Andrew Jackson Gannon and Louise
Jensen
My first
memory of (Jack) Andrew Jackson Gannon was going to Preston Idaho with him and Aunt
Louise in a buggy pulled by one horse. They loaded their furniture on a truck
and hauled the furniture back to grandmother's home to live. I drove the horse
and buggy back to the farm as they came back with the furniture and the truck.
Uncle Jack
was a clean looking man. He always looked well-dressed. When he went to church
he would not talk or whisper, but paid very close attention to the speaker.
Uncle Jack
went to Wyoming to work for the sugar factory as a sugar boiler. While there he
became ill and died. He was shipped back to Weston for burial. I remember that
his casket was covered with a large blanket wreath that covered the entire
casket. The wreath was donated by the men that worked with Jack in the sugar
factory.
Aunt Louise
was very grieved because of the sadness and loss of her husband. It was a very
trying time for Aunt Louise. Uncle Jack
died leaving her with one son and before the birth of their second son. Louise
lived with her grandmother after her husband died.
Andrew
Jackson Gannon and Louise Jensen Gannon had the following children:
Henry Jensen Gannon born 26 December
1916
married Eunice Farr 19
March 1938
John Andrew Gannon born 14 February
1919
married Nancy May Lank
Ford 4 May 1938, died 4 May 1938
married Elizabeth Turner
17 March 1961
Later Aunt
Louise went to work for Luther Fife whose wife, Lenora had previously died
leaving Luther with five children;
Venna Veir Fife born 23 May 1908
died 17 June 1908
Lenora Maurine Fife born 30 may 1909
married Joseph Murland
Dahle
Luther Lavere Fife born 9 April 1911
married Esther Eliza
Bowman
Dean Everett Fife born 6 April 1913
married Carrie Elvena
Campbell
Leo John Fife born 31 January 1915
married Eliza Gertrude
Lloyd
Alice Gayle Fife born 25 August 1916
married George Leonard
Jensen
Luther and
Louise were married in the Logan Temple on 16 March 1921.
They had
five children.
Duane J Fife born 27 January 1922
died 30 may 1930
Lila Laray Fife born 22 January 1923
married Floyd Wayne hot
Haroldsen
Dennis O Dell Fife born 8 September
1925
married Merlyne Morgan
Vivian Fife born 14 March 1928
married LeRoy Dean Bair
Betty Louise Fife born 20 January
1934
married Ersel West Beus
Luther was a
hard-working man that was skilled in building and cement finishing. Luther
contracted and built the Fairview Idaho church house and also many buildings in
Cache Valley. When he later moved to Nyssa Oregon he engaged in canal and
highway construction. He was a leader where ever he lived and was one of the
first builders in the Nyssa Oregon area.
Aunt Louise
spent much of her time and a great amount of money in genealogy research for
John Henry Jensen family. She accomplished a great deal of temple work. In 1965
when her health would not permit further work she turned over all of her work
to the family representative of the Jensen family that was appointed at the
Jensen reunion held a Lava Hot Springs Idaho.
Luther and Louise
were called on a mission to the southern states. While there they practically
build alone a small church house as the members of the church were not very
cooperative. Louise would mix the mortar and Luther laid the stone
Louise Frederica Jensen Fife
Luther Lachoneus Fife
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