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This week
~ September 21, 2020
And now it's on to
A U T U M N...
Monday, September 21, 2020
Family is Everything…
One month since Walt passed away... It seems long, yet like yesterday. It's lonesome without him, yet he is not suffering and unable to do all the things he loved to do... Here's a favorite photo of him with his dog Peggy, when he was 4 or 5 years old.
This shows the freckle on Walt's face.
This shows more of Peggy.
Here are other photos I have saved in the computer: There's a photo of Walt with his Grampa Bide, both in their gum boots. Bide would let his young grandson walk to the Slaughter House with him--which was by the cemetery, about 4-6 block from his home--where one of the jobs Bide had was to inspect the meat.One time--in recent years--when we were at the cemetery, Walt had me take a photo of him by this same Slaughter House (not being used anymore as you can see).
1959 - Graduation from
the University of Idaho
in pre-med.
ready to load all the wedding gifts to take homel
New Bishop of Burley 7th Ward
Front: left Dale Shelby, 1C
right Ross Taylor 2C, then 1C
when Dale Shelby moved soon after
and Ivan Davis became 2C
May 1970-Mar 1976
1971 taking kids for airplane ride...
Mary Jane in plane, Gary by plane,
Steve by his Dad, David by side of plane
Front: _____, Walt, _____
Back: Coach Jay Ward, Dale Smith, Lynn Edlefsen, ____,
Ben Laverty, Coach Fred Allen.
We got our first boat about 1976, I think.
Walt waterskiing in the 1970s or 1980s.
1980s with sister Phyllis in front of his
medical office at 1335 Albion Avenue in Burley, Idaho.
Janie, Shawn holding Aimee, Gary,
Brian, Walt, David, Brad He
1990 - Brian's senior year Burley High School
1992 just back from surgery, holding Daniel
Walt with some of his office Elders.
He must have come into the office on
our P-Day. Maybe to play basketball with them.
Walt - 1998 - with Elders Javier, Anaya, Gallego,
Walker, Blonquist, Warner.
President Hinckley came to our mission in Nov 1997.
We were his last stop on that trip the Prophet made
through South Mexico, and the next year small temples
were begun in several of those places he visited,
including Merida, Mexico.
He wanted to go to Chichen Itza because he
had read a book about "the sacred well" when he
was a boy and had always wanted to see it.
In the photo he came over to shake Walt's hand
because someone told him that was the president
of the Mexico Merida Mission.
That night at the gathering of 10,000 saints, the
Prophet said: "How sad Father Lehi must have been
when he saw his posterity killing the
winners of those ball games at Chichen Itza,
plus throwing the young virgins off those pyramids.
But how happy he is tonight to see all of you at
this gathering of the saints."
Nov 1997 - My Mom, Verna Albertson,
Walt's sister Phyllis, and brother Dale, came
to the Mexico Merida Mission to see us.
We had a stake conference in Chetumal which was
a 4-hour drive, near the border of Belize.
Yes, that is a gas station man putting gas in
the office van from a can.
The photo is at a restaurant in Cancun where
they performed the traditional folk dances of Mexico.
Dec 12, 2004
Walt is with Elder Brent H. Nielson
Walt had been his bishop when he was an
Aaronic Priesthood young man.
May 2008 - Walt taking his own blood pressure.
This old roll-top desk had belonged to
the first stake president in Burley, Idaho.
Walt was partners with Newel Nelson and
one other person of this Cessna 206 turbo-engine*
six seater airplane. Newel and Walt sold
their shares to Bill. Sometimes Walt would
just go out to the hangar to look at it.
One of the things he missed most was not
being able to pilot this plane after he could
no longer pass the medical exam to fly.
*Turbo means that no matter where it took
off from it was like it was at sea level.
nearly 4,000 babies he delivered from 1963-2005.
He retired Jan. 14, 2005 and we went on our
second mission together in Mar 2005.
March 2007
Mumbly Peg with Kimble
Now this Kimble is a certified rescue swimmer
in Kodiak, Alaska with the U.S. Coast Guard.
Watch the movie "The Guardian" to see
what that entails.
Front: Sam, Jackson, Grampa, Heidi.
Back: Ashley, Michael, Jacee.
Walt's 75th birthday
Area Medical Advisor for the
South America South Area
Sept 2008-Mar 2010
Maddie, Jackson, Jacee sent
"Happy Birthday, Grampa. We love you!"
via e-mail photo from home in
Burley, Idaho. It surely brightened
Grampa's 75th birthday so far from Idaho!!
A year later we were at the Idaho Ballroom
Academy Spring Concert in Rexburg, Idaho,
with the Fishers the night before Grampa's
76th birthday, having just gotten home from
Argentina in March.
Ashley, Michael, Sam, Heidi Katie,
Janie. Back: Eileen, Walt, Daniel, Shawn.
..... Chad Jones was called as Stake President
of the Burley Idaho West Stake on
April 25, 2010.
Walt had been his bishop when he was an
Aaronic Priesthood young man.
Thank you to
Susan Young for taking this photo of
the four stakes presidents who were
at Walt's funeral.
The four stake presidents who followed
Walter R. Petersen who was the first stake president
when the stake was created in May 1983
when the Burley Idaho Stake was divided.
These four stake presidents attended
Walt’s funeral on August 29, 2020.
1. Walter R. Petersen – May 1983 – Nov 1992
2. Paul B. Young – Nov 1992 – Nov 2001
3. Joseph M. Sagers – Nov 2001 to Apr 2010
4. Chad G. Jones – Apr 2010 to Apr 2019
5. S. Matthew Cook – Apr 2019-
All have been good friends to Walt.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Family is Everything…
Rigdon came to show me he
got the Alphabet Crown at kindergarten today.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Family is Everything…
Six were able to come...
Linda, Judy, Eileen, Kaye, Sharon, and Sue.
Saratoga Springs neighborhood lunch...
today was at the...
...Chuck-a-Rama in Lehi.
We missed those of you who could not
come today.
*** *** ***
Tonight is movie night with Gary.
"A Guy Named Joe" from 1943
Wikipedia had a color poster...
...but the movie was black and white.
Release date |
|
|---|---|
| Budget | $2,627,000 |
| Box office | $5,363,000 |
It's interesting to see how Hollywood
depicts heaven and people who have died.
We liked it a lot.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Family is Everything…
Nice day today...sunrise 7:19 a.m.,
sunset 7:20, high 86 degrees, low 51 degrees.
choice from July Cry of the Kalahari, while
I worked on my blog.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Family is Everything…
Today
I don't think this happens often:
7:19 AM
Family is Everything…
Sunny today but high only 74 degrees. 
Jackson performed this evening at the
Herriman High School football field in his
Westlake High School Marching Thunder Band
*** *** ***
BYU football game tonight in Provo.
The Cougars play the Troy Trojans from
Troy University in Troy, Alabama.
Cougars scored with a minute and a half
left in 1st Quarter = 7-0.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
Family is Everything…
Today on the Zoom Worship Service Daphne Blackburn
spoke before leaving on her Nebraska Omaha Mission.
Her Dad also spoke - both were given the topic of
Personal Revelation.
John and Jackson blessed and passed the Sacrament
at home today.
I worked on some family history.
I watched a biographical documentary about the
only daughter of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip: Anne.
Brian called and I got to talk to him and his wife Jennifer.
They were driving their new car. A Telsa
Sounds like they like it a lot. It sounds like a car
out of the future.
*** *I am so thankful for The Plan of Salvation
and the Atonement of Jesus Christ
that makes this Great Plan operational.
At the end of this September 27th,
I pray you have had a
restful , peaceful, and spiritual
Sabbath Day...
I share these truths as my testimony to you...
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.
*** *** ***
Jesus Christ came to earth as The Only Begotten of the Father and fulfilled the Atonement. He is the Redeemer of all.
*** *** ***
Joseph Smith was foreordained to be the Prophet of the Restoration. He is the Restorer of all things.
*** *** ***
President Russell M. Nelson is the Living Prophet today for all the world.
*** *** ***
The Bible is "the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly" and is a Testament of the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
*** *** ***
The Book of Mormon is the Word of God and is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. It is the most correct book of any book on earth.
*** *** ***
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the True Church on the earth today.
*** *** ***
Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
Saratoga Springs, Utah, U.S.A.
September 27, 2019
I didn't get a photo taken of me today, but since it
was evidently "Daughter's Day" a couple days ago...
here's one of me with my three daughters from Aug 2014:
Remembering my Mom and Dad’s “78th” Wedding Anniversary.
September 29, 1937 they eloped.
My Dad was 24, my Mom 17 ¾ .
Arnold George Albertson - Verna Beth Huffaker - Sep 1937
Arnold and Verna
My parents on their 25th Wedding Anniversary
–September 29, 1962.
Daddy age 49, Mom age 42
They would be together for just 19 1/2 years
more for a total of 44 1/2 years on this earth.
They would be together for just 19 1/2 years
more for a total of 44 1/2 years on this earth.
Here's a good photo of them in the line at our
wedding reception on June 17, 1961.
They had been sealed on June 14, 1961,
in the Salt Lake Temple
on the day Walt and I
were married in that Temple.
***** They are now together for eternity.
Mom stopped having her hair colored at the age of 70, while she was serving a mission in the London England South Mission - 1989 to 1991.
Arnold and Verna Albertson’s Posterity – September 2015
“Grampa A and Grama A”
2 children, 11 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren, 1 due Mar 2016,
2 children, 11 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren, 1 due Mar 2016,
1st Great-great grandchild due Feb 2016.
1912 Arnold George Albertson Dec 8
Spouse: 1920 Verna Beth Huffaker Albertson 14Jan Md 29Sep1937
(I did list all the grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but for privacy I have taken their names out. When I have this year's blog made into a published book, I will put their names back in for our family.)
(I did list all the grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but for privacy I have taken their names out. When I have this year's blog made into a published book, I will put their names back in for our family.)
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