JULY 27-AUGUST 2, 2020
Boyd Richard "Butch" Poulton 1948 - 2020
Boyd 'Butch' Richard Poulton, passed away on July 28, 2020, in Orem, Utah. He was 71 years old.
Boyd was born November 8, 1948 in Oakley, Idaho. He lived in Oakley until 1968,
when he left to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in the California, Anaheim mission.
Boyd first met Delores Jeppson the day he returned from his mission. They were
married and sealed in the Salt Lake Temple August 20, 1970.
Boyd and his young family settled in Burley, Idaho in 1974 where they raised
their 5 children. At the same time, he partnered and started a Real Estate
Brokerage.
His church service continued in Burley. He served as a Bishop, Stake President,
and eventually as a Mission President of the New Jersey Morristown mission
1993-96.
Following their mission service, he and Delores moved to Orem, Utah. Here, he
continued his career in real estate, and served in various Church callings. In
the early 2000's he served in a branch presidency at the Provo MTC, and later
as a District President.
During the last few years of life, he struggled with progressive health issues.
At the time of his passing, he was at Covington Senior Living where he made a
lot of great friends. Covington and Tendercare provided him with excellent
care.
He was preceded in death by parents, George Boyd Poulton and Dorothy Eva Ross
Poulton [his parents were killed when a train hit their car at the crossing
near the Burley fair grounds], sister-in-law Nita Rae Hepworth Poulton, and
son-in-law Glen Robert Friguletto.
He is survived by his wife Delores Jeppson Poulton, his five children Gregory
Boyd (Kimberly), Jeffery J. (Angela), Ginger Hellewell (Wendell), Jeremiah Todd
(Heidi), Gavin Fenton (CarrieLynn) 26 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren,
as well as his three siblings Sherry Poulton, Gloria Poulton, and Ross Poulton
(Mindy).
He loved serving others and particularly working with the youth.
Viewing will be Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Walkers Sanderson
Funeral Home, 646 E 800 N, Orem. A Private Family Funeral will be held Monday,
Aug. 3. A graveside service will be held after the funeral service at Orem
Cemetery. 1520 N 800 E, Orem, Utah.
Condolences and memories may be shared with the family online at www.walkersanderson.com.
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From a face book post by our friend, Marcia Ogden. July 28, 2020
This is quite good. A friend shared it. It's a quote by C.S. Lewis from 1948 which applies to this year's Covid19 Pandemic perfectly!
"We think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds." —C.S. Lewis “On Living in an Atomic Age” (1948)
Walt and Eileen Petersen Family
Missionaries who have served
from our family
Walter Ray Petersen
1. Uruguay Paraguay Mission - Aug
1954 to Mar 1957
2. Mexico Merida Mission - June
1995 to July 1998
Mission President –
Several hundred missionaries
during the three years
3. Central America Area –
Mar 2005
to Feb 2007
Area Medical Advisor –
10 missions in
Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,
and Panama.
4. South America South Area –
Sep
2008 to Mar 2010
Area Medical Advisor -
12 missions –
Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay.
5. San Salvador El Salvador Temple –
July 2011 to
Nov 2014
Temple President
Total of 5 missions = 12 years.
Eileen Marie Albertson Petersen
1. Mexico Merida Mission -
June
1995 to July 1998
Mission President’s wife –
Several hundred missionaries
during our three years
2. Central America Area –
Mar 2005
to Feb 2007
Area
Medical Advisor Assistant –
10 missions in Guatemala, Belize,
El Salvador, Honduras,
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
3. South America South Area –
Sep
2008 to Mar 2010
Area Medical Advisor Assistant -
12 missions – Argentina, Uruguay,
Paraguay.
4. San Salvador El Salvador Temple –
July 2011 to Nov 2014
Temple Matron
Total of 4 missions = 9 1/2 years.
Mary
Jane “Janie” Petersen
1. Argentina Rosario Mission –
Humanitarian
August 1984 to February 1986 –
Spanish Speaking
Gary Alan Petersen
1. Korea Seoul Mission – Korean
Speaking
June 1984 to June 1986
1. Massachusetts Boston Mission
August 1986 to August 1988
David Byrum Petersen
1. California Ventura Mission –
Spanish Speaking
May 1989 to May 1991
1. Argentina Resistencia Mission –
Spanish Speaking
June 1992 to June 1994
Jennifer Eileen Petersen
1. Guatemala Guatemala City North –
Humanitarian - Spanish and Ke'chi (Mayan) speaking
June 1995 to November 1996
Shawn Rulon Fisher – husband of Janie
1. Honduras Tegucigalpa Mission -
Spanish-speaking -
May 1980 - May 1982
1. Brazil Mission –
Portugese Speaking
husband of Jennifer
1. Brazil Curitba Mission –
Portugese Speaking
June 1993 to June 1995
Grandchildren
Aimee
Lorene Fisher
1. Oklahoma Tulsa Mission
May 2009 to October 2010
1. Washington D.C. South Mission
September 2017 to September
2019
1. Brazil Salvador South Mission –
Portugese Speaking
October 2019 to
March 2020
Released due to
Corona Virus Pandemic
Recalled to the
Idaho Pocatello Mission
June 2020 to October 2021
(First Area: Burley)
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Anna Sally Petersen
1. Finland Helsinki Mission –
Finnish Speaking
June 2020 to
December 2021
During Covid19 Pandemic
while waiting to
be admitted into Finland –
assigned to the
California Sacramento
Mission
August 25, 2020 to
Family is Everything…
Today is our grandson's birthday.
Happy Birthday, Joshua Brewer.
Marci helped Walt get up offthe floor after he missed thechair when he came outfrom his shower.
Thanks, for your help, Marci.
Sibling
Book Club - July 2020 –
Between
the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/betweentheworld/section7/
SBC –
Sibling Book Club for JULY
– Choice
by Kelly Baker Petersen
E-mail from Kelly, June
28, 2020
"Hello
Book Club!
First off, I want to say thank you for including me in this rich and thoughtful book club. I have developed a love of reading since joining a few years ago and have loved always having a great selection of recommended books to choose from!
I'm sure many of you, like me, have felt the weight of the BLM movement. It has felt, to me, like a wake-up call and a push to get me to educate myself more on systemic racism and the ways I am racist without realizing it. As I've thought about what book to choose for this month's book club I've felt a strong urge to choose a book that addresses this topic because it is so pertinent to what our society is trying to improve right now. I know that this is a hard topic to read and discuss so I've recommended another book that I've enjoyed on a completely different topic.
The first book I've chosen is - "Between the World
and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Here's the beginning of a review on it - "In a series of essays, written as a letter to
his son, Coates confronts the notion of race in America and how it has shaped
American history, many times at the cost of black bodies and lives."
It's available on audible and is only 3.5 hours
I chose this book initially because it's written (in part) by
the same author of Where the Crawdad's Sing, another book which I
ate up and definitely recommend. I have enjoyed reading about their personal
and thrilling encounters with animals and how they've managed to live in the
insane weather conditions of the Kalahari desert. Here's a short blurb about it:
'Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a third hand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert. There they lived for seven years, in an unexplored area with no roads, no people, and no source of water for thousands of square miles. In this vast wilderness the Owenses began their zoology research, working along animals that had never before been exposed to humans.'
Also available on audible and is 14.5 hours
Happy reading!
Love,
Kelly"
from Steve: "Hi Kelly,
I read “Where the Crawdads Sing” and loved it. So, I’m also excited about your second book also.
Thank you for being strong and contributing member of the book club! It’s fun and bonding to read others book selections and to see the comments and reactions to each book.
Hope to see you at the WEPR!
Best,
Steve"
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On November 18, 2015, it was announced that Coates had won the National Book Award for Between the World and Me. NPR's Colin Dwyer had considered it the favorite to win the prize, given the book's reception. It also won the 2015 Kirkus prize for nonfiction.
The book topped The New York Times Best Seller list for nonfiction on August 2, 2015, and remained number 1 for three weeks. It topped the same list again during the week of January 24, 2016.
The
book was selected by Washington
University in St. Louis and Augustana
College in 2016, as the book for all first-year students to read
and discuss in the fall 2016 semester. In the same year, the book was ranked 7th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best books
of the 21st century.
Thank you for choosing this enlightening book, Kelly.
G O O D B Y E
Marcia Ogden posted on face book
that--excepting the scriptures--
this is the best book she
has ever read.
I trust her judgement so much,
I am going to choose this for
our Sibling Book Club when
it's my turn in August.
This book was published in 1966.
“You must not let the haters of this world divert you from the path of your own duty. For the time will come when the haters will have been consumed by their own hatred, and the ignorant will have learned the truth. And then, if you are prepared for it, you will walk the earth as free men, the equal of any other man. . .
"He was simply incapable of hatred, no matter what the provocation . . . And, of course, at the bottom, he believed as Booker T. Washington did, that a racist was to be pitied for his blind brutality. And he said, as Washington so often had, that, “No man can drag me down so low as to make me hate him.”
"His work was his life, and by not diluting it with wrathful forays against the ignorance of prejudice he was able to make his own unique and most vital contribution to racial amity. He saved the South from poverty—an even more malignant foe of his people than Jim Crow. . ."
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If the above book is not on audible,
our alternate choice is:
First, I would like to share this testimony from a current Apostle:
Elder D. Todd Christofferson – Apostle
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“The Savior makes all things right. No injustice in mortality is permanent, even death, for He restores life again. No injury, disability, betrayal, or abuse goes uncompensated in the end because of His ultimate justice and mercy.
If Jesus was in fact literally resurrected, it necessarily follows that He is a divine being. Because He was resurrected, Jesus cannot have been only a carpenter, a teacher, a rabbi, or a prophet. Because He was resurrected, Jesus had to have been a God, even the Only Begotten Son of the Father.
I believe the many witnesses of the Savior’s Resurrection whose experiences and testimonies are found in the New Testament—Peter and his companions of the Twelve and dear, pure Mary of Magdala, among others. I believe the testimonies found in the Book of Mormon—of Nephi the Apostle with the unnamed multitude in the land Bountiful, among others. And I believe the testimony of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon who, after many other testimonies, proclaimed the great witness of this last dispensation “that he lives! For we saw him” (Doctrine and Covenants 76:22–23).
Under the glance of His all-seeing eye, I stand myself as a witness that Jesus of Nazareth is the resurrected Redeemer, and I testify of all that follows from the fact of His Resurrection. I pray that you may receive the conviction and comfort of that same witness.”
Here is our testimony:
Heavenly Father lives and knows us each by name. He loves us and wants us to return to Him and Heavenly Mother when we leave this mortal existence. He loves us just as we are at this very moment.
