Dad was a rancher, then farmer and dairyman with his brothers for many years. About the time I started school dad was a carpenter building homes for part of his employment then he was hired by the Duchesne County School District as the Superintendent of the Buildings and grounds which he did until retirement. He then supervised the project where the Rocky point ditch (canal) was put into a pipeline from the river to the end of our property. He passed away three years after retirement from the school district job. He continued to run the farm during his entire life but never really made any money from it other than providing meat and produce for the family after he started working construction.
Mom was a school teacher in Gunnison and then a County Social Services agent in Duchesne. She had wanted to go on a mission but was unable due to her health. Her sisters all went on missions which she was finally able to also do in her late 60's. She taught school in Duchesne for several years and was finally hired as the full time librarian at Duchesne High School, the job from which she retired at age 65 or 66. After her mission and after going to St George she returned to Duchesne and was a worker in the Vernal temple for the last few years of her life.
