Coffinberry sent in a scan of the document reproduced here: the printed program from the dedication of the branch chapel in Keosauqua, Iowa, in 1964. I love to see ephemera like this, something so fragile and temporary that we shouldn’t really expect it to have survived. And while the program itself is now historic, even in 1964 it documented an historic place in Mormondom.
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I love the tone given by including the status or position of each speaker, even if it is “former”. It simultaneously creates familiarity and formality with the reader, letting them say “Oh, I know who this person is, if they didn’t, really.
When you start getting Turleys and Flakes together, Snowflake, Arizona, can’t be far behind. Vernon Flake was the grandson of William Jordan Flake and Jesse Nathaniel Smith, the founders of Snowflake, and Harvey Turley was his first cousin–Turley’s maternal grandfather was William Jordan Flake. So out there in southeastern Iowa was a little slice of Snowflake!
I can’t recall ever singing that last hymn “Lord we Dedicate this House to Thee”, I’d love to know of its origin.
Its currently on page 245 in the current hymnal.
I served in the Oklahoma Tulsa Mission 1987-1989 and an elder in our mission was, I believe, from Keosauqua, Iowa.
Re ephemera. My stake used to print a stake directory in a small booklet form. It had leaders and members for each ward and a stake calendar. They stopped printing these about 3 years ago. In our clerks office I found a small cardboard box with about 50 copies of the 2014 directory. I was getting ready to toss the whole box when I thought that maybe I should save one of them. They already look quaint to me just 4 years after the fact, what will they look like to someone in 50 years?
Oh, wow, yes, KLC! Tuck one or two away for later!
Ardis, thanks for posting this.
I was tickled to get the scan last night from a non-member relative of my grandmother, who had found it among some memorabilia she had kept, and am glad to give it wider access. I wasn’t expecting the historical element – that was a pleasant surprise.
Though it is not mentioned here, the women of the branch had worked hard through bake sales and youth dances to raise the funds for this building. The story is told that the building is built of my grandmother Nellie Gano’s donuts. She died not quite a year after the building was dedicated. (My parents probably came out from Indianapolis for the dedication, where they had just moved after my dad graduated from ISU that spring – my mom would have been maybe a month or so pregnant with me at the time.) This is the building my wedding reception was held in almost 22 years later. I recently uploaded to FamilySearch some photos of some of the people mentioned.
Yes, it was a slice of Snowflake in Iowa, no doubt. That’s how my grandparents Ford & Nellie got to be there in the early 1950s… they had been converted to the Church as a result of living as newlyweds in Snowflake at the early part of the WWII years. These friends invited them to join them in Iowa… my grandparents were the only ones to stay there for the rest of their lives, as two of their daughters married local boys who had converted. Ford Gano himself went on to mayor of Keosauqua in the early 1980s.
U2 40 – good memory! That would be a grandson of the Ford Gano mentioned above (or in other words, my brother). If you remember his name, and you’d like to say hi, do a Facebook search for a chiropractor by that name in Missouri.