History of Lynn Broadbent

THE HISTORY OF LYNN BROADBENT  1908-

            Lynn Broadbent, son of Joseph Franklin and Seretta Ann Passey Broadbent, was born in Provo, Utah, September 25, 1908.  He was blessed and given his name at a sacrament meeting of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by his father on December 6, 1908.

Lynn was the fifth child in a family of nine.  They lived in a four room yellow brick home at 541 North 5^th East in Provo.  He doesn’t remember living there and must have moved when they were too young to remember.  It was just one block from the home he does remember in which he grew up.  This was his Grandmother Broadbent’s home, and she lived with them for many years.  Her name was Mary Jane Nuttal Broadbent.  Lynn remembers this five room, red brick home well.  There was a barn and a spot for a good garden, a nice Concord grape arbor, currants and Gooseberry bushes.

            Three of the Broadbent children died in childhood.  These were George, Leon, and Marjorie.  Those with whom Lynn was raised were Fern, Berne, Cecil, Maurice, and Jay.

            Some of the neighbors whom he remembers are the John E. Hayes family, the Guymans, the Hawkins, and the Johnsons.

            Lynn’s father was in the mercantile business with his father-in-law George Passey when Lynn was born and during his early childhood.  The family lived in the Provo Fifth Ward.  One bishop Lynn remembers was Bishop Soward who ran a grocery store on about fourth north and fourth East.  Everything to the east and north of their area was fields and hills where they gather Sego Lilies, chased rabbits, and hunted quail nests.  He and his brothers hiked all over Y Mountain and the ones on either side.

            One of Lynn’s earliest recollections was of the embarrassment that he suffered, because his mother curled his long blond hair and had him wear a dress so that he looked like a girl.  He also remembers sitting in the road, which ran in front of their home, using the six to eight inches of finely powdered dust to make mud pies.  Another of these early recollections was of helping himself to the luscious raspberries, which Mrs. Guyman had planted too close to their fence, until she saw what was going on and asked him if he would like some.  He said, “No, thank you.”  He had suddenly lost his appetite.  He recalls that the first car he ever saw was approximately 1913, when he was about five years old.

            Lynn was sent to school just as he turned six years at the Brigham Young University Training School.  As he recalls, he lasted about two weeks.  A boy sitting across the aisle was teasing him, so he took the boy down and proceeded to strangle him with his tie.  For some strange reason the teacher objected and banished him to the hall to punish him.  He kept right on going out to the playground.  He fooled around until recess and played with the kids but wouldn’t re-enter the classroom.  He kept this up for a couple of weeks until the teacher, wondering why he wasn’t in school, contacted his parents.  They decided to keep him home for the rest of the year, for which he has always been grateful.  The extra year permitted him to become more mature and he excelled academically from this time on.  He remembers that his First Grade teacher the next year was Mrs. Petersen.

            Another teacher, who helped him a lot and will always be remembered. Her name was Fanny McLean.  She had a unique method of organizing her class.  She divided it, with he slow learners in one room and the better students in another, but when it came to Lynn she had a problem.  He was doing very well in all of his subjects except writing, and she reasoned that one who murdered the “Palmer” method as he did, had no business in there with the better students so she arranged a spot for him, all by himself, on the stairway landing that led to the men’s gym on the floor above.  Here he was isolated but could still participate in the advanced class.  He wrote literally hundreds of pages of each letter of the alphabet, but she never did teach him to hook them together, so he was always a poor writer.  He made more progress that year as a whole than any other class in his elementary years.

            Lynn’s family was active and attended church in the Manavu Ward.  He was baptized July 14, 1918 by James H. Snyder and confirmed a member of the church the same day by his father.

            While Lynn was a small boy his father went out of the mercantile business, because an employee of the store absconded with all the company money.  They were then forced to close.  Upon leaving this business, his father purchased a farm out west of Utah Lake, near Saratoga.  He felt that farming would offer security for his family and would also provide work for his five sons.  The boys were kept busy plowing, cultivating, hoeing and weeding.  Lynn learned to work hard and to love it—at  trait that remained with him throughout life.  Lynn remembers going with his father and assuming work responsibilities at a very early age.  When he was approximately six years old he recalls driving a team to drag a harrow over the field.  His father had placed planks over the harrow for him to sit on, but he got caught under the harrow and was dragged for some time before his father stopped the horses and rescued him.

            They raised cows, sheep, hogs, and some real good horses.  One horse they particularly liked was named Star.  Star seemed unique even as a colt.  As a three year old, before he had been broken to work, he saved Lynn’s little brother Maurice’s life on one occasion.  Maurice, a two year old, had gotten into a buck pasture, where the horses were also kept.  One buck, that was particularly mean, knocked him down and then proceeded to cut him to pieces by stomping him with his sharp hooves.  Star came over and straddled the boy and by nipping and kicking kept the sheep away until he was rescued.

            They raised lots of corn, hay, grain, and potatoes on this farm.  There was an old granary, and they sometimes slept in it overnite rather than drive the thirty miles to Provo, where they still lived.  The family purchased its first motor vehicle at this time, so Lynn’s father and the boys did have transportation back and forth.  This transportation was supplemented by and old roan horse which they hitched to a two wheeled buckboard and drove to Lehi and other nearby places.  This horse was named Fred.  He had two speeds, slow and slower.  It was necessary to watch your language when you had Fred hitched to that buckboard.  If one used any word with the sound “o” in it, Fred stopped so quickly that the occupants of that high seat on the buckboard pitched right out over the singletree.  Some of Fred’s idiosyncrasies were equally evident when they were working with him in the fields.  If while plowing, cultivating or harrowing with Fred you headed the horses down-field, away from the barn and feed corral, he always shifted into low-low and you wondered if you would ever reach the bottom.  But once Fred was turned around and head for the corral on was wise to hang on for life.  Each trip he set a new record.  Lynn remembers seeing lots of rattlesnakes, blowsnakes and coyotes in this area, and ground dogs and badgers made irrigation very difficult.

            When Lynn was about ten years old, his parents decided to sell the Saratoga farm and buy a small one at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon and a large acreage at the base of MT. Yvette in Mapleton.  This property was called “Oak Springs Farm”.  The Farm was in primitive condition and it had to be cleared of oak trees, sage brush and rocks.  With the help of Joseph’s sons this was accomplished, and the farm was planted into grapes, orchards, watermelons, sugar beets, alfalfa, grain and vegetables.  There were four springs on the farm, which provided water for that land which was above the Strawberry Canal.  It became one of the best farms in the valley.

            Lynn and his brothers worked side by side with their father, trying to make this venture a success.  Lynn says they worked every day, not knowing when there was a holiday.  They all loved the farm and no matter what Lynn’s occupation was in later life, he still loved planting and watching things grow.

            When the work on their own place was finished Lynn worked for farmers there in Mapleton each fall.  He topped beets in order to have money for school.  He and his brothers also cut and sold many Christmas trees each year.

            The work on the farm with his father and brothers instilled in him the value and love of work.  It also gave him a close association with his father whom he loved, admired, and respected very much.  A cousin, Wendell Vance, whose father did not have a farm to keep him busy, worked right along with Lynn, and they remained good friends at work and at play for many years.

            Lynn says that traveling to Sanpete, Sevier, and Carbon Counties peddling fresh fruit and vegetables produced on the farm is among the many choice experiences he shared with his father that he will never forget.

            The family home was still in Provo except for one year during which they decided to live in the old home on the farm at Mapleton.  It was during this year of 1921 that Lynn’s little sister Marjorie died of pneumonia.  This was a real tragedy for the whole family.  They all loved her so very much.  It was this same year that Lynn attended the seventh grade in Mapleton.  He felt that he wasted the entire year.  He was so far ahead of the other students that he didn’t need to study to get good grades and he didn’t. 

            For the eighth grade Lynn returned to the training school at Brigham Young University.  He was far behind the other students.  The teacher tried an innovation in this class, seating all students according to their test scores.  Lynn found himself on the poorest row, but he found himself highly motivated by the system and with hard work was able to earn a seat on the first row before the end of the year.  In later years he used this same system very successfully in his own teaching.

            After one year living on the farm the old house was torn down and a small summer home was built at the edge of the oak covered hill.  A stream from the springs ran directly in front of the new building.  The boys and their father lived and worked here during the summers, but they now had a home in Provo.  Lynn’s mother was a very good cook, but part of the time she was busy in Provo, and the fellows found it necessary to cook for themselves.  The diet consisted of watermelon for days at a time.

            Extra money was needed to keep the family going, so Lynn’s mother rented a large home close to the college, at 694 North 1 East.  She took in B.Y.U. students for board and room.  She worked very hard and continued doing this as the boys received their college education and went on their missions.  They were still in the Manuavu Ward when they lived in this home.  Bishop Manwaring was the bishop when Lynn was made a Deacon.  He was ordained by Fred G. Warnick on March 6, 1921.

            When it was time to start high school in the ninth grade Lynn decided to transfer to Provo High School, where there were more activities than at B.Y. High School.  Lynn was always a very good student, but since he had to do farm work every fall, he always began school about two months late.  This made it necessary to really study to catch up.  He was very active in debate and dramatics, winning many honors and contributing much to the school.  Among the honors won were: 1^st place in the “Aldous Dixon Extemporaneous Speech Contest,” 2^nd place in oratory, and he and his partner tied for 1^st place in the state in debate.  Lynn also won the leading part in the competitive school play.  He served as president of the Drama Club.  He was elected Student Body President his Senior year.  This was the only year he started school at the beginning of the year.  He graduated in 1927.

            Lynn then attended the Brigham Young University where he was also active in speech, debate and dramatics.  After the first year he devoted his time mainly to dramatics and play production.  He took the leading part in many productions and also played many character parts.  Some of the plays he remembers best from this period were Pygmalion and Galatea, the Little Clay Cart, Journey’s End, and Gammer Gurton’s Needle.  Teachers who were a big help to him during this period were T. Earl Pardoe and Alonzo J. Morley.

            After attending college three years, Lynn was called on a mission in November, 1930.  He left for a thirty month stay in the German-Austria Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  He went by train to New York City and sailed on the S.S. Washington, landing in Hamburg, Germany.  The trip across the Atlantic lasted thirteen days.  He then went by train to Dresden, where the mission headquarters was located at that time.  His mission president was Pres. O.H. Budge and his first assignment was to labor in Stendall.  He spent four and one half months working alone.  These first months of his mission were very frustrating because he had a lazy, no working senior companion.  But, being of a dedicated and determined nature, worked entirely alone.  Being on his own he learned the German language very quickly with the help of the Lord.  This was in accordance with the patriarchal blessing he received before leaving home.  It was given to him by the Patriarch of the Church, Hyrum G. Smith, on November fourteenth 1930.

            The next assignment was to the Upper Silesien area.  Here he worked for three months with Elder Merril Wood as his new senior companion.  Merril was an excellent missionary and they felt that they were doing a good job, but the area was strictly Catholic and the work was difficult.  The two remained friends all their lives.  After three months with Merril, Lynn was called to Dresden to work in the mission office.  His specific assignment was to supervise the Mutual Improvement Associations and the Boy Scout Organization in Germany and Austria.

            Seven months later the mission office was transferred to Berlin.  This is where Lynn spent the remainder of his mission.  While serving in Berlin he an his companion, Orson Cannon, who was in charge of the Sunday Schools visited each branch of the mission to supervise the work of their respective organizations.  Lynn served his mission during the worst part of the great depression and found it necessary to live on twenty-five dollars per month.  Neither he nor his companion had the money for train fare, so they purchased bicycles and rode them for more than three thousand miles to all parts of the mission.  Lynn had learned all his life to be frugal, but this method of traveling enabled them to really see Germany the beautiful way.  At home conditions were such that there was no market for things produced on the far, and his parents were hard pressed to meet interest payments.  Lynn’s brothers Cecil and Berne, both married, helped consistently with funds to keep him in the field.  This was always remembered and appreciated by Lynn.

            Lynn was in Berlin during the political upheaval which saw the Nazis take control under Adolf Hitler and heard him speak on several occasions.  He was there at the time of the burning of the Reichtag, or building of the German Congress, by the Communists.  Years later, in 1962, Lynn had the privilege of visiting this same congress while in sessions, after it had been rebuilt in Bonn.  At this time he was studying with Stanford University.  While working in Berlin Lynn witnessed many of the depredations of the Nazis.

            On one occasion one of the Boy Scout Troup Leaders, with whom Lynn was working in the Berlin area, was also a ranking official in the Nazi organization.  He came to Lynn and told him to go to the church leaders and warn them that the Nazis were going to take over in Germany, there was no doubt about it and that the party would then put an end to all churches in Germany.  He said to tell them that they should do nothing at all to antagonize the Nazis.  Lynn told the troupe leader that this was the work of the Lord and that Hitler nor anyone else was going to do anything to stop it.  Lynn was so sure in his own mind that this was not going to happen, that he can’t remember whether he delivered the message to the mission president or not.  A few months later the Nazis did take over the German government.  They were voted into power.  They immediately banned all the churches in Germany except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  The reason they made this exception was that they needed the dollars the missionaries were bringing in to help their balance of trade.  LDS missionaries were self supporting and didn’t live from local donations.  Approximately two weeks after Lynn’s release from his mission in May, 1933, Hitler did away with the Boy Scout and all other youth organizations and made them “Hitler Youth”.  Lynn didn’t feel that he ever understood what was happening all around him until he returned home and read about it in the papers.  He was too close to the forest to see it for the trees.

            Lynn was released from his mission on May 24, 1933.  He returned home on the S.S. America.  When they arrived in New York he and several of his companions purchased a second hand car and drove it home, seeing the country and saving money in the process.  They sold the car in Salt Lake City and divided the money among them.

            After he returned home Lynn joined with his cousin, Wendell, who had recently returned from the Canadian Mission, and went looking for work.  They needed the money to finish school, so they hitch-hiked to Lamoine, Nevada, where they heard hay hands were needed.  They had only ten cents for one loaf of bread between them when they left for Nevada.  Here they were successful in gaining the desired employment; they worked hard and returned for school in the fall.  During his senior year Lynn worked as stage manager for the Drama Department at B.Y.U.

            During his last year at the university Lynn was very active in dramatics and won the Ed M. Evans Award as the outstanding graduate in his field.  He graduated in June, 1934 with a B.A. Degree. He earned a double major in Speech-Dramatics and German.  Although Lynn graduated with a double major, one being German, he had no intention of ever using this, but took it simply because of his missionary background.  He has concluded since that someone with more knowledge that he guided him in his decision, since it later became his life’s work.

            It was in March of this year that Lynn met the girl who was later to become his wife.  This was Wanda Rose Crandall of Peoa in Summit County, Utah.  She was a Freshman at B.Y.U.  They had a short courtship and were engaged before school was out for the summer, when she went home and he to work with his brother Cecil in a fruit market in Helper, Utah.  Lynn and Wanda were married July 18, 1934 in the Manti Temple.  Times were hard in those depression years, but Lynn had worked long enough to buy the rings and had a few dollars left over for a short honeymoon.  They then returned to Helper to make their home.

            Lynn was educated to teach school, but the going wage was eight hundred dollars a year, so he decided to go into business with his brother Cecil.  They bought two open fruit markets from Jim Pinnegar, one in Helper and the other in Price, with Cecil managing the one in Price and Lynn the other.  The next winter their brother Maurice joined them in their business.  He worked in the Price store.  A few years later their brother Berne quit teaching school and came into the business.  They had big plans for expansion.  Their father trucked produce to them from the farm and from the market in Salt Lake City.  Lynn did much of the driving with his father and after his death in August, 1942.  Berne became ill and was off from work a long time.  When he was well enough he decided to go back to teaching school.  He never returned to the business.  During the Second World War Maurice and his wife Geri decided they could both work at defense jobs in Salt Lake City and make more money.  They never rejoined the business either.

            When Lynn and Wanda were married they first lived in a one room apartment at the Hillcrest Hotel in Helper, but after approximately one month they found a two room apartment and moved to Ricci Apartments number one on Welby Street.  They lived there for one year and then moved into a three room home in a duplex owned by Pete Bosone on 50 North Main, a daughter Kay was born while there on October 29, 1936.  They lived in this home about five years, and a second daughter, Lynda, was born to them there December 4, 1940.

            In the summer of 1937 Lynn and Wanda bought their first car.  It was a new brown Chevrolet Coupe.  It cost them nine hundred dollars and it lasted them for seventeen years.  They were still using it after five children, who used to quarrel about who got to sit up in the back window.  Folks wondered how they all got in.

            On June 1, 1940, when Lynda was six months old, the family moved into a new home at 109 D street.  The home was built with an F.H.A. loan.  Lynn and his father worked for the contractor and did a lot of the work.  It was a nice two bedroom home with a full unfinished basement.  Lynn loved to garden and built a beautiful year.  He spent many hours digging out the large rock and sifting out the smaller ones by putting all the dirt through a gravel screen, so that he would have perfect soil for planting.  Due to the price he and his brother took in their yards they were able to influence many people in the town with a desire for better surroundings.  They also sold nursery stock in their place of business making it easy for people to buy plants, shrubs, and trees.  Lynn’s yard was a joy to him and those who looked at it.  The shade trees, fruit trees, lawn, shrubs and flowers were always well selected and well groomed.  Lynn worked hard, with very little time off, so this for him was recreation.

            Lynn also played a little tennis, and, for the time he devoted to it, was really quite good.

            Lynn remained active in the church, although he worked long hours every day.  At about this time in his life he felt that his patriarchal blessing had been completely fulfilled, and desiring further spiritual guidance, he and Wanda each received a patriarchal blessing on March 17 1943 from Carbon Stake Patriarch, John E. Pettit.  In this blessing Lynn was promised that he would be called to positions of high responsibility, and should therefore keep himself clean and unspotted from the world.  Three months later he was called to be Bishop of the Helper Ward.

            Lynn’s first son, Joseph Lee, was born April 28, 1943.  They were blessed with a third daughter, Peggy, on May 23, 1945.  The baby of the family, a second son, Alan Lynn, was born March 7, 1949.  This completed their family.

            It was at about this time that Cecil and Lynn decided to expand their business and built two fine new grocery stores, one in Price in 1947 and the other in Helper in 1949.  They called them Broadbents’ Fine Foods.  Business was good until after the war, then the economy began to go from bad to worse.  The continued coal strikes, the decline in rail road activity and lack of need for coal by industries which were starting to use other fuels were all factors responsible for the economic recession in Carbon County at this time.  The advent of the diesel engine to replace the old coal burning locomotives on the Denver and Rio Grande Rail Road made it unnecessary for engines to be serviced in the round house at Helper and also resulted in a great reduction in the number of rail road employees.

           

            Since business was slow in the store, Lynn got a job in the fall of 1953.  He began teaching school at Helper Jr. High and left his wife to care for the store, helping her Saturdays and after school.  The children were all in school except Alan, who attended nursery school in the mornings and then played around the store in the afternoon until the older children were out of school to take him home.  Lynn took the teaching job with the intention of selling the store, but, due to the times, he continued like this for eight years and the business did not improve.  It was still a partnership business with all of Lynn’s wages going into the common fund.  Both families lived with the idea that no one should spend anything that wasn’t necessary and with one thought in mind, to get out of debt.

Business in the Price store held up longer than in the Helper store.  Finally, in 1961, the Helper store building was leased to Nolan Davis.  Lynn moved the stock to the Price store.  He felt like the weight of the world had been lifted from his shoulders.  During those eight years of teaching he had not even been able to work in the store during the summer.  It was necessary for financial reasons to continue with other employment.  He worked during these summers for the Carbon County School District tearing down and renovating school buildings all over the county.  Two summers he even worked in the timber, where he cut and made ties for the railroad.  Because both families worked hard and together the payments on the loans were kept up.

            When the Helper store was finally leased, the partners had separate incomes fro the first time in Lynn and Wanda’s married life.  Lynn was free to take a National Defense Education scholarship grant and attend the University of Washington in Seattle to study German for his Masters Degree.  This he did during the summer of 1961.  The following summer, 1962, he again received the same type of grant to study with Stanford University in Bad Boll near Stuttgart in Germany.  These experiences were great for Lynn, because he was then teaching German exclusively.

            When Lynn started teaching he taught Biology, English, Civics, Math, and Driver Training.  He taught speech only one year.  He did a good job with each subject and learned much in a broad area.  He feels this varied experience gave him a well rounded education.  One year he suggested a German class t the principal and it was only a short time until he had a full load of German.

           

            In November, 1953 Lynn’s mother who had lived alone in her home in Provo for fifteen years passed away.  He and his family missed her frequent visits with them as well as her sweet spirit and advice.

            Lynn and Wanda’s children all attended elementary and Jr. high school in Helper and then continued their schooling at Carbon High School in Price.  Kay, Lynda, and Peggy all graduated from Carbon College ( now the College of Eastern Utah).  They then went on to get their B.A. Degrees at Brigham Young University in Provo.  Lee went to Carbon College one year before leaving for Europe to fill an L.D.S. mission in the South German Mission.

            Kay and Lynda were both married while the family still lived in Helper.  Peggy was married the year after the family moved to Cedar City.  However the wedding reception was held in Helper.  They all married returned missionaries and college graduates, and were married in the Manti Temple.  Kay was married June 5, 1957 to Glen R Stubbs of Ephraim, Utah. Lynda married Walter Sherman Gibbs of Portage, Utah June 4, 1963.  Peggy and Ray Dean Terry were married June 5, 1966.

            The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been a way of life for the Lynn Broadbent family ever since Lynn and Wanda were married.  Even before marriage Lynn worked in the Manavu Ward as Drama Director for the M.I.A.  He became active in the Helper Ward as soon as they moved there.  Positions he held were: Drama Director, President of the Y.M.M.I.A., Aaronic Priesthood Supervisor, Young Adult Sunday School Teacher, Elders Quorum President, and Ward Teacher.  He taught the Gospel Doctrine Sunday School Class from 1946 to 1965.  He taught this adult class, even though he was bishop of the ward for much of this time.  He served as Bishop of the Helper Ward for twelve years, from 1943 to 1955.  Lynn was ordained a High Priest and set apart as Bishop of the Helper Ward on October 24, 1943 by Marvin O. Ashton, a member of the Presiding Bishopric of the L.D.S. Church at that time.  He was assisted by Richard L. Evans of the First Council of Seventies.

            When Lynn became the third bishop of the Helper Ward, the first chapel in the city was nearly completed.  Previous to that time the ward had used and old railroad building, and later the elementary school to hold their meetings in.  Lynn directed the completion of the chapel and supervised the raising of money for the pews and other furnishings for the building as well as the landscaping.  He insisted that the pews must be padded.  The final dedication of the chapel was on October 24, 1943.  His counselors in the bishopric were Elmer Parker and Frank Hartle with Leonard Thayne as Ward Clerk.  Other counselors during the twelve years were Waldo B. Gale, Owen Burgener, and L. Rodney Taylor.  T. Don Burnhope was also a ward clerk.  Many people were activated, and the ward grew considerably, both in number and activity during Lynn’s term as bishop.

            He enjoyed his work as bishop and had many experiences which strengthen him spiritually.  On one occasion, while returning from a soft ball game in Vernal, in the middle of the night, over a strange road, and traveling at a high rate of speed with his brother Cecil driving, they saw the lights of a large truck approaching out of the pitch darkness in the distance.  Lynn was prompted to say, “Cec, you’d better slow down.  You don’t have room to pass that truck on that narrow bridge ahead.”  It was so dark that neither of them could have seen any bridge and neither of them had been on that particular road before.  Cecil, who at that time was President of the North Carbon Stake, answered, “What bridge?  I don’t see any bridge.”  But he slowed down automatically.  Lynn said, “I just had an idea there was a bridge ahead.”  By this time the abutment of a long, one-way bridge became visible in the lights of the car and the huge truck was crossing it.  Had they continued at their previous speed they must surely have met the truck on the bridge and both would have been killed.

            Another incident that Lynn will never forget began when Brother James Charlesworth, a fine member of the ward, who had become inactive over the years came to Bishop Lynn one day in his place of business.  Jim had health problems.  He had lost his voice, and for several months had been unable to speak, except in a whisper.  He was a man of means and had secured the best medical assistance, but it was to no avail.  The doctors couldn’t even tell him why he couldn’t speak, let alone what to do about it.  Unashamedly the tears rolled down his cheeks as he told the bishop of his years of inactivity, of his reasons for it, and of his present regrets.  He then made an unexpected and strange request.  “Bishop,” he said, “I am going to be a good member of my church from now on, and I want to start out be going back to the temple.  Could you find it in your heart,” he whispered, “to give me a temple recommend?”  Lynn was really surprised but feels that his reply was prompted by the Spirit and he answered.  “Jim, I’m glad that you want to go to the temple and you may surely have a recommend.”  Again the gratitude was expressed with tears and hoarse whispers.  Brother Charlesworth went to the temple that very week, and as he entered that holy place his voice was restored, and he spoke as well as anyone else from that time on.  But the wonderful and rewarding part, to Bishop Broadbent was that he also kept his promise.  He became a stalwart in the ward and stake from that time on.

           

            Lynn recalls many similar experiences.  One other that he remembers also happened in the Manti Temple.  Bro. Stanley Kantor was a coal miner living in the Helper War, who had recently joined the church and wanted to go to the temple to be married.  During the required waiting period complications developed.  Brother Kantor was afflicted with, what the Dr. called, migratory rheumatism.  It was extremely painful, so much so that it robbed him of his sleep and rest.  AS the date set for the trip to the temple approached, his condition became progressively worse.  It was so bad he could neither sit up, lie down, or stand.  In fact, there was no position where he could get any relief from the excruciating pain, which tortured hi day and night.  He was literally screaming with pain and his wife was near total collapse.  Bishop Broadbent was called to come and administer to him at two o’clock in the morning.  The couple was scheduled to leave for the temple three hours later.  The bishop and his counselor administered to him and asked him if it wouldn’t be wise to postpone the temple trip, since no one in this condition could possibly endure the long session and the flights of steps.  Both he and his wife Ruth insisted that nothing was going to keep them from the temple that day.  They felt that they had planned it too long, and they were sure that Satan was trying to interfere.  At five o’clock that morning, Lynn and his counselor, Brother Kantor, who couldn’t walk a single step, to the car and placed his crutches in after him.  Later Stan and the group with him told what happened.  It was necessary for friends to and up the steps of the temple.  The closer to the door he got the more excruciating the pain became.  Once through the door he was completely healed and needed no further help from friends or the crutches.  They had an enjoyable day at the temple, and he was never thus afflicted again.

Lynn has been endowed with the gift of healing and has used it on many occasions.  He recalls one such incident when the six week old baby of Brother and Sister Monte Stanley, also members of the Helper Ward, was near death with pneumonia.  They asked the bishop to come and administer, and together with Bro. Lynn Overlade, he went to the Stanley home.  This couple had already lost a baby about a year earlier under very similar circumstances and were now afraid of losing a second.  The child seemed nothing but skin stretched over bone, the skin being a sickly green in color, as Lynn and Brother Overlade took it in their arms.  It was breathing like a saw in a wet log.  But when the laid their hands on its head and Lynn administered the blessing, the breathing immediately became entirely normal; the baby vomited a large handful of awful looking mucus, etc., and the skin color change to that of a healthy baby.  The baby was entirely recovered in a very short time.  Lynn had many such experiences throughout his life; and each added strength to the testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the power of its priesthood, which he always had.

            As Chairman of the Bishops’ Council, Lynn was responsible for the work on the North Carbon Stake Welfare Farm west of Price for many years.  He personally spent hundreds of hours working in the hay and beets.  Later he worked many house in the church coal mine at Orangeville.  This was also a church welfare project.  After his release as bishop, Lynn was a member of the North Carbon Stake High Council from 1955 to 1965, serving during the latter years as senior member of this body.  Shortly before his release from this position he supervised “Project Temple” for the stake.  Under his supervision over a hundred people were brought into activity and went through the temple at Manti.

            During his years in Helper Ward and North Carbon Stake, Lynn was a popular speaker, being invited to speak at many funerals, church and civic functions. 

            All during Lynn’s life in the Helper Ward he acted in, directed and produced many plays.  Some of those he remembers are: Sun Up, a play in which his wife Wanda was an old southern woman who smoked a corn cob pipe all the way through; Seven Keys to Bald Pate; the Ghost Train; Polly with a Past; June Mad; Charlie’s Aunt; Wing Tu’s Brother; and Is Zat So?.  There were many others, including one act plays and skits.

            Lynn was also gifted at giving readings.  This he did in Provo, Helper and Price.  He also spent many hours training his children in these skills, and they won many awards in readings, oratory, and dramatics.

            During his years in Carbon he also took an active part in the Carbon County Community Amateur Theater both acting and directing.  One play which was especially well done and received the highest rating was Pin and Patches in which his daughter Kay and his son Lee too leading parts.

            Lynn was called to be an early morning seminary teacher by the church and taught eleven years from 1950 to 1961.  The students from Helper and vicinity were unable to graduate from seminary at Carbon High, where they went only for the eleventh and twelfth years.  For the ninth and tenth grades they attended Helper Junior High School where no seminary was available.  So Lynn was hired and asked to build his own program and see that the students received instruction in both Old and New Testament.  On year he taught Old Testament and the next he alternated with New.  They then took Church History and Book of Mormon at Carbon High School to complete their seminary work.  Students from, Castle Gate, Spring Canyon, Spring Glen, Kennilworth, Carbonville, and Helper were involved.  Lynn had to work with the parents and students to make this a success.  Car pools from each town were organized.  Seminary was held in the Helper Ward Chapel at seven A.M.  The students from out of town had to get up pretty early to participate, but nearly all L.D. S. students in the area were there.  After class the students had to walk more than a half a mile to get to their classes at school.  Lynn and the elected officers sponsored a lot of activities to help make it something that even the less enthusiastic members wanted to share.  They had parties, excursions to B.Y.U basketball games, trips to Arches National Par, Goblin Valley, Dead Horse Point, and they presented programs in the different sacrament meetings.  Lynn was very successful in his seminary work and has had many grateful students praise him for his efforts.  Even his own children, who sat under him in school and in the seminary count him as one of their very best teachers.

            The first of June, 1963, the Helper store building was sold to Nolan Davis, who had been leasing it.  A big loss was taken, but Lynn and Cecil were glad to sell it and pay off part of the mortgages.  This also lightened the pressure for Cecil and Edna in the Price store.

            The summers of 1963 and 1964 were spent in Laramie, Wyoming.  Lynn, Wanda, and Alan lived there while Lynn was finishing his Master’s Degree in German.  They lived in the student housing complex, all one story buildings, so that the wind would not blow them away; but sometimes they thought it was going to.  The other children were either married or were working in the Utah parks for the summer.  AS a break from study and research, with which Wanda was assisting, they enjoyed keeping up with Alan in his baseball and tennis, even following him to Denver to see him play in the championship Pony League game between Wyoming and Colorado.

            When Lynn decided to get his Master’s Degree in German, he had gradually worked up a program in the Carbon District where he was teaching at Helper Jr. High in the morning, eating his lunch in the fifteen minute period required to drive to Carbon High School at Price, where he taught three classes in the afternoon, then on to College of Eastern Utah, where he taught in the evening.  He taught German exclusively.  The last year Lynn taught at Carbon High School he conducted a research project for the State of Utah, which turned out to be very interesting and successful.  During this project he taught a biology class in German.  He discovered that it can be done successfully for both subjects.  This was the first time an experiment of this kind had been conducted in the United States.  It had previously been done in Russia.  The experiment showed the students in Lynn’s classless, as compared to a high school group in Urbana, Illinois; of identical I.Q., taking classes in both biology and German, but not simultaneously, did better in both subjects.  This was possible because they concentrated more and more was demand of them.  There should have been a second year follow up study to verify these findings, but this was impossible for Lynn to do, since he accepted a position to organize a German Major at the College of Southern Utah in Cedar City, Utah.  After the national publication of this project, other teachers in the United Stats and Canada wrote to Lynn for information, wishing to try similar projects in their schools.

            The spring of 1965 was very eventful for both the Lynn and Cecil Broadbent families.  The Price store was sold to Westar, a sports equipment firm which received a government loan for small businesses, and they paid cash for the building.  This company only purchased the building, and the groceries and equipment were sold at a “Going Out of Business” sale.  Enough money was received from this transaction to pay off all of the stores debts and the mortgages on both homes.  In addition, each family was able to receive some profit for the thirty-one years in Broadbents’ Fine Foods stores in Carbon Count.  At this time Cecil and Edna left immediately for Frankfurt, where Cecil had been called to preside over the West German Mission.

Wanda--1965 a gimmick at the
Xochmilco Floating Gardens Concessions

            When the last part of the business was sold, Lynn and Wanda bought their second brand new car, a dark aqua blue Buick Skylark with a white top, and traveled to Saltillo, Mexico.  Here they spent the summer studying Spanish.  They enjoyed the school, Escuela Normal, studying nothing but Spanish all day.  There was a beautiful park right across from the school, and here they spent many hours preparing their lessons and practicing what they had learned in class.  There was a small library in the park, which was a big help to them.  They were each assigned a private, native tutor to work with after school for about two hours each day.  The school provided living quarters with native families for all of its students, and only the better class families and homes were chosen.  Lynn and Wanda lived in two different homes, the latter of which was very ornate with tile floors and a balcony.  This was the home of a young Arabian woman by the name of Helene Iga, Aldama Pte #627, Saltillo, Coahuilla, Mexico.  The first family they lived with was that of Senor and Senora George Garcia, Obern Sur 140, Saltillo, Coahuilla, Mexico.  Here in Saltillo they found two strata of society, extremely poor, and the wealthy, with no middle class.  They found the local L.D.S branch and enjoyed mingling with the saints in Saltillo.

            While in Mexico Lynn and Wanda drove over two of the principal highways of the country, visiting the beautiful high mountainous country on the east side, where they saw quaint Indian villages, corn growing over the tops of very high mountains, and banana and avocado groves, as well as other tropical fruits at lower elevations.  They visited the Temple of the Moon and the Temple of the Sun pyramids, Mexico City, the Palace of Maximillian, and the floating gardens at Xochimilco.  They also drove thru the desert country, sometimes seeing nothing much but cactus, road runners, rattlesnakes and lizards.

            When they returned home to Helper the last of August they immediately moved to Cedar City, Utah where Lynn had been hired to teach German at Southern Utah State College.  He worked with Professor Harry Plummer, Head of the Language Department, to build an impressive program in German, Spanish and French.  After two years Lynn had established a program for a major in German.  Two years later a major in Spanish and a minor in French were added.  He also initiated an intensive summer program in German in which the students took no other courses, but studied German all day long.  They learned as much of the language during this intensive eight week program as students normally mastered during and academic year and received the same fifteen credit hours for their achievement.  Many teachers, who were working toward doctorates, took advantage of this opportunity to meet their foreign language requirement.  One summer their daughter Kay and her husband Glen lived with Lynn and Wanda and took this course while Glen was working for his doctorate.  This program, which Lynn taught personally for ten years, was so successful that it continued even after he had retired. 

            The teacher and friend who taught with Lynn in the German program was Herbert Ludwig, a native German.  They worked together for many years.  In June 1972, Lynn was appointed head of the Language Department.  As Chairman of the Department he was responsible for securing the appointment of Dick Carlson to teach Spanish, after the death of his friend and colleague, Harry Plummer.  About a year later Professor Ludwig retired and Lynn then secured the services of Terry Blodgett as Assistant Professor of German.  Many of his students have made it a point to thank Professor Broadbent, either verbally or by mail, for being such a good teacher and an influence in their lives.  He always liked to teach, was never plagued with discipline problems, and his students honored him on several occasions throughout his career.  On one occasion the students at the Helper Jr. High School presented him with a beautiful gold watch at the end of the year.

            On moving to Cedar City in 1965 Lynn, Wanda, and Alan lived in a rented house at 246 S 300 West.  Peggy was attending B.Y.U. and Lee was on a mission to Germany.  They lived there only a short and then moved to a home owned by the college which it rented to its faculty members.  It was known as the Tucker home at 272 South 500 West.  It was a fairly nice red brick home, and Lynn and Wanda worked hard to upgrade and beautify it, both inside and out.  Lynn resurrected a dead weedy garden spot into a splendid vegetable garden.  They lived there until September 1969, when they bought the Sherman and Lynda Gibbs home at 222 South 900 West.  This home was built three years previously for daughter Lynda and son-in-law Sherman.  Sherman came to Cedar City to be a principal of the Cedar High School Seminary.  They lived with Lynn and Wanda while the home was being built and they all worked together painting and decorating it.  Lynn and Wanda enjoyed them and their family while they lived in Cedar City, seeing a lot of them and their children, Randy, Sherlyn, and Christy.  The two families went on lots of picnics to the parks, lakes and canyons.  When Lynda and Sherm were transferred to San Diego California, even though Lynn and Wanda had their own building lot and a fine set of plans for a home, they decided to buy the house.

            The home had a three bedroom basement apartment made especially for student housing.  For years they rented this to boys attending Southern Utah State College.  When the new owners moved into the home Lynn continued to landscape and beautify the place, and with Wanda’s help they built a fine block wall around the home and extended this with chain link around the garden spot.  He literally made the soil by hauling in sand and manure to mix with the heavy clay soil.  He thoroughly enjoys being a successful gardener.  There were a good raspberry patch, a row of asparagus, two Chinese bush cherries, several clumps of rhubarb, a native currant, and a gooseberry bush in the garden area.  Here he always had plenty of tomatoes, corn, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, and cantaloupe.  More of these ended up with the children and the neighbors than were used at home.  IN the space between the house and the garden he planted a large lawn with eight fruit trees all of the dwarf varieties and a nice flower garden.  Lynn liked flowers of all kinds, but more particularly dahlias, gladioli, asters and canterbury bells.

            In 1966, one year after their move to Cedar City, Peggy was married, and she and Ray moved to Salt Lake City where Ray had accepted employment with the Granit School District.  Lee came home from his mission to Germany and attended Southern Utah State College for one year.  He then went to Utah Sate University one year before serving a four year term with the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam conflict.  Lee then returned to Utah State University from which he graduated with a degree in Range Management in 1974.

            Alan attended Cedar High School during his Junior and Senior years, and then went to Southern Utah State College for one year before leaving for a mission in Finland.  He returned home in October, 1970.  It was at this time that Lynn and Wanda purchased a new Buick Skylark, a brown one, and gave Alan the old one, which they had enjoyed so much and which was still in good condition.  The old car served Alan well for several more years.  Alan lived at home and attended another year of college and then joined the army for the following two years.  This was also during the war in Asia.  He was married during that time, June 23, 1972, to Maureen Hansen in the Salt lake Temple.  Among other places, Alan served in Korea where his wife joined him; their first son Alma Ray was born there.  Following his release he returned to Cedar City to finish his education there.  While living in Cedar they had two more children, Aleena and Jason.  Lynn and Wanda came to love the children very much.  The two families had many enjoyable outings and picnics at this time.  Alan graduated in June 1976, and they moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was employed with the Crawford Company as an insurance adjuster.

            The family home in Helper was rented at first, because there was no sale for it.  The first renters were good, but subsequent renters rant eh place down both inside and out.  After several disappointing experiences Lynn and Wanda paid another good renter to add another room in the basement and redecorate the home.  Shortly thereafter they sold it to him, feeling that it was better to sell, even at a cheaper price, than to continue to rent, since the home was so far away.  Then Lynn and his family moved to Cedar City in 1965 they had many fond memories of the old home in Helper and missed the many friends they left behind.

            Lynn and Wanda first lived in the eighth ward in Cedar City, but after only a few months moved over to the seventh.  In January, 1966, he was called to serve as a High Councilman in the newly formed L.D.S. Southern Utah State College Stake.   While acting in this capacity he was advisor to the different wards, worked with the stake missionaries and was advisor to the stake relief society.  During these years his wife Wanda was also working in the college stake on the Relief Society Board, so they were able to enjoy working together and both were released at the same time in 1973.  While working in the college stake and living in their own home on 9^th West, the family belonged to the ninth of Cedar West Stake.  When the ninth ward was divided they belonged to the new thirteenth ward.

            Shortly after being released from the college stake in the fall of 1973, Lynn was asked to teach the Gospel Doctrine Class in the new ward.  This was a particular assignment that he has always enjoyed very much.  He taught this until February of 1976 when the street on which they lived, 900 West, was returned to the ninth ward.

            During their married life Wanda and Lynn have done temple work in both the Manti and St. George temples and have been through the Salt Lake, Provo, Oakland, and Washington temples.  They are proud and feel blessed to have been able to accompany all of their five children to the temples when each was married.  Lynn and Wanda were called in 1977 to do sealing work in the St. George Temple.  This assignment is continuing as of March, 1978.  After transferring back to the ninth ward, he and his wife were asked to teach the Family Relations Class in Sunday School, an assignment they also still have as of the above date.

            Lynn continued to teach college until he was sixty-eight years of age.  He retired in June, 1976, nearly three years beyond the normal retirement age.  He has always been convinced that mandatory retirement practices are a curse to the nation.  He believed that the Lord’s statement,  “By the sweat of the brow—“, was never intended to be invalidated at the age of sixty-five.  He also feels that if we as a nation are to compete with other nations successfully we can’t do it by making drones of a high percentage of our workers.

            When Lynn left the college he and Wanda left for a three week bus tour.  The tour was sponsored by the B.Y. U., and the tour directors were their daughter Kay and son-in-law Glen Stubbs.  The tour took them to all points of early church and American national history.  They traveled across the country to Virginia, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, New York, Joseph Smith’s birthplace in Vermont, Niagara Falls in Canada, Chicago, and home.  It was a wonderful trip and they made many new friends on the bus.

            During the years in Helper, when the family was growing up, there was neither time nor money for traveling, but they did take one day or over a holiday trips.  They visited Mesa Verde in Colorado, Bryce Canyon, Zion’s National Park, and quite often to Arches National Monument, Goblin Valley and Dead Horse Point.  Mud Springs, just nineteen miles from their home, was an often visited favorite haunt.  In the summer of 1963, after summer school in Laramie, Wyoming was out, Lynn, Wanda, and Alan traveled south through Denver and Pueblo, Colorado to Taos, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, then over to Phoenix, Arizona where Kay and Glen had just moved.  They had but recently gotten their first child, Dian and this made some mighty proud grand parents.  The travelers returned home through the beautiful Oak Creek Canyon and Glen Canyon, where the dam was then being completed.  After the summer school of 1964 the three of them returned home via the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, Yellow Stone National Park, the Grand Tetons, and Jackson Hole.  The family really enjoyed these trips very much as they were the last they made while Alan was still at home.  In 1965 Alan was left in Provo with Lynda and Kay and their families while Sherman and Glen were studying at the B.Y.U.  Peggy was working at Zion’s National Par, where she met her husband Ray Terry.  Lee was filing a mission in Germany.  This left the parents free to study in Mexico.  On the way down they visited Carlsbad Caverns, and White Sands in New Mexico; they then drove on to the Big Bend National Park I Texas and Mexico by way of Eagle Pass and Piedros Negros.  They returned seven weeks later through Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas.  They returned home by way of Duncan, Arizona and the Coronado Trail, which winds through the mountainous eastern part of that state.

            1966 was an eventful year for the family; Peggy was married; Lee came home from his mission; and they, along with Alan, all worked at Zion’s Park for the summer.  The parents remained home where Lynn taught summer school and worked on the yard.  The enjoyed having the children so close, where they could see them often.  The following summer, with Alan again working at Zion’s Park and Lee employed by the Forest Service near Boise Idaho, Lynn and Wanda toured northern California, visiting Yosemite National Park, Lake Tahoe, and the Red Wood Forest.  From there they continued down the California Coast to San Francisco and over to San Jose, where Kay and Glen were living with their daughter Diane and a second beautiful daughter, Julie Ann, whom they had gotten in Arizona a few months before transferring to their new assignment.  Lynn and Wanda then traveled further down the coast to Big Sur, Hurst’s Castle, over to the beautiful Sequoia National Park and back to Cedar City.  One spring they took a short trip through Death Valley where they found snow and millions of flowers, with great fields of them blooming in all directions.

            Lynn and Wanda have taken some nice trips with Kay and Glen and family seeing the scenic parts of Idaho, the beautiful Saw Tooth Mountain area and clear, sparkling rivers and lakes.  While on one of these trips, they continued on to Glacier National Park in Montana, then to Cardston in Canada where they visited the Mormon Temple, before returning home by another scenic route through Idaho.  A few years later the two families drove out through northern Nevada into Oregon, seeing Crater Lake and following the rugged Oregon coast into Washington.  They stayed in Seattle and took the ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria, British Columbia, in Canada.  On the way home we saw Mount Rainer, Mount Hood, and other points of interest in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

            In June, 1971 the two families had planned a trip through the Canadian parks, but shortly before time to leave Kay and Glen got word that they could pick up their little baby boy, David Glen, at the adoption agency in Idaho Falls.  They had waited a long time for him, so of course could not go.  Lee got a furlough from the navy at this time, so he and his parents went on the trip, stopping in Rexburg to see the new grandson.  They had intended to take the route through Glacier National Park, but were forced to go around because the park was still snowbound.  The trio continued its journey to Waterton Lake.  They liked this resort very much and were impressed by its quaintness.  It was very peaceful and quiet.  They then continued their travels through Cardston, Calgary, and then on to the magnificent national parks, Banff, Kootney, Yo Ho, Jasper, Glacier and Revelstoke.  They hoped to drive clear up to Alaska.  Lynn had to get back in time to teach summer school, so they did not reach their objective at this time, but they did drive to Prince George and way over to Prince Rupert, the Tuna Capitol of the World, on the British Columbia Coast.  At least one may see Alaska from that point.  The return trip brought them down through the pan handle area of Idaho.  They also saw the Craters of the Moon and Sun Valley.  It was good to have Lee with them at that time especially since he had been away so long.  There ever Lynn and Wanda went they always wanted to take a different route, feeling that each was like being in a different world.

            Colorado is quite familiar to Lynn and Wand and they have visited practically every part of it at least once during their lives.  They think it is a very beautiful state and have returned to some of its more interesting places several times.  One especially enjoyable trip was with Peggy and Ray in 1973.  The first went to Grand Junction, the Grand Mesa, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument, the Royal Gorge,  and then through Silverton, Leadville, and the mountainous mining area and then on to Steam Boat Springs and over to Craig, where Lee was stationed while working for the U.S. Bureau of Land for the summer.  From here they took Lee and Drove to the Rocky Mountain National Park, Aspen Ski Resort, and Glenwood Springs.  They traveled over most of the extremely high mountain passes in Colorado, including Monarch Pass.  They cam home via Flaming Gorge, Dutch John, and Evanston, Wyoming.

            After Sherman and Lynda moved to San Diego, California, Lynn and Wanda visited them a number of times, and with them and their seven children, Randy, Sherlyn, Christy, Alysson, Michael, Martin, and Kerilynn they have visited most of the points for interest in Southern California, including Disney Land, Sea World, the Los Angeles L.D.S. Temple, the San Diego Zoo, the ship yard, where Lee was stationed, and Tijuana, Mexico.  On one New Years Day they watched the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena.  One interesting trip home from such a visit took them through El Centro, Blythe, Needles, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada.  Another return trip led them to Yuma, Prescott and Flagstaff, Arizona, around to Page and home by way of Kanab.

            During the summer of 1977 Lynn and Wanda along with Kay and Glen and their children returned to Canada by way of Glacier National park in Montana.  They revisited the principal national parks in Canada and enjoyed the sky ride at beautiful Lake Louise, where they spent two nights in a luxurious motel while thy visited the nearby points of interest.  Sights they particularly appreciated were the Columbian Ice Fields, upon which they rode in a snowmobile; the Yo Ho Falls, the highest they had ever seen; Athabasca Falls; the natural bridge over the Kicking Horse River; the Mountain Goats, and the moose in several of the parks; and the multicolored lakes.  The lakes they thought most beautiful were Lake Loraine, which is Peyto Lake, colored a beautiful robin egg blue; Lake Louise, the best known among the countless numbers of lakes found in the Canadian Rockies; and Emerald Lake, which is nestled like a gem in a beautiful setting and gets its name from the deep sparkling green of its waters.  Another lake they liked very much is Waterton Lake which extends over the border into the United States.

            On June 2, 1977, Lee was married to Marilyn Reynolds in the Manti Temple.  Lynn and Wanda attended the temple with them, then traveled on to Vernal for their reception.  The newlyweds established their home in Vernal, Marilyn’s home town because Lee was employed in the Roosevelt Vernal area where he worked with the Soil Conservation Service.

            Shortly after Lee’s marriage Lynn and Wanda purchased another new 1977 Buick, this time a silver Regal with a red plush interior.

            Except for the indebtedness necessary to establish themselves in business and the purchase of their homes, Lynn and Wanda have strictly adhered to the policy of staying out of debt all their lives.  Anything they couldn’t pay cash for they simply went without.  This policy applied to furniture, cars and all other purchases both small and large.  Lynn considered indebtedness a form of slavery.  On February 1, 1973, the Cedar City home was cleared of the final indebtedness, and since then they have been entirely free of all debt.

            Lynn worked hard all his life and was blessed with exceptionally good health until the early nineteen sixties, when arthritic troubles gave him back problems for the rest of his life.  He did not let this interfere with working hard however, but work was sometimes very painful.  At about this time he also had an operation for a hernia.  Lynn was bothered somewhat all his life with insufficient breathing space in his nose, so in 1972 he had an operation and part of the septum was removed.  His sinuses were then able to drain, and he could breathe better from that time on.  In the spring of 1976 Lynn was plagued with an attack of arthritic gout and the following winter discovered he had Sugar Diabetes.  He has been able to completely control both diseases with diet and medication.

            All the children have been home frequently for holiday and summer vacations since they established their own homes, but Peggy and Ray and their children, Cindy and Brent, who live closer in Hunter, Utah, have celebrated Christmas and Easter with them nearly every year, and Lynn and Wanda have come to look forward to these visits.

            At this writing, March, 1978, Lynn has fifteen grandchildren, seven boys and eight girls, and that is about as evenly divided as one can get that number.