****Walt & Eileen Petersen**: Traces of Time . . . June 10-16, 2024

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Traces of Time . . . June 10-16, 2024

TRACES OF TIME . . . {Last week: Scroll to end and click "Older Posts" at bottom right.} 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.

Dedicated to our seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen, their spouses, our 39 grandchildren, 9 spouses of g-c, 7 great-grandchildren, for a posterity of 67.
THIS WEEK
JUNE 10-16, 2024
MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2024
Family is Everything...
Sunrise: 5:57 a.m.
Sunset: 8:57 p.m.
...This Monday

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(Nancy Blauer shared on face book.)

"I heard a truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget’s Thesaurus had a mishap yesterday losing its entire load.
"While there were no injuries, witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed."

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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2024

Family is Everything...

Heard on "60 Minutes"

there are 1.4 billion people in China.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2024

Family is Everything... Lunch Bunch was at Olive Garden
in American Fork
10 could come

Clockwise from bottom left:
SuzAnne, Linda H., Sharon,
Laura, Tammy, Eileen,
Faye, Jeanie, Jennie,
Nadine.

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Natalie cut my hair.
I so appreciate her doing this.
These orchids keep
hanging in there...
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Our Wednesday night movie
was "South Pacific"
from 1958
Always love having
Gary come over...
our oldest son.

THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2024

Family is Everything...
         Our car was sold today.

We bought it when we came back
from our 3-year mission of being
Temple President and
Temple Matron of the
San Salvador El Salvador Temple.
Well, it was a few months
after we got back
in Nov 2014.
Walt's friend at Elkhorn Auto Sales
looked several months to find us
this car. It was a 2005
Deluxe Deville Cadillac.
The last year they made
the deluxe model.

I shed a tear or two--it
was one of my last
earthly connections
with Walt.

I'm okay with not driving anymore.
I have neuropathy in my feet,
so I can't feel the gas pedal.
And I wasn't doing well in
all the traffic on Redwood Road.
At age 85, I've driven for
71 years, since in Idaho
we got our daytime
driver's license at
age 14, then night time
at age 16.

FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2024

  Family is Everything...
                         Our 63rd Wedding Anniversary Remembrance...

xoxoxoxox

Walt & Eileen

63 years ago we were married in the

Salt Lake Temple on June 14, 1961.

It remains the happiest day

of my life -- actually, of

my eternity!

The month I fell in love...

July 1960

Our first date was

July 9 - A stake dance.

This photo is August 12,

the day before we got pinned.

(Pinned is like engaged to be

engaged. Walt gave me his

fraternity service pin.)

Officially engaged Dec 20, 1960
XOXOXOXOXOXOXO

The happiest December of my life!

The best day of my life...

Married Walter Ray Petersen

June 14, 1961

June 14, 1961

So blessed to have our

precious grandparents

with us:

My Mom's parents--

Dave & Ella Huffaker --

they were both age 70.

Jane's mother--

Maria(h) Prescott, age 83.

(Grampa Bide had died in 1943

at age 69.)

My Dad's father,

Clarence Albertson,

had died in 1955 at age 68.

His mother,

Blanche Ilene Albertson,

age, 67, was either living

in Hagerman or Pocatello.

Ray's mother, Nellie Katie,

died in 1928.

His dad, Andrew, died in 1938.

June 14, 1961

My Dad & Mom received

their endowments and

were sealed on this day, also.

The Apostle who was doing

the sealings --

Elder Henry D. Moyle said

it needed to be done in

order, so after he performed

the sealing for

Arnold & Verna,

my sister

and I were sealed to

them, and then

he sealed

Walt and me.

June 14, 1961

Priesthood power is real.

The sealing power is the most

powerful ordinance on earth.

Wedding Luncheon in Ogden

given by Aunt Tess &

Uncle Austin.

He was in the Air Force

30 years--much of that in

Hawaii. They had the flowers--

Birds of Paradise--

flown in from Hawaii.

...and fresh pineapple

from Hawaii for this.

I had never had

fresh pineapple. It

was so delicious, that

I began one of our

marriage traditions

to have fresh pineapple

for Sunday dinner.

June 14, 1961

So in love!!

June 17, 1961

Saturday, June 17, 1961

Reception in Gooding, Idaho

June 17, 1961

June 17, 1961

June 17, 1961

June 17, 1961

Grape juice -- because

it went with our colors

of lavender and white.

June 1962

One-year Anniversary

June 10, 1963

Walt graduates from

Washington University*

School of Medicine

in St. Louis, Missouri

{A private university named
after George Washington
Ranked #3 in the nation.}

June 10, 1963

We are expecting our first

baby in two weeks.

June 11, 1963

We moved 560 miles from

St. Louis to Minneapolis

where Walt's 1-year

internship began on

June 24, 1963.

The photo below is on our

2nd Wedding Anniversary

June 14, 1963

Monday, June 24, 1963

Labor pains began at 6:00 a.m.

Our baby was born on her

exact due date--the

same day that Walt

began his internship.

He took me to Abbott Hospital

about 8:00 a.m.

They told him I would probably

be a long time before this

first baby was born, so he

just as well go over to

Minneapolis General Hospital

to start that first day of

his internship. As soon

as he left, they checked

me again and realized

this baby was coming

quicker than they had

thought.

They called and got

Walt back barely in

time for our baby

girl's delivery at

9:30 a.m.

(That was when we

didn't know if it was

a boy or girl until

the baby was born.)

Grama A and Janice came

on a train from Gooding,

Idaho to help me with

this new baby.

We were so thankful

for their help!

My Dad became a

grandfather...

My Mom has become a

grandmother...

My sister has become

an aunt.

Janice stayed the

rest of the summer

helping me.

The end of the summer, the

ward took a photo of

each family.

I was so thankful I'd kept

our baby alive for

that long.

Our family went from

1 child in 1963...

...to 3 children by 1966...

to 6 children by 1973...

and 7 children in 1974...

Seven was heaven and we

called it good.

This is the Centennial of

the primary 1978

25th Anniversary - June 1986

Twenty-fifth wedding

anniversary

June 14, 1986.

School, Church,

Graduations, College,

Missions,

College, Jobs,

Weddings...

by June 2001 we had

16 grandchildren

More Grandchildren...

by 2007 there were

29...

50th Wedding Anniversary

June 2011

32 grandchildren...

...currently we have 39 grandchildren,

10 spouses of g-children,

7 great-grandchildren,

for a posterity of 68.

We had told our kids

after three missions out

of the country for

6 1/2 years, we were

home for good...

then we were called for

one more mission so:

One month after our

50th Wedding Anniversary

we were in

San Salvador, El Salvador...

...to serve 3 years as the

Temple President

and Temple Matron

of the beautiful new

San Salvador

El Salvador Temple.

We got home in Nov 2014...

...had four more years in Burley,

then our kids could see we

needed help, so they worked

hard down-sizing us...

Julie drove up many times,

and Janie also came often

to do the major sorting

and purging.

Everyone helped in those

final days to make it happen.

It was so appreciated!

Having that last WEPR at our

Burley, Idaho home of 52 years...

{First 5 years in Gibbon's home;

...at 2341 Burton Avenue...

... 47 years in this home.}

...to move from Idaho

on August 18, 2018...

...to live with family

in Saratoga Springs, Utah

August 18, 2018...

Julie and Gary

Gary, Julie, Eileen, Steve.

...now I've been a widow

almost four years...

...however, I've never

had to live alone.

What a blessing.

Thank you, Julie & John,

for making such a

cozy cottage for

us, and now for me to

live here with you

and your precious family.

{2018}

2022

Rigdon,

Jackson, Jacee, Julie,

John, and Maddie.

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Temperature forecast

for 93º today.

I listened to 3 chapters of
our Family Book Club Book"
Tatoos on the Heart
True stories...
by Gregory Boyle.

It is heart wrenching...
you just become attached
to a character, then they are
shot and killed for no reason.

SATURDAY, JUNE 15**, 2024

Family is Everything...
Our

SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2024
Family is Everything...
        Father's Day



SUNDAY, June 19, 2022

Family is Everything…

I've not seen this quote before,
but I understand why it is true:

Here's the Father's Day
blog post from 3 years ago.
I've added a few updated photos.

SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2019
Family is Everything…
H A P P Y F A T H E R ' S D A Y
to Walt and our sons and sons-in-law
who are great fathers.
Walt, Gary, Steve, David, Brian,
Shawn, John, and Jerry.
Walt and Eileen with our seven children...

In age order from left to right:

Janie, Gary, Steve, David,

Julie, Brian, and Jen, July 2018.

Walt and Eileen with 28 of
our 39 grandchildren.
And one great grandchild
in our family.
Janie and Shawn, and
their 7 children in Nov. 2010
just after Aimee returned home
from her Oklahoma Tulsa Mission.
Added: Now - April 17, 2022
at Umi's blessing.
Gary with his four children in Dec 2005
Gary with his four children.
If the date is correct on the camera was
correcrt it was 2007, but I think Isaac
looks older than 2....so it might be in
2009 when Isaac would have been 4.
Gary with two of his four children.
Steve and Natalie,
their four children.
Steve and Natalie family in 2005

Steve and Natalie wilh some of their
family in 2022

David and Julie,
and their four children.
David and Julie, and their four children
with Grampa Petersen in

David and Julie, and their four children
visiting us in December 2021 just
after Anna got home from her
mission in Finland.

Julie and John
and their four children 2018.
John's daughter, Mikayla
Julie and John - Dec 2021 -
and their four children at Disneyland.

Brian and Jennifer
and their eight children.

Brian and Jennifer with some

of their family at family reunion in 2018.

Jen and Jerry
and their seven children.
Jen, please send us the
latest regular family photo you have.
Thanks.
{Can't believe your twins
turned 20 this month in 2022.}

xxx

We also pay tribute to our
wonderful fathers...
Arnold G. Albertson
My Dad, Age 50
Dad, Mom, Janice, and me
in June 1962

and Walt's Dad,
Raymond O. Petersen

Ray, Age 50.
Ray and Jane and family

...page from Grama Rie's
Book of Remembrance.
Ray with family 1940

Ray by their home in Wendell

1957 - Age 49. Walt just

home from his 2 1/2 year mission

to Uruguay/Paraguay.

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Walt with Gary
From 2019:
I had an appointment this morning
before our block, for my
temple recommend interview.

Gary and Walt

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Walt became a father in June 1963
two weeks after receiving
his M.D. degree.
Janie was born on the same
day Walt began his internship
at Minneapolis General Hospital.

The bassinet our friends gave us at
a baby shower in St. Louis.

Walt when he returned from

his duty as Chief Sr. Surgeon

on the Coast Guard Cutter

"The Chataqua" in the

Pacific Ocean.

We rendezvoused with him

in Hawaii in Nov 1963.
Walt -- 1965 becomes

the father of two children.

Gary, our second child,

joined us in Talihina, Oklahoma,

where Walt was doing his

military duty in the

United States Public Health Service,

at an Indian Hospital.

Walt -- 1966 becomes
the father of three children.
Walt when he was the

father of three children - 1967

Janie 4, Gary 2, Steve 6 mos.

Walt -- 1967 - becomes a pilot.
Walt with four children

David joined us in 1969.

The blessing of David Byrum Petersen

November 1969

Walt with four children

David, Steve, Gary, Mary Jane

Walt with David
Is this Steve or David?
Walt became a father

of five children in 1971

when Julie joined

our family.
Walt -- 1973 becomes

the father of six children

when Brian is born.
Walt -- 1974 becomes

the father of seven children

when Jennifer is born.

Seven is heaven and

we called it good.

Walt with Gary 1974

Raising his family...
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Saratoga Springs 3rd Ward**

At the end of this June 16th,

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.
He knows what our potential is.
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Jesus Christ came to earth as The Only Begotten of the Father and fulfilled the Atonement. He is the Redeemer of all.
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I am thankful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost as the third member of the Godhead.
Walt said to me once: "I look forward to thanking the Holy Ghost in person when I get to Heaven. I don't think we give Him enough credit for all He does."

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Joseph Smith was foreordained to be the Prophet of the Restoration. He is the Restorer of all things.
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President Russell M. Nelson is the Living Prophet today for all the world.
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The Bible is "the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly" and is a Testament of the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
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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.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the True Church on the earth today. Because of the restored Temple Ordinances families can be sealed for eternity.

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Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
June 16, 2024

xxx xxx xxx

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