Estella May Longmore

My sweet Grandma Longmore passed away this week. I think next to my own mother she is the most kind person I have ever known. She would have been 100 Years old in a few months. Her obituary follows:
Estella May Anderson Longmore, 99, of Blackfoot, died at the home of a granddaughter in Pocatello on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, of causes incident to age.

She was born Oct. 8, 1910, in Moreland, Idaho, the only daughter of Ernest and Millie May Neel Anderson.

When she was just 2 years old, her mother died in childbirth. She was raised in Moreland, where she attended Moreland High School until 1928.

On her 18th birthday, Oct. 8, 1928, she married Lester George Longmore in Coltman, Idaho. She was sealed to him and their eight children in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple on June 24, 1947. Estella was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout her life and served faithfully for many years as a teacher in the Sunday School, Primary, the Relief Society and as a visiting teacher. She also was a longtime member of the choir in her ward. She enjoyed attending the temple.

She was a lifelong homemaker, and her greatest love and concern was for her family and friends. Her entire life was spent showing that love to all of us. She was a wonderful mother, grandmother and example to all. For many years, an annual Christmas tradition was for her to purchase, wrap and give gifts and cookies to each of her numerous posterity and their spouses.

Following the death of her husband April 30, 1973, she resided for most of the remainder of her life with her children. As her health began to fail, she was lovingly cared for by them; for the past year and a half, she has lived in the home of a granddaughter, RaeLyn, and her husband, Rdale Price and family in Pocatello.

Estella is survived by her children, Mardene Gough, Vonda (John) Fisher, Melba (Donald) Nilsson, Diane (Robert) Parkinson and Carolyn (Don) Scott, all of Blackfoot, Gary (LaRae) Longmore of Pocatello, Dean (Connie) Longmore of Mapleton, Utah, currently serving an LDS church mission in the New Hampshire Manchester Mission, and Ronald (Jean) Longmore of Idaho Falls; 40 grandchildren; 138 great-grandchildren; and 28 great-great-grandchildren. She has a total of 273 descendants, including spouses.

Besides her husband, parents and stepmother, Iretta Anderson, she was preceded in death by her brothers, Lloyd, Raymond, Arthur, Golden, Joseph and Lawrence Anderson; a sister, Madlyn Lodefink; a son-in-law, Don Gough; grandson-in-law, Gary DeGiulio; granddaughter-in-law, Winnie Fisher; and a great-grandson, Jeremy Stocking.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 19, at the Blackfoot LDS 4th Ward, 520 N. Shilling Ave., with Bishop Paul Yancey conducting. The family will meet with friends from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at Hawker Funeral Home, 132 S. Shilling Ave., and from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. prior to the services at the church. Interment will be in Riverside-Thomas Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family at condolences@hawkerfuneralhome.com.

Mason Graduated from Kindergarten

Our little Mason Graduated from Kindergarten in May, he is getting so big. This summer he is staying busy by playing in the Jr. Golf league, T-Ball, riding his bike everywhere, and playing with all the neighborhood friends. He is such a fun kid to have around, he always says the funniest things and his laugh is infectious.

Makenna wins State Reflections Contest

In May, Makenna was recognized by the State of Idaho Parent Teacher Associations Reflections program. Makenna was invited to an awards presentation and dinner where she received recognition for her 1st place Award of Merit in the category for Film production for the entire state of Idaho 4th grade. She took all these pictures, wrote the narration, and created the presentation, we are so proud of all of her accomplishments. Here is her film presentation.

David Lamond Scott

For posterity sake I am planning on posting some info about my Grandpa Scott, here by the Post about his wife. Hopefully I will get back to it soon.

Memories of Grandma Scott

My Grandma was 4’10” if she as lucky, but she had the presence of someone much larger. She was probably the hardest working woman I have ever met, which she passed on to my Dad because I have no doubt that he is the hardest working person. She did so much to teach us all self reliance. Wow when I think about it there was nothing she could not accomplish. I had the privilege of growing up about a mile away from my Grandparents and seeing them at least every week if not more often, since Kyle (my brother) and I would walk to their store whenever we could. We also spent plenty of time moving pipe, weeding and picking corn with them. Grandma always had raisin filled cookies in the cookie jar to enjoy. One memory I will not ever forget was at my Grandpa’s funeral – I had given a talk at the funeral and made the mistake of saying that Grandpa was the nice one of the two and that Grandma was the one who taught us discipline. She was very upset with me and let me know after the services were over. I hope she forgave me for saying something so foolish at her husband’s funeral. Now when I think about what I said about her teaching us discipline, I think it might have actually have been the greater compliment.

Grandma Scott wrote me each week while I was on my mission, it fells like forever ago. After she passed away I thought I would take a look at them. It’s funny what you remember and the things you forget. I had not forgotten about her writing me so diligently, but I did forget how wonderful her letters were. The letters were nearly all the same format – Beginning with how the weather was – What she learned at church that week – What work she and Grandpa were doing, mostly describing how the Corn was growing (anyone who knew Grandma can attest that she never stopped working). – How wicked the world is and how the last days are near – She would ask how the work was progressing and describe how she knew I was doing the right thing by serving the Lord – She always through in some great words of wisdom and finished by telling me that she and Grandpa loved me. I have included a few of my favorite quotes from her letters.

“I’m sure in the mission field you see so much of (What they can get form you and not what I can get from living and accepting the teachings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ). All over the world the trend is give me. I don’t want to do better for myself, it’s so sad.”

“We are so grateful to have the gospel in our lives and leaders to counsel us and are so concerned for our welfare.”

“We hope your work is beginning to touch the lives o the people you are working with. May our Heavenly Father continue to bless and protect you and open the hearts and minds of those people you are sharing the values of the gospel and life with them. We pray the people can feel the true spirit and accept and live the teachings and commandments – We Love you, Grandpa and Grandma”

“Isn’t it great about the Berlin wall coming down and the way communism is fallen. We still wonder what is going to be in the future that will affect us all.”

“Old age seems to creep up on us all. I guess we all get older day by day. Enjoy your youthful years and follow the Lords Commandments. If you do you’ll be just fine.”

Thanks for the memories and letters Grandma, I Love You!

Frances Ruth Scott

Grandma Scott passed away this last week. I have included her obituary. We will sure miss her.

Frances Ruth Scott, 88, of Riverside returned to her Heavenly Father on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at her daughter’s home.
She was born January 5, 1922 in Thomas, the first daughter of Francis and Genevieve Hawkes.
Ruth grew up in the Pingree area and attended her first few years of school there. She later graduated from Moreland High School. She also attended a couple of years of her high schooling in Idaho Falls.
Ruth met her husband, Lamond, in 1938, shortly after he moved to Pingree with his family. Ruth and Lamond dated for about a year and were married on April 19, 1940, in the Logan Utah LDS Temple. Ruth and Lamond started their lives together farming in the Pingree area. They purchased a farm in the Riverside area in the late 40’s. In 1965, they bought a small country store, “Scotties Market”, in Riverside and ran it for about 30 years.
Ruth worked as a cook at the Wagon Wheel Café and The Thomas Merc, assisting with the finances to raise her growing family of eight children. She raised a large vegetable, strawberry and raspberry garden in addition. Her gardening skills taught her children how to work. It was difficult for the kids to keep up with her as they worked alongside of her with the harvesting and canning.
Ruth was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving faithfully as a Primary president, Relief Society president, Primary and Sunday School teacher and visiting teacher. She served a Family History Mission for the church in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Survivors include four sons, Donald (Carolyn) Scott of Riverside, Rusty (Peggy) Scott of Caldwell, Alec (Joslyn) Scott of Riverside and Barry (Raela) Scott of Riverside; son-in-law, Charles Hieb of Pocatello; daughters, Patricia Pugmire of Riverside, Jeri (Dennis) McBride of Pingree and Sharla Mickelsen of Riverside; brothers and sisters, Virginia Charlesworth, Afton Shawver, Orva Nelson, Vernial (Doris) Hawkes, Jay (Joyce) Hawkes, Brent Hawkes; brother-in-law, Rayo (Doris) Scott; sister-in-law, Phyllis Scott; 37 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.
Ruth was preceded in death by husband, Lamond; daughter, Sandra Hieb; son-in-law, David Pugmire; brothers, Mertin and Rowland Hawkes.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, April 12, 2010, at the Riverside 2nd Ward LDS Church, with Bishop Williams conducting. Family will meet with friends and relatives from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 11, 2010 at Hawker Funeral Home, 132 South Shilling Avenue in Blackfoot, and for one hour prior to services at the church. Interment will follow at the Riverside-Thomas Cemetery.

Spring Break 2010

We took a really fun trip for Spring Break this year. We started off in Moab for the annual half marathon. It was a fun crew – Jared & Carrie’s family, Dustin, Jaylyn, TJ and Marsha, and the Bailys. It was our coldest trip to Moab; it was even snowing when we got there. We did not let the bad weather deter us to much, we still rode some really great rides (Slick Rock twice, Amassa Back, & Klondike Bluffs with nearly all the kids.), went on some nice hikes (Delicate Arch, and to a water fall). The cool weather was actually pretty nice for the run. We hung out for a few days and the kids had a great time swimming in the pool. We left Moab and headed off for Arizona to visit some old friends and college roommates. As we drove south we went through Monticello, Utah and took a look at the temple. We drove through Monument Valley and witnessed some really breathtaking views; it always amazes me how beautiful the desert is. We stayed in Queen Creek with Marci Flowers and her family. Thanks Joey and Marci for being so good to us! Our kids had great time playing together. We went swimming (in nice warm temperatures), Mt. Biking at San Tan Mountain, and Kayaking at Canyon Lake. We got to visit Seth Williams, he played the kids some fun songs on the guitar and piano, they really enjoyed it. Seth also took me golfing it was really great to spend a little time with him. On the way home we stopped in Page, Arizona and hiked Antelope Canyon, it was amazing. We have been in several slot canyons and Antelope is easily the most amazing. The only bad part is that it is on the Navajo Nation and we had to pay a fee to gain entrance. We stopped at Lake Powell were the kids waded in the cold water, then we pulled an all-nighter driving home. It was a great trip!

Spring Break 2010

Catching up for 2009

Slacker the last half of 2009

Okay so I have been pretty pathetic about keeping the blog updated. I will attempt to catch up by trying to cover the items I missed in 2009.

Makenna turned 9 years old, she is growing up so fast. She has become a rather good little gymnast, in fact she won the Ogden Tumbling tournament. She is always doing back flips, round-offs and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember the names of. Unfortunately she had to stop gym for awhile when she broke her hand while attempting to do a back hand spring over the top of one of her friends. She is a little daredevil. The broken hand slowed her a bit but she still managed to wake board, wake surf and have all the fun a 9 year old can handle, however it was a bit tricky keeping a plastic bag taped over her cast.

Mason began kindergarten this last fall, it's hard to believe our baby is in school. He learned to ride his bike and wants to be on it continually. His favorite toys are Lego's, especially the kits with little figures. He was also beginning to enjoy wake boarding a water skiing until it got to cold.

The kids have been begging us to get them a pet for several years not. I am not a real pet lover, you know all the hair on everything, not to mention feeding and cleaning up after them. I finally agreed to let them get a cat as long as it stayed outside, and they would take care of the cat box. The kids named her Misty and it has actually tuned out pretty good, and as a bonus she turns out to be a really good mouser.

Tara and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary. It's hard to believe we have been married that long - I guess the saying is true that TIME FLIES WHEN YOUR HAVING FUN!

Every year we do a family theme for Halloween. The kids have always loved it in the past but I don't know how much longer they will do it with us. They are starting to want to do their own thing and don't think it is cool anymore. Anyway last fall we dressed as the characters from "The Grinch". Mason was Max, Makenna was Cindy Lou Who, Tara was Betty Lou Who, and I got to be the Grinch. It was a really great time - Tara and I are enjoying acting like kids with our kids.