TRACES OF TIME . . .
{Last week: Scroll to end click "Older Posts" at bottom right.} june 16-22, 2025
A wise person once said, "Every society will be judged byhow it treats the least fortunate.""Time moves slowly, but passes quickly...
TIME...
On this blog I share with family and friends my daily thoughts, doings, what interests me, and--at times--tributes to my eternal sweetheart, Walt, who graduated to heaven on 8-21-2020.*All that I am or ever hope to be,I not only owe to my
TIME...
angel mother and father,
...but my wonderful husband,Walter Ray Petersen.
Walt called himself...
"The last of the old-time country doctors."
Walt called himself...
"The last of the old-time country doctors."
He delivered about 4,000 babies, among fixing broken hips, other surgeries, and even made house calls.As Janie said in his obituary:"He healed many hearts, heads, hands, and everything in-between."
In the 1950s you had to be 20 to serve a mission. This is Walt in August 1954, on the day he was set apart in Salt Lake City to be a missionary.
One of Walt's happiest of happy places was as the pilot flying...Our first plane was a piper Cherokee...
Then in a six-seater Cessna high-wing, turbo-charged airplane. Foxtrot 4824 was the call number {owned with two partners).
Walt was also a carpenter at heart--like his carpenter father, Ray Petersen.
We were blessed to serve 4 missions together--July 1995-July 1998
Mission President and wife of the Mexico Merida Mission - Yucatan*** *** *** Mar 2005-Feb 2007Area Medical Advisor - Central America Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama12 missions - 2,000 missionaries.*** *** ***Sep 2008=Mar 2010Area Medical Advisor - South America So.Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay14 missions - 2300 missionaries*** *** ***
July 2011-Nov 2018Temple President and Temple MatronSan Salvador El Salvador Temple*** *** ***This totaled 9 1/2 years out of theUnited States.Grampa Petersen told our grandchildren that the Prophet said: "If you love your grandchildrfen, serve a mission,"To which g-dau Ashley asked:"How many?"
*** *** ***This blog is...Dedicated to our seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen...
...their spouses--Julie, John, Jennifer, Jerry--our 39 grandchildren--8 spouses of G-C, and 8 great-grandchildren, including Ingrid Ray born December 4, 2024--for a posterity of 71.
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We were blessed to serve 4 missions together--July 1995-July 1998
...their spouses--Julie, John, Jennifer, Jerry--our 39 grandchildren--8 spouses of G-C, and 8 great-grandchildren, including Ingrid Ray born December 4, 2024--for a posterity of 71.
june 16-22, 2025
june 16-22, 2025
MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2025
Family is Everything….
Sunrise: 5:57 a.m. Sunset: 8:59 p.m. 
Jayden came for physical therapy...
Empty Nesters announcement came today for next Monday, June 23.
idaho...
The Salmon River, known as "The River of No Return," originates in the
Sawtooth and Lemhi Valleys of central and eastern Idaho; snows from the
Sawtooth and Salmon River Mountains in the south and the Clearwater and
Bitterroot Mountains in the north feed this river. The upper section passes
through the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, while the lower section
forms the southern boundary of the Gospel-Hump Wilderness. In recognition of
the river's many outstanding values, including scenery, recreation, geology,
fish, wildlife, water quality, botany, prehistory, history and cultural
traditional use, Congress designated 46 miles of the river, from North Fork to
Corn Creek, as a recreational river and 79 miles, from Corn Creek to Long Tom
Bar, as a wild river.
Family is Everything….
The Salmon River, known as "The River of No Return," originates in the Sawtooth and Lemhi Valleys of central and eastern Idaho; snows from the Sawtooth and Salmon River Mountains in the south and the Clearwater and Bitterroot Mountains in the north feed this river. The upper section passes through the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, while the lower section forms the southern boundary of the Gospel-Hump Wilderness. In recognition of the river's many outstanding values, including scenery, recreation, geology, fish, wildlife, water quality, botany, prehistory, history and cultural traditional use, Congress designated 46 miles of the river, from North Fork to Corn Creek, as a recreational river and 79 miles, from Corn Creek to Long Tom Bar, as a wild river.
*** *** *** TRACES OF TIME . . . TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2025
Family is Everything…
Happy Birthday...
Seth and Sarah...
Thoughts about Seth & Sarah from
Grampa & Grama Petersen...
Twenty-three years ago
when Seth and Sarah were born,
June 17, 2002,
I flew out to help for two weeks.
My last night there, I told Jen she
needed to get a good night's sleep,
so I would take care of the twins.
She pumped enough breast milk
to feed them during the night.
I was up all that night, feeding
Seth then Sarah...then...
I wondered how Jen was
going to survive.
But she did, and so did
these precious twins.
Here's what theirGreat-grandmother,
Verna Beth Huffaker Albertson
wrote in her life story about
their birth. She was 82 when they were born.
Seth Ashton Brewer and
Sarah Eileen Brewer – twins – My 23rd and 24th __
Great-Grandchildren Born June 17, 2002
June 17, 2002, twins were born to Jennifer and Jerry
Brewer in Detroit, Michigan. Seth Ashton
Brewer is g-gc #23 and Sarah Eileen Brewer is g-gc #24. They were born 7 weeks early but have had no
medical problems other than being small—Seth 4#5oz, and Sarah barely 5#.
Eileen flew back to be with Jen and help her for two
weeks. Then she flew back again for 2
weeks in July on their due date because she had the tickets purchased that were
non-refundable and figured Jen needed all the help she could get with
twins. Jen was up most of the nights
nursing her two babies on their different feeding schedules of eating every few
hours.
Their Ancestry...
Arnold George Albertson
1912 - 1982
Seth and Sarah's
great grandparents
Arnold & Verna
Photo--at the Jerome County Fair
three weeks before they eloped on
September 29, 1937
*** *** ***Seth and Sarah's
other maternal great-grandparents...
Ray & Jane Petersen
Ray 1907-1970
Jane 1910-2001
Photo - Walt age 6
between his sisters, Bonnie and Phyllis
Ray holding baby Dale
1954 when they took Walt to SLC
for his Endowment and setting apart
for Uruguay-Paraguay Mission.
He had 3-day's training before
leaving via train for NYC for
visas then 18-days via boat
to Montevideo.
Seth - 2007 Sep
with his Dad, Jerry and
Grampa Walt Petersen
Seth and Sarah
with Grampa Walt Petersen,
their Mom, Jen, Sarah, Ben and Josh.
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Seth and Sarah
with GG Petersen 2010 July
Seth and Sarah
with GG Petersen and
his Dad and Mom and siblings
2010 July
Seth zand Sarah - Nov 2014
With cousins
Seth and Sarah -
Honduras - 2014 Mar
Seth and Sarah - Nov 2014
With cousins
Seth and Sarah - Nov 2014
With all five siblings
Seth and Sarah -
Copan, Honduras 2014 Mar
Seth and Sarah -
Copan, Honduras 2014 Mar
Seth and Sarah -
2014 Mar on balcony of
GG Temple President's apt by
San Salvador, El Salvador Temple
Seth and Sarah -
2020 July - Family Reunion in Utah
Seth and Sarah -
WEPR = Walt & Eileen Petersen Reunion
2020 July - Utah Lake with cousins
Seth -- over the years with
cousins...
2010 - 4-H Camp Wyo
Storybook Park - Burley, Idaho
2014 Nov
Raking leaves in GG backyard
2014 Nov
REXBURG - 2014
Seth and Sarah - Aug 2021
Two days after Grampa Petersen
graduated to heaven,..
DINNER IN MAY 2025...
FAMILY
WITH GRAMA PETERSEN,
MOM AND SIBLINGS
Family is everything...and so are friends!Seth, Happy
Birthday – June 17, 2025 - from Grama Petersen here… …and
Grampa Petersen from heaven
Seth
Ashton Brewer you are our 19th grandchild by age of our 39
grandchildren. Someone asked me: How can
you even remember the names of so many grandchildren? I replied: Would you like
me to tell you their names and birthdates from memory, now?
Just
as Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother love each of their children—and know
each one by name—we do too.
Seth,
please know that you have always been loved and cherished by Grampa Petersen
and me. You and Sarah were given your name and Father’s Priesthood Blessing in
our home in August 2002.
We
loved watching you grow up, and I’m extra sad that Grampa graduated to heaven
on August 21, 2020- the day before you were going to arrive in Provo to begin
your college life at BYU. You could have
been able to get to know him better in his elderly years.
When
you were able to be in our home in Burley, Idaho, you were always kind and
thoughtful of Grampa and me. You are
always so attentive and helpful to me at the PUNN {Petersen Uncle Nephew-Niece
} dinners that Uncle Steve hosts monthly.
Seth,
you are handsome, smart, tender-hearted, kind, valiant, strong-in-the-faith,
adventurous, charming, observant, curious, fun to be around, and you have many
other wonderful qualities.
What
excellent taste—especially in the darling gal you are dating.
I
would call you an Elect Gentleman.
Carry on…
Love
always, Grama Eileen Petersen …and Grampa P. from heaven
Happy Birthday Sarah...
Everything we said about Seth
can also be echoed for you.
Sarah served in the
Argentina Buenos Aires Mission
Interim was at Salt Lake
Visitors Center...
Sarah has done humanitarian
work in Guatemala
and Mozambique
Sarah and her Mom at the
St. Paul Temple
Sarah's favorite painting
of the Savior
Sarah at the Rome
Visitors' Center
Serh and Sarah, hope you've
had a wonderful birthday!
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MOVIE NIGHT POSTPONED
TO NEXT TUESDAY
Gary has a Single-Adult Conference
The Classics... {16}GREAT EXPECTATIONS - version
Great-grandmother,
Verna Beth Huffaker Albertson
wrote in her life story about
their birth. She was 82 when they were born.
Seth Ashton Brewer and
Sarah Eileen Brewer – twins – My 23rd and 24th __
Great-Grandchildren Born June 17, 2002
June 17, 2002, twins were born to Jennifer and Jerry Brewer in Detroit, Michigan. Seth Ashton Brewer is g-gc #23 and Sarah Eileen Brewer is g-gc #24. They were born 7 weeks early but have had no medical problems other than being small—Seth 4#5oz, and Sarah barely 5#.
Eileen flew back to be with Jen and help her for two weeks. Then she flew back again for 2 weeks in July on their due date because she had the tickets purchased that were non-refundable and figured Jen needed all the help she could get with twins. Jen was up most of the nights nursing her two babies on their different feeding schedules of eating every few hours.
Seth and Sarah
Seth and Sarah -
Raking leaves in GG backyard
Seth and Sarah - Aug 2021
Seth, Happy
Birthday – June 17, 2025 - from Grama Petersen here… …and
Grampa Petersen from heaven
Seth
Ashton Brewer you are our 19th grandchild by age of our 39
grandchildren. Someone asked me: How can
you even remember the names of so many grandchildren? I replied: Would you like
me to tell you their names and birthdates from memory, now?
Just
as Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother love each of their children—and know
each one by name—we do too.
Seth,
please know that you have always been loved and cherished by Grampa Petersen
and me. You and Sarah were given your name and Father’s Priesthood Blessing in
our home in August 2002.
We
loved watching you grow up, and I’m extra sad that Grampa graduated to heaven
on August 21, 2020- the day before you were going to arrive in Provo to begin
your college life at BYU. You could have
been able to get to know him better in his elderly years.
When
you were able to be in our home in Burley, Idaho, you were always kind and
thoughtful of Grampa and me. You are
always so attentive and helpful to me at the PUNN {Petersen Uncle Nephew-Niece
} dinners that Uncle Steve hosts monthly.
Seth,
you are handsome, smart, tender-hearted, kind, valiant, strong-in-the-faith,
adventurous, charming, observant, curious, fun to be around, and you have many
other wonderful qualities.
What
excellent taste—especially in the darling gal you are dating.
I
would call you an Elect Gentleman.
Carry on…
Love
always, Grama Eileen Petersen …and Grampa P. from heaven
Sarah has done humanitarian
Sarah and her Mom at the
Sarah's favorite painting
Sarah at the Rome
Serh and Sarah, hope you've
