R.I.P. UNCLE JACK

Jack W. Howard

1920~2014

Jack W. Howard

1920~2014

Jack Williams Howard, 94, passed away February 14, 2014
in the arms of his loving wife of 72 years, Eula,
at the Central Valley Medical Center in Nephi, Utah.

He was born January 25, 1920 in Nephi, Utah to
Mat Thorpe and Mabel Warner Howard. He married
Eula Genniel KeeleMarch 11,1942, in Las Vegas,
Nevada.  Their marriage was later solemnized in the
Manti Temple.  He attended school in Nephi,
graduating from Juab High School with the class of 1938.

He attended the BYU Academy in Provo and
Snow College in Ephraim. He was drafted into the Army
during WWII and was stationed in Hawaii shortly after the
bombing of Pearl Harbor. He served for three years, and
then returned to Nephi to work with his father in the fruit
orchard business. He worked at Thermoid Rubber
plant in Nephi for 35 years. He raised and sold
Black Angus cattle with his brother Maurice. He was a
member of the LDS church.

Survived by his wife, Eula; three children, Susan (Harold)
Sharp of Quincy, Illinois; Cliff (Genann) Howard of Magna,
Utah; Carl (Sheila) Howard of Nephi, Utah; 7 grandchildren,
17 great grandchildren, and 4 great great grandchildren.
Preceded in death by his parents; brother, Maurice;
sister, Faye Morgan; one great granddaughter, Amy.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday,
February 21, 2014 in the Nephi North Stake Center,
1125 N 400 E. Family and friends may call Thursday
evening from 6-8 pm at the Anderson Funeral Home,
94 W 300 N and at the church one hour prior to
the services.

Interment will be in the Nephi Vine Bluff Cemetery.

 This is a picture taken soon after

my grandparents were married in 1933

at Yellowstone.

Mabel Warner Howard (great grandma)

Fay Howard (Morgan)  (great aunt)

Jack Howard (great uncle)

Maurice Howard (grandpa)

Mat Howard (great grandpa)

 Maurice (my grandpa, born 1910)

Fay (great aunt, born 1914)

Jack (great uncle, born 1920)

Mat (great grandpa, born 1980)

This picture was taken at my Great Grandpa's

92nd birthday party, December 17, 1972.

It was to be my grandpa's last Christmas.  

He died July 25, 1973.  He was 62.

My great grandpa died February 1974, at age 93.

Aunt Fay died on her birthday in 1988, age 78.

Uncle Jack passed away February 2014, age 94.

This was the sign for the family

orchard business.

I remember several of these pictures at 

Uncle Jack and Aunt Eula's.

Some of Uncle Jack's World War II

display.

Both of my mom's parents were the oldest 
child in their families.  They were both
born in 1910, and the youngest child in
each family was born in 1920.  Grandpa had
1 brother and 1 sister.  Grandma had 1 brother
and 4 sisters.  So, my mom was the oldest
grandchild on her dad's side, and 2nd to
oldest on her mom's side.
This is my mom with Susan and Aunt Eula.
Susan is their oldest child. 

I call this picture

"The Three Nephites."

Sheila is married to Carl.

 Carl is Uncle Jack's son.

They always looked after grandma. 

 This is my mom's cousin, Cliff.  He is

Carl's twin brother.

Always love cemetery military honors!

TEACHER WALL

 I HAD A DREAM

THAT WHEN I RETIRED, I WOULD SOMEHOW

DISPLAY ITEMS FROM MY DESK

AND FROM AROUND MY ROOM.
(DOESN'T EVERY TEACHER DO THIS?)

THIS IS THE FINISHED PRODUCT.

I HAVE 3 MAGNET BOARDS, A SHADOW BOX THAT ASHLEY MADE

FROM ITEMS THAT WERE ON MY DESK,

PLAQUES AND CERTIFICATES.
THE MAGNETS STARTED OUT QUITE SIMPLY.
I HAD A FEW THAT I HAD COLLECTED, AND WERE ON MY
FRIDGE AT HOME.
WHEN I MOVED TO MY NEW CONDO, I DECIDED TO TAKE THE
MAGNETS TO SCHOOL, AND PUT THEM ON MY LITTLE
FRIDGE IN MY CLASSROOM.
IT FILLED THE FRONT OF THE FRIDGE.
I STARTED REALLY TRAVELING.
NYC, 7 HISTORY TRIPS, 2 CRUISES, ROSE PARADE.
THE COLLECTION GREW TO THE 2 SIDES.
STUDENTS STARTED BRINGING MAGNETS FROM THEIR TRIPS.
THEY KIND OF GOT A LITTLE COMPETITIVE!
ONE MOTHER TOLD ME RECENTLY, THAT EVERYWHERE THEY WENT
ON THEIR TRIP, THEY HAD TO FIND A "MISS MITCHELL MAGNET!"
AFTER THE FRIDGE, THE FRONT OF MY DESK WAS FILLED,
THEN THE BIG DESK NEXT TO IT!!!

 I LOVE THIS SHADOW BOX!
ASHLEY MADE IT FOR ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY.
MY FAVORITE IS THE LITTLE BELL ON THE TOP SHELF.
MY GRANDMA GAVE IT TO ME.  SHE SAID,
"EVERY TEACHER NEEDS TO HAVE A LITTLE BELL ON THEIR DESK!"
I HAD IT FOR 33 YEARS!

 ON TOP OF MY "TEACHER OF THE YEAR" PLAQUE,

WAS MY AEA REP SIGN...VERY FITTING, SINCE

I WAS A REP FOR MY LAST 25 YEARS, AND 2 YEARS

IN THE MID 1980S.

MY 2 PLAQUES ARE MY

TEACHER OF THE YEAR

AND

THE PLAQUE THAT WAS OUTSIDE OF MY CLASSROOM DOOR.

  

I HAD A TON OF CERTIFICATES OVER THE YEARS.

I CHOSE 2 TO REPRESENT...

ALPINE DISTRICT'S 

SPIRIT OF ALPINE

AND

MY 56 HOUR 

COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG TEACHER INSTITUTE.

THE OTHER CERTIFICATES ARE IN A BOOK.

I HAVE 6 PLAQUES FOR BEING NAMED 7 TIMES TO

WHO'S WHO AMONG AMERICA'S TEACHERS

THEY ARE DISPLAYED ON MY LONG SHELF IN MY CLOSET.

THE REASON I DON'T HAVE 7, IS BECAUSE ONE YEAR I WAS

NOMINATED TWICE IN THE SAME YEAR.

THESE ARE MY MOST FAVORITE AWARDS!

YOU HAVE TO BE NOMINATED BY A FORMER STUDENT WHO IS IN

WHO'S WHO AMONG AMERICA'S 

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

   

I LOVE THIS PLAQUE!

WHEN MY MOM WAS TEACHING, SHE HAD A

WOODEN PLAQUE THAT SAID

MRS. MITCHELL

IT SET ON HER CHALK TRAY.

I WANTED ONE, TOO.

SO...I ASKED JACK BROWN, 6TH GRADE TEACHER,

TO MAKE ME ONE.

IT SET ON MY CHALK TRAY FOR 33 YEARS!

THANKS SO MUCH TO

KIM, CHRIS, & ASHLEY

FOR HELPING TO MAKE MY DREAM COME TRUE!

"GRANDSTUDENT" RECEIVES BOY SCOUTS' HIGHEST HONOR FOR SAVING LIVES

David's father, Mark, was in my class.

I also taught David's uncle, Brian, and his aunt, Shelly.

CONGRATS, DAVID!!!

 David's grandma, Carol, is the one that got me
into merit badge counseling . . .

Citizenship in the Nation
and
Citizenship in the World.  

I specifically remember attending his dad's wedding reception. 
It was held at the Joseph Smith Building.
While driving up to Salt Lake, it was being reported that
Princess Diana had been in a car crash, and had broken her arm. 

The award David received was for saving 2 people's lives!
This award has only been given 277 times in 114 years!
277 times out of 210 MILLION Boy Scouts!!!

David is currently a 5th grader!
 

Bloomfield Hills boy receives Boy Scouts’ highest honor for saving lives

David Williams, 10, of Bloomfield Hills, with his Honor Medal with Crossed Palms awarded to him by the Boy Scouts after saving two friends’ lives last year by pulling them out of a lake, pictured Tuesday February 25, 2014. He is only one of 277 Scouts ever to receive the award in the 104-year-history of the Scouts. (Vaughn Gurganian-The Oakland Press)

By Carol Hopkins, The Oakland Press

Posted: 02/26/14, 2:05 PM EST | Updated: 2 days ago

David Williams, 10, (left) of Bloomfield Hills, with friend Addy Hunter, 10, who David pulled from a lake along with her little brother last year, earning him the Honor Medal with Crossed Palms awarded to him by the Boy Scouts, pictured Tuesday February 25, 2014. He is only one of 277 scouts ever to receive the award in the 104-year-history of the Scouts. (Vaughn Gurganian-The Oakland Press)

David Williams was playing outdoors last March near a dock on Wing Lake in Bloomfield Hills when he called out to his 9-year-old playmate, Addy Hunter.
“She didn’t answer,” said David, who also was 9 at the time.
That’s when David, a Cub Scout with Pack 1046, went looking for her and her 3-year-old brother, Hayden, and found they both had fallen through the lake’s ice. Hayden was bobbing up and down in the water about five feet from Addy. David helped Addy out and grabbed Hayden from the frigid water.
Word got to the Boy Scouts of America and recently they presented David with the organization’s highest award, the Honor Medal with Crossed Palms, for saving a life or lives at extreme risk to self.
Denver Laabs, Boy Scouts program team leader with Great Lakes Field Service Council, Michigan Crossroads Council, shared that there have been 210 million scouts since organization started in 1910.
“Only 277 scouts have won the Honor Medal,” said Laabs.
David, now 10, receiving the award was “fantastic for David and his family,” said Laabs.
The award was presented to David, son of Mary and Mark Williams, Feb. 18 at the Eagle Scout and Silver Award Recognition Dinner.
The goal on the ice rescue day, March 13, 2013, was to build a snow fort, said David, an active dark-haired boy. He, Addy and Hayden had been driven to the lake by Addy and Hayden’s mother, Aubree. A exchange student was also with the family.
As Aubree was helping another son with his winter clothes, the three older children headed down to the lake.
The winter of 2013 had been alternately warm and cold, said Mary Williams, which affected the lake ice.
When Addy fell in, she said, “I didn’t know I was in the water.” The lake water was so cold, “it felt warm,” said Addy, now 10.
The Hunter children fell into an area of Wing Lake where the water dropped off.
When David spotted Hayden, the water was over Hayden’s head.
David grabbed Hayden’s hands and tugged. “He was frozen,” said David.
Because his winter clothes were water-logged, Hayden was “super-heavy,” said David.
The exchange student staying with the Williams family hurried and took Hayden from David. After Addy was helped out, she was able to walk on her own.
Hayden, recalled his mother, was “as pale as a ghost. He was shivering so much he couldn’t speak.”
Aubree, a nurse, drove everyone back to the Williams’ home, and got her son into a warm bath, where, she said, “he warmed up quickly.”
Boy Scout officials researched the incident before approving the special award.
The family learned he would receive the medal last September. David worried a bit about the Feb. 18 dinner, thinking he might have to speak before a crowd, “but it was actually really fun,” he said.
He met Gov. Rick Snyder at the event. “He was so nice,” said David.
The scout wants to be a vascular surgeon when he grows up, he said, “like my grandpa.”
David, now a fifth grader at Bloomfield Hills Middle School, shrugs off the attention he has received.
David, said Mary, reminds her of the scout motto, “He tries to do his best.”
In both situations he “thought quickly and was thinking of others.”
Both mothers think about how the day could have turned out.
“It was a relief nothing horrible happened,” said Hunter.
Mary Williams said, “We had a happy ending.”

FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE UTAH CHAPTER...HEROES-NATIONAL AWARDS LUNCHEON

I have been on 5 trips with the

Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.

My entire way was paid for 2 times.

One trip my tuition was paid, and I bought my airfare.

And 2 trips I paid my airfare, and I paid my tuition with

money I had put into my Alpine Foundation account.

The trips I have been on were:

1.  Revolutionary War in the Middle Colonies

2.  Revolutionary War in the Southern Colonies

3.  Civil War East

4.  Revolutionary War in the Northern Colonies

5.  Presidential Home Tours of Virginia

I was introduced to this program by Don Ward.

I taught his son, Dr. Chris Ward.

Don was on the "Virginia Presidential Home Tour" with me when 
he asked me to be on the board of directors.

The board meets the first Wednesday of each month at 4:30

in an office at the Chase Bank in downtown Salt Lake City.

I told him I couldn't make it on time from my school.

Since retirement, I was asked again.

I figured since they had paid for 2 1/2 trips, I could give back.

Well, this board is a 

BIG DEAL!

Besides Don on the board, there is a retired general,

 3 former mission presidents, a former member of the Young Women
General Board, and a former member of the Primary General Board.
The president of the board is the head of the "Wellness Department"
at BYU.

I am helping Don with education.

On February 19, we had a "Heroes Luncheon"

at the Little America Grand Ballroom.

The place alone spoke that this is a big deal!

This is the place that President Bush and other foreign country leaders

stayed during the 2002 Winter Olympics!

I checked in all of the juniors and their guests

that were traveling to Valley Forge on March 6-9.

One of the juniors was Abby Newell.

She knew me from her days as a student at Alpine Elementary.

Her father, Lloyd Newell, is the "voice" of the

Mormon Tabernacle Choir and its 

"Music and the Spoken Word" broadcast.

He was introducing the essay winners and the "heroes."

Another reason that this was a "big deal!"

  

 Program and Invitation

 

Invitation

 My nametag

Signs welcomed everyone to the luncheon

All tables were decorated

This dessert guaranteed that this banquet 
was a big deal!

 The governor speaks to the crowd

On the board!

Look who past National Board of Directors are!!!

 Essay Winners

Lloyd Newell introduced the essay winners,
the National Award Winners, and the Heroes.

Getting ready to hand out the National Awards.
Governor Herbert is in the middle.

 National Awards...the man closest to me?
Governor Herbert!

Another winner

These are all of the scholarship winners who
will be going to Valley Forge, listening to
Don give an orientation.
Abby Newell is sitting on her dad's right.
 

 

  

TAMMY

Sometimes in life,

your paths cross with someone

who ultimately changes you for the better.

This was the case when

Tammy Clark

came to Alpine Elementary

as the resource teacher.

Tammy really knew her stuff!
She really helped my resource kids!!!
When we had IEPs, I was always glad
when she was the resource teacher.

Not only did she teach resource at our school,

but she taught at the

University of Phoenix...teaching people

how to be resource teachers!

She also got a grant for our school to

provide iPads for the resource students,

teachers, and the 2nd graders! 
BYU also had her doing work for them!

She did this all while having a tumor in her neck, and suffering 
from a botched hysterectomy!

Tammy also raised a younger sister after their

mother passed away.

BYU Game

Audrey   Jaxon   Tammy   Me   Heidi

The Young Men and the Young Women of their ward

put luminaires up the big hill, and all the way to their 

walkway and front door!

Tamara Dawn (Orr) Clark passed away on Wednesday, February 12th, 2014, after giving everything she had to those she loved. Born June 3, 1970, to Ross Elmo Orr and the late MelloDee Oldham Orr, the fiery red-head would have her share of challenges, blessings, and sacred experiences during her short time here on earth. Having spent her entire life serving others while dealing with internal turmoil and strife only known to a few, she gracefully accepted the arms of her loving Savior. Evidence of her love of service was seen on a daily basis while she worked first with young children struggling to learn the language of the land, and later with those challenged by their own disabilities. Her love for the children she was responsible to teach and provide opportunity for growth would often be more than her physical body would allow her to express, but for her the children always came first. With a huge heart and a deep rooted testimony of the love of her Savior, Jesus Christ, she was able to openly affect the lives of so many of those around her. Even in what ended being her last months of mortality, she reached out to dear friends, expressed her love to long lost friends, opened her heart to family, and gently coerced those around her to keep them on the correct path, always helping and serving others, even at the end.
Her love and influence continues to be felt by those she touched, and will be so dearly missed in a world so short on supply of people like Tammy.
Loved by many, especially her husband, Heath, and two children, Jaxon and Audrey, who still have so much to learn before they return to the arms of their loving wife and mother. Her love and kind ways can be summarized by a short verse penned by Chris DeGarmo:
"I- will be watching over you
I- am gonna help to see it through
I- will protect you in the night
I- am smiling next to you...."
Services will be held for Tammy at the Highland Central Stake Center located at 5853 West 10400 North in Highland, Utah on Friday February 21, 2014, at 11:00am. Friends and family are invited to share time together on Thursday, February 20, 2014 from 6-8pm, and again on Friday morning from 9-10:30am at the same building.
The family expresses their love and thanksgiving to all who have truly been the Savior’s hands during these last few days of tender moments.

Heath posted this on Tammy's Facebook page:

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   Thanks to all who attended the services and to those whose hearts where with us this past few days. To all the cousins, the friends, the work associates, the Chilean brother who allowed me a glimpse into the love Tammy had for the people of that land, the one "Jeff" in her life that wasn't intimidated by me and never needed to be, and to all those that came to show their love and support - Thank you all for being part of her life.
   
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