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| Francis Emmanuel Anderson & Anna Eloese Poulsen |
| Fifty years since their Salt Lake Temple marriage on 5 June 1912. Numerous descendants gathered to observe the occasion with Grandma and Grandpa Anderson. |
| Golden Anniversary |
| Pappy and Mammy flank the group, with Valerie, the Dunaways (Scott emulating our grandparents’ solemnity), Clair, David (by Pappy), Sharon (by Grandma), Clair’s second wife Donna, and four of their daughters. I was away in France. |
| A few years earlier (1956, we think, as part of a big after-Church photo-shoot), we actually managed to get Grandma and Grandpa to come close to smiling for the photographer. Never quite understood the cultural imperative that moved many of their generation to persist in such deadpan behavior, in front of the lens. Nobody who knew them thought of them as sourpusses: away from cameras, happy faces were the order of every day. |
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A younger version of Grandpa and Grandma. That’s either Francis or Pappy in Grandma’s arms. Looks like other baby pictures that we think depict Pappy, but nobody these days can tell us for sure.
Circa 1976, BYU freshman (as he recalls) Scott Dunaway interviewed Grandpa and recorded his reminiscences, and subsequently his funeral, onto a set of cassette tapes. One copy has remained almost half a century, alas deteriorated, among my memorabilia. Your computer1 will enable you to hear what remains in this audio file (to listen, please click below); your charity will forgive the gaps, while regretting them: |
| Grandpa Anderson’s Life |
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With Bethany’s help, I’ve transcribed what I can still understand into this PDF file; to read, please scroll down2 in the window below: |
| And to hear Scott’s recording of Grandpa’s funeral, click below: |
| Grandpa Anderson’s Funeral |
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This PDF file contains my transcription of the funeral recording; as before, to read, please scroll down: |
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At least once, loving young descendants of our Grandma Anna Eloese Poulsen Anderson tried to get her to put her reminiscences down on tape. There’s even a story about hiding the recorder under a Batesville sofa while eliciting memories. The effort seems to have been aborted when it became necessary to switch the tape, whereupon she caught on to the ruse.
Around her birthday in 1980, however, profiting from that year’s miraculous confluence of Andersons in Arlington, we did, however, gather at Timbaloo to offer our occasionally-musical felicitations via cassette tape recorder: |
| Grandma Anderson’s Birthday Greetings, 1980 |
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And then three years later, in celebration of Grandma’s ninetieth birthday (and Rick’s departure for college [at Ricks College, of course]), we held a major family reunion in Batesville, Indiana, making sure to preserve generational portraits of Grandma and her descendants. |
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