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Show Devil's Gate with a horse and buggy, the horse panicked, charged up the steep in¬cline and tipped the buggy over, tossing its passengers out. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but Jeanette remembered the frightening experience. Bert and Jeanette became involved in the Mountain Green Ward activities. He served in the Sunday School Superintendency and a Home Teacher. She was active in the Relief Society and Religion Class. In 1914 the family returned to Centerville where Bert took up his favorite vocation of farming. A move was made to Burley, Idaho, where they operated a dry farm. Four years later the Warrens were back in Layton where Bert farmed for two years. The family next moved to Kaysville and the children graduated from Davis High School. In addition to farming, Bert was employed as a mailman, a night watchman at Hill Air Force Base, and on the old Bamberger Railroad line which operated be¬tween Ogden and Salt Lake City. One wintry day he broke his leg when the team he was driving ran away and tossed him out of the wagon. While he was laid up the children milked a big herd of cows before and after school. Bertha remembered her father for his great kindness and especially for his pockets filled with peppermint candy which he dispensed to all the kids in the neighborhood. She remembered that her mother loved to crochet. She was a faith¬ful member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers organization. Jeanette died in 1946 and was buried in Centerville. The following year Bert married Lillian Hollis Roberts, a widow from Mesa, Arizona. She joined the Church and the couple went through the Mesa Temple in June of 1948. She died in 1959. Bert continued active in the Church and was also an enthusiastic fisherman. His daughters took turns driving him to various fishing spots where he continued to cast a line for the wily trout as long as he lived. Bert died in March of 1971, one month short of his 90th birthday. The day of his death he walked several blocks to and from the postoffice, sat down in a chair and fell asleep. He died while sleeping and was buried beside his two wives in the Centerville Cemetery. —Bertha Warren Cottrell, Ogden 268 |
