KP's History

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Nov. 14, 2010

What qualities in my mom did you try unsuccessfully to change?

Her negative attitude but there was so many positive things that I never really tried to hard to change it. She is very special to me and I love her.

Shortly after I was married I went to work for American Television Service in Orem , Utah. I was a TV repairman for three years and traveled around the state of Utah repairing televisions and installing antenna's. After I quit that job I was without employment for three months and then went to work For Signetics in Orem where I worked for nearly 15 years before the company was moved to New Mexico.

Nov 12, 2010 (Clair Melvin Poulson birthday)

Tell about where you lived when first married.

We moved into Verl's house in Mapleton, Utah. We spent many hours prior to the wedding fixing it up enough for us to live in the basement and then after that worked on it for nearly a year after which we moved up-stairs. We ended up living there (2023 South 800 West) for 6 years before we moved to Spanish Fork for 6 weeks and then back to Mapleton on Maple Street for two years and then built this home where we have lived since then to present.

Nov 11, 2010

Veteran's Day...

Name the veterans in your family and times during which they served.

I have had a number of relatives that have served in the military, only one of which I know was killed in action. that was a cousin who was killed in Viet Nam. However in my immediate family there are two of my brothers that have served in the military. Stan was in an Engineering Corp in Viet Nam and was discharged with an Honorable release. He developed double vision one morning that continued until he was finally sent to Denver to the VA hospital where he woke up one morning and it was gone. He was there for several months before that happened and I have always felt the Lord intervened to bring him home early. Stan was drafted into the military.

Clair was also in the military but he enlisted before being drafted. He was trained and served as a Military Police and served in Ft Ord in California. He was locked in the jail cell with several inmates once and was blessed to get out without harm. He enlisted because he had wanted a vocation in law enforcement. After he was discharged he became a Utah Highway Patrolman then became a Sherif's Deputy and then Sherif in Duchesne County. After he lost re-election too a crooked officer he was elected as a judge in the district court in Duchesne County where he is currently serving.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Nov 10, 2010

Did you go on a honeymoon?

Yes. We stayed in Duchesne and went to church sunday and then stayed at at mom and dad's house sunday evening. Monday after Leon Bright, mission companion, helped us with the truck transmission we loaded our camping gear and went to Moon Lake and stayed in a cabin there. We hiked around moon lake the following day and then met Tim, Leesa and Matthew and they stayed in a another cabin that night and then wednesday night my family came up for the evening and we played games and had dinner. It was a fun three days at Moon Lake but not the normal honeymoon as you might expect.

Nov 9, 2010

Tell about any other circumstances of your wedding day.

There are a couple of stories that I remember well.

1st. My parents and family all went to Manti the night before the wedding since we had to be to the temple quite early. We stayed in the Manti motel just below the temple. When we got to the temple we were early and Marie's family had not yet arrived. I started to get concerned when they were really late and even went outside and paced in front of the temple in my temple white suit. They finally arrived and I found out that Ann had slept in and so she was late getting ready and thus late meeting the family since she was staying in Provo and they were at the house in Mapleton. Marie was still very beautiful even though she was frustrated as well.

We didn't have the reception that night and since I didn't have a photographer there at our wedding then Uncle Orie took a few pictures of us after we came out of the temple. We then got in the old blue chevy truck that dad owned and I had taken to college. We went south from Manti and drove to Centerfield where I showed Marie where my grandparents had lived and where their graves were. We went back to Mapleton where we stayed in the house that night. When we went to bed Marie came out dressed in her pajama's complete with toes enclosed.

We went to Duchesne the next morning and had the reception that night. We stayed that night in the hotel when the reception was over. It was fun because we had rooms for all of the other guests, LD Singers, as well as others. We had our room right in the middle of theirs. However we drove around long enough that they were al in their rooms and didn't see us come in. It was fun listening to them though through the walls.