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Dick Pellek

Five Principles To Live By

    Five Principles To Live By   1.  Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.  This is the modern language version of the biblical dictum: Love thy neighbor as you love thyself.  We are a human family and our neighbors live close-by; and in other lands....
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Dick Pellek

Affinity With Tigers

Affinity With Tigers
On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Affinity With Tigers   Blame it on his favorite uncle.  As a youngster in short pants, the Footloose Forester sometimes heard his mother refer to her younger brother as Tiger; and in reality, her brother...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

My Folkers Great Grandparents.

My Folkers Great Grandparents.
Parentage: Folkert Teunis Folkers was born 12 Jan 1859 in Groningen, Netherlands. He was the oldest of six children—four boys and two girls—born to Teunis Folkers and Foekje Severien. The father, Teunis, was a ship’s captain and his ship was lost in the North Sea of the Atlantic Ocean on 23...
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Yvonne Bausman

Rules to Live By

Rules to Live By: Actually, I don't like the word "rules."  Sometimes that has a wrong connotation in some people's minds.  However, for lack of a better word--actually I just thought of one...............Principles to Live By.  There, much better! BE KIND.  Showing kindness goes a long ways in this troubled world....
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Sharon Bennett

Picture with a President - Found among family keepsakes

Picture with a President - Found among family keepsakes
Picture with with a President - Found Among My Family Keepsakes   Like so many baby boomers, I have boxes of my own photos gathered, throughout the years, along with many photo albums that I inherited when my parents passed on. Among these are photos and memorabilia from one of my...
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Debbie Youd

History of Silas LeRoy Richards

History of Silas LeRoy Richards
(Taken from the History of Hannah Rhead Richards)   Silas LeRoy Richards was born the 25th of October 1882 in Union, Salt Lake County, Utah. His parents were Silas Newton Richards and Mary Norman Goulder. He was born in a small log cabin which stood way back from the road in...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

Harkers Island, North Carolina Seminar 1987

On 15 November 1987, Diane and I had the opportunity to speak in Sacrament Meeting at the Harkers Island (NC) Ward.  We stayed at the home of Bishop Joel G. Hancock and were treated royally.  Afterwards, in the evening, I delivered a Special Fireside.  There I was surprised to see many...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

MY Missionary Trip and Travels

MY Missionary Trip and Travels
                By William Albert Adams.  This poem was written to highlight experiences he lived while serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Southern States Mission 1900-1901.   I was born in a place called Utah, A...
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Kyle Law

Moses DeVere Childs -- Excerpt from Perfection Through Sorrow by Bessie W. Stevens

  Moses DeVere Childs   Excerpt from Perfection Through Sorrow by Bessie W. Stevens           Another large picture hung in mother's bedroom it held a man with piercing eyes. My mother said that they were a deep blue and very kind: Moses DeVere Childs, her father.  ...
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David Bell

Falling in Love

I was born in Columbus Ohio, in 1946. during my childhood, I had become a shy mixed-up human being. growing up in a constant poverty, made me a chronic worrier. i was the middle of three boys. i was boy trying to be a man. In 1965 the world was changing...
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Dick Pellek

Great Books and Film Documentaries

Great Books and Film Documentaries
On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Great Books and Film Documentaries They say that if a book is worth reading, it is worth reading again.  Good books attract numerous readers, as measured by readership survey data.  Great books are measured not...
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Michelle Beckman

RSL #1: Jeannie

RSL #1: Jeannie
When I was in elementary school, a new couple moved in next door to us in Foxboro.  This couple was the first set of adults I ever called by their first name.  My story today is about my friend, Jeannie, the wife in the couple we affectionately called Jeannie and Mike,...
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Henry N. Eicher

survival

I fully retired from Cargill on September 1, 2004 thus concluding more than 40 years of corporate work.  Within a few short months I was admitted to St. John's Hospital in St. Louis for what turned out to be a Cardiac condition which was very serious and complicated.  I won't go...
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Linda Hoskins

Mary Ann Gibson Caffall born 21 June 1821 England

Mary Ann Gibson was born 21 June 1821 in Rickmanworth, Hertford, England.  She is my Great, Great Grandmother.
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david bell

You Are Not Alone

You are Not Alone by David Dominic Bell God wants you to know that you are not alone he is with you every hour every hour, every day and when you cry he will brush away your tears and when you are afraid he will comfort you and when you are...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

Officially Retired! A Milestone Event

While the past year is freshest in my mind, I'm documenting a 2012 legacy story that reflects a defining moment or milestone event. On Friday, May 25th, 2012 I picked up my yearbook and went to the front office of Payson Junior High School in Payson, Utah (where I taught middle...
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Linda Hoskins

Eleanor (Ellenore, Ellen) Caffall Brown

Eleanor (Ellenore, Ellen) Caffall Brown
Eleanor Caffall was born 25 April 1850 in Watford, Hertford, England to Richard John Caffall and Mary Ann Gibson Caffall.  She was my Great Grandmother.  I don't have any information on Eleanor before age 22.    In September 1872 she came to the United States with her Mother, Mary Ann and...
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Linda Hoskins

1980 life update Verna Maurine Brown Malm

The following information was written in early 1980 by my mother, Verna Maurine Brown Malm. This account of my mother's life has some details not included in the account written April 20, 1956. I was born 3 December 1902 the 2nd child in a family of 7 children in a little...
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Dick Pellek

Taking The Dreaded Comps

On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Taking The Dreaded Comps Students, past and present, loathe saying too much about the exams they endured.  The more difficult the exams, the less inclined most students are to dwell on them.  If a particular...
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You Can Put Time in a Bottle

Hi Friends of Legacy, This story was contributed by Tom Cordle, author and songwriter. I asked him to write a press article related to our January Theme which was "Turning over a new leaf". I wasn't expecting to be included in the article but his angle was creative and I think...
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