Today is the 105th anniversary of Luella Nelson Jeppsen's birth in Mantua, Utah. She lived the greater part of her life there and raised four children. My memories of her are filled with "grandmotherly moments." I remember her as always gracious and smiling and I generally see her in the kitchen in my mind's eye. She is baking cookies, raisin filled or chocolate chip, baking bread or apple pies, making chili or using the bread dough to make scones which were delicious with butter and syrup!
She loved to garden and to serve others. She served in numerous Church callings and for many years she taught primary at the Lamanite branch at the Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City. She almost always wore a dress and even going to Brigham to shop she would dress up. (Those days are long gone!) One of her favorite expressions was "my lands!"
From her journal: "Dad had a large strawberry patch and I had to tend the children while all the rest went out to pick berries. I rode the horse while Dad did his cultivating and I herded cows and all outside work. I learned to milk a cow and ride a horse. Not until I was 15 did I change from a girl to a woman."
And she was a wonderful woman indeed.
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Thanks for the great reminder. I have very loving memories of her.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good day to have a birthday! I have two memories of her in particular. The first was playing tinker toys out on that old blue card table under then apple tree in back, and the second was rushing into the kitchen and giving her a hug where she stood by the sink and the silver speckled countertop. Do you have her journal?
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