Dear Relatives

THURMAN LARRY BUHLER

Thurman Larry Buhler, son of Thurman Jacob and Fay Emily Bronson Buhler was born 4 April 1931 in Midway, Wasatch County, Utah. He attended schools in Midway and Salt Lake City, Utah.

He was baptized a member of the LDS Church 14 May 1939 at Heber City, Utah.

Thurman Larry married Luana Reed in Salt Lake City, Utah on the 7th November 1953. To them were born three boys and two girls. His Occupation is transport operator, and his favorite recreation swimming. He also enjoys reading.

ELIZA BRONSON

Eliza Bronson was born 7 December 1887 in Midway, Wasatch County, Utah. She is the daughter of Everice Ruthven and Cynthia Van Wagoner Bronson being the tenth child in the family of thirteen. Her four grandparents were all pioneers of Utah. Her great grandparents on the Van Wagoner side and also great grandmother Bronson died at Winter Quarters in 1846-1847 when six hundred of the Saints died of Cholera. They were buried in the cemetery at Florence, Nebraska. Their names are on the monument which was Winter Quarters at that time. Clarissa Tappen Van Wagoner, her grandmother who crossed the plains by ox team, lived to be ninety years of age.

Eliza grew up in Midway and received her education in Midway and the Wasatch High School. The teacher who taught her some of her schooling was her own brother Charles Bronson. She was a Sunday School Teacher and Secretary in MIA. On 24th December 1913 she married Oscar Anderson in the Salt Lake Temple. The following spring they came to Provo Bench to make their home. They built a three room frame home where four of their six children were born. There were no modern conveniences at that time. The culinary water was taken from the irrigating ditch and they used coal oil lamps.

In 1927 they built the brick home where they have reared their family of two boys and three girls. One boy died at the age of six in 1929.

At present two children are in California, one in Michigan, one in Bountiful Utah, and one in Orem Utah. They have thirteen grandchildren. During their married life Eliza has been Secretary of Relief Society, Counselor in MIA, Counselor in Primary, President of Relief Society for three and one half years, Supervisor of Visiting Teacher, Counselor of the Relief Society, and in now Relief Society Magazine Representative and Visiting Teacher, elected Captain in Timp View Camp of Daughters of the Utah Pioneers February 1955. Reelected February 1957.

Oscar, Her husband, has held various offices in the church, among them President of M.I.A. for five years, member of High Council, and is now President of the High Priest Quorum of Orem Stake, and a ward teacher. He has also been active in Civic Affairs. He was the first President of the Orem Chamber of Commerce, and served on the Orem Town Council. He was chairman of the Orem Centennial Celebration in 1947 and is now Secretary of the Orem Chamber of Commerce (1957).

Oscar and Eliza feel there is no better place to live than the Orem 1st ward in the city of Orem.

They celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary the 24th of December 1963.

PEARL BRONSON

Pearl Bronson, daughter of Everice Ruthven and Cynthia Van Wagoner Bronson, was born 11 November 1896 in Midway, Wasatch County, Utah. She was the youngest child in a family of thirteen. Her education was received at Midway, Wasatch County, Utah.

She married William Haueter 12 October 1915 at Midway, Wasatch, Utah. The marriage was performed by Bishop Jacob Probst with Cynthia Bronson North and Perry North as witnesses. Later it was solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple 5 April 1916. To this couple were born six children.

Her activity in the LDS Church was as follows: Teacher in Primary, Sunday School and M.I.A, and she was a member of the Midway First Ward Choir.

When they were first married they lived at the Snake Creek Tunnel until it closed down. They then moved to Keetley, where Bill Worked at the Park Utah mine for years. Later they moved to Midway. They also lived in Standardville, Carbon County, Utah, where Bill was foreman at the coal mine. They then moved back to Midway, where they now live in the home of her parents.

On October 10, 1965, Sunday, Pearl and Bill were honored for their Golden Wedding Anniversary at an open house given by their children. Three Hundred and Fifty friends and relations were in attendance.

They have eighteen grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

BESSIE CYNTHIA BARNES

Bessie Cynthia Barnes was born 14 September 1930 at Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah. She is the daughter of James Lindsey and Clara LaPreal North Barnes. She attended the North School and Wasatch High School at Heber City. She enjoys bowling, dancing and quilting.

Bessie married Jesse Dean Hone the 17 April 1949 at Elko, Nevada. Their marriage was solmenized 17 May 1956. At present 1967-8 she is Y.W.M.I.A. Secretary and Treasurer and also Girl's program secretary and a Relief Society visiting teacher.

CYNTHIA LANEVA HAUETER AVERETT

Cynthia Laneva Haueter Averett, daughter of Pearl Bronson and William Haueter, was born the 26 December 1916 at Midway, Wasatch County, Utah.

She attended the elementary school at Midway and the Wasatch High School in Heber City, Utah.

On the 24 August 1935 she married Francis Giles Averett at Midway, Utah. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple on September 1948. Three sons were born to this union.

Leneva has held the following positions in the LDS Church: Primary teacher, MIA teacher, Sunday School teacher, Magazine representative for Relief Society and Secretary in Relief Society. She also served as Relief Society President of the Bountiful Second Ward, Bountiful Stake. She was released from this office 11 June 1967.

WILLIAM RAY HAUETER

William Ray Haueter was born January 10, 1921, the son of Willia Haueter and Cynthia Pearl Bronson, in Midway, Utah. Attended School at Midway Elementary and graduated from Wasatch High School in Heber City. Studied for one year at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.

He married Deaun LaRae Clyde, daughter of Luella VanWagoner and Robert Earl Clyde. There are seven daughters from this marriage.

Ray worked in the mines at Keetley, Utah for a short time, then moved to San Diego, California where he was employed by Consolidated Aircraft Corporation. After Pearl Harbor was bombed, returned to Heber City, Utah and volunteered for the United States Navy. Served in the Pacific and was discharged in March of 1946 and returned to Heber City, where he was employed as an Identification Officer at the Utah State Prison and worked at this institution for a period of ten years, living in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He resigned from this position in 1959 and served as a United States Ranger in Arizona for a period of one year, as Identification Officer and investigator.

From 1953 to 1961 was a member of the United States Army Reserve, in the capacity of a Criminal Investigator and was discharged as a Warrant Officer.

He returned to Salt Lake City and accepted employment as a Security Supervisor at Kennecott Copper Corporation and later was employed as an Identification Technician at the Utah State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation.

He left this employment to take a position as Identification Officer with the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office and resides in Salt Lake City, Utah.