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week! I never went to my clothes closet without a clean, ironed shirt or
shirts having been hung there by my Mother.
In addition to being a devoted wife and the mother of six, Moth-
er was President of our school’s Parent Teachers Association twice that
I can recall, President of the Salt Lake Women’s Democratic Club and
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woman I have ever known.
My older sister, Laurine, was a pretty girl with an outgoing per-
sonality. She had been Vice President of the student body at West High.
At the University of Utah she concentrated on music and showed talent
as an artist in oil paintings. She played the piano and sang very well.
Indeed, for several years, she and my Mother sang in the Mormon Tab-
ernacle Choir. Laurine was the life of any party she attended and often
ended accompanying herself on the piano while she sang popular songs
of the day. I have never known a girl who was as popular socially.
My brother Ernest Eldredge (called “Edge” by everyone) was
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face, was about 5’11”, he had a big chest and shoulders and had tremen-
dous physical energy. He loved to dance and party. He loved animals –
he raised smooth-haired Fox Terrier dogs and Bantam chickens. He was
a hard worker and loved horseback riding. He could take any horse and
get the horse to jump over obstacles even though the horse had never
been trained as a jumper. He rode horseback like an Indian; a horse un-
der him simply became a tool like a knife and fork would be to you and
me. He would go to the State Fairgrounds and borrow horses there and
ride them up to our neighborhood. He would ride the horse and jump
over fallen logs, laughing all the time. I recall that he once rode a horse
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ing to be run over by the horse. He halted the horse just short of me and
laughed at my fear. Edge loved dance music and he bought quite a col-
lection of phonograph records. He loved to dress well. In addition to the
clothes my parents provided, he bought suits and shoes. All his clothes
were kept in immaculate shape – his shoes were polished and in line in
his closet, pants pressed, etc.
I felt that Laurine and Edge had a special place in Grandfather

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