Here are a couple of our favorite stories from his life story, as well as a picture of him as a missionary.
"My cousin Dave was living with my Grandmother at this time. I remember in front of Grandma’s house there was a big cherry tree and how we used to like to climb it, and how mad it made my grandmother. She said we were always knocking the cherries off and she wanted them for canning, so as to have something to eat during the winter. I remember that we found that if we let the cherries go and not get into the tree the robins would eat them all, so we used to get into the tree quite regularly and eat those cherries before the robins got them. As we got up into the cherry tree, we were as high as the roof of the house, which was a two-story house. I remember getting onto the roof a number of times. I remember how we used to dare each other to jump off of the roof to the ground. It was a long time before either Dave or I had the courage to jump off. Dave was always coaxing and urging me to jump. He would say “if you jump then I’ll jump,” and I remember sitting on the edge of that roof, getting up the courage and finally jumping onto the lawn below. I turned around expecting to see Dave coming right behind me, but he lost courage and he was over on the other side of the roof climbing down the Cherry Tree. He never did jump off the roof. Whenever anything didn’t go right, I always threw it up to Dave that I was the one who jumped off the roof and he was the one who turned chicken and would not do it."
"I was the President of a Deacon’s Quorum. We had seven quorums of deacons, and I was President of the Seventh Quorum. I remember one occasion when my Bishop came down and asked me to pass the Sacrament to the gentleman sitting next to him on the stand first. Knowing my nature, I probably asked him why. I cannot remember his answer, but I’m sure he told me I’d find out. Later during the meeting the gentleman who I passed the Sacrament to first was introduced as Heber J. Grant, Prophet and President of the Church."
