Owen's Brothers and Sisters...
Hazel Marie Reynolds
Hazel Marie Reynolds was born on 22 November 1900 in South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah, USA, and died on 14 February 2002 in Preston, Franklin, Idaho, USA. She is the daughter of Charles Robert Reynolds and Louise Park Brockbank. She married Wilford Peter Pierson on 8 June 1921 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. He was born on 18 July 1898 in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, USA, and died on 13 December 1975 in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. He is the son of Peter Pierson and Ingrid Cecilia Larson.
Owen and Hazel were pals throughout their lives; and they were long ones. When Hazel died in 2002 she was in her 102nd year. Owen did not do quite as well. He only lived to be 98 and a half -- but that was good enough to be the longest lived Reynolds male in his line in nine known generations.
In their later years Owen and Hazel traveled together for pleasure and worshipped together in temple services. Owen was four years younger than Hazel. Owen had five children, Hazel had three.
They were known for their jovial times together enjoying the wholesome and simple things of life and laughing at each other.
Vernetta, Jay and Hazel
Owen took the picture
Nine of Charley and Louise Reynolds children grew to adulthood and each had a successful marriage without a single divorce in the bunch. Mabel Louise was the eldest. She died at age 76 in 1969. She had three daughters. The second child of my grandparents, Charley and Louise, was a boy they named Charles Leonard. He fathered five children and died in 1970 at age 75. The third child was Heber Clyde who had three sons and two daughters. He died in 1971 at age 74. The fourth child, Elda Merle, was the first to pass on -- at age 65 in the year 1963. She was the mother of two sons and three daughters. Lila May was the youngest sibling of the nine and the fifth to die. The mother of three children, she passed away in 1980 at age 71. After Lila died the four remaining siblings grew even closer as the traveled and worshiped together. Vernetta, mother of one son, died in 1990 at age 88. Rulon Jay lived to be 89 and died in 1996. He fathered six sons and two daughters. Hazel Marie, mother of two daughters and one son, set the family record by living to be 101. She died in 2002. The last lived sibling was my father, Owen Ford, who died at my home in Littleton, Colorado in his 99th year. He was the father of five children.
Together
Owen's photo of Vernetta, Jay and Hazel enjoying autumn colors in the Wasatch Mountains.
During the 1880's Vernetta, Owen, Hazel and Jay took a number of enjoyable trips with each other visiting historical church locations and scenic places.
Uncle Jay
Many kind things can be said of this good man. My personal experiences with him include hunting deer, working in the trenches laying sewer pipe while he excavated with his Reynolds Brothers backhoe, family fishing and camping trips, watching him butcher lambs, feeding hatchery fish and many Friday nights listening to him tell great stories at family gatherings at my grandparent's home.
Uncle Jay was a great storyteller, but none tops his fish story of glauming for trout then losing his "duds" while hiding out from the Wardens.
Uncle Jay was a great storyteller, but none tops his fish story of glauming for trout then losing his "duds" while hiding out from the Wardens.