My family moved from Cheyenne Agency to the Rosebud Boarding School about two miles east of Mission just before my 4th birthday.
My first home - Cheyenne Agency, SD
Here I am sitting on the front step of our home in Cheyenne Agency.
Aerial view of Cheyenne Agency near the Missouri River.
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Near Mission, SD - my next home until I married.
Rosebud Boarding School
We only lived a short time in the first home at Rosebud (a duplex near the powerhouse with the tall smokestack) before we moved into the larger home where we lived until moving to Martin. Our house was located to the back and center in this photo hidden by the trees.
The large building in the center was the school and administrative office. On each side of this larger building were the two dormitories, one for the boys (left) and the second for the girls (right). The white building at the back and center with two silos was the cow barn. Not seen in this photo was the home economics cottage (hidden by the girls dormitory) where my mother taught cooking and sewing to the girls. On looms the senior girls wove the wool for the material from which they then sewed the suits they wore for graduation.
Looking closely a flagpole is shown in the photo, which was in the middle of the quad with a road going around the quad. To the left (in this photo) next to the boys dorm was the cafeteria where the students ate.
Across the squad and opposite from the large school building there was a gymnasium where basketball games were held and was also where we watched movies each week. There was a projector room at the back with a large screen across the stage at the other end. It was a very sad day when the gym burned down. After that, the movies were held in the cafeteria using smaller equipment. Later, a building was built in Mission on the main street where movies were shown in the gymnasium that was used during those years for the public school's basketball games.
The "home-economic cottage" where my mother taught the girls cooking and sewing is the white building at the right situated between an "apartment" building for married employees and on the other side in the distance the lodging and facilities for single employees.
Next to this quad was another quad with a road on each side that connected to highway 18 with the water tower on one side.
Turning west onto highway 18 led to Mission about two miles away. Turning east on highway 18 was the way to Winner.
I remember one time somehow missing my ride home from a movie in Mission and walking the two miles home. Each time I saw a car coming, I hid in the ditch as I was afraid something bad might happen. There had been the grandfather of my friend, Carmen Boyd, who had been found dead from a hit-and-run accident, so that might explain part of my concern.
Louise, Narene, and K. LeRoi
Louise is 8 years older and K. is 12 years older than me.
To get me to have a more natural smile,
they had me jump for this picture.
I had Mrs. Vera Anderson for my 1st and 2nd grades. I am in the back row, 4th from the left.
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K. hiked home to South Dakota from Utah State University at Logan so he could tell my parents in person that he was going to ask Ina to marry him. K. and Ina were married September 4, 1947 in the Salt Lake Temple. This photo was taken by our home in Rosebud. (Louise, K. & Narene)
By our house on my new bike, which was my very first bicycle. We ordered it from the Montgomery Ward catalog. It had a skirt guard, which was nice to have back then when girls wore skirts more often than jeans.
This was our first car after World War II ended, when things had been rationed and not available to support the war effort. We named our gray car "Dovesy."
Age 12
A high school freshman or first-semester sophomore, by our home.
Years later when Louise came for a visit from California, she and I drove to Mission for a memory trip to see the home and area where we had lived.
Beth, Louise, Kevin, and Marlowe - My former home near Mission, South Dakota
This was all that was left of the home where we lived at the Rosebud Boarding School near Mission. The main floor had a living room, kitchen, two bedrooms, bathroom which included a bathtub, an enclosed back porch, and a screened front porch. We had electricity, running water, and coal-powered heat brought up from the basement furnace through a register in the floor in the hallway. The basement had a bedroom, large storage room, furnace room, and another room for the coal that was dropped in from outside. This had been my home from the age of 4 to when we moved to Martin during my sophomore year of high school.
Garage - which was across the road behind our house, where our car was parked in one of the stalls with its own door.
This was the Rosebud dam by the boarding school. The water tower can be seen, which was near the main part of the school and employee residences.
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When we moved from Mission to Martin, I enrolled in Bennett County High School for the second semester of my sophomore year, 1953-54.
1954 - 10th grade
My junior year I was a cheerleader with Jane Ann Englebert, Camillus Fanning, (me), and Shirley Loula at BCHS. My senior year, Camillus and I were cheerleaders with Helen Ann Sayers and Phyllis Ireland (Sam's sister).
(I had been a cheerleader in Mission in 7th and 8th grades and was elected again to be a cheerleader my 9th and 10th grade years in Mission.)
It needs to be clarified that in those days cheerleading was not the acrobatics it has currently become. We led cheers and had routines to perform, but not the gymnastics of today. During my high school years, there were no sports teams for girls. Cheerleading, pep club, band, choir, yearbook were the options for girls.
My senior year I was elected to be the Homecoming Princess and am pictured here with our Homecoming King, Roadel McPhearson.
Here we are on the stage just after the "Medicine Man" had danced around the princess candidates seated around the "campfire" before identifying the "princess" by lifting me up.
I married my high school sweetheart. I was Sam's date for his junior prom when I was a sophomore, which began our romance.
My family: K. LeRoi, Narene, Mother, Louise, and Dad (1959)
(back) K. LeRoi, Ina, Sam, Narene, Angus (front) Ronald, Mother, Marlowe, Louise holding Lon, Dad holding Harold (1959 - before Sam & I were married.)
With Sam at a BYU formal dance - 1959.
We were married in the Salt Lake Temple on June 5, 1959. We left Provo for Salt Lake City about 6:30 in the morning for our endowment and sealing all on the same day. There were 50 couples getting married that day. I don't remember what time our sealing was scheduled, but it was about 3:00 that afternoon when we left the temple. In a hurry then to go to the scheduled dinner at a nice restaurant, no one thought to take any photos of us at the temple. So this photo is one Sam's mother chose to use.
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After graduating from BCHS, Sam attended two years at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. We corresponded regularly and continued to have dates when he came home to Martin during that time. BYU was my choice for college when I graduated from BCHS. Before my sophomore year at BYU, Sam's sister Phyllis decided to go with me to BYU; and Sam took his mother's suggestion to drive Phyllis to Provo, Utah instead of going to Pensacola, Florida where he had been accepted in the Naval Air Cadet program. Phyllis enrolled in BYU as a freshman, and Sam enrolled as a junior. Phyllis married Neil Daniels and only stayed at BYU that first year. Sam graduated from BYU and stayed the following year in graduate school while I completed my senior year and graduated. Between my junior and senior year, we were married in the Salt Lake Temple on June 5, 1959.
Scott was born February 7, 1962
Five of our seven children were born while we were living in St. Johns. Jeff and Doug were born in South Dakota where we moved to the farm in 1974 and lived until we moved to Spanish Fork, Utah the end of October in 2012.
St. Johns, Arizona (current view) This shows entering St. Johns from the west with part of the Blue Hills in the background. Our home was on Heap Hill our first time living in St. Johns and was one block north of Main Street when we returned from Ann Arbor.
We hosted my 50th class reunion at our farm - July 1, 2006.
50th class reunion group photo in our home - July 1, 2006. (back) Cheryl Ninas Rageth, Chuck Risse, Narene Nelson Ireland, Gary Holeman, Don Moore, Elda Simmons Johnson, Francis Fanning, Barbara Greenough, Norman Drobny, Earl Simmons
(front) Virginia Goodman Coller, Donna Kuxhaus Harrington, Ada Holeman Weimer, LaWanda Ireland Rayhill, Betty Burke Hagler, (Gary Dickinson - not in photo)
In 2011, I helped organize our BCHS class reunion in conjunction with Martin's Centennial. (photo taken at the high school) (back) Don Moore, Gary Dickinson, Cheryl Ninas Rageth, Earl Simmons, LaWanda Rayhill, Ada Holeman Weimer,
(front) Gary Holeman, Francis Fanning, Donna Kuxhaus Harrington, Narene Nelson Ireland, CeCee Skalinder Bolzer, Virginia Goodman, Norman Drobny
We also had a dinner at Markota the next evening (2011). I wanted a group photo so invited each one to gather for a picture.
(back) Vernon Butcher, Elmer Simmons, Ada Holeman, Margret Merchen, Cheryl Ninas Rageth, Francis Fanning, Chuck Risse
(middle) Virginia Goodman Coller, CeCee Skalinder Bolzer, Barbara Greenough, Norman Drobny, Gary Holeman, Don Moore
(front) Donna Kuxhaus Harrington, Bonnie McCue, LaWanda Ireland Rayhill, NareneNelson Ireland, Virginia Goodman Coller, Betty Burke Hagler
Kevin, Gus, Louise, Blake, and Marlowe taken in 1979 on a visit to the farm in Martin.
(Lon must have been on a mission.)
Blake with Ref and Billy Badger by our front door.
Marlow
(Sam's painting on the wall behind over the couch.)
Kevin in the living room.
Blake on a spool used to wrap electrical wire.
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K. and Ina's visit to the farm with their family was at a different time than when Louise and Gus were here, but David (in this photo) and Blake (in the previous photos) seem to be near the same age. (Ronald, Harold, Ina, K. LeRoi, Karalee, and David)
Aerial view of the farm - 1982
View of the farm when Brent and Tauna moved back (their house at the right with a white fence). Grampa Harold and Gramma Mabel's home in the center with trees between it and the row of grain bins beyond the trees. Our home and yard at the left mostly hidden by trees with the yellow shed across the road to the left; and on the opposite side is the new shop, Grampa Harold's shop, quonset, horse barn, and equipment barn. The large quonset is for storage and multiple uses, and the brown calving shed is nearby with more trees to the right. (Currently, Brent and Tauna live in what had been our home, and hired men live in the other two homes.)
Our 50th wedding anniversary photo taken in our family room at the farm in 2009.
Lots of happy memories in this home!
(back) Beth & Todd holding Joshua, Seth, Kristine, Scott, Ryan, Tani, Marisa
(middle) Jenna, Amanda, Jeff holding Kate, Rochelle, Tauna, Brent, Narene & Sam holding Brynlee and Austin, Trent, Curtis & Marla, Shannon & Doug holding Jacob, Maggie, Sarah, Haley
(front) Jared, Brady, Weston, Rachel, Jamon, Megan, Shannon, Zack, Sam, Maren, Carson, and Ethan
We started a new chapter in our life story in October 2012 when we moved to Spanish Fork, Utah!
Rosebud Boarding School
Beth, Louise, Kevin, and Marlowe - 
