec.), wife, and Dawn, wife. Eight children: James Sevey Judd, Jr. [BYH Class of 1951) (JoAnn), Salt Lake City; Richard "Pinky" Judd (dec.) [BYH Class of 1954]; Craig Judd (dec.); Mariba Judd Jacobson [BYH Class of 1956] (Paul), Orem; Muriel Kanan (Mike), Arizona; Robert Judd (Deanna), Oregon; Steven Judd (Chris), Arizona; and David Judd (Sherry), Orem. Two stepchildren: Lois Farney, Cedar City; and Paul Mecham (Peggy), Morgan, Utah.

Judd, Parley H.

Judd, Parley H.
Provo, Utah

Parley and Virginia Judd

Class of 1950. Band, Chorus. Parley Hortt Judd, born 16 February 1931 in Provo, Utah. Married Virginia Munson. Parents: Parley W. Judd & Eloise Hortt Judd. Died 17 March 1974, also in Provo. Buried, Provo City Cemetery.

Judd, Richard Clark

Judd, Richard Clark
Provo, Utah US

Richard (Pinky) Judd

Class of 1954. Richard "Pinky" Judd. Student Body Business Manager. Football, Track, Lettermen, Chorus, Debate, Short Plays, Childrens Theater. His parents: James Sevey Judd, Sr. and Claree Allred Judd. James Sevey Judd, Sr., also married Edna Bennion; and also Arlene Grey; and also Dawn. James Sevey Judd, Sr., had eight children: James Sevey Judd, Jr. [BYH Class of 1951) (JoAnn), Salt Lake City; Richard "Pinky" Clark Judd [BYH Class of 1954]; Craig Judd (dec.); Mariba Judd Jacobson [BYH Class of 1956] (Paul), Orem; Muriel Kanan (Mike), Arizona; Robert Judd (Deanna), Oregon; Steven Judd (Chris), Arizona; and David Judd (Sherry), Orem. Two stepchildren: Lois Farney, Cedar City; and Paul Mecham (Peggy), Morgan, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ Richard Clark Judd was born on August 5, 1936 in Delta, Utah. He died on June 19, 1957. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

Justesen, Osmond

Justesen, Osmond
Provo, Utah US

Osmond Justesen

Faculty & Staff. Osmond Justesen, Training School, 1903-1904.

Kanahele, Kauana
[Last known address]
55-127 Naupaka St.
Laie, Hawaii 96762-1130 US

Kauana and Leroy Pukahi
  • Work: (808) 293-2181

Class of 1952. Kauana Kanahele. Chorus. Married Leroy Pukahi. Kauana Kanahele Pukahi, Laie, Hawaii, has three daughters and two grandchildren. She still has a beautiful singing voice. Her parents: Clinton J. Kanahele, and Agnes Sanford Kanahele, both deceased. Children of Clinton J. Kanahele, Sr., and Agnes Sanford Kanahele: Six sons: Clinton Joshua Kanahele, Jr., Daniel Kelii Kanahele, George Kanahele, Albert Kanahele, Ashley Kanahele and Henry Kanahele; Seven daughters: Winona Kanahele Jensen, Thelma Kanahele Sorensen, Eleanor Kanahele Locey, Ruth [Leialoha] Kanahele Iversen, Abigail [Jamsie]Kanahele Lindholm, Laura Kanahele Keawe-Aiko [or Aiko], and Kauana Kanahele Pukahi. [Note: Do not confuse Kauana Kanahele Pukahi with Kauana Kanahele Jackson of Henderson, Nevada, a niece of the Kauana Kanahele of BYH.]

Karren, Thomas A.
PO Box 35
24 E 1st Ave S
Magrath, Alberta, Canada T0K 1J0 CA

Tom & Joan Karren
  • Work: (403) 758-3473

Class of 1950. Tom Karren. Member of the State Championship Basketball team of 1948-1949 & 1949-1950, Baseball, Football, Junior Class President, Chorus, Lettermen. A member of the Canadian contingent at BYH. He played on the varsity BYU Basketball Team. BYU BA 1954. He married Joan Blumell, daughter of James Elton Blumell and Mary Margaret Ririe Blumell. They live in Magrath, Alberta, Canada, where the city gymnasium is named Tom Karren Gym.

Kartchner, Alma

Alma Kartchner

Class of 1927. Alma Kartchner. He is pictured with the BYH Class of 1927 in the BYU Banyan yearbook, BYH section. ~ ~ ~ ~ The Kartchner children grew up in Provo with their widowed mother, Rose Heath Kartchner. The children included: Ray, Alma, Ethel, Ruth, and Fred. Their father, Asael Wain Kartchner, died when the children were young. Growing up during hard economic times taught them to work hard, to be resourceful, to persevere, to seek education, and to be very frugal. In Provo of the 1920's, the boys grew up skinny dipping with their pals in the Provo River, picking raspberries and peaches on their Uncle's farm on the Orem bench, working one odd job after another to earn a little extra cash, hiking Timp every summer and some of the boys hopped freights to Wyoming and back. The children pursued their educations and had families.

Kartchner, Ethel

Kartchner, Ethel
Provo, Utah US

Ethel and Delbert Kartchner

Class of 1925. Ethel Kartchner. Source 1: 1925 BYU Banyan yearbook, BYH section. ~ ~ ~ ~ Class of 1925. Ethel Kartchner. She graduated from Brigham Young High School in 1925. Source: Class Roll in the program of Closing Exercises of the Senior High School Class, Brigham Young University, 1925. ~ ~ ~ ~ Ethel Kartchner's parents: Asael Wain Kartchner, who died at the age of 33 in 1915, and Rose Heath Kartchner, who raised her five children as a single mother. Their children included two girls and three boys: Ethel Kartchner [BYH Class of 1925] [1907-1978], of Provo, Utah [married Delbert Van Tregeagle]; Alma H. Kartchner, Palo Alto, California [married ______ Larsen]; Dr. Ruth Kartchner [1911-1998] [PhD, pioneer in Special Education] of Provo and Salt Lake City [married Marion E. Hammond]; Ray W. Kartchner, of Bountiful, Utah [married ______ Skousen]; and Dr. Fred D. Kartchner [BYH Class of 1932 or 1933?] [1914-1980], of Provo, Utah [married Ruth Elaine Taylor]. ~ ~ ~ ~ Ethel Kartchner was born on October 11, 1907 in Provo, Utah. Her parents were Asael Wain Kartchner and Rosenea Heath Kartchner. She married Delbert Van Tregeagle on August 18, 1926 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Delbert was born on June 19, 1904 in Salt Lake City, Utah. His parents were James Eli Tregeagle and Bertena Brown Tregeagle. He died on April 20, 1979 in Provo, Utah. Ethel Kartchner Tregeagle died on April 1, 1978 in Provo, Utah.

Kartchner, Floy

Kartchner, Floy
Mesa, Arizona US

Floy and Max Sadler

Class of 1914. Floy Kartchner. She received a BYH Art & Manual Training Diploma in 1914. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 7, page 474. ~ ~ ~ ~ Floy Kartchner was born on April 16, 1886 in Snowflake, Navajo County, Arizona. Her parents were Nowlin Decator Karchner and Margaret Emma Savage Kartchner. Floy married Micajah (Max) Sadler on June 3, 1925 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Floy Kartchner Sadler died on November 11, 1976 in Mesa, Arizona.

Kartchner, Fred Dixon

Kartchner, Fred Dixon
Provo, Utah US

Fred and Ruth Kartchner

Class of 1932. Fred Kartchner. Graduated from Brigham Young High School on Thursday, June 2, 1932. Source: The Evening Herald, Provo, Utah, Wednesday, June 1, 1932. ~ ~ ~ ~ Fred Kartchner played a part in the annual BYH play, "The Youngest", presented in College Hall on December 12, 1930. He was a member of the BYH Debate Team during the 1930-1931 school year. Source: BYU Banyan 1931. ~ ~ His parents: Asael Wain Kartchner, who died at the age of 33 in 1915, and Rose Heath Kartchner, who raised her five children as a single mother. Their children included two girls and three boys: Ethel Kartchner [BYH Class of 1925] [1907-1978] , of Provo, Utah [married Delbert Van Tregeagle]; Alma H. Kartchner, Palo Alto, California [married ______ Larsen]; Dr. Ruth Kartchner [1911-1998] [PhD, pioneer in Special Education] of Provo and Salt Lake City [married Marion E. Hammond]; Ray W. Kartchner, of Bountiful, Utah [married ______ Skousen]; and Dr. Fred D. Kartchner [BYH Class of 1932] [1914-1980], of Provo, Utah [married Ruth Elaine Taylor]. ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS OBITUARY: Fred Dixon Kartchner was born on December 6, 1914 in Provo, Utah. His parents were Asael Wain Kartchner and Resenea Heath Kartchner. Fred graduated from Brigham Young High School in the Class of 1932. He did his first two years of medical school at the University of Utah, then finished up at the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver. He married Ruth Elaine Taylor, daughter of Arthur Nicholls Taylor and Maria Louise Dixon Taylor. Dr. Fred Kartchner died on March 16, 1980 in Provo, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS WIFE'S OBITUARY: Ruth Elaine Taylor Kartchner died, 20 October 2015, after a fall at home. Born March 20, 1917, in Provo, Utah, eighth and last child of Arthur Nicholls and Maria Dixon Taylor. Married Fred D. Kartchner on June 8, 1942; they had eight children: Linda, (Steven) Tyler, Kenneth, (Marianne Davis), Elaine, 4 months (died 1945), Ellen (Rand) Farrer, Richard (Katherine Andersen), David (Joyce Martell), Rosena (Alan) Heal, Mary Ann (Jan) Alley. Preceded in death by her husband (March 16, 1980) and all her brothers and sister: Arthur, Lynn, Elton, Henry, Alice Nelson, Clarence, Kenneth. She was the grandmother of 37 and great-grandmother of 89. “Ruthie” grew up on 5th West in Provo, amongst aunts and uncles, cousins and friends in the Provo 3rd Ward. The “gang” slid down the irrigation ditch in the summer, strapped on roller skates to enjoy Highway 89 when it was first paved, and enjoyed childhood freedom in a Provo that has passed into history. She spent summers at Wildwood in Provo Canyon in a cabin her parents had built, and later with Fred in their own summer home, an anchor for the LDS branch primary and Relief Society. She saw Fred through the last years of medical school at the University of Utah and joined him in Hawaii after VJ day with their first two children and Fred’s mother, Rosenea. In 1950 they made their home in the Provo 5th Ward where Ruth was the Primary President and mother of a growing family. In 1958 they built a home in Oak Hills where she remained until her death. Faithful and active throughout her life, Ruth was an indefatigable Guide Patrol leader in both the Provo 5th and Oak Hills wards, a Laurel leader, in 2014, participated in the Provo Freedom 5K Run/Walk, and in her 80’s was a Primary teacher. She gave compassionate service to any in need longer than anyone can remember. She walked 2 miles on foothill roads every weekday until just recently. Her posterity and two generations of children in Oak Hills knew there would always be a smile, a hug, and an Oreo cookie at Grandma Kartchner’s. In 1991 she wrote her history, available online at https://archive.org/stream/withpeacefulfait00kart#page/18/mode/2up. It is appropriately titled, “With Peaceful Faith, Cheer Me on My Way.” We do . . . because of the incomparable example she set. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, November 6, 2015 at the Oak Hills 6th Ward Chapel, 1960 North 1500 East, Provo, Utah. Friends may call at the Berg Mortuary of Provo, 185 East Center Street, Thursday, November 5, from 6-8 p.m. and at the church Friday from 9:30–10:45 a.m. prior to services. Interment will be in the Provo City Cemetery. Condolences may be extended to the family at www.bergmortuary.com. [Provo Daily Herald, November 1, 2015]

Kartchner, James Anderson

Kartchner, James Anderson
St. David, Arizona US

James and Lois Kartchner

Class of 1919. James Kartchner graduated from BYH in College Hall on Wednesday, May 28, 1919. Source: 1919 Graduation Program. ~ ~ ~ ~ Collegiate Grad of BYU, Class of 1926. James A. Kartchner. He received a BS Degree in Horticulture in 1926. Source: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 10, page 322. ~ ~ ~ ~ James Anderson Kartchner, educator and rancher, of St. David, Arizona, was born on January 19, 1901, in Provo, Utah. His parents were Mark Elisha Kartchner and Ellen Matilda Loveless. ~ ~ ~ ~ He married twice: first, to Harriet Marie Adams who was born on October 9, 1904 in Logan, Utah [or Newmarket, Flint, Wales]. Her parents were John Quincy Adams and Armenia Julia Parry Adams. She married James A. Kartchner on June 6, 1928 in Logan, Utah. She died less than one year later on April 5, 1929, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Her interment, Logan, Utah. ~ ~ James A. Karchner second married Lois Martineau on June 3, 1930, in Colonia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Lois was born on September 27, 1910 in Garcia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Lois was the daughter of Charles Henry Martineau and Florence Whetten. She died on November 3, 2001. James A. Kartchner died on June 12, 1986. ~ ~ ~ ~ James A. Kartchner was the owner of the property where, in 1974, large caverns were discovered, which in 1988 became Kartchner Caverns State Park. James Kartchner may have been the first to notice something a little unusual about the hills containing the cave that now bears his name. Kartchner was an educator and a rancher in St. David, a small town east of the Whetstone Mountains, in southeastern Arizona. Whenever he and his sons would ride the hills to check on their cattle, their horses' hoofs made a peculiar sound on the limestone rock. "You know," Kartchner commented to his sons, "it sounds like these hills are hollow." Kartchner had bought land in the Whetstones, about 40 miles southeast of Tucson, in 1942. It would be another 32 years before he or anyone else would discover just how hollow the hills were. Various spelunkers, amateur cave explorers, had poked around the Whetstones hoping to find a new cave. Cavers look for certain telltale clues. If the area contains limestone, it may also contain caves because limestone dissolves when water seeps through it, forming underground cavities. Sinkholes are another good sign. A sinkhole is a depression in the ground created when these cavities collapse. The Whetstones have the most extensive limestone deposits in southern Arizona and are riddled with sinkholes. But until 1974 no one had ever found a cave worth talking about. In the many years since 1978, when Randy Tufts and Gary Tenen, the two college students who discovered the caves, first approached James Kartchner in his front yard, they have repeatedly commented on the cave's good fortune to remain unknown until it could be protected. More precious to them than gold was their 1974 discovery of an untouched natural treasure, a living cave with growing calcite formations, hidden under the desert floor for more than a million years. James Kartchner had been a science teacher and the superintendent of schools in St. David. He and his wife, Lois, had 10 children of their own and two that they adopted. Six of their children are medical doctors, and one has a Ph.D. They quickly realized James Kartchner was at least as interested in geology and related matters as they were. When Kartchner was 78, he and five of his sons accompanied Tufts and Tenen on a tour of the cave in 1979. "We were in complete disbelief at the size and beauty of it," said Max Kartchner, an anesthesiologist who lives in Benson. "It was almost a sacred experience, so exquisite and out of this world." Finally, in 1984, Tufts and Tenen decided that maybe the state of Arizona would be interested in purchasing the site to develop it as a state park. The discoverers approached Governor Bruce Babbitt. The governor was interested, but wanted to see the cave for himself. Babbitt, who had a background in geology before he became a lawyer, toured the cave in April 1985. He brought along his sons, Chris, 10, and T.J., 8, first making them promise they would keep it a secret. He also lectured them on not touching anything and following directions carefully. Impressed with what he saw, Babbitt threw his support behind the clandestine movement to get the cave into public ownership. It took three more years, two more governors, two more state parks directors, and some tense, behind-the-scenes political maneuvering, before the state finally bought the cave. Everyone involved was so consumed with the need for secrecy that State Parks Director Ken Travous asked legislative leaders to write a bill authorizing the cave's purchase but to obscure the bill's language so that no one would know exactly what was being purchased until the day of the vote. The Kartchners sold 550 acres above and around the caverns to the state, creating a new park where environmental awareness and preservation, rather than recreation, were the key elements. The Kartchners, who had owned the ranch since 1941, couldn't have anticipated that the development and commercialization of the cave would cost more than $28 million. Kartchner Caverns became a state park so that it could be preserved and protected and used as a living classroom where the public could learn something about earth sciences and the fragile life of a cave environment. "But," asks Tufts, "what is the key point about Kartchner? Not that it is beautiful nor that it will spur growth in Benson, but the fact that it is in excellent condition and is being kept that way for posterity. That's why it's attractive." ~ ~ ~ ~ On June 12, 1986, James Anderson Kartchner died at the age of 85.

Kartchner, Jesse Cecil

Kartchner, Jesse Cecil

Jesse and Hazel Kartchner

Class of 1918. Jesse Cecil Kartchner. Academic Department. He graduated Monday Evening, May 27, 1918. Source 1: 1918 Graduation Program. ~ ~ ~ ~ Second source: 1918 BYU Banyan, High School section, pages 60-79. ~ ~ ~ ~ Class of 1918. Jesse Kartchner. He received a High School Diploma in 1918. Source 3: Annual Record, B.Y. University, Book 10, page 28. ~ ~ ~ ~ He was born July 11, 1899 on the Provo Bench (now Orem, Utah). His parents: Mark Elisha Kartchner & Phoebe Palmer Kartchner. Jesse lived for a time in Montana. Jesse married Hazel Bunker on June 1, 1923 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died April 14, 1989.

Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 Next Page