seated: Art and daughter Sally Burgh. Standing: Marilyn, Sally's husband Wally, Marian, Janine
Showing posts with label Marilyn Walker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marilyn Walker. Show all posts
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Marilyn Walker as a teen ager
I found this negative among a pile of other photos. Marilyn Walker in Ashland, Oregon 1949
Saturday, January 9, 2010
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
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
Friday, January 8, 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)
Thursday, January 7, 2010
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
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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
September 4, 1949 in Medford, Oregon
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.)
(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.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Greenlee, Walker, Whisler, Carper
Four generations
Marian Greenlee on right, Marilyn Walker on left, Charlotte Whisler in chair,
Blake Carper 1971 - one month old
Pendleton Oregon
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Whisler Family 1957
Ted Whisler, Marilyn Walker Whisler
Earlene, Sandra, Charlotte
Medford Oregon 1957
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