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valley for ? years. The children and I picked up and burned war broke out. Pearl Harbor was bombed December 7,
in burning season. It was all hand work and hard work. 1941. Edward was already in the National Guard but they

Then the bulldozers run by their owners began to take over had taken their medical tests to be sent across and he didn’t
the clearing of land which was a great blessing. Even after pass as he had a hernia. So he came home again and worked

that we had lots of picking up to do, but little by little we in the woods. Larena was a senior in high school and Cecil

got more land cleared every hear a junior. So she graduated in the
and some into alfalfa. Then Otto spring of 1942, then took Civil

got the fencing done enough so Service at Boise, Idaho, worked

we got a cow, from that to more during the war at Denver and Og-
cows, and more home work. den. I went with her to Boise and

helped her get settled. She was 18
In 1940 the community got to-
years old.
gether and built a community hall
on our land along the highway by Cecil graduated from high school

the lake. We soon had dances, go- the spring of 1943. He helped

ing to help finish our hall. Also we us at home that summer. He was
had Sunday School started, which drafted into the service December

we really enjoyed. I did all I could Deer Park Community Hall 7, 1943, just past 18 years of age.
to keep it going, and we did have Sun- He took training in California hard.

day School for several years. Our HEO club also met at the He came home on one leave to see us. He also visited Lare-

hall, every two weeks. We took turns as hostess. na at Ogden where she worked then. I believe he was then
sent across June 7, 1944. He visited us all here before leav-
By the early 40s we had quite a lot of alfalfa in. 1941 the
ing – we took him to the train. It was time to milk the cows

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