he would play his compositions, mostly harmonious chords. He was a member of the Ogden Tabernacle Choir as a young man and sang when it performed with honors at Sacramento and San Francisco in 1915. Dad was very fond of food and especially fruits. Often he would get a supply of fresh apples, rig up a press, and make and store cider for the cold winter season ahead. He had a fondness for fresh peaches, raspberries, strawberries, and all kinds of fruit pies. In our Ogden Canyon summer home, Mother would often bake serviceberries, elderberries or current pies from the bushes that grew near our home. Dad was innovative in construction, plumbing, shoe repair, cement work, and carpentry. He wasn't afraid to experiment until he got the results he wanted. Usually he succeeded, but there were occasional disasterslike the time he put too much linseed oil in the varnish for renewing the dining room chairswe stuck to them for years. Dad made me a three-way mirror which was so convenient when getting dressed up. He was also a natural gardener having received training as the son of a pioneer father. He had gardens on several lots, had a horse, and kept a cow which gave choice milk. Dad loved his family very much. Although he could be gruff at times, if one of us was in need or ill, he expressed immediate and anxious concern. My Mother My mother, Mary, was born in West Weber, Utah in the family home on 21 September 1871 a daughter of Isaac Robeson Farley and Madeleine Malan. I remember my Mother's smiling face, a pleasant voiced lady, calm, composed, philosophical, her being very busy, but happily so and her telling of the happenings of the day. Mother maintained an orderly, comfortable home for the family. There was no sarcasm in her. She had friends of all ages and she could converse with them at whatever level of interest they had. She was always young at heart enjoying the young youthful fun and placating their youthful dilemmas. Mother was characterized by compassion, consideration, love for all, with mental and spiritual strength. She was pleasant to be around and always had an encouraging word even in the face of sorrow or disaster. I still hear her cheery voice and kind words of consolation or advice. She had a gentle laugh and often broke sadness with her positive attitude toward problems. She was about five foot one, with naturally curly, medium-brown hair and brown eyes. She was a good manager, careful not to wastealways creative in making the precious dollar stretch. Before her marriage she worked for a dress establishment, making men's hand-tailored shirts and ladies' dresses. Naturally she sewed for her boys and her husband, and later made attractive dresses for my sister and me sometimes from remnants or by remaking clothes.