Mary Jolley:  

I WAS TOLD THAT i WOULD NOT OR COULD NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN BUT I PROVED THE DOCTORS WRONG AFTER HAVING MANY TESTS DONE. i WENT ON TO HAVING TWINS. THEY ARE THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE AND ARE SPECIAL VERY SPECIAL TOO ME AS IT TOOK FROM 1970 TO 1984. AND BEING IN THE HOSPITAL MAY TIMES. AFTER I WAS MARRIED WE MOVED TO SALT LAKE, HIS JOB TOOK HIM TO IDAHO I QUIT MY JOB AND WE LIVED IN IDAHO FOR ABOUT 6 MONTHS HE WAS THEN TRANSFERED BACK TOO UTAH WHERE WE HAVE LIVED IN WEST BOUNTIFUL, WHERE I HAD MY TWINS TO SALINA WHERE I WENT TO SCHOOL AT SEVIER APPLIED TECH IN CULINARY AND WENT ON TOO GET MY ASSOCIATE AT SNOW COLLAGE GRADING IN 1987 WAS INVOLVED IN A SEVER CAR WRECK AND COULD NO LONGER WORK IN THE FIELD I TOOK SCHOOLING FOR WE ON TOO ADOPT A YOUNG TODDLER AT THE AGE OF 2 SHE FIT INTO THE FAMILY VERY WELL. WE LIVED IN SALINA AS MY HUSBAND MOTHER WAS VERY ILL AND WE WANTED TO BE CLOSE TO HER. I HAVE AT THE TIME CANNED MANY ITEMS SUCH AS DIFFERENT SAUCES FOR ALL TYPES OF MEAT AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF DINNER WE HAD A SMALL GARDEN IT WAS THE MOST FUN I HAVE HAD. BEING CLOSE TO THE MOUNTAINS DOWN IN SOUTHERN END WE WENT FISHING AS OFTEN AS WE COULD AND THE KIDS LOVED IT. WHILE WE LIVED IN GUNNISON WHEN WE FIRST MOVED DOWN TO SANPETE CO I WAS PUT IN AS THE STAKE LEADER IN INDEXING IN THE STAKE IT TOOK ME OUT OF TOWN TO 8 DIFFERENT WARDS AS WELL AS WORKING WITH THE GUNNISON PRISON AND WITH THE INMATES THERE AND GETTING MANY TOO HELP, I WAS ALSO ASKED TO SPEAK AT A SACRAMENT MEETING AT THE PRISON AND WORKED CLOSE TO THE INMATES UNTIL WE MOVED OUT OF TOWN AT THE TIME I HAD NEARLY INCLUDING THE PRISON NEARLY 400 OR MORE ON THE WORK IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE TOO ME.WHILE WE LIVED IN WEST BOUNTIFUL I WAS THE NEWS REPORTER FOR WEST BOUNTIFUL AND WROTE ARTICLES ABOUT ITEMS THAT HAPPENED IN THE TOWN, I ALSO WROTE A HISTORY ABOUT THE EARLY SCHOOL DAYS UP TO THE PRESENT TIME WHICH WAS 1987 THAT WAS PUT INTO A BOOK CALLED THE HISTORY OF WEST BOUNTIFUL. WHILE I LIVED IN SALINA AND COULD NOT DO WHAT I HAD GONE TOO SCHOOL FOR I WAS ABLE TOO WORK IN A CARE CENTER AND SUPERVISOR 8 COOKS IN MAKING THE MEALS AND ALSO PLANNING THE MEALS FOR THE CARE CENTER. WHILE LIVING IN SALINA MY DAUGHTER BRITTANY HAD HER FIRST CHILD AND MY FIRST GRANDCHILD HER HUSBAND WAS AN ABUSER AND HURT MY DAUGHTER MANY TIMES BUT SHE ALWAYS FORGAVE HIM BECAUSE SHE SAID HE NEEDED HER. HE WENT ON TOO PRISON WHEN HE GOT OUT HE SAID THAT HE WOULD CHANGE BUT HE DID NOT SHE WENT ON TOO HAVE MY GRANDSON WHO I ADORE. MY MOTHER IN LAW PASSED AWAY IN 1987 SO MY HUSBAND AND FAMILY MOVED BACK TO THE OGDEN AREA TO BE NEAR TOO MY MOTHER WHO WAS HAVING HEALTH ISSUES SHE PASSED AWAY ON 11 MARCH 2005 AND I LOST MY HUSBAND THE SAME YEAR 2 JULY 2005 WHICH WAS HAD ON ME. BUT I COULD NOT FOR SEE THE FUTURE AND ON THE 12 OF MAY 2011 I LOST MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER BRITTANY BECAUSE TO THE WAY THAT MY SON IN LAW TREATED HER AND MY BEAUTIFUL GRANDCHILD WAS PUT IN FOSTER CARE AND LATTER ADOPTED OUT YOU ASK WHY I COULD NOT TAKE THEM IT WAS BECAUSE OF MY HEALTH ISSUES BUT TOO THIS DAY...Expand for more