The fall after graduating from high school I enrolled at BYU in Provo, Utah. My roommates were Helen Ferney and Carole Rae Oswald.  We had a great time together and the following spring I met Keith Larsen from Rexburg.  We were married in August in the Idaho Falls Temple.  We continued our education at BYU until Keith’s graduation and then moved to Rexburg where we have lived all these years.  We went into the clothing business with a brother-in-law and had four clothing stores until the Teton Dam broke and flooded our businesses and home.  By then we had seven sons and three daughters so we divided the partnership and rebuilt two of the clothing stores; the Classic Shoppe and Keith’s, The Man’s Shop.

After Keith retired we served a mission in the Alabama, Birmingham Mission which was a choice blessing.  After we returned from our mission, we began to spend the winters in Orem, Utah because several of our children had gone to BYU and then married and lived in Utah.

At the present time, we have 10 children, 58 grandchildren and in a couple of weeks we will have 29 great-grandchildren.  They are the joy of our lives!  Two of our sons were in charge of our yearly family reunion so in December of 2009 they took 90 of our family on a Caribbean cruise.  What a special, exciting time it was for all of us!  I look forward to seeing many of you in August.  Our thanks to all of the committee who have put this reunion together.   I’m enjoying the web site and catching up on your lives.