Leola Seely Anderson

As a central and formative presence in my life, my beloved Mammy gets many mentions throughout this account…

I. …especially in a separate “section,” of her own, which Brent and I prepared for her centenary in 2010, entitling it “Leola” and terming it a Gedenkschrift.

Hundredth birthday Centenary gathering Funeral comment by Howard W Hunter Leola the Teacher Taught Boyd Packer Teenage portrait Portraits Portraits Birthplace Birth certificate Pedigree Her Parents (and big brother) Dancing in Rosette Valedictory With Verna and Grant Verna’s tribute With parents and siblings The Glass Slipper, sorta In front of Brigham City homestead Seely Christmas 1941 Mad Seelys and Spouses All four among Seelys, Christmas 1941 With us, Rick, Crow woman The Mad Seelys — Final Assemblies Myrle and Leola Florence, Leola, and Myrle High Adventure Back in Town Romantic Fantasy In the Canyon Wedding Presents Mrs H Duane Anderson Mr and Mrs H Duane Anderson Parenthood Winter 1942 Christmas 1941 Christmas 1948 Christmas 1957 Christmas 1958 Christmas 1967 At Home, Outdoors Brent, the Scout With Brent Brent’s Cowlick? At the Airport With Brent at Manti

At Manti Temple for Brent’s endowment The Andersons Family Portraits Andersons and Turkeys Family Portraits Golden Andersons Generations With Valerie by Lemons Temple Garden Seeing Richard and Valerie Off Here and There By the lake Friends Still: Florence and Myrle Friends Still: the Ellises New Friends: the Bishopric With Ords and Babbs at table The Bishopric Bunch New Friends and Old Kin With Babbs and Seelys at table In the kitchen: Grace and two Leolas In the Kitchen Cap and Gown Seminary 1955-56 Seminary Chorus Seminary 1956-57 Seminary 1958-59 Seminary 1958-59 Del’s Baptism Annie’s Tribute Leola, CES Chieftain Leola, Writer “As the Heart Grows” “My Husband Calls on Fridays” “The House in the Valley” Leola, Tourist British Columbia In Victoria, BC Globe Theatre, San Diego Los Angeles Temple San Diego Liberty Jail Liberty Jail U.N. building United Nations Mount Vernon Washington, DC Concord Bridge New York

Italy Bern Matterhorn Bern Temple Invalides Montmartre Catacombs Ardennes Portal and Courtyard Keukenhof Netherlands Delft Hyde Park London Oxford Stratford-on-Avon Boston Harvard Yard USS Constitution Hawaii Leola, Grandma Rushmore Yellowstone Boston Harbor Revere Beach Sycamore Sidewalk Sturbridge Christmas letter Kieslings Christmas in Paris Mission Home Farewell photo with Harts Leola, Missionary With missionaries and members Berchtesgaden Copenhagen At Chambord, in Citroën, at Christmas, 1967 In the Mission Office Final Scenes Perched, unbelted, on the console in The Accident Died in a clinic in Bazas Press Notices Press Notices Later Press Notices Obituary Funeral Verna’s Sketch Graveside The End of This Road

II. Her images, memorable quotations, and other mentions in other Sections of this account, most particularly in my personal history incorporated herein as the Section named “Such A Life”:

Seminary 1956-58 In Ogden In Price In Sunset Hospital booklet Hospital pedigree Bundled up Documented our home in Price Christmas, 1940 Parents & grandparents by the fire in Price Christmas card, 1941 Playing bridge Fresh air Mourned baby curls Amused at our snow-antics Châtelaine Pinned Scout Brent Porcelain treasures Wearied of my scientific experiments With Brent, Tjossems’ Checking snowy lemons By the fireplace In her “Studying Chair” By the bookcase Three generations, in San Bernardino With aunties …and the guys Nuclear crew Patriarchal Four By the lemon tree Counseled suicidal people With Valerie, by lemon tree Christmas Greetings, 1946 Christmas Greetings, 1947 Christmas Greetings, 1948 Christmas Greetings, 1951 Christmas Greetings, 1952-3 Christmas Greetings, 1956 Christmas Greetings, 1958 Christmas Greetings, 1959 Christmas Greetings, 1960 Christmas Greetings, 1961 Held down the fort with Valerie and Allens Christmas Greetings, 1964 Gave us Brigitte Engineered dates Date-time shutterbug

Regretted letting me skip a grade Encouraged my reluctant College degree Seminary Chorus Annotated Bank of America program Never called Pappy “Andy” Shepherd of swollen head Moved me next to Valerie Seminary “Coach” Seminary 1955 Seminary pioneer Signed Seminary certificate 1956 Tough grader Seminary 1958-59 Lambda Delta Sigma LDS Institute Second Ward Seminary Spoke at my farewell Her Seminary prepared me for missionary duties At Bern Temple Came with Pappy to Paris in Jun 63 Made most things happen In the Alps Photographer for bus shot Housed and transported by Chang’s kindness At Versailles Moved by the crowd in the Catacombs Restrained my “Big Mike” ambitions Traveled with me to Liège Youth Conference (photo) Remembered in Bern 1 Mar 64 With Ben Bowring, an item in high school Came to our wedding; would’ve been upset if we’d eloped In our reception line Showing off Rick in San Diego Folks’ Boston visit, Christmas 1966 Old Ironsides On Their Way to Paris Sturbridge At the airport In Paris, with Harts

Dining with missionaries With Pappy, flowers With Pappy, Hunters, and Christiane Lebon With Mission Presidents in Norway With Mission Presidents in The Hague With Mission Presidents, at Berchtesgaden Gordon and Marjorie Hinckley, at Berchtesgaden With military leaders in Berchtesgaden With Howard and Clara Hunter, in Bordeaux By the Albatross, in the Azores At a Madrid Spanish Branch Fireside By the Bombinette, in Limoges Called me to reassure The Accident Sorrow Memorial service With Leroys, in the Galerie des Batailles in Versailles Haggling on the Avenue des Belles-Feuilles Speaking at Bordeaux District Conference On the beach at Biarritz At Bordeaux district conference Chez Salarnier Dentelle-shopping at Concarneau With missionaries, in Limoges Porcelain-shopping in Limoges Granny Doris took flowers to Montecito Egg-and-cream-custard ice cream recipe Had no patience with boredom Principal source of my permanent contagion Sent me to seek Seelys in London Found her birthplace 2008: Rachel is her first namesake descendant $100 from Reader’s Digest

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