1. What is their favorite season? Do you know why?
2. Tell about any of their travels or vacations you know of?
3. What was their favorite holiday? How did they celebrate?
4. Did they know any foreign languages, which ones? Why did they learn it?
5. Describe a favorite dress/ outfit, etc.
"Grandpa spoke German because he served a mission to Switzerland."
-Marvin
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Preferences Week #3
1. Do you know of any favorite poems they had?
2. What was their favorite food and how did they prepare it? Or what was your favorite food
that they made?
3. What kind of games did they enjoy playing?
4. Did they have a favorite painting or artist?
5. What was their favorite dessert?
"I always remember they had a deck of cards available for us on Sunday evenings as our family would go over to their house to visit and we kids would play war by the hour. Because it was hours that we waited for the adults to visit. Kind of like it is was for you kids growing up. The family can talk for hours."
-Eileen
"I did remember last night that Grandpa Kunz loved to play solitare and would play it by the hour. Thus the reason we had cards we could play war while the parents visited."
-Eileen
"For grandpa and grandma I don't know about any poems.
They always had a sack of ginger snap cookies on the counter and I don't think they were just for the grandkids. They also had a lemon flavored hard tak candy. Grandpa was into fad foods and diets so he would live to 100. He almost made it. They bought a juicer press and tried to squeeze the juice out of everything. I liked cold carrot juice but some of the other concoctions were pretty disgusting. Grandpa drank so much carrot juice he started turning orange like he was jaundiced.
They always seemed to have a puzzle out on a card table. The both used to do crossword puzzles and grandpa played a lot of solitaire.
Artists and dessert I have no idea although I think they liked home made vanilla ice cream."
-Marvin
"Grandpa Kunz also LOVED to do crossword puzzles--for hours on end."
-Jeanette
2. What was their favorite food and how did they prepare it? Or what was your favorite food
that they made?
3. What kind of games did they enjoy playing?
4. Did they have a favorite painting or artist?
5. What was their favorite dessert?
"I always remember they had a deck of cards available for us on Sunday evenings as our family would go over to their house to visit and we kids would play war by the hour. Because it was hours that we waited for the adults to visit. Kind of like it is was for you kids growing up. The family can talk for hours."
-Eileen
"I did remember last night that Grandpa Kunz loved to play solitare and would play it by the hour. Thus the reason we had cards we could play war while the parents visited."
-Eileen
"For grandpa and grandma I don't know about any poems.
They always had a sack of ginger snap cookies on the counter and I don't think they were just for the grandkids. They also had a lemon flavored hard tak candy. Grandpa was into fad foods and diets so he would live to 100. He almost made it. They bought a juicer press and tried to squeeze the juice out of everything. I liked cold carrot juice but some of the other concoctions were pretty disgusting. Grandpa drank so much carrot juice he started turning orange like he was jaundiced.
They always seemed to have a puzzle out on a card table. The both used to do crossword puzzles and grandpa played a lot of solitaire.
Artists and dessert I have no idea although I think they liked home made vanilla ice cream."
-Marvin
"Grandpa Kunz also LOVED to do crossword puzzles--for hours on end."
-Jeanette
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Preferences Week #2
1. Where was their favorite place to shop?
2. What was their favorite time of day?
3. Were they “night owls” or “early birds”? Describe some of these habits and routines.
4. Do you recall a favorite pair of shoes they owned? Describe them.
5. Did they have a favorite author? Who? Why? Tell about favorite books. What did books mean to them?
"Since these emails come to my work I don’t have a lot of time, but Cheryl inspired me to take a minute and tell something about Grandma Vilda Kunz. One of the choice blessings I had when dad was caring for his folks was to go over and bath and dress grandma for the day for him. During those times I got to finally hear stories about her, because any other time grandpa monopolized the conversation. Here are a couple of stories she told me.
When she was old enough to be baptized she heard they would be baptizing in Bear Lake that day and she asked her dad if she could be baptized. He told her he was too busy that day, so she would have to wait until a later date. She was so upset because she wanted to be baptized that she started crying and wouldn’t stop until her dad took her so she could be baptized that day.
Grandma’s mother died when she was young so she never had a mom in much of her life. She told about a woman who was trying to strike up a relationship with their dad and she and her sisters didn’t like her very much and really didn’t want their dad to become interested in her. She happened to drop in to see them towards evening one night fully figuring that Grandpa Dustin would escort her home due to the late hour. The girls knew what she was up too and told their dad he didn’t need to worry about escorting her home. They would escort her home and he wouldn’t have to go out after a long day of work. He took them up on it, because he evidently wasn’t interested in the woman either and they never had to worry about her trying to get their dad’s attention after that.
A word of wisdom from grandma one day. It was around Christmas time and I had been telling her that my children were coming up with lists of all they wanted for Christmas and she said to me. Hopefully you are smart enough to not give them everything they are asking for….she was one smart lady."
-Eileen
"As for responses on Ezra and Vilda I think Jeanette hit the nail on the head in describing them. They had known some hard times during their life. But they never complained. Well grandpa may have but not grandma.I have a couple of things that came to mind about them that don't pertain to any questions.
Grandpa's version of when he and grandma got married.Ezra picked Vilda up in Garden City and the two of them traveled to Logan to the Logan Temple in a buckboard. They had to camp overnight in Logan Canyon and then went to the Logan Temple the next day to be married.
Grandma's version of when she and grandpa got married.Ezra and his mother Louisa picked Vilda up in Garden City in a buckboard. They traveled to Logan that day and spent the night at Vilda's grandmother's in Logan. They got up the next day and went to the Logan Temple where they were married.
I wrote the part of the Kunz's ending up in Sandy and thought I should tell about Ivan driving the team of horses from Pescadero to Bern when he was 6 years old. Does anyone know where Pescadero is? Dad and mom never, that I recall, told us or showed us. Fortunately Everett showed Lyle and Sandy and they took us on a trip to Bern and Pescadero this year. Pescadero was a water stop for the train out of Montpelier heading north. It is located about 7 miles from Bern. It was north and west of Bennington Idaho. There was an area that was opened up for homesteading. Ezra and Vilda homesteaded a couple of parcels of land. Everett was born in the house in Pescadero. There is nothing there now but a train signal box that says Pescadero. Anyway they were living in Pescadero and it was around Thanksgiving time. There was a lot of snow and not much feed for the horses and cattle. Ezra thought at the rate he was using hay he would run out before spring. He knew his father David had a lot of hay put up in Bern. So he hooked the two draft horses up to a sleigh and had 6 year old Ivan drive the team to Bern by himself. No phone service to call David and Louisa to tell them Ivan was coming or to check to see if he got there. Ivan drove the team to grandpa David's and spent the month of December helping his Grandpa and Grandma Kunz. And then took the team back home after Christmas.
How the Kunz's ended up in Sandy. The family had moved from Bern to Wabuska Nevada where they lived for a few years. ( I'm not certain how many years they were there. Bernice was born in Thomas Idaho in Dec 1919. David was born in Wabuska in Feb 1922 and I think Herb told me grandma was expecting him when they moved to Wabuska. Loyal was born in Wabuska in Jan 1926. Eddy was born in Midvale in April 1930)When things in Wabuska didn't work out to grandpa's satisfaction they loaded all their belongings in two vehicles. Ivan driving one and Ezra driving the other heading back to Bern Idaho. Ezra wanted to visit an uncle who lived in Cedar City so they went there. Then they headed for Bern stopping in Midvale to visit Ezra's sister Iris Buhler. Iris convinced Ezra there was more opportunity for making a living in Midvale than in Bern. Ezra found a farm to rent that was located just west of where I15 is now and just south of 9400 South. He then bought some cows from a farmer in Woods Cross. He took Ivan and Herb with him to pick up the cows. He had an old truck of some kind but it wasn't capable of hauling the cows so Ivan and Herb walked from Woods Cross to Sandy herding the cows and Ezra followed along in the truck. Once they had the cows they started a dairy and delivered milk to customers here in the valley for a few years. Then Ezra went into debt to buy a good bull. He hadn't paid off the note at the bank for the bull when the depression hit. He ended up selling the whole herd to pay off the note at the bank.
Ivan went to work for a chicken farmer near where they were living to help support the family. At one time after he and mom were married and living in a little house somewhere in West Jordan close to where the property that Ron Kunz is now leasing in the river bottom by the electrical transformer station on 90th so. Ivan and Herb worked for Fur Breeders, who at that time were into raising fox. According to what mom, Wilma, said Vilda told her. Ivan gave his full paycheck to the family up until the month before he and Wilma got married. He had also bought a car and he had let the family drive his car and he rode a bicycle. Eddy couldn't figure out why Ivan took the family car when he got married. But Vilda had insisted that it was his and he should take it.
During the depression they also cut timber up south and east of Mirror Lake in the Uinta's. They always referred to it as Little Chicago."
-Marvin
2. What was their favorite time of day?
3. Were they “night owls” or “early birds”? Describe some of these habits and routines.
4. Do you recall a favorite pair of shoes they owned? Describe them.
5. Did they have a favorite author? Who? Why? Tell about favorite books. What did books mean to them?
"Since these emails come to my work I don’t have a lot of time, but Cheryl inspired me to take a minute and tell something about Grandma Vilda Kunz. One of the choice blessings I had when dad was caring for his folks was to go over and bath and dress grandma for the day for him. During those times I got to finally hear stories about her, because any other time grandpa monopolized the conversation. Here are a couple of stories she told me.
When she was old enough to be baptized she heard they would be baptizing in Bear Lake that day and she asked her dad if she could be baptized. He told her he was too busy that day, so she would have to wait until a later date. She was so upset because she wanted to be baptized that she started crying and wouldn’t stop until her dad took her so she could be baptized that day.
Grandma’s mother died when she was young so she never had a mom in much of her life. She told about a woman who was trying to strike up a relationship with their dad and she and her sisters didn’t like her very much and really didn’t want their dad to become interested in her. She happened to drop in to see them towards evening one night fully figuring that Grandpa Dustin would escort her home due to the late hour. The girls knew what she was up too and told their dad he didn’t need to worry about escorting her home. They would escort her home and he wouldn’t have to go out after a long day of work. He took them up on it, because he evidently wasn’t interested in the woman either and they never had to worry about her trying to get their dad’s attention after that.
A word of wisdom from grandma one day. It was around Christmas time and I had been telling her that my children were coming up with lists of all they wanted for Christmas and she said to me. Hopefully you are smart enough to not give them everything they are asking for….she was one smart lady."
-Eileen
"As for responses on Ezra and Vilda I think Jeanette hit the nail on the head in describing them. They had known some hard times during their life. But they never complained. Well grandpa may have but not grandma.I have a couple of things that came to mind about them that don't pertain to any questions.
Grandpa's version of when he and grandma got married.Ezra picked Vilda up in Garden City and the two of them traveled to Logan to the Logan Temple in a buckboard. They had to camp overnight in Logan Canyon and then went to the Logan Temple the next day to be married.
Grandma's version of when she and grandpa got married.Ezra and his mother Louisa picked Vilda up in Garden City in a buckboard. They traveled to Logan that day and spent the night at Vilda's grandmother's in Logan. They got up the next day and went to the Logan Temple where they were married.
I wrote the part of the Kunz's ending up in Sandy and thought I should tell about Ivan driving the team of horses from Pescadero to Bern when he was 6 years old. Does anyone know where Pescadero is? Dad and mom never, that I recall, told us or showed us. Fortunately Everett showed Lyle and Sandy and they took us on a trip to Bern and Pescadero this year. Pescadero was a water stop for the train out of Montpelier heading north. It is located about 7 miles from Bern. It was north and west of Bennington Idaho. There was an area that was opened up for homesteading. Ezra and Vilda homesteaded a couple of parcels of land. Everett was born in the house in Pescadero. There is nothing there now but a train signal box that says Pescadero. Anyway they were living in Pescadero and it was around Thanksgiving time. There was a lot of snow and not much feed for the horses and cattle. Ezra thought at the rate he was using hay he would run out before spring. He knew his father David had a lot of hay put up in Bern. So he hooked the two draft horses up to a sleigh and had 6 year old Ivan drive the team to Bern by himself. No phone service to call David and Louisa to tell them Ivan was coming or to check to see if he got there. Ivan drove the team to grandpa David's and spent the month of December helping his Grandpa and Grandma Kunz. And then took the team back home after Christmas.
How the Kunz's ended up in Sandy. The family had moved from Bern to Wabuska Nevada where they lived for a few years. ( I'm not certain how many years they were there. Bernice was born in Thomas Idaho in Dec 1919. David was born in Wabuska in Feb 1922 and I think Herb told me grandma was expecting him when they moved to Wabuska. Loyal was born in Wabuska in Jan 1926. Eddy was born in Midvale in April 1930)When things in Wabuska didn't work out to grandpa's satisfaction they loaded all their belongings in two vehicles. Ivan driving one and Ezra driving the other heading back to Bern Idaho. Ezra wanted to visit an uncle who lived in Cedar City so they went there. Then they headed for Bern stopping in Midvale to visit Ezra's sister Iris Buhler. Iris convinced Ezra there was more opportunity for making a living in Midvale than in Bern. Ezra found a farm to rent that was located just west of where I15 is now and just south of 9400 South. He then bought some cows from a farmer in Woods Cross. He took Ivan and Herb with him to pick up the cows. He had an old truck of some kind but it wasn't capable of hauling the cows so Ivan and Herb walked from Woods Cross to Sandy herding the cows and Ezra followed along in the truck. Once they had the cows they started a dairy and delivered milk to customers here in the valley for a few years. Then Ezra went into debt to buy a good bull. He hadn't paid off the note at the bank for the bull when the depression hit. He ended up selling the whole herd to pay off the note at the bank.
Ivan went to work for a chicken farmer near where they were living to help support the family. At one time after he and mom were married and living in a little house somewhere in West Jordan close to where the property that Ron Kunz is now leasing in the river bottom by the electrical transformer station on 90th so. Ivan and Herb worked for Fur Breeders, who at that time were into raising fox. According to what mom, Wilma, said Vilda told her. Ivan gave his full paycheck to the family up until the month before he and Wilma got married. He had also bought a car and he had let the family drive his car and he rode a bicycle. Eddy couldn't figure out why Ivan took the family car when he got married. But Vilda had insisted that it was his and he should take it.
During the depression they also cut timber up south and east of Mirror Lake in the Uinta's. They always referred to it as Little Chicago."
-Marvin
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