Earlene Whisler Sophmore Photo

Earlene Whisler

Sophmore in High School Photo

taken in Salt Lake City, Utah in fall of 1971

Charlotte Whisler Senior Photo

Charlotte Whisler

Senior in High School Photo

taken in Pendleton, Oregon in September 1970

Sandra Whisler Senior Photo

Sandra Whisler

Senior in High School Picture

taken in Billings, Montana probably in the fall of 1967

Burton Family History Introduction and Credits

BURTON FAMILY HISTORY

HONORING

JAMES BURTON AND ISABELLA WALTON

FAMILY

Compiled by BURTON FAMILY Organization

for
Burton Family Reunion - June 24, 1967

at Kaysville, Utah

To all members of the BURTON FAMILY:

The stories and pictures assembled in these pages, were obtained from the treasured material kept in many of the Burton Families; from memory and tradition (see note below); and from recent intensive research. It has been assembled here for the purpose of preserving the memories of our people, whose faithful, loving service and simple thrifty ways should be retained in the memory of their children as a source of inspiration through all the generations.

By the vote of the Burton Family assembled in Reunion at Kaysville in 1964, under the chairmanship of Ruby Rushforth Pincock, granddaughter of Rosemond Burton Rushforth, the plan to prepare this History was put into action. To honor this first generation of the Burtons in the Church this History is now presented by the Historical Committee appointed, with the humble hope that it is "complete, correct and acceptable." The committee extends sincere appreciation to all who have contributed stories, shared treasured pictures, identified and verified materials, typed copy or helped in any way.



Family Reunion Officers:

Alice Burton Rampton - President
Camella Christensen Barton
Lucile Burton Kennah
Golda Burton King
John Walton Waite
Ardella Waite Mertlich
Nora Blaimires Ivy


Members Burton Family History Committee:

Marian Gardner Fluckiger - Chairman
Ruby Rushforth Pincock
Bertha Clarke Call
Josephine Burton Bagley - Burton Family Representative

Note: In 1915 William Walton Burton called the Burton Family together in an important Genealogy meeting where plans were made to gather the important dates and facts pertaining to the family in a Record and to begin the work of Genealogy Research.

Consequently all information possible from memory and resources available to the family at that time, was written into a suitable Family Record, and marked "Memory and Tradition".

The accuracy and detail of this first Burton Family Record is amazing to those who have followed this work, and who have checked this work by careful scientific research. It has been a key to success in gathering data which now is assembled in the extensive Genealogy Records in the keeping of our Family Genealogists available to all.

We follow them who lived before,
Because they lived, we now have life
And strength to meet its time of strife.
For us they opened wide the door --
Bequeathed to us all things they learned -
Left guide posts on the roads they turend,
And to the best that they could know
Pointed the way for us to go.
                 By Edgar A. Guest
                 from Children of the Dead

Isabella Walton Burton Patriarchal Blessing

There is a life story of Isabella that will be printed under another heading.  Two things to note - in her life story, she is listed as born in a different place in England.  Second, if you note the date of the blessing, 1857, was a very scary year for the Saints in Utah.  You can read more about that in her life story also.

Kaysville, Utah


September 7, 1857

A blessing by Patriarch Isaac Morley upon the head of Isabella Burton, daughter of Wm. and Isabella Walton, born Dent, Yorkshire, England April 7, 1802.

Sister Isabella, I lay my hands upon thy head in the name of Jesus and I seal the blessings of the Father and the Patriarch upon thy head. This seal of priesthood shall be a comfortor (sic) to thy mind. Thou art beloved of the Lord by reason of integrity of thy heart. Thou hast previously received, and covenanted before the Lord and I bless thee with the blessings of life, with the blessings of health, that thy last days may become thy best days, that thy system may be quickened and invigorated, that thou may yet live to enjoy the redemption with the Saints of God. Let thy mind become calm and it shall be serene like the Son and thou shall yet participate in the blessings of the Latter day glory. Thy children shall bless and honor thee in thy declining of years. The desires of thy heart shall be given thee in thy union on the resurrection morning. All things shall be restored pertaining to thy exaltation. Thou shall enjoy the blessings of the earth, the blessings of the society of the saints. Thou shall see the hand of the Lord of the law in the redemption of his people, and the wicked fall into their own snares which they have set to betray the people of God.

Thou are of Joseph. Thou are an heiress to the blessings of endless lives. I ratify this seal upon thee in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Nellie and Georgia McIntyre with their husbands

               

This negative was too big for my scanner, so I had to try to stitch it together.  This is my first attempt, so it is rough.  I 'll keep working on it. 

Walter Allen Greenlee/ Hixson on the left and his wife, Georgia McIntyre on the right.  The wedding couple, standing in the middle,   are Georgia's sister Nellie McIntyre and her husband, John Keiger

Earl Whisler Sr. with Ted, Marilyn, and granddaughter Ruthie

Ruthie Whisler, Earl Whisler Sr., Marilyn Walker, Ted Whisler

The negative was old and had to be split to fit in the scanner, so 2 pictures.

Blake Carper, 1992

Blake Carper in Portland Oregon in 1992.  Age 21

Four generation photos 1983 Portland Oregon

This is really blurry.

Taken in Portland Oregon in June of 1983

Alicia Carper in front - age 3

Charlotte Whisler Carper, Blake Carper (age 12), Marilyn Walker Whisler, Marian Greenlee Lusk

to the right in the back are Sandra Whisler and Joanna

Earlene Whisler Rhien, Marilyn Walker Whisler MacLean

Joanna Rhien (just turned 4), Jed Rhien held by Marian Greenlee Walker Lusk

Taken in Portland Oregon in June 1983

Grandmother Potter and Lloyd

I found this really ancient negative - at the bottom it says Lloyd and Grandma Potter 1890. I would think this is Francis Eleanor Potter's mother or grandmother.

Walker, Greenlee, Lusk, Spriggs - reunion about 1987

I found a package of negatives from a family reunion.  The pictures are taken in Portland, Oregon at the home of Art and Marian Lusk. Barbara remembers this as being Art and Marian's 40th or 45th anniversary.  If it is their 40th, that would make the year 1987.   Sorry about the dots on the photos - I thought the negatives were old, but Alicia found glitter on the scanner - I'll rescan them and add them again later. 

This is Art's brother Ivan and his wife, Corrine

Janine Lusk, Marian Greenlee, Corrine Lusk, Marilyn Walker, Evelyn Greenlee, Barbara Keister

Front row:  Art's daughter from first marriage, Sally Lusk, Ron's second wife Sue, Larry's wife Gloria

Ron Walker, Ivan Lusk, Wally Burgh, Larry Walker, Ken McClean, Harold Spriggs, Art Lusk, Jack Walker

Wally is Sally Lusk's husband; Ken was Marilyn Walker's second husband, Harold is Barbara's husband

Jack Walker is Ron Walker's son

Art, Evelyn, Marian, Janine - Ken and Marilyn are in back.  Portland Oregon street art trip.

The sisters :  Evelyn and Marian Greenlee Hixson in Portland Oregon

Art and Marian Lusk and their family

Art, Janine, Larry, Marian, Marilyn, Ronald

Art and Marian Lusk and their full family

Larry, Janine, Ronald, Sally, Art, Marilyn, Marian

Walker-Lusk kids with their spouses (photos are missing Janine's husband Frank who wasn't there)

Ron Walker and second wife, Sue; Ken MacLean and wife Marilyn Walker; Janine Lusk Thompson; Larry Walker and wife Gloria; Sally Lusk Burgh and husband Wally.

Walker-Lusk kids with their spouses (photos are missing Janine's husband Frank who wasn't there)

Ron Walker and second wife, Sue; Ken MacLean and wife Marilyn Walker; Janine Lusk Thompson; Larry Walker and wife Gloria; Sally Lusk Burgh and husband Wally.

Jack Walker, step-mother Sue, and his father, Ronald Walker

Marilyn Walker and Ted Whisler Wedding Day

This is from a very rare color slide of Marilyn Walker and her parents Marian and Art Lusk.  September 4, 1949, Medford Oregon.  There is a black and white photo of this event elsewhere on the blog.

Dwayne Taylor ??, Earl Whisler, Jr., Ted Whisler, Marilyn Walker, Ted's father Earl Whisler, Sr.

Ted's sister Edna Whisler, two other girls

John Robert "Jack" Walker

Barbara thought this picture was taken in San Francisco - in the late 1930's. 

This is to me the best picture of Marilyn Walker Whisler's father that we have.  He was a very handsome young man.

Marilyn Walker as a teen ager

I found this negative among a pile of other photos.  Marilyn Walker in Ashland, Oregon 1949

Ann Stanger Hogg Life Story

Biography of Ann Stanger Hogg


         my copy came from Frances Selley. I know that most of the biography comes from Ann's  
         ownlife story that she wrote herself.

Birth Date: 4 April 1828 Faceby, Yorkshire, England

Died : 31 October 1899 West Weber, Weber County, Utah

Parents : James Stanger and Isabelle Thompson

Pioneer: 2 July 1855 -25 September 1855

4th Company - Capt. Richard Ballantyne

She walked most of the way. The wagons
were full of supplies. Only the small
children and sick could ride.

Spouse: Charles Hogg, born 18 September 1831 Deighton, Yorkshire, England

                                    died: 9 October 1901 West Weber, Weber county, Utah

Married: 26 June 1852 Faceby, Yorkshire, England by Parson Brown

Sealed: 20 May 1860 Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Utah by Brigham Young

Children:
James Hogg - Born: 29 July 1853 Faceby, Yorkshire, England
William George Hogg - Born: 6 July 1855 on the plains at Muddy Creek Kansas
Charles Hogg Jr. - Born: 1 March 1857 Centerville, Davis county, Utah
Joseph Hogg - Born: 3 June 1859 Centerville, Davis county, Utah
Hyrum Hogg - Born: 27 September 1860 Centerville, Davis county, Utah
John Thomas Hogg - Born: 26 March 1862 Centerville, Davis county, Utah
Isabell Ann Hogg - Born: 21 November 1863 Centerville, Davis county, Utah
Mary Ellen Hogg - Born: 17 December 1865 Centerville, Davis county, Utah
                              Died: 27 December 1876
Elizabeth Jane Hogg - Born 21 March 1868 Centerville, Davis county, Utah
Martha Malinda Hogg - Born 24 April 1870 St Joseph (later Washington) Utah

Ann Stanger was born and raised in Faceby, Yorkshire, England. She met her husband, Charles, when he came to work for her father and boarded in their home. They were married in Faceby , 26 June 1852, by Parson Brown. they became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ through discussions with the Mormon Missionaries who held meetings in her Father's home. Ann and Charles both joined the church in 1853 with Elder Moses Cluff performing the ordinances for them.

The Gospel became a forceful part of their lives and the next 18 months were spent in Missionary work, feeding and clothing the traveling Elders, buying missionary tracts and assisting new members.

On 14th of February 1855 Ann, Charles and 18month old son, James, left Faceby, stopping in Deighton to say their farewells to Charles' family and caught the train to Liverpool. They left for America to join the Saints in Zion on the ship Siddons, chartered by F. D. Richards, President of the British Mission. The voyage was very rough and Ann was pregnant, which made it worse as rations were scarce so they shared what they had. After 8 weeks, they arrived in Philadelphia where they made their way by train and boats to the Kansas Territory and the Mormon Grove. Here they stayed in tents and planted crops for those immigrants that were to follow.

On 2 July 1855 they commenced their journey across the plains by wagon train, Capt. Richard Ballantyne the leader. The wagons were so loaded only small children could ride. On 6 July 1855 she gave birth on the plains to their second son, William George. She was allowed to ride for 3 days and then commenced to walk with her baby the rest of the way. The company arrived in Salt Lake Valley 22 September 1855.

They lived in Centerville until called to go South to Payson where they lived in a dug-out until they could return. Her husband was frequently called away with the Militia to protect the Saints and Ann had to take care of all the chores.

On 16 May 1860 Ann and Charles went to the Endowment House in Salt Lake and were sealed for time and eternity by President Brigham Young.

They were active in the Church and in 1868 at the October Conference, were called by the Presidency to go south to help settle the "Muddy Mission." They now had six sons and three daughters. They left the things they could not take and without question left to go where the Church called them. Ann washed clothes on the rocks with white sand, endured the intense heat and tried to grow crops. After moving to St. Joseph and planting orchards, corn, cotton, etc. they were called back to the center of Zion February 1871. During the Mission, she bore her fourth daughter. They relocated in West Weber in May 1871 after a very hard journey back. They were so poor she had to make the boys clothes from the wagon cover. They built a home and planted fruit trees. She learned how to dry the fruit and sold it to the merchants in Ogden to help support her family.

In 1879, Charles accepted the law of polygamy. Ann accepted this second marriage dutifully and in good faith even accompanied them to the Endowment House. She was 57 at this time. Charles continued to support both families until the Manifesto in 1890, when he elected to live with his second wife to help raise the younger children. Ann accepted this with dignity and courage. Charles second wife was Annie Todd.

Ann was ever religious, attended church regularly and taught her children the principles of the Gospel. She served a mission with her husband and family, was a counselor in the Relief Society for many years and spent 18 years as visiting teacher. she was released due to the illness (cancer of the brain). During her illness she lived with her daughters in Idaho who cared for her. She returned to West Weber (age 71) just prior to her death 31 October 1899 and is buried in the well kept cemetery there next to her husband and daughter.

A faithful Latter-day Saint and pioneer lady, she passed through all the hardships of that era. Her name will ever be blessed in the hearts and memories of her countless decendants.

Thomas S. Monson condolence letter August 1989

It used to be acceptable to write directly to general authorities in the Church and even to the First Presidency from time to time, especially in times of need of comfort or with questions.  Marian Greenlee Lusk received this letter from President Thomas S. Monson on the death of her oldest son, Ronald Walker, in 1989.

Walter Hixson and Georgia McIntyre wedding certificate

I scanned this in from a copy.  Marilyn says this is copied from a page in Walter and Georgia's Bible.... Charlotte

Charles Hogg Patriarchal Blessing 1867

Centerville, Davis county, Utah


June 8th, 1867

A blessing given by John Smith, Patriarch, upon the head of Charles Hogg, son of Thomas and Ellen Hogg, born Deighton, Yorkshire, England, September 18, 1831.

Brother Charles, by virtue of the Holy Priesthood and in the name of Jesus Christ, I place my hands upon thy head and I ask God the Eternal Father for his spirit to indite (sic  -does he mean indict?) the blessing which is for thee, for thou art of the blood of Joseph, which Joseph was sold into Egypt by his brethren. Therefore thou are entitled through thy lineage, which is of Ephraim, to all the blessings, gifts and privileges of the new and everlasting covenant, and also of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Therefore it behooveth thee to be firm in thy faith, yea even as the rock of ages is firm, striving diligently to obtain wisdom knowledge and understanding, that you may more clearly, and more fully understand the principle of the everlasting gospel for thou hast yet a work to do upon the earth which will exalt thee hereafter. Thou hast a mission to perform among the nations of the earth and though shalt be called to preach the everlasting gospel among thy kindred for it is thy duty to be the Savior of thy Father's house. Therefore I say unto thee be diligent and thou shalt verily receive thy reward. The Lord knoweth the integrity of thine heart, he also knoweth thy ability, therefore I say unto thee, if thou wilt lift up they head and open they mouth in faith, thy tongue shall be loosed, yea even it shall be like unto the pen of a _____ ready writer and thou shalt be astonished at thyself.

Thou shalt be blest in thy journey both upon land and upon water, and thou shalt find favor in the eyes of the people among whom thou wilt sojourn. Thou shalt also through prayer and faith, have the power to command the raging of the sea and it shall obey thy voice and thou shalt be blessed both temporally and spiritually at home and abroad and they posterity shall be numbered and thy grandchildren shall bless thee in thine old age and thou shalt assist in avenging the blood of the saints and Prophets which was shed by the ungodly and not a hair of thy head shall ever fall by an enemy.

This blessing I seal upon they head, through your faithfullness (sic), and I seal thee up unto Eternal Life to come up in the morning of the first resurrection.

Even so Amen

S. Stageman Recorder

retyped by Charlotte Carper from a copy January 2010 - I left the punctuation that was in the blessing as it was given. I changed the spelling of some of the words, but left others.

Marilyn Walker and the Angels 1958

I became very ill on a Monday after Thanksgiving in 1958. I went to the doctor the next day and he told me that I had pneumonia and I was to go home and go to bed. I had had the car all day so at four o'clock, I went in to pick up Ted from work and I was so weary.


I can't remember getting home or going to bed. About seven o'clock that same evening, my husband, Ted, and his ward teaching partner were going out ward teaching and I had them administer to me. They left at that time because I assured them that I would be fine for the hour that they would be gone.

Some time shortly after they left, my breathing became very labored and I was very tired. All at once I felt my very soul beginning to slip from my body. It was so sweet and easy flowing and the thought came to me that I must do something or I would surely die. My grandmother, Grace Walker, had always impressed upon me with the fact that I must pray on my knees so I slipped out of bed and began praying.

I poured out my soul's anguish and hopes to the Lord and lost all track of time because I was so lifted up by the Spirit that I felt. Two strong arms lifted me off of my knees onto the bed and a voice said to me, "You are too ill to be on the cold floor." I could not get up by myself because I was so weak and ill and I had been on my knees so long that they were stiff and unbending.

I knew for a surety now that I might die. The beings who helped me kept addressing as "dear little one" and I felt such love and kindness.

I asked, "If I go and leave my three children will it be held against me?"

The answer was no that it would not.

"Will I regret it if I leave now?"

The answer was infinity and I could, at this moment, look into forever and ever. "You will feel as if you left a job undone."

Again I asked a question, "If I leave will my children be given a mother?" This time I was told, no, but that they would have their opportunity to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

I then asked if my life would be better from now on and I was told that it would not, but that I would have the courage to face the problems that would come into my life.

Now the two beings told me that they must go and leave me alone because being in their presence was so beautiful and sweet that it might influence me too much and I must make up my mind by myself if I was going to go or not.

At this moment, I was full and surrounded by the most beautiful light, warmth and love, such as I have never known and beyond my understanding as I write this today. I felt that these beings were very close to me, who loved me dearly, and they promised to come back and would go with me so I wouldn't have to go alone. I couldn't bear the thought of my little girls 3, 5, 8, being left without a mother and did not feel that my husband had yet gained a strong enough testimony and I had been promised the courage to go on and I decided I wanted to live. I remembered the scripture in James that tells us to call the elders and I remembered that I had been administered to and I said half aloud, "In the Name of Jesus Christ."

I immediately started to breathe normally and my head was craned back and my neck stiff as if I had been looking up into the heavens.

Many times during the next months and years I was to call upon the promise of courage. I spent 6 months flat on my back unable to do anything, even holding a book was an exertion. It was three more months before I could care for the children during the day by myself.

Now, in May 1962, I am still under the weather a lot of the time and I cannot carry on the duties of a housewife but all the family pitch in and help and we have learned to overlook a little dust here and there and the ironing piled in the corner.

We put first things first and attend our Sunday meetings and Primary and Relief Society. We can always have our family prayers.

I do not BELIEVE, but in fact, I KNOW, we cannot go back into our Father's presence without family prayer.

Realizing that the Gospel was indeed the important thing for my children to have, and that life was meant to have problems, and that God blesses us so we can face them, and gives us solutions to work out ourselves rather than take away the problems has greatly changed my life. It gives me the courage to ask all my friends and acquaintances the golden questions: "What do you know about the Mormon church? Would you like to know more?"

written by Marilyn Walker Whisler
in May 1962 in Medford, Oregon

retyped by Charlotte Whisler Carper January 2010

Marilyn Walker personal record

This form that was used in family history books many years ago.  It was recorded by Marilyn Walker, about her life and some of her achievments and church assignments.

TEXT:  In August 1961, took a second place ribbon for painting an oil intitled "Florence Dunes".  It was the third time any pictures by here were ever entered in an art show.  There were 250 entries.

In May 1962, finished a full year as class literature leader in Relief Society, also taught Primary.  Inservice lessons for 8 months.

I have taught in M.I.A. and many classes in Primary.

In July 1963 had completed a year as Beehive teacher.  July 1963 moved to Sidney, Montana and served there as MIA president and secretary until May 17, 1964.

No Gold & Green Ball had ever been held here and we had one.  It was a financial success and the first and only one held in the District.  During this time I was also the Relief Society visiting teacher class leader.

(this was obviously written in 1964 in Sidney, Montana - at that time in the church, each ward or branch was responsible for making their own budget funds, so the "financial success" of an event was important.  It was probably how the MIA made part of their budget for the year.... Charlotte)

Marian Greenlee - more stories from her life

I remember going to school and learned fast so they put me into the second grade but they gave me a torn book and I cried so they put me back into the first grade.


The railroads went on strike and Daddy had no job so he went to work as a tool dresser out at the oil fields. This was closer to Medicine Bow so we moved to Medicine Bow. One cold day, he came home in great pain, he had been working on a chain, and go his thumb caught in the chain. He thought it was just his glove, but when he took his glove off, the end of his thumb came with it. When he got home, he had to take the train to Laramie to have that thumb taken care of. Many years later in Idaho, he would say, "They must be having a blizzard in Wyoming, my thumb is so cold."
One time at Medicine Bow, a terrible blizzard came up and my mother strung a rope from the house to the school so she could come and get us from school and find her way home again. That winter the snow got so deep it was up even with the eaves of the barn next door. We would take a sled and get up on the peak of the barn and ride the sled down.

Later, Daddy got called back to the Railroad, so we moved to Rawlins, Wyoming. We first lived in one end of a long little house. Daddy's half-brother, Jim, and his wife, lived in the other end. I was in her house one day. She swept the floor and put the dirt in the stove. A twenty-two shell exploded and it came out and went up through her nose and made a groove in her forehead.

It was in this house I got the small pox and school and brought them home. I wasn't very ill, but poor Evelyn, she got them and nearly died. Daddy got them also, but Mamma didn't get them.

We later moved across the street to a bigger house. It was just across the street from the high cement wall of the Wyoming State Penitentiary. We watched one time when the built a scaffold to hang a man. They hung him at four in the morning so no one could see. It was in this house when I was almost eight years old that Mamma came in Christmas Eve and told us there was no Santa Clause.

The next summer, Uncle John Kiger, Mamma's sister Nellie's husband, was driving a team of horses with all their belongings to Idaho. Daddy was back on the Railroad and we had passes to go on the train to Idaho with Aunt Nellie. Well there was something amiss in the way the passes had been made up so they put us off the train at Green River. I don't remember how long we were there before they got our passes okayed and we proceeded on the train to Idaho. I was never a very healthy child, and was so sick all the way out on the train and most of the time in Idaho. We went to my little great grandmother Whipple's house and was there until it was apple picking time. Mamma and Aunt Nellie picked apples. We took a barrel of apples back to Wyoming with us. Don't know when Uncle John arrived in Idaho, not while we were there, I don't think.

I guess Mamma talked about Idaho so much and next spring, Daddy was laid off again from the Railroad so we decided to move to Idaho. There were two other families and us all in old beat up cars that left Wyoming early part of May and headed for Caldwell, Idaho. It took us three weeks to make the trip. If one of the old cars was not broke..... (there are more pages to this story, but they are not with this page so I'll add to this when they turn up... Also, I have updated the punctutation as I retype this... Charlotte)

I am Looking for my Horse by Art Lusk

I Am Looking For my Horse

                       by Art Lusk
I was in the 7th Traffic Regulating Group of the Transportation Corps., of the U.S. army in France during the war (World War II).  Our duty was to oversee the American Army's interest in the French railway system. My first post was in the town of St. Breuc, France railway system. I was in a group of about fifteen men, we were billeted in a four story stone hotel. It was on a street named Rue De Fere Legoff translated to the Street of the Legoff Brothers. Out of our own pockets we hired a French woman to cook for us. We were living the good life there.

One day a group of us were standing on the sidewalk outside of our building just having conversation or chewing the fat when a young man dressed as a French peasant asked us in perfect English if we had any American cigarettes and could spare a few. We were amazed because he looked like a French peasant. Here is his story: he and his wife had a beauty shop in Saint Louis. She was French and her mother and father lived on a farm about three miles out of St. Breuc. Her father had died and her mother was ill. "We delayed going home and leaving her. When she died and we could go home, it was too late. The Germans were here, so we buried our American clothes and dressed as French peasants."

He told us this story: "A Canadian airman had been shot down in the neighborhood. Afterward the neighbors brought him to us because they knew we spoke English language. We hid him in the hay mow in the barn. Then we decided to get him to safety. We buried all of his clothes and everything that wasn't French and dressed him in peasant clothes. We then coached him in French to say, 'I am looking for my horse.' We gave him a horse halter and told him to act like a retarded man. If the Germans suspected he was an airman, he was in deep trouble. Then we briefed him on the route to the Spanish border. About four months later, we got a note in the mail that he was with his people and thanked us."

This was written by Art Lusk after 1996. Before the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Art would very seldom speak of his actions in the war. Around the 50th anniversary, he began to tell more of the stories of the things that happened to him during the war. This is one of those stories.

Lusk Family possibly 1882

On the back of the photo is a note that this was taken in Silverton Oregon taken at the time Mother Lusk died.  There is a scribbled subtraction 1964 minus 1882, indicating this photo was 82 years old at the time Marian received it.

Names at bottom in Marian's handwriting: 

Cal, Hugh, Tom, Bill, Mary, Emily

the photo is mounted on black covered heavy cardboard embossed with :

Drake Bros. Studio

Silverton Oregon

Marian Greenlee Lusk 2003

Marian Greenlee Hixson Lusk in Portland, Oregon close to her 90th birthday, February 2003

Ted Whisler with his sister Edna Whisler Belveal 1946 - 47

This photo is of Ted Whisler and his sister, Edna Whisler Belveal in 1946 or 1947

Doris Hedgepeth 1977

Doris Hedgepeth in August 1977 at her home in Culver, Oregon.

She would be 82 on her birthday November 17.

Shortly after this, she suffered a serious stroke that left her completely debilitated.

She died on May 6, 1978 in Gladstone, Oregon

Doris and son Teddy - same day August 1977

Doris, Ted, Edna in Culver 1959

Doris Hedgepeth, with son Ted Whisler and daughter Edna Whisler

at Doris' house in Culver, Oregon in August 1959

Note the baby kitty, Pie-Whack-It to the left

Whisler family return to visit Medford 1964

The Whisler family traveled to Medford from Montana in 1964 to visit Grandma and Grandpa.  By this time, Grandma Bendixen (Georgia McIntyre) had moved to Medford as well.  Charlotte was taking this photo.

Earlene standing in front.

from left:  Georgia McIntyre, Marian Greenlee, Art Lusk, Janine Lusk, Sandra Whisler, Ted Whisler, Marilyn Walker

Walker, Lusk, Gerrue, Greenlee Christmas 1963

This Photo was taken at Art and Marian Lusk's house in Medford, Oregon on Christmas 1963.  It was the year that the Whisler part of the family moved to Montana.

In front are Pam and Jack Walker

Starting on the left and going around the table :

Janine Lusk, Georgia McIntyre Greenlee (Hixson), Pearl Lusk (Art's mother), Art Lusk, Marian Lusk, Louise Gerrue Walker, Louise's Parents Louie and Lena Gerrue

Ted Whisler High School Graduation 1947

Ted Whisler Graduation from Lakeview, Oregon High School in May 1947

Go HONKERS ! ! !

Ted feeding chipmunk 1957

One of our favorite places to drive to was Crater Lake.  We always had to try to feed a chipmunk.  This picture is of Ted trying to feed the chipmunk at Crater Lake, Oregon around 1957.  You can barely see the blur of the chipmunks tale on the left side.

Sandy, Charlotte and Earlene Whisler 1963

Sidney Montana county fair in 1963.  I can honestly say that this fair changed Charlotte's life forever.  It seemed like the whole county shut down for 3 days and our whole family, and in fact the whole county, showed up with every type of art and craft and vegetables and photography and animals - a scene straight out of Little House on the Prairie.

Sandy, Charlotte, Earlene Whisler

Marilyn Walker on wedding day

Marian Greenlee Lusk with daughter Marilyn Walker and Marian's husband Art Lusk on day of Marilyn's marriage to Ted Whisler
September 4, 1949  in Medford, Oregon

Marian Greenlee and Art Lusk on wedding day

Marian Greenlee Hixson and Chester Arthur Lusk
Married April 10 1947 in Elko, Nevada 

Sandra and Susan's Wedding

Sandra Whisler and Susan Newman's wedding ceremony September 1996
(This ceremony wasn't recognized by the state of California, so they repeated their vows several times until the union was finally recognized as legal on  October 28, 2009.)

Susan's mother Betty on far left in black dress, Susan's sister-in-law Karla in black jumper and Linda's son, Dan, in baseball cap.

Behind Dan is Susan and next to her Sandra and Earlene Whisler is in front row.

Behind Earlene's left shoulder are Ted and Carole Whisler.

To Ted's right is Susan's brother Drew, on Drew's right Susan's sister Linda and behind Susan's right shoulder is Marilyn Walker.

The man in the back on the far left is Susan's cousin, John Newman.

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Sorry, I know I said I would add something everyday.  Underestimated what the commotion of the holidays would to do my concentration abilities. 


I am in the process of reorganizing the format - already - to include labels (categories) for each person.  It will be a bit confusing at first, I think, but it's the only way I can think of that you don't have to keep wading thru the same information over and over.  So if you are looking for someone in particular, check their label and it will eventually hold all the posts and pictures about that person.