Theo Irene Vernon Frazier, 85, died January 12, 2010 in Tooele, UT after a long illness.
Theo was born December 10, 1924 in Rockport, UT to Earl Vernon and Helen Irene Siddoway Vernon. Theo married Ralph E. Frazier on January 5, 1946 in Rockport, UT. Theo and Ralph were sealed for time and all eternity on April 26, 1963 in the Logan, UT temple.
Theo was a long-time member of the Tooele Eleventh and Fourteenth Wards, having served many callings including Relief Society President. Theo was a caring and devoted wife, mother, and grandmother who enjoyed spending time with her family and friends.
Theo is survived by her husband, Ralph, their son Kent (Connie) and granddaughter Sarah, San Angelo, TX; as well as her brothers Robert, Eugene (Gene), Darrell, and sister, Marjorie. She was preceded in death by their son Gordon; and brothers Jay, Leonard, James, William, and Fred.
Funeral Services will be held on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in the Tooele Eleventh Ward Chapel, 180 South Coleman, Tooele, UT. Friends may call at a viewing to be held at 9:00 a.m. one hour prior to teh services.
Interment will be held at 1:00 p.m. in the Oakley City Cemetery, Oakley, UT.
Born: 12 Feb 1890, Salt Lake City, Utah
Married: Otto Horace Eldredge, 24 Dec 1912, Salt Lake City, Utah
Died: 10 Oct 1981, Bennion, Salt Lake County, Utah
Buried: 15 Oct 1981, Wasatch Lawn Cemetery, Salt Lake County, Utah
Esther H. Eldredge
MURRAY - Esther Hansen Eldredge, age 91, died October 11, 1981 [sic], in Salt Lake City.
Born February 12, 1890, in Salt Lake City to Hans Q. and Marry [sic] Johanson Hansen. Married Otto Horace (Tot) Eldredge, December 24, 1912, in Salt Lake City, later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple, he died December 16, 1942 [sic]. Active in the Relief Society. Member, Hillcrest Camp D.U.P.
Survivors: son and daughters, Mark H., Reno; Mrs. Bill (Virginia) Greenhalgh, Garden Grove, Calif.; Mrs. James (Erma) Miller, Murray; 11 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services Thursday, 2:00 p.m., Jenkins-Soffe Mortuary, 4760 South State Street, where friends may call Wednesday, from 6:00-8:000 p.m., and Thursday one hour prior to services. Interment, Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.
(bio by: Brent Miller.)
Erma Louise Eldredge Miller
1918 ~ 2006
MURRAY - Erma Louise Eldredge Miller, 88, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend passed away October 6, 2006 in Murray, Utah due to complications following surgery. Born January 25, 1918 in Magna, Utah to Otto Horace and Esther Lavinia Hansen Eldredge. She married James LeRoy Miller December 19, 1941 in Salt Lake City. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple.
Erma grew up in Magna, Utah and the family later moved to Salt Lake City where she graduated from West High School. Later she and her family moved to Murray where she lived for the rest of her life. Erma was trained as a tailor and was a master at altering clothing. She worked at Regal Cleaners, Castleton's, Block's, Sears, and Mr. Mac. She also altered clothing for many, working from her home, which she continued to do throughout her life. She was a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in many callings in the Primary, M.I.A. program and Relief Society. She worked in the sewing room at the Jordan River Temple for many years, and attended the temple on a regular basis.
Erma was a great example of enthusiasm, humor, love, and compassion. She had a great fondness for children and readily adopted into her heart anyone as her child or grandchild. She tended her great-grandchildren several days each week. She was outgoing and eager to greet and make friends and had a smile for anyone who crossed her path. She had a great ability to make those around her feel loved and special. She was eager to participate in the lives of those who she loved, attending sporting events, concerts, family events, etc. Erma found great beauty in the world around her, and she loved to go for rides in the car. Erma loved being with those who she loved and considered herself very lucky.
Erma is survived by her children, Brent, Murray, Paul (Patty), Kamas, Gil (Deby), Riverton, and Wendy, Murray; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; brother, Mark Eldredge (Thelma) of Fernley, NV; many nieces and nephews; and many children who called her grandma. She is preceded in death by her husband; and sisters, Iris Eldredge and Virginia Greenhalgh.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at the South Cottonwood Ward in Murray, Utah (5600 South and Vine Street). Friends and family may call from 6-8 p.m., Monday, October 9, 2006 at Jenkins-Soffe Mortuary (4760 So. State Street) and from 10-10:45 a.m. at the church. Interment at Murray City Cemetery. Condolences may be shared with the family at www.Jenkins-Soffe.com.
Erma Louise Eldredge Miller
I was born Jan. 25, 1918 to Otto Horace (Tot) Eldredge and Esther Lavinia Hansen Eldredge in Magna, Utah (266 Mcercer St.) in a little two room house in the back of another house. Mother told me the bedroom was the size of two double beds. So she would move the bed out and then climb over it to clean, then move it back in place. They had to carry water from a flowing well in the yard. They also had an outside restroom.
During the winter of 1918 the whole family had the flue. There was a young man (Eldredge Scholes, son of Sarh Eldredge Scholes) living with us. So he was quarantined out and we were quarantined in. He brought food and other supplies from the store and left it on the porch so we could survive. Grandma Eldredge died of flue on December 16, 1918 in Myton, Utah. My parents were not well enough to travel to Roosevelt for the funeral.
My father worked at the the Utah Copper Mills in Magna, which later became Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. About every year there would be a shutdown so he would take his family and move someplace else to find work for a few weeks or months until the Mill would open up again.
In April of 1920 they were in Myton when their third daughter, Iris Eldredge, was born April 2, 1920. She died on April 4, 1920. I remember them bringing her in and putting her at the side of mother's bed and she leaned out and kissed the baby before they took her to be buried at Roosevelt. This was my earliest memory. My older sister, Virginia, went to the cemetery with them in a little buggy. She said it was so windy and aunt had to hold on to her to keep her from being blown into the open grave. I think it was Easter Sunday.
The next thing I remember was when my baby brother Mark H. Eldredge was born in Park City June 30, 1921. We were again away from Magna for shutdown. We moved back to Magna on the 1st of March 1922 and the snow was so deep they carried the furniture over the top of the fence. It took two days by wagon, by then we had a house on the corner of 2nd East and Cyprus Street. It had three rooms and back porch with a small room with a bathtub in it. Water was heated on the stove. But we still had to go outside to the back corner of the yard to the toilet. Dad worked ten hours a day, six days a week and walked to work.
We had some really nice neighbors: the Gillard's, the Warburton's, the Clowerd's, the Randazzo's and a family named Ovard who lived up the street. All lived right around the corner. Then just south of us was a Korean family. Mother helped deliver their baby. There was a high wooden fence between our two yards. They had a big bathtub outside by that fence. The family took baths together and it sounded like they were having such a good time. We were jealous of them.
Next door to them lived the Shoutwell's. He was a very nice man who had a wagon and horses. He loved kids and was very good to us. He took us for rides in the wagon. But his wife was not so nice. She gave him a bad time and didn't want kids around their place, not even their front side walk. She especially did not like Virginia and Roy Gillard. She was accusing them of all sorts of things. Out in front there was a water trough where they filled the sprinkling trucks and we played with boats made out of cucumbers. There was an empty field across the street from our house and all the kids collected there. We had a clubhouse and a dug out. We would play hide-and-seek, kick-the-can and run-sheep-run. We would have bonfires at night and roast potatoes. We really enjoyed it over there.
Dad worked at the Mill about twelve years and almost every year he had a bad sick spell and spent time in the hospital. He had several operations -- appendix, gal bladder and a couple of exploratory -- but they couldn't find what was the matter with him until he had quincy and they rushed him to the hospital in a ambulance so sick they didn't think he would make it. They took out his tonsils and from then on he was a lot better.
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In the 1940 Census she is shown as living with her parents at 48 Jeremy St., Salt Lake City and is a seamstress in the cleaning business making $550 in 1939.