BYH Class Year Unknown? [Not Class of 1944 -- unable to find her name with any senior class in any BYH yearbook.] She married Calvin Emil Neilsen. Her parents: Byron and Helen Colton, who had nine children, seven of whom attended BY High School. They were: Ruth Colton [BYH Class of 1929?]; Lula Colton Dudley [BYH Class of 1931?](married ____ Dudley); Merrill Byron Colton [BYH Class of 1934?] (married Edith Emily Hancock); Margaret Colton Wyler (married ____ Wyler); Gordon LeRoy Colton; Elmo S. Colton [BYH Class of 1940?]; Miles Merkley Colton [BYH Class of 1942?]; Sarah Colton Neilsen [BYH Class of 1944?] (married Calvin Emil Neilsen); and Grace Eleanor Colton [BYH Class of 1946?] (married ___ Berrett).

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BYA Uncategorized Other Student. Martha Cragun Cox: A Teacher and a Record Keeper. Martha Cragun Cox was a thorough record keeper, a driven and curious student who spent time at Brigham Young Academy, and a dedicated teacher, committed to her children and her God. One reason Martha is known in history is because she wrote a handwritten autobiography of over three hundred pages. Her diligence in recording her own stories stands as a powerful example. Martha was born March 3, 1852, southeast of Salt Lake City. She moved to St. George with her family when she was eleven. Martha grew up in poverty, yet she developed an impressive appetite for reading and learning. One day, when she was sixteen, she ran into a group of young boys who were skipping school. She chastised them and said, “If I were your teacher, I’d be sorry to have you out of school.” To which one boy responded, “If you were our teacher, we wouldn’t skip school.” She responded lamenting she didn’t know much, to which another boy responded, “I should think you’d teach us all that you do know”. Martha explained, “I cannot refuse to go to the aid of the children”. With only a little over a year of schooling under her belt, she became an assistant teacher; then she opened her first school when she was eighteen. She continued teaching in various capacities until she died. Martha James Cragun Cox, “Biographical Record of Martha Cox: Written for My Children and My Children’s Children, and All Who May Care to Read It.” Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah. Lavina Fielding Anderson, “A ‘Salt of the Earth’ Lady: Martha Cragun Cox,” in Supporting Saints: Life Stories of Nineteenth-Century Mormons, ed. Donald Q. Cannon and David J. Whittaker (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, Religious Studies Center, 1985), 101–32. Source. ~ ~ ~ ~ HER OBITUARY: Mrs. Martha Cragun Cox, daughter of one of the early pioneers of southern Utah, died last Wednesday evening, November 30, 1932, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Francis Bunker, in Salt Lake City, following a lingering illness. Mrs. Cox was born March 3, 1852, at Millcreek, Utah and lived there until 11 years of age, coming to Dixie [St. George, Utah] with her parents in 1863. She was one of the first school teachers here, becoming engaged in that career when she was seventeen years old, and since that time has taught between 45 and 50 years. After her marriage to Isaiah Cox in the endowment house in Salt Lake, she moved to Overton, Nevada, and a few years later to Bunkerville. She was a third wife and assisted in the support of her family by school teaching in practically every community in which she lived. In 1900, at the call of President A. W. Ivins, she went to Old Mexico with a party from Bunkerville, and remained there for seven or eight years. She secured her education largely through her own efforts and principally by summer school courses, graduated from the University of Utah. Throughout her life she was an active worker in the Church, and has one of the largest genealogical records of any member of the organization. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Rose Cox Bunker, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Francis Cox Bunker, Salt Lake, and two sons, Edward Cox of Salt Lake, and Frank L. Cox of St. George. Four children have preceded her in death. Funeral services were held on Sunday in the Emigration Ward. Speakers included President A. W. Ivins and Joseph Christensen, president of the Genealogical Society of Utah. Musical numbers were furnished by Salt Lake temple workers and the Relief Society choir of the Salt Lake 30th Ward. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery ~ ~ ~ ~ Find a Grave. ~ ~ ~ ~ Children: --Isaiah Cox (1859 - 1949) --George Washington Cox (1870 - 1871) --Martha Eleanor Cox (1871 - 1871) --Rosannah Cox Bunker (1872 - 1933) --Eunice Asenath Cox (1873 - 1874) --Edward Isaiah Cox (1874 - 1940) --Willard James Cox (1875 - 1876) --Franklin Lane Cox (1876 - 1953) --Amelia Cox (1878 - 1890) --Amy Cox (1880 - 1881) --Rachel Evelyn Cox Bunker (1884 - 1975) --Geneva Cox Cope (1886 - 1925)

Class of ????. Not 1878. Carlyle Curtis (male).

BYH Class Unknown? NOT Class of 1939. Married Hyrum Doloney -- @2001

BYH Class Year Unknown. [Not Class of 1945 -- unable to find his name with any senior class in any BYH yearbook.] Don Bernard Deakin, born in American Fork, Utah, October 17, 1927 to Robert and Maude Householder Deakin, passed away March 22, 1997 in Auburn, Calif. Graduated from Brigham Young High School. Married Donna Dean Throckmorton in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Survivors: wife; children, Jeffrey, Connie and Kim, all in California; brothers, Norris, in Midvale; Gordon, in Sandy; and a sister, Irene Randall, in Millcreek. Funeral and burial were held Wednesday, March 26, 1997, in Citrus Heights, California at the Price Funeral Home. [Published in the Deseret News, Wednesday, March 26, 1997.]

BYU Class of 1927 ~ Honorary. Ona Dickson [Mary Ona], of Castle Dale, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ HER OBITUARY: Mary Ona Dickson Tuttle, 99 -- better known as "Grandma Tuttle" -- passed away on June 29, 2004. Ona was born May 29, 1905, in Castle Dale, Utah to A.D. Dickson and Emma Elizabeth Jeffs. She attended Brigham Young University. She then taught school until she married Jesse S. Tuttle (deceased) on July 28, 1927. Ona lived 70 years in Emery County and 29 years in Salt Lake City. Jesse and Ona had five children: Merilee (died at age one), Kathryn Howell (Varon), Salt Lake City; Dixie Casey (Pat-deceased) serving an LDS mission in Thailand; Ruth Menzies (Jim) Edmonds, Washington; and Stewart Tuttle (Marsha) Glendora, California. Ona had two sisters, Emma Huntington, age 94, (Castle Dale, Utah) and Ina Dickson (died at age 16). She has 12 grandchildren, 30 great-grand-children and two great-great-grand-children. Ona read the paper everyday and was keenly aware of the affairs of our world, country, state and community. She respected anyone who was willing to make the world a better place for all to live. She was a noble and obedient servant of the Lord, kneeling to say her prayers every night. Ona lived with charity in her heart, serving others diligently. She loved the Relief Society and served faithfully in many positions within that organization. Funeral services were held Tuesday, July 6, 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Interment, Orangeville Cemetery in Orangeville, Utah. In the gospel of Jesus Christ, it's never goodbye, only until we meet again someday. [Deseret News, Sunday, July 4, 2004] ~ ~ ~ ~ Ona Dickson, Castle Dale, Utah was a BYU Freshman in Education in 1924, and she continued her BYU studies by correspondence in 1925. Background sources: BYU/BYH Annual Catalogues for the School Years 1923-24, 1924-25, and 1925-26.

BYH Class Unknown? NOT Class of 1939. Married Alma Dahlsrud -- @2001

Circa BYA Class of 1892. Sarah Elizabeth Fletcher was born on August 16, 1874 in Provo, Utah. Her parents were Charles E. Fletcher and Elizabeth Miller Fletcher. Sarah married Albert Stephen Jones in 1897. Albert died in 1962 in Provo. Sarah died on April 11, 1966 in Orem, Utah. Both are buried in the Provo City Cemetery. ~ ~ ~ ~ News Article: On Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1960 Universe Feature Editor Chris Allred wrote about a Cougar basketball fan couple who attended Brigham Young Academy and the Church Normal School when Karl G. Maeser was teaching. Within the article, the couple talks about their time at school and how the campus has changed since the late 1800s. ~ ~ ~ ~ Memories, Memories — Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jones, Provo residents, look over their long life together. Jones went to Brigham Young Academy when there were only seven faculty members and a few dozen students in the school. “We still go to every basketball game, never miss one,” said two of Brigham Young University’s oldest living graduates and loyal fans. Albert Jones, 89, and his wife Sarah, 86, are given a season ticket to all Y games by their children each year. “There were no team sports when we went to school,” said Mr. Jones, “Only games we played were at noon-time so we are making up for what we missed.” During the Jones’ school years, the BYU was called the Brigham Young Academy and the Church Normal School. Mrs. Jones explained that “Normal” was a term describing a two-year course designed to educate teachers. After graduation the teacher was placed in one of the district schools. “We met in the Old Chamber of Commerce building where the Farmers and Merchants bank is now located,” continued Jones. “There were two rooms downstairs for classes and a hall and theater upstairs.” All plays, activities and dances were held in the upper story. “I remember Brother Karl G. Maeser well,” he reminisced. “He taught the theology classes and higher group courses.” Besides President Maeser, there were seven other faculty members, he recalled. Mr. Jones relates that the school day would begin with a song and prayer, then theology and following that the regular classes. “We didn’t have any high schools then. The Academy taught grades from the ‘Fifth Primer’ to graduation,” he said. “I remember one day when the students came to school — and no school,” Jones remarked. “During the night the old building had burned down!” In the next few years, he said, school was held in the Old Provo Tabernacle and ZCMI warehouse. “People thought it was real crazy to build the new school on 6th North and University, clear out of town.” In 1892, when the Academy, with Benjamin Cluff at the head, moved to the present site of lower campus, it was some blocks outside the town. “You have a beautiful campus on the hill, now,” put in Mrs. Jones. Her statement reminded Mr. Jones of a prophecy he had heard Brigham Young make once that the hill where upper campus is now situated would one day be the site of a temple. “I always called it Temple Hill,” he said, “Because all that is up there are temples of learning.” When questioned about his major, Jones replied, “I just took general courses like reading and writing and history. We didn’t have the same organization that you have.” He served a mission for the Church in the Tonga Islands and has presented a rare Tongan Bible and a Tongan-English dictionary to the BYU Library. He has also presented the University with a bust of Brigham Young. Mr. and Mrs. Jones were married in 1897 and have celebrated 62 anniversaries. They have four children, 13 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren, many of whom have attended BYU. The article in its original paper layout can be found here.

Class Unknown. Dorothea Ford. ~ ~ ~ ~ HER OBITUARY: Dorothea Ford Heiner Whipple, 94, passed away July 3, 2001 in Henderson, Nevada. Dorothea was born in Centerville, Utah February 7, 1907, to Albert and Alice Ford. She attended Davis County High School and Brigham Young Academy. [Note: Brigham Young Academy ceased to exist in 1903; therefore, she attended either BYH or BYU.] Later she received her Bachelor's of Science degree from Logan State University in elementary education. Dorothea taught school for 27 years in the Ogden and Roy school systems. Her passion for teaching and the satisfaction she received from her student's eagerness to learn led to a very rewarding career. Dorothea married Orson Heiner in 1928 in the Salt Lake Temple. Following Orson's death in 1934, Dorothea married Columbus Whipple in 1941 blending her family, his family and eventually starting theirs. After their retirement, they enjoyed traveling. She was very proud of the fact that she had driven in all 50 states. Columbus passed away in 1990. She held many positions in the LDS Church and was a visiting teacher in the Lakeview LDS Ward. When the Ogden Temple opened, Dorothea and Columbus were one of the first to be called as ordinance workers and served in this capacity for several years. She loved visiting all her children and their families and making chocolate chip cookies for all to enjoy. Anyone who had the pleasure of dining in her home remembers her rolls and lemon meringue pies. She enjoyed crocheting and making baby quilts for all her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She moved to Henderson, Nevada, five years ago to live with her daughter, JoAnn and her husband, Sid Morris. As avid Utah Jazz fans, the three of them thoroughly enjoyed the basketball games together. Two sisters, Louise Stoker and Nola Hardy; one brother, Keith Ford and daughter, Gene Tomson, preceded her in death. She is survived by Warner and Tokuko Whipple, Oceanside, California, LaMar and Myrna Heiner, Sun Valley, Idaho, JoAnn and Sidney Morris, Henderson, Nevada, Ecco and Donald Stambaugh, Carlsbad, California, Stephen and Diane Whipple, Hooper, Utah; 15 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Saturday, July 7, 2001 in Roy, Utah. Interment, Farmington City Cemetery. [Deseret News, Saturday, July 7, 2001]

BYH Class Unknown? NOT Class of 1939, not in BYH yearbooks in surrounding years. @2001

BYH Class Unknown? [would have been 1938, 1939, or 1940]. Leola Ethel Forsyth Sermersheim, 82, passed away peacefully Friday, October 11, 2002 in Orem, of causes related to congestive heart failure. She was born March 22, 1920, in Provo, Utah to Stanley M. and Ethel Eunice Cox Forsyth. Leola grew up and attended schools in Provo, graduating from high school at Brigham Young Academy [Note: Brigham Young Academy ceased to exist in 1903 -- this is apparently a reference to Brigham Young High School, but we cannot find her name in listed with any senior class in any BYH Wildcat yearbook]. She married Gerald C. (Jerry) Sermersheim on May 10, 1941 in Salt Lake City. They were later sealed for time and all eternity in the Provo Temple. Her husband passed away in 1993. After moving several times from 1941 to 1950, Leola and Gerald finally settled in Springville. Together they remodeled and built on to their home as a life-long labor of love. They both loved to travel and be with their group of close friends, spending many winters in Arizona, after Gerald retired. They participated in travels and activities with friends in the Good Sam Club for many years. Leola loved many activities, including square dancing in her younger days and playing cards (Pinochle, 3 to 13, and Skip-Bo) with her friends and family. (It was hard to get the best of Grandma at cards.) Being an active member of the LDS Church, she served in many positions during her lifetime. She was saddened in needing to reduce her activities at church and with friends in recent months due to her declining health. She is survived by her son, Gerald L. (Jerry) Sermersheim (Susan) of Springville; daughter, Sue Masterson of Spanish Fork; six grandsons: Todd Sermersheim (Janalee), Jim Sermersheim (Roni), Kyle Sermersheim, Steven Sermersheim (Aimee), Mike Sermersheim, and Jeremy Masterson; 13 great-grandchildren; and brother, Victor Forsyth (Mary). Her husband, Jerry; and sister, Vilate Dansie, preceded her in death. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, October 15, 2002 in Springville. Interment, Springville Evergreen Cemetery. [Provo Daily Herald, October 13, 2002]

Uncategorized BYH Student. Donald H. Fotheringham is not listed as a student at BYH, [although a "Khulil O. Fotheringham" of Panguich, Utah, is listed as a BYU Freshman student in Applied Sciences in 1924 - Otho Khulil Fotheringham, b. 31 Jan. 1904, Panguitch; m. Helen Ash, was an older brother of Don]. Background sources: BYU/BYH Annual Catalogues for the School Years 1923-24, 1924-25, and 1925-26. ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS BIOGRAPHY: Donald H. Fotheringham, fourth child of Edmund & Ettie (Henrie) Fotheringham, was born December 25, 1905 in Panguitch, Utah. In 1928 he married Ruth Vandyne Barton. Don attended Garfield High School at Panguitch, then Provo High School where he was a member of the track and basketball squads. He transferred to Brigham Young High School because of an opportunity for work as janitor at BYU. Then he enrolled at BYU. During his year and a half at college he paid his own expenses, serving as janitor and as a paper boy with a route of 112 blocks. He was a good student but had little time for school activities or social accomplishments. Don and Ruth started keeping company when they were students at Garfield High School. He was a member of the basketball squad and she was cheerleader at the same school. After their marriage they made their home in Panguitch. Later they lived at their Uncle Jim Henrie’s home. Don worked at various jobs, farming, herding sheep, fur trapping. During the depression, when employment was almost at a standstill, Don joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He enjoyed his work with the Forest Service very much, was in St. George on a CCC project for about a year, then worked at Veyo and Cannonville. During these years they purchased and paid for a home and lot, a car, and had three lovely, healthy children. Don was next employed as a caterpillar operator for Whiting Construction Co. Later he held a similar position for the Bracken Construction Co. at Mercur, Utah. They moved to Mercur and lived in the crude mining camp in a one-room house made of galvanized iron. These were happy years, however. Together with other young folks in the camp, they asked for and received permission from the Tooele Stake to organize various auxiliaries of the Church. Don served as Ward Teacher. Ruth served as Primary and Sunday School teacher, and as 2nd counselor in Relief Society. In 1940 Don accepted work on a construction job near Eugene, Ore., but about a month after he started, he was seriously injured and was in the Oregon Hospital for about eighteen months. In 1942, after conditions had smoothed out, Don set up a small cafe in Bingham, Utah, called “Don’s.” He did very well, and one year later he moved it to Provo. It was also called “Don’s Cafe.” This was a very successful venture during the eight years they operated it, They bought and paid for a home on Farr Avenue in Provo. Don became a member of the Provo Lions and Ruth was a Lady Lion. He served on various committees, headed the entertainment committee for two years, was director of Timpanogas Dancing Club, Lion Tamer, member of the Rod and Gun Club, and Wild Life Association. In 1948 they sold the cafe in Provo and purchased the Chief Timp Service Station and Motel in Orem, Utah. They have had good and bad times, but it is with a great deal of satisfaction they note that Dun and Bradstreet listed them among the best credit ratings in Orem. Ruth has served as a block teacher for Relief Society, She has been theology teacher and special interest leader and Bible teacher in M.I.A. They had 4 children: ( 1. ) Edmund D. “Ted” Fotheringham, b. 6 Apr. 1929, Panguitch, Utah. He joined the Navy and served during the first part of the Korean War on the Carrier Boxer. He was in charge of air conditioning and refrigeration. The ship was in the theatre of war during most of the 2½ years Ted served on her; he was a petty officer 1st class when he was honorably discharged. He attended the School of Fine Arts, studying Architecture at the University of Utah. On 12 Dec. 1953, Ted married Elaine Blackburn, at Springfield, Idaho, her home. They had one child: (a) Janica Fotheringham, born 15 Oct. 1953. (2.) Douglas V. Fotheringham, 2nd child of Donald H. & Ruth (Barton) Fotheringham, was born 3 July 1934, Panguitch, Utah. He served in the U.S. Navy and was stationed with the Fleet Air group at El Centro, Calif. A Yeomen 3rd Class, he worked is in the personnel offices. ( 3.) Joy Fotheringham, born 28 Apr. 1936, Panguitch. (4.) Gay Fotheringham, born 2 Sept. 1940, Provo, Utah. ~~ Upon the death of Ruth, Don married Vera Sevy Peterson. Don died 11 February 1988.

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Virginia Hanson. Not a graduate of BYH circa 1937, she actually graduated from Brigham Young College in Logan. ~ ~ Graduates of Utah State University in May 1941: Virginia Hanson of Cornish, "a graduate of B. Y. High School", and Joseph P. Malberg [Malmberg?] of Clarkston, "a graduate of B. Y. High School" (likely incorrect, he was probably a graduate of B. Y. College in Logan, too). Source: North Cache News, 1941-05-09, Commencement Date Set May 31 (1941) ~ ~ ~ ~ BIOGRAPHY: Virginia Hanson (1907-78). Virginia Hanson was an important local figure in Cache Valley but most especially the small town of Cornish, Utah. As head librarian at the Cache County public library for thirty years Miss Hanson instilled a love of reading into generations of young people. But Virginia Hanson was more than simply a librarian. Her influence was felt through her varied activities, which included organizing games and writing and presenting plays for the Cornish LDS ward. Nellie Virginia Hanson was born in Logan, Utah on February 19, 1907. Virginia, as she was known, was the daughter of William O. and Hilma Anderson Hanson. One of six children, Virginia had three sisters Mae, Inez, and Helvie and two brothers Carl and Byron. Mae, who became a school teacher was Virginia's constant companion. Those who remember Virginia remember that Mae was always at her side. The Hanson family settled in Cornish, Utah in 1914. The farm the Hansons settled on became known locally as "Dreary Acres." Virginia attended elementary school in Cornish then went to the Brigham Young College in Logan. Later, she graduated from Utah State University. Early in her career Virginia Hanson was a teacher. She taught elementary school at Cornish and Lewiston in Cache County and at Hiawatha in Carbon County and at Heber City in Wasatch County. But Miss Hanson is best remembered as a librarian. She began work as an assistant librarian at the Cache County public library in 1941. She quickly rose to the position of head librarian which she held for thirty years, from 1944 until her retirement in 1974. A voracious reader and lover of books, Virginia Hanson encouraged reading at every opportunity. She read to the residents of Sunshine Terrace and was active in promoting the enjoyment of books through the Lewiston Literary League. Community and church affairs were the stuff of Hanson's life. She served as the co-chairman of the Cache Bicentennial Committee, a member of the board of directors of the Sunshine Terrace Foundation, a charter member of the Lewiston Literary League, and a sponsor of the Foreign Students Association at Utah State University. She was a member of the Utah Library Association. She was score keeper for the Cornish baseball team. In addition, Virginia and Mae Hanson were travelers. They visited every state in the Union and traveled in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America. The sisters had returned from a BYU tour of Central America only weeks before the fatal train-car accident. Virginia, and her sister Mae (1909-1978) were killed on January 25, 1978 when a Union Pacific train struck their car at a railroad crossing at "Dreary Acres" in Cornish, Utah. Both sisters, constant companions in life, were buried in the Logan City cemetery. Source: http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27334

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Uncategorized Other Student. Ray Clark Hatch. ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS OBITUARY: Ray Clark Hatch, 93, long time scouter, beloved family patriarch, passed away peacefully at home in North Salt Lake, March 11, 1999, surrounded by his loving family. He was born in his grandfather's house, the first one built outside of the fort in Woodruff, Arizona, the son of Lorenzo Wilford Hatch and Adelia Owens Hatch. The family moved to Franklin, Idaho, near the Utah border and near Logan, Utah. Ray "received his formal education at Brigham Young Academy." [Note: Brigham Young Academy ceased to exist in 1903, so while this might refer to either Brigham Young High School or Brigham Young University, we are unable to find any record of his enrollment at BYH or BYU between 1919 and 1930. Considering his family's residence in Franklin, Idaho, Ray may have attended Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah. Background sources: BYU/BYH Annual Catalogues for the School Years 1918-1930.] Ray Clark Hatch graduated from The National University in Washington D.C. with three law degrees. He lived in San Francisco where he was an attorney for H.O.L.C. [Home Owners' Loan Corporation was a New Deal agency established in 1933 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt] and Educational Director for the Boy Scouts of America. He served as a Scout Executive on the Great Salt Lake Council B.S.A. He was first elected Mayor of North Salt Lake and served two terms as President of the North Salt Lake Town Board. He served as counselor and supervisor for Continuing Education. He developed Heraldry materials and presentations for BYU Education Week. Active member of the LDS Church, he served on the San Francisco High Council and spent years of service in positions in Orchard Ward, North Salt Lake. He spent much time researching and doing genealogical writings and works. He married his beloved Eastern Shore Maiden, Nellie Hayward, in Baltimore, Maryland. The marriage was later solemnized in the Logan Temple. She died September 25, 1977. They had four daughters who were raised in San Francisco, Adelia (William) Newland, Green River, Utah; Betty (Dale) Washburn, Bountiful; Mary (Ronald) Watkins; Joan (Richard) Freed. He is survived by 17 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren, three great great-grandchildren; Thora (Roy) Geddes is his surviving sister of Franklin, Idaho; numerous nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by his wife; parents; two grandchildren; one great-grandchild; brothers, Joseph and Alton. The family wishes to thank the many friends and church members for their kindness; also to Applegate Health Services and Hospice for Utah for their help and care. Funeral services were held Tuesday, March 16, 1999 in North Salt Lake. Interment, Franklin County Cemetery, Franklin, Idaho. [Deseret News, Saturday, March 13, 1999]

BYH Class Year Unknown? [Not listed with senior class in 1946 Wildcat yearbook, or with any other senior class in any BYH yearbook.] --@2001 [Was he also known as "Gene" Heaton? -- See Dean Heaton, BYH Class of 1949.]

Year of Graduation Unknown. Erma Dee Heindselman. ~ ~ ~ ~ HER OBITUARY: 106 years ago on April 6th, 1907, Erma Dee Heindselman was born at home to Dr. George H. and Clara Dee Heindselman. George had graduated from the St. Louis School of Optometry and Watchmaking. While traveling the West he decided to open Heindselman’s Optometry, Watchmaking, and Jewelry in Provo, in 1904. He married Clara Dee Henry and they soon started their family. Erma Dee was the oldest of three daughters and grew up in a normal, 1920’s childhood. Feeding (and being chased by) chickens and pigs, and working in the family store from the time she was knee high to a grasshopper. She vividly remembered the Great Flu Epidemic and World War I. All members of the family drank a daily dose of Cod Liver Oil to ward off the Spanish Flu, and who knows, since no member of the family died of the flu, maybe it worked! As a non-LDS woman, Erma had to get special permission to attend Brigham Young Academy, an interesting experience for her that she always remembered. [Note: Since Brigham Young Academy ceased to exist in 1903, Erma Dee apparently attended Brigham Young High School, or Brigham Young University.] To get some special skills in tailoring, she attended Oregon State University where she met her future husband, Paul Robley, at a skating rink. It was here she went swimming and ended up with pneumonia and for the only time in her life, was in a hospital (in those days, pneumonia was usually a death sentence). After a long recovery, she ended up teaching High School in Manti for a year. In 1930, she married Paul, an electrical engineer for General Electric. They moved to New York, just in time for the Great Depression. After a stint with GE in Philadelphia, where Erma remembered getting lost on the trolley and ended up in a bad section of town, GE laid off most of their young engineers. Eventually Erma Dee and Paul ended up back in Provo where Paul learned from Doc and became a watchmaker and jeweler. Erma Dee and her mother borrowed $50.00, bought yarn from the old Bernat yarn company, and opened the yarn shop in a back corner of the gift shop. In later years, Doc would call her his “Little Hitler” since she kept taking over more and more territory as the yarn shop expanded. She told stories of the years during World War II when Paul was island hopping in the South Pacific, that yarn was allocated, often Heindselman’s was the only store in the valley to have any yarn for sale. This was the only time in all their years together that Paul and Erma were not together, they were truly one of the happiest and most compatible couples we have had the pleasure of knowing. After the war, life returned to normal. Since Erma Dee and Paul did not have children of their own, they “adopted” all of Joan’s (the youngest daughter) children as their de-facto grand-children, and a happier arrangement for all the children is hard to imagine. Her biggest disappointment was when Paul died 15 years ago. After the county took over her home to build the new County Health Building in Provo, she decided to retire and more to Salt Lake to be near the extended family. Until the week she died she was knitting or crocheting a sweater or afghan every week, eventually donating hundreds of afghans to Shriners Children Hospital and continued to make models for the shop until the week of her passing. She remained in good health overall, studying for hours, staying current on news, and was always excited to talk about the latest bonehead stupidity of (all) politicians. It was only in the last few weeks that were difficult for her. At 104 years of age she was asked what she would want as her legacy. She replied: To be honest, to love everyone, and never criticize, condemn, or judge anyone. Her glorious life ended just short of 106 years, on March 28, 2013. Since Erma Dee was a strong supporter of Shriners Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake, the family asks that any remembrances be sent to them. [Heindselman's Yarn, Needlework, and Gifts ~ Facebook, May 5, 2013] [Abbreviated version: Provo Daily Herald, May 5, 2013]

Unknown Class. Robert J. Henderson. HIS OBITUARY: Robert J. Henderson, 66, passed away at his home in Lakeport on Monday, May 22, following an illness for some time. The deceased came to Lakeport in 1930 and in 1933 was married to Elizabeth Vann, who survives. Other survivors are three daughters and one son, all of Washington, by a former marriage and a brother and sister, both of Utah. He was born in Brigham City, Utah, on August 14, 1880, and was a graduate of the Brigham Young Academy [Provo or Logan?] and later taught school in Idaho and Utah before coming to California. Graveside services were conducted by the Church of the Latter Day Saints at the Upper Lake Cemetery on Monday with the Laity Funeral Service in charge. [Lake County Bee, Lakeport, Washington, May 30, 1947.]

Uncategorized Other Student. George Holbrook. He died in 1924 while a student in Provo, but cannot find any record of him being enrolled at BYH or BYU. Background sources: BYU/BYH Annual Catalogues, Banyan Yearbooks, Commencement Programs, etc. ~ ~ ~ ~ George Blaine Holbrook was born April 8, 1906 in Provo, Utah, and died August 2, 1924 at the age of 18, while a student in Provo, of bronchial pneumonia. ~ ~ ~ ~ His parents: Lafayette Hinckley Holbrook and Alsina Elizabeth Brimhall. They had eleven children: ~ ~ 1. Raymond Brimhall Holbrook, born March 16, 1902 in Raymond, Alberta, Canada. He married Esther Ruth Hamilton on August 24, 1928. He died in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 24, 1989. ~ ~ 2. Rachel Holbrook, born December 6, 1903 in Raymond, Alberta, Canada. She married Robert Clair Anderson on May 25, 1927. She died June 17, 1946 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Interment, Manti, Utah. ~ ~ 3. George Blaine Holbrook, born April 8, 1906 in Provo, Utah and died August 2, 1924, at the age of 18. He did not marry. ~ ~ 4. Jennie Holbrook, b. March 3, 1908 in Provo, Utah. She married Delbert Valentine Groberg on June 11, 1930. She died March 25, 2004 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. ~ ~ 5. Mary Holbrook, b. March 2, 1910 in Provo, Utah. She married Benjamin Alva Maxwell on May 27, 1932. She died on June 19, 1977 in Salt Lake City, Utah. ~ ~ 6. Ruth Holbrook, born January 8, 1912 in Provo, Utah. She married Francis Ray Brown on May 27, 1932. She died December 16, 1983 in Pasadena, California. Interment, Provo, Utah. ~ ~ 7. Elizabeth Holbrook, born February 9, 1914 in Provo, Utah. She married Alonzo Kay Berry on September 19, 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She died on June 29, 2000 in Provo Utah. Interment, Whittier, California. ~ ~ 8. Jean Holbrook, born October 7, 1915 in Provo, Utah. She died August 26, 1923 at the age of almost 8. Interment, Provo, Utah. ~ ~ 9. Helen Holbrook, born in about 1917. She married Carlyle Dahlquist. She resides in Provo, Utah. ~ ~ 10. Vera Holbrook, born October 29, 1918 in Provo, Utah. She married Maurice King Heninger on June 5, 1941, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She died February 16, 2005 in Provo, Utah. ~ ~ 11. Alsina Elaine (Elaine) Holbrook, born Provo, Utah in about 1921. Elaine married John Arnold Haymore. She lives in Salt Lake City. @2006

Larry Jensen, BYH Year of Graduation Unknown. HIS OBITUARY: Larry Jensen was born on September 15, 1938 to Milton Leroy and Kate Pierce Jensen, and passed away on Thursday, October 27, 2016. Larry was a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah at the time of his passing. He attended BYU High School, and after graduation he enrolled in BYU, the only true university. He was married to Eva Jensen. His siblings included Jay Roger Jensen, Carla Jensen Cromeenes, and Lorna Jean Jensen Spencer. Viewing was held on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at the Cobble Creek Ward, 8150 Grizzly Way, West Jordan, Utah. Funeral for family members to be held at Mountain View Memorial Estates. [Source: Tributes.com] ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS SECOND OBITUARY: Larry Jensen - September 15, 1938 - October 27, 2016. Larry Jensen was born September 15, 1938, Murray, Utah the son of Milt and Kate Pierce Jensen. Following years of heart procedures, the plumbing fixes no longer worked and he died on October 27, 2016 of congestive heart failure. He is survived by his wife, Eva. Viewing was Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at the Cobble Creek Ward, 8150 Grizzly Way, West Jordan, Utah. Funeral for family members to be held at Mountain View Memorial Estates. A longtime Utah resident, except for temporary absences, he was especially proud to be a Jordan Beetdigger. Later he attended BYU High School, and after graduation [year of BYH graduation unknown] he enrolled in BYU, the only true university. Living in a perfect state for an outdoorsman, he became an expert skier and instructor. A great hunter, he especially enjoyed the hills at Gunnison. As a fisherman he could bring in the big ones anywhere. With golfing he had a love/hate relationship. He occasionally took up other interests, such as growing dahlias. A hard worker, Larry began setting pins at a bowling alley at age 16. He went on to the automotive field to manage a gas station in Lake Point. He later became a service manager for various dealerships and retired from the Larry Miller Group. Larry became a world traveler when his success earned him annual free trips to Europe. These tours ended in 2000 when Larry and Eva went on their first cruise. This became their favorite way to vacation. Their cruises to Alaska included fishing, and became a highlight. This year they enjoyed one last voyage to the Mexican Rivera. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Larry became a seventy and later a high priest. Larry held many positions, the last as Assistant Ward Clerk, first at the ward level and then at Cobble Creek Stake. An ordinance worker for many years, he began serving at Jordan River Temple, then at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. Proceeded in death by his parents; brother, Lieutenant Colonel Jay R. Jensen, a former POW; and his sister, Lorna Spencer. Survived by his dear sister and friend, Carla; his children, Larry, Tammy (Will) Baker, Gary, Laurie and Stacy (Kevin) Knight, a stepson Steven, through his first wife, Jerry. Becky (Kory) Torgerson, Lisa (Curtis) Frame and Ami, from his second wife, Dorian. Also survived by too many grandchildren and great-grandchildren for an accurate count. He also counts as his brothers, Steve Matz, Chuck Clingman, and his temple brethren. Source 2

Uncategorized Student - Max L. Jensen. BS Degree in Accounting, BYU, 1947. Sister, Betty Loy Jensen McKay, is a member of the BYH Class of 1944. ~ ~ ~ ~ HIS OBITUARY: Max Levern Jensen passed away April 23, 2014. He was born March 7, 1920 in Fairview, Utah to Orabelle Hansen Jensen and Levern Jensen. Max attended school in Fairview, Utah and at BYU Academy in Provo, Utah. [Note: BY Academy ceased to exist in 1903, so Max was a student either at Brigham Young High School, or at BYU, or both.] Max served an LDS mission for two years in the Northwestern States, then served his country in Seattle at Washington University. He trained also at UCLA as a Meteorologist for the Air Force during World War II in the Pacific. Max married during the war to Murl Acord of Spring City, Utah on January 3rd, 1945 and they had a son. Max went to night school where he received his CPA. He went to work for Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, California. Shortly thereafter, Murl passed away. About five years later, Max married Sherri Bart Morgan and they moved to St. Louis, Missouri. Douglas Aircraft merged with McDonald in St Louis and became McDonald-Douglas Aircraft Corps. Max served as the McDonald-Douglas tax accountant. ~ ~ His siblings: Elaine Ruth Boyles, Jack Jensen, Charles Jensen and Betty Loy Jensen McKay [BYH Class of 1944]. Also Charlotte Gerber(Niece) and Sherry. Additional family members live in the Eastern States. Viewing will be held on Friday, April 25, 2014 from 7 - 8 PM at the Cameo Park Ward, 8909 South 1700 East, Sandy, Utah. There will also be a viewing at the same ward on April 26 from 9:30-10:30 AM. Funeral Services will be held at 11 AM in the Cameo Park Ward Chapel. His interment, Wasatch Lawn Memorial Cemetery. Send personal condolences to the family at serenicarefuneralhome.com [Deseret News, April 25, 2014]

Circa BYA Class of 1889. Albert Stephen Jones. Albert was born on January 15, 1871 in Provo, Utah, to Samuel Stephen Jones and Julia B. Ipson Jones. Albert married Sarah Elizabeth Fletcher Jones in 1897. Albert died on July 1, 1962 in Provo, Utah. His wife, Sarah, died in 1966. They are both buried in the Provo City Cemetery. ~ ~ ~ ~ News Article: On Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1960 Universe Feature Editor Chris Allred wrote about a Cougar basketball fan couple who attended Brigham Young Academy and the Church Normal School when Karl G. Maeser was teaching. Within the article, the couple talks about their time at school and how the campus has changed since the late 1800s. ~ ~ ~ ~ Memories, Memories — Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jones, Provo residents, look over their long life together. Jones went to Brigham Young Academy when there were only seven faculty members and a few dozen students in the school. “We still go to every basketball game, never miss one,” said two of Brigham Young University’s oldest living graduates and loyal fans. Albert Jones, 89, and his wife Sarah, 86, are given a season ticket to all Y games by their children each year. “There were no team sports when we went to school,” said Mr. Jones, “Only games we played were at noon-time so we are making up for what we missed.” During the Jones’ school years, the BYU was called the Brigham Young Academy and the Church Normal School. Mrs. Jones explained that “Normal” was a term describing a two-year course designed to educate teachers. After graduation the teacher was placed in one of the district schools. “We met in the Old Chamber of Commerce building where the Farmers and Merchants bank is now located,” continued Jones. “There were two rooms downstairs for classes and a hall and theater upstairs.” All plays, activities and dances were held in the upper story. “I remember Brother Karl G. Maeser well,” he reminisced. “He taught the theology classes and higher group courses.” Besides President Maeser, there were seven other faculty members, he recalled. Mr. Jones relates that the school day would begin with a song and prayer, then theology and following that the regular classes. “We didn’t have any high schools then. The Academy taught grades from the ‘Fifth Primer’ to graduation,” he said. “I remember one day when the students came to school — and no school,” Jones remarked. “During the night the old building had burned down!” In the next few years, he said, school was held in the Old Provo Tabernacle and ZCMI warehouse. “People thought it was real crazy to build the new school on 6th North and University, clear out of town.” In 1892, when the Academy, with Benjamin Cluff at the head, moved to the present site of lower campus, it was some blocks outside the town. “You have a beautiful campus on the hill, now,” put in Mrs. Jones. Her statement reminded Mr. Jones of a prophecy he had heard Brigham Young make once that the hill where upper campus is now situated would one day be the site of a temple. “I always called it Temple Hill,” he said, “Because all that is up there are temples of learning.” When questioned about his major, Jones replied, “I just took general courses like reading and writing and history. We didn’t have the same organization that you have.” He served a mission for the Church in the Tonga Islands and has presented a rare Tongan Bible and a Tongan-English dictionary to the BYU Library. He has also presented the University with a bust of Brigham Young. Mr. and Mrs. Jones were married in 1897 and have celebrated 62 anniversaries. They have four children, 13 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren, many of whom have attended BYU. The article in its original paper layout can be found here.

Uncatgorized Other Students. Verda May Keyte, of Mona and of Provo, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ Verda M. Keyte is listed as a BYU Commerce Freshman in 1924, and as a BYU Sophomore in 1925. She is not listed in 1923 or earlier, or 1926 and later. ~ ~ ~ ~ HER OBITUARY: Verda May Keyte Hanson, our beautiful mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, 92, passed away on Saturday, June 27, 1998 at her daughter's home in Lindon. Verda was born on January 15, 1906, to Fredrick Augustus Keyte and Rachel Kay in Mona, Utah. She married Jesse Peter Hanson on December 24, 1926 in Safford, Arizona. Their marriage was solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple in 1927. They cared for each other on this earth for 66 years until Jesse's death March 26, 1993. After five long years apart, Jesse and Verda are together again. Grandma was a bright and energetic woman who taught school in Vernon and Mona after attending Brigham Young Academy in the 1920s [Note: Brigham Young Academy ceased to exist in 1903; she attended BYU.]. She loved serving the Lord and enthusiastically labored in many church callings including Stake Mutual President and Counselor in the Stake Relief Society of Granite Stake, as well as a counselor in the Parley's Third Ward Relief Society. Grandma was a talented artist with ceramics, creating beautiful clocks, figurines, and dolls, which she insisted on giving away. She shared her craft with each of the grandchildren praising our clumsy efforts and then guiding our brushes over the delicate faces on the many figurines we painted over the years. Grandma always had a treat in the icebox or a quarter in her pocket. She could make a stack of hotcakes in a split-second and the best scones we've ever tasted. Grandma found peace in her beautiful backyard garden, a haven of fruit trees, pansies, petunias and roses. She loved the roses best. She was a gifted gardener in many respects, and both plants and people blossomed in her care. Verda is survived by three children and their spouses, James E. and Heloyce Hamilton, Lindon; Keyte L. and Diane Hanson, Milwaukee, WI; J. Merrell and Mary Hansen, Orem; as well as 13 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren. Special thanks to LuJean Johnson and Sherrie Atkinson who were so kind and loving to Grandma in her final months as she struggled to endure valiantly to the end. The family asks that donations be made to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Temple Patron Fund. Funeral services were held held on Thursday, July 2, 1998, in Salt Lake City. Interment, Mona City Cemetery. [Deseret News, Tuesday, June 30, 1998]