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Transformative Action Summit

Overview

This weekend, three members of the Periclean Class of 2016 had the opportunity to attend the Summit for Transformative Action in Raleigh, NC. We spent three days in eye-opening, life-changing workshops, sessions, and lectures, discussing best practices for social entrepreneurship, civic engagement, and collaborative group work. We learned about effective methods for facilitating group collaboration and participated in activities to develop our own personal leadership and confidence. Saturday evening several Pericleans joined us for a networking party to meet some of our new colleagues and enjoy trapeze performances and a participant talent show at Cirque De Vol, also in Raleigh. This was truly a life-changing summit and we are so thankful for having had the opportunity to participate and meet amazing people. We’ve attempted to capture some of the best take-aways from the weekend below–we hope you enjoy!

Throughout the weekend, we participated in a variety of icebreakers, team builders, and other activities geared toward improving creativity and group culture. We’ve summarized a few tools below that we’re planning to use with our class and that we hope that you will find useful in your group work in Periclean–and beyond!

-Failure activity

Instructions: Take an hour, walk around outside and see how many times your group can fail! Ask ridiculous questions of complete strangers (without endangering yourself or harassing anyone, of course) and reflect on what you accomplish and what you fail!

Goal: Realize that failure is not necessarily a bad thing. It gives you knowledge and experience, and allows your next attempt to be better.

-Deep connections

Instructions: Find a partner (someone you don’t know well) and ask each other questions like “What is your favorite memory?” and “If you could invite anyone in the world to dinner, who would it be?”

Goal: Create a deeper relationship, which allows for more constructive conversations in the group as well as individually. Once having this conversation with just one person, a person is more likely to have similar conversations with other people.

-Speed dating networking

Instructions: Spend five minutes with someone and tell them your biggest dreams for yourself or your project.

Goal: Get to know others on a deeper level and be inspired by the great ideas and thoughts of the people you speak with.

-Improv exercises

Instructions: Each exercise is different and can be facilitated easily. One example is: Find a partner (someone you don’t know well) and assign each person to be either person A or person B. The first round of the exercise, Person A says either “You are a ____.” or “You have a ______.” Then person B must speak for around 3 minutes creating a story to explain the statement that person A gave person B. Afterwards, the roles switch and each pair does the exercise again, so that each person gets to experience both sides of the exercise.

Goal: To broaden the comfort zones of the people in the group and teach that in group discussions nothing is wrong- Don’t say “no”, say “yes, and…”

-Negative & positive thinking

Both negative thinking and positive thinking are essential tools when planning a project or finding partners. Positive thinking is important to decision making because everyone needs to feel comfortable in the group environment. There needs to be an engaged atmosphere where everyone is comfortable sharing their thoughts and all ideas are accepted. Negative thinking comes into this process once the idea had been shared and the group points out what obstacles will be faced with that idea. Although the word “negative” may have a specific connotation that invokes the thought of something bad, negative thinking does not mean that the idea is disregarded, it simply means every possible problem with the idea is evaluated.

Connections

Perhaps the most valuable part of the conference was having the opportunity to network with an incredible collection of people–from students at other universities to professional social entrepreneurs and program developers. We made a number of contacts with students, entrepreneurs, and professionals who have worked in Honduras in agriculture, fair trade cooperatives, and in a variety of other spheres. We also had the opportunity to connect with Duke University’s Director of Latin American Studies–an absolute wealth of information  about the entire region– and an Ugandan social entrepreneur who gave us valuable advice about coping with corrupt governments. Other entrepreneurs provided us with ideas for improving our civic engagement and exciting opportunities for collaboration in the future. We were also excited to bump into a few friendly faces, including the director of Haiti Hub, a partner of the Periclean Class of 2015, and Jennifer DeSimone, a member of the Periclean Class of 2007–the first class to work with Honduras! Jennifer collaborated with Dr. Arcaro to provide us with this incredible opportunity–we are so immeasurably grateful to her! We look forward to nurturing our connection with Jennifer and the many other wonderful individuals we had the good fortune to meet this weekend.

Future Plans

We have started contemplating how we want to use the information we have been given and have started making plans as to how we will implement it in our group and in possible projects. We want to maintain and develop the relationships that we have started to build with others who have similar goals, so that we can learn from their mistakes and successes. We especially want to foster the relationships that we made with people who have connections to Honduras, who can help us find partners and give us insight into what strategies may work and others that have been tested and failed. They can add more perspectives to our projects and will no doubt be invaluable resources as we move into a certain topic or region of the country.

Another idea that we have been forming is to create a civic engagement or social entrepreneurship consortium in the triad area that will bring together these types of people to connect, network, and share ideas and experiences. Directly related to our Periclean group, we are working on finding a class period, and possibly a Pan-periclean event, that we can facilitate and use the themes and exercises from the workshops to illustrate the concepts we discussed at the summit.

  -Erin, Nick, and Caley

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The Call, by Betty Mikesell Erlandson

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                                                              The Call    Written by Betty Mikesell  Erlandson Feb. 22, 1966                       

                                                                         Separate this man of my image

                                            For I call him close to me.

                                             Separate him from the crowd;

                                            The fools, the spurious, the unrepenting

                                            And let him take courage to follow me

                                            Through Gethsemane to my eternal mountain

                                             I shall steady his soul as he suffers

                                            The agony and Sorrows of my Son

                                            And girt his loins anew to find glory

                                            Beyond the quickness of eternity.

                                            Separate this man of my likeness,

                                            And I shall tenderly enfold him in my love. 

      **************************************************~~~~~~~**~~~~~****************************************************     TRIPLES with EMMA

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Thoughts On My Life by Betty Lou Mikesell Erlandson

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Thoughts On My Life by Betty Lou Mikesell Erlandson (Taken from an audio cassette tape Betty recorded 14 Nov. 1975.)

Ernie, Betty and Cap, at the Black Bear Coal Mine near Driggs, Idaho

I've been thinking about my life before, when I was small.  I can't remember much before starting school when I was six.  A memory that must be the oldest one, I think, comes now in just sort of impressions.  I was about three and there was Ernie and me in a car, maybe a truck.  We were both in the front seat.  There was an adult driving.  I'm sure it was a man.  We stopped to talk to someone, stayed in the vehicle talking and that person gave us some gum.  I remember how thrilled I was.  There was a lot to chew and I remember worrying about choking on it, but it was good.  Then we arrived somewhere.  There were adults laughing, but I was cold.  I remember being held by a woman with a warm chest and stomach.  I got sleepy. I believe that was when my younger brother Jimmy was born.  Mom said that Ernie and I stayed in another town with relatives and that one of them drove us home after Jim was born. 

Betty and Jimmy

Right after that we moved from the coal mining camp near Driggs, [Black Bear Coal Mine] where Jim and I were born, to Pocatello where my father began working in the railroad tie plant.  (Union Pacific)I remember first a house next to a large pile of dirt.  It might have been dirt from a new outdoor toilet.  I remember playing on the dirt and getting spanked and scolded by my mother.  Another time I remember being spanked for jumping up and down on the bed.  I recall the fun of the jumping and the surprise and resentment of the punishment.

Soon we moved again and I remember a Halloween party at this other house, and how a ghost story was told that affected my sleep later.  I was afraid to go upstairs alone as long as we were living there and I never forgot that story.  It was one about going up stairs. He goes up one step. He goes up another step. He goes up three steps.  Any way it was scary!

The third and final house in Pocatello we moved into before I was six.  I remember it was said that I could pick any color I wanted for the walls of my bedroom.  I was so excited!  It took me a long time and I chose pink.  The walls were painted blue.  My mother preferred blue, I never liked that room, even later when it was painted pink.

I was excited about starting school and felt that I was a big girl.  Just before my birthday my sister Della Ann was born.  She was beautiful and oh so tiny, but my mother let me hold her.  I was to carry the dirty diapers to the back yard where a tub filled with water was ready to soak them.  This was the beginning of a particular job that continued everlastingly until I was almost sixteen.  My job was enlarged gradually to wringing out the dirty diapers from the soap, replacing the water, carrying them to the boiler on wash day, hanging out the clean cloths and when they were dry, folding them and putting them away.  

At age nine my sister Thelma was born. I was old enough to diaper her.  The job became the ultimate in my diaper career when Leslie was born.  I was nearly thirteen and I was old enough to wash them all by myself.  I hated that, especially in the wintertime.  I did get a sort of wringer washing machine upon Mt. Kit Carson, where we moved just before Leslie was born.  The thing had a vertical handle mounted on the side, and we pulled it back and forth, back and forth, and that would make the agitator inside move, which would wash the clothes.  But the water had to be hauled and poured into it and then dumped out of it from buckets.  I remember we had a clothesline that was sort of circular and it was fun to hang the clothes on it.  I didn't mind that so bad.

1939, Betty and Jim watching over Leslie

I remember the train trip from Pocatello.  I didn't know about it until later but my mother and dad decided to come up to Washington, where my Aunt May (Mary Dean) lived.  I was so excited.  I was sort of scared because I hated to leave my friends.  I was just starting Mutual, in the Mormon Church, and I looked forward to that for so many years.  I was really upset about that.  We came on the train and I was a little sick at the stomach on the train.  My brother Jim threw up all over my mother who was pregnant with Leslie.  The porter was disgusted. 

 We arrived in Spokane, went to a little old place on Trent or Main avenue to eat some lunch.  Aunt May and her husband, Uncle Gilbert, came in and took us up to their place.  I remember going to sleep that night and listening to the coyotes.  Everything was so noisy.  I was a little bit frightened because I had never lived in timber, and this was deep timber way up on Mt. Kit Carson.   The next day was Jay (Dean) or Ernie's birthday.  They were a day apart.  We went on down in a day or two to this dump that we chose as a house.  It was cheap, had an oilcloth ceiling in the big living room, kitchen.  I had to scrub that and I drew a picture of my dad with his initials underneath.  I went to scrub it out but it left an impression all the while we were up there, no matter how hard I scrubbed.  Oh, my dad was mad!It was a beautiful place to go down into the canyon or else go up the hill and sit in the apple tree and look over the whole countryside.  I would like to live there, myself now.  Not in that house of course, it's gone.  The walls were covered with newspaper.  The first few weeks I spent all my time reading the newspapers and magazines.  I remember a Tug Boat Annie story but I never could read all of it, because some parts were pasted facing the wall. I practically memorized parts of it.

I remember Rice's coming up after we moved there.  They were our friends in Pocatello and they came to visit us overnight.  We all slept on the floor on blankets.  We had some good times up there.  The crows, hawks, or eagles would come and we'd have to go get the gun.  My dad taught me to shoot the gun, so I could kill the hawks so our chickens wouldn't be taken.  We had to have them.  We nearly starved the first year we were up there until the garden got started.  We raised strawberries.  Somebody gave us some strawberries.  I was allergic to them.  Every time I picked them I broke out.  That saved a lot of work, but then I found work somewhere else to do.  Work! Work! Work!

I started school and I didn't like it.  It was a small school.  The kids were all used to each other and didn't know me and they didn't care to get acquainted easily and I was shy.  Then right after I started, Della Ann and Thelma got scarlet fever and we had to burn our books, I guess dad did, I couldn't.  I loved to read.  I would go down in the valley and find a little moss covered place and read and go for a walk, in the summer time.

We got to go to a community type church, way up at the schoolhouse, which was several miles straight up the mountain.  It was fun. Then the Reorganized Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints started a mission there because there were some people nearby that did belong to that church, called the Loves. So the mission got pretty good, quite a few people.  That's where I came to know the doctrine of the church and the people.  I joined the church.  I came down to Spokane and was baptized, all of our family, in two different sessions.

RLDS Church where the Mikesell family were baptized

I remember being chased by a farmer's cow.  The dirty people who lived near us, I don't think I'll give their name, but they were filthy.  The woman was big, heavy and fat.  One time she got sick and she lay on the bed.  I cleaned up her bedroom, tried to sweep under the bed.  There were all kinds of things, a dead chicken under there, dirt and dust.  They wanted me to stay for lunch several times but all I would do is take a slice of wonder bread out of the bag.  They never baked.  They got their water out of a big drum out on the porch for cooking and drinking.  The cows and animals would get loose and come up on the porch and drink out of that thing.  I wasn't going to drink that water.

We got our milk from some people, who were real clean, but it wasn't pasteurized and I got a terrible cyst on my neck.  To this day it's a sore spot.  They took me into town.  I thought I would go to the hospital, but the county doctor did it in his office then sent me to the juvenile home for a week to recuperate.  It was cheaper than the hospital.  I'll remember that experience.  It's done a lot to help me go the straight and narrow way because I didn't want to go back there.  The children were so miserable, running away from home, getting into trouble.  Anyway, I've had a pretty good life."  [end of tape] Betty evidently doesn't remember one of the worse things to happen to her in her life. At the time the Mikesell family was living in Alameda (now part of Pocatello), Bannock County, Idaho. From a saved old newspaper article we learn: "Betty, age three years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Micksell of 415 Randolph, experienced an accident Sunday that could have easily resulted fatally. The family was traveling north on the Blackfoot road near Fort Hall, when Betty, who was alone in the rear of the car, unlatched the door and tumbled to the pavement while the car was traveling quite rapidly. She was brought to the Lynn Bros. hospital, and upon examination was found to have sustained nothing more than a number of bad body bruises and an injury to an eye."  The article was wrong. Later it was found that Betty had two broken ear drums and had trouble with her feet and back for the rest of her life.

Betty was a poet, short-story teller and playwright.  She liked to put her thoughts down in poem & story form, sometimes just on scraps of paper that were handy at the time inspiration came to her.  Other poems and stories were done for classes that she took at different times in her life, always striving to improve her writing. On a scrap of paper Betty typed  "writing talent hidden in the family genes somewhere.  A member of my extensive family needs only to grasp a pencil and paper, look pensive and everyone crosses their fingers in hopes that maybe the right genes have appeared at last.  In 1939 I won $2.00 in a ditty contest and was praised by everyone.  In 1940 I had a literary love affair with Edward Lear and spent hours writing.  In 1942 I had some small success with poetry and that did it.  I love to write." 

In a letter Betty wrote: "Your card yesterday reminded me of when I was thirteen & fourteen years old, living up on Mt. Kit Carson.  I would rise very early on fall mornings & quietly tiptoe out into the dawn, past the rabbit shed where I could hear their thumping, (calling for me to feed them) and went down into the draw behind the outhouse.  In the shady draw I ran through a small area of thick pine trees.  The thin straight path among the trees was used by deer - It was cool there in the hot summer but now the hoar-frost took longer to melt, but when it did, the days of fall were heavenly.  I usually stopped to listen before I began climbing out of the trees & up the hill. Birds were everywhere with that wake-up song each song making a chatter & clatter.  I know that their song is understood by them - each to the other - but I wanted them quiet so I could hear what I was waiting for - the sound of my younger brother [Jim] following me.  He was an early riser also & usually caught up with me before I left the trees. We never talked much but were happy to be together there.  We looked at the tiny purple-starred flowers on the forest floor and tried not to step on them.  Where the rising sun-rays caught them the flowers were covered with dew glittering in the sun.

     At the top of the hill we would climb an old apple tree and sit & study the spread-out land below us - miles and miles of it - so majestic in the early morning calm.  Winding roads below promised adventure to us, low fields were gold blankets of wheat.  White farmhouses, cattle feeding, and, many times, deer grazing were all before us.       In the far distance to the left we saw the city - big & scary when we chanced to be there but from the tree it looked very small.  On our right we viewed, way in the distance, broken-topped peaks (some with white hats) that showed us a strange land - Canada.  We thought of it as a chaos of mountain behind mountain all bracing themselves for the heavy snows soon to fall. Closer below us, we laughed at bundled up farmers coming out of their houses heading hurriedly for their outhouses & barns.  We felt like Angels watching them unaware.  All the time in the tree we would be munching ripe apples so cool & crisp & good. 

Then we filled the bag I had carried with those wonderful Winesaps and others I don't remember.  We said goodbye to the far away mountains, to the town (just waking up) & the flowers below us blooming like a vast bluebell carpet.  We scrambled to home past an old rickety gate that sagged, sorrowing for the loss of it's yard & fence & house & owners long gone.  Soon we heard our dear daddy calling us to hurry with our chores.  Breakfast was ready and a school bus would soon come after us."About Christmas Dec 25, 1947 at the Mikesell's [On Haven St., Spokane WA] Betty wrote:"Early, Evan & I went over & after opening the gifts we just played around - Making records etc. until dinner. [Betty & Evan had a  recorder, that recorded on records, with a microphone that was usually passed around the family circle for each person to say something.]

Christmas 1954 at the Mikesell home

Ham was served with jello for dessert. Salad & potatoes & gravy were as usual good. Then we painted, colored & talked until four when Evan & I left. Mom, Dad & I recalled the previous Christmas's when although all the family was home we had nothing for Christmas.

 In 1941 we were separated, dad, Jim & I on Mt. Spokane & none of us received or gave a gift at all except the girls got some from the neighbors. No food in the house but we were all happy in the prospect of maybe future prosperity in a greater degree than ever before. Daddy was sick that year. [Florence & other children were in the Mikesell's, just-rented tiny home, on south Ferrall street in Spokane.] Next year I hope Ernie & Jimmie can be home for Christmas." [Both Mikesell boys were in the service. Ernie enlisted 15 Oct 1942 in the Air Corps, at the age of 20, and Jim was in the Merchant Marines until he enlisted in the Army on the 12th of December 1945, having just turned 18. Perhaps he lied about his age to get into the Merchant Marines, he had quit school in the 11th grade but later went to college.]

ca 1944. Mikesell family

left: Edith [Ernie's wife]; Ernie; Della Ann; Thelma; Dad Jeff; Jim; Leslie [in front]; Mom Florence; and Betty. In front of Mikesell home, 424 S. Haven, Spokane WA.

Evan and Betty (Mikesell) Erlandson family photo album Mikesell family photo album

Betty and Evans 50th Wedding Anniversary Betty Lou Mikesell Erlandson by Thelma Mikesell Winters Betty and Evan by Della Mikesell Binder Memories I have of my sister Betty Lou Mikesell Erlandson by Leslie Mikesell Wood

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Mikesell Obits 1

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OUR MIKESELL FAMILY OBITUARIES - page 1

[In order of year of death]

    http://www.rootsweb.com/~utsaltla/obit_DeseretNews_1860s.html#1869

  Ruth Cunningham Mikesell 

[9 Jan 1811 Cincinnati Ohio-   10  Nov 1869 Richville, Utah] Deseret News, 24 Nov 1869  Page 8

Death Notice

Died, Richville, Morgan Co., 10 Nov 1869, Ruth wife of Garrett MIKESELL, 59 years 9 months 20 days.

[See death notice image on  "Utah Digital Newspapers", University of Utah  (website)]

[Ruth was grandmother of Andrew Jackson Mikesell. Photo, provided by Jay Burrup, was not with death notice.]

Teton Valley News, Driggs, Idaho, 8 July 1926:  [Harriet Esther Osborn Mikesell - 21 Mar 1860-08 Jul 1926. Daughter of Thomas Jefferson Osborn & Elizabeth Standley Osborn. ]

Mrs. Andrew J. Mikesell died this (Thursday morning) at Sam, Idaho where her husband was working in the coal mines. 

Mrs. Mikesell came over from Ashton some time ago and took sick after her arrival, and after a short illness passed away. 

Deceased was the mother of 11 children, all of whom but one were present at the time of her death.

[No photo with original obituary]

Josephine (Williams) Mikesell - 22 Nov. 1889 Louisiana - 23 Nov 1928, Pocatello, Idaho

Obituary: Pocatello Tribune, Pocatello, Idaho, Sat. 24 Nov 1928 Mikesel [Mikesell] Funeral Sunday Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon for Docie [Josie?] Mikesell, wife of George W. Mikesel [Mikesell], from the fourth ward L.D.S. church. Interment will be in Mountainview under direction of Hall mortuary.

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The Fremont Co. Newspaper, St. Anthony, ID. Thurs. 28 Feb 1929.  [Sarah Elizabeth (Skinner) Mikesell - 09 Dec 1844-23 Feb 1929]

  AGED WOMAN DEAD

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Mikesell, aged 84 years died at the home of her grandson, Walter Mikesell, here in St. Anthony, early Monday morning.

A son, Andrew, was at his mother's bedside when she passed away.

Funeral services were held from the chapel of W. M. Hansen, undertaker, Monday and burial was in St. Anthony cemetery. 

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"The Pocatello Tribune", Tues., 14 July 1931

Emma Harper Mikesell, 16 Mar 1904, Pleasant Grove, Utah-12 July 1931, Pocatello, Idaho.

Mother Survived By Baby Daughter

Mrs. Erma [Emma] Harper Mikesell, 27, wife of George W. Mikesell of 319 N. Johnson, died at a local hospital Sunday night. She is survived by her husband and an infant daughter only a few days old.

The funeral of Mrs. Mikesell will be held at 2 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon from the 4th Ward L. D. S. church. Bishop Lawrence D. Clark. will be in charge of the services.

Mrs. Mikesell was graduated as a nurse from the L. D. S. hospital at Idaho Falls three years ago and came to Pocatello two years ago, when she was married.

Surviving besides her husband and Infant daughter are the following brothers and sisters: James B. Harper and Leo Harper, Rupert; Roderick Harper and Mrs. Lucile Sorenson, Firth; Mrs. Ella Lord, Shelley; Mrs. Cecil Pendlebury, Blackfoot; Lester H. Harper, Los Angeles, Cal.; Duane S. Harper, Pleasant Grove, Utah; Marvin Harper, Rose.

  The Spokesman-Review, Spokane WA, Friday January 8, 1943, pg. 14  Death & Funeral columns. [Andrew "Jay" Dean, 5 April, 1924-6 January 1943 Spokane WA]

Dean (Andrew) Jay -

Age 18. Passed away Jan. 6 at a local hospital. He was a resident of this city and a former resident of Colbert, Wash.

Survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert L. Dean; 3 brothers, Linn [Lynn]; Budd [Bud]; Keith Dean; one sister, Louise, all at the home in Colbert, Wash.; grandfather, Andrew Mikesell, Adrian, Wash.; uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Mikesell, and other relatives in Spokane.

He was a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ [of] L. D . S. 

Funeral Sat., Jan 9, at 1 p.m. from "The Chapel Of Memories" at the Thornhill-Carey Funeral Home, N1322 Monroe St.  Rev. J. F. Curtis officiating. Interment at Chattaroy, Wash. 

[No photo was with the original obituary.]

The Spokesman-Review, Spokane WA, Friday March 22, 1946, pg. 17 [Gilbert Lafayette Dean, 28 Dec 1894, Julian CA-20 Mar 1946, Colbert WA.]

Dean, Gilbert L. - Passed away March 20. His home was at route 1, Colbert, Wash.

Husband of Mae Dean. Father of Louise, Bud and Keith Dean, all at the home. Lynn Dean, U. S. Army. Brother of Mrs. E. L. Harmon of Bakersfield, Calif., and Albert Dean.

He was a farmer, a veteran of World War 1, and a member of American Legion post No. 136.

Funeral Sunday, March 24, at 2 p.m. from the Alwin Chapel at the Hazen & Jaeger Funeral Home. N 1306 Monroe st. Interment Chattaroy cemetery.

[No photo was with the original obituary.]

      Obituary:  Teton Valley News, Driggs, Teton Co., Idaho. Vol. XLII no. 9  Thursday  March , 1951 

Andrew J. Mikesell Dies at Bonners Ferry -

Andrew J. Mikesell 89, passed away at the home of his daughter Mrs. Sarah E. "Libby" Aller Monday, February 19 at Bonners Ferry from incidents to old age.

Mr. Mikesell was born in Monona County, Iowa, a son of John Mikesell and Sara Skinner Mikesell, on December 5, 1861 being the oldest member of the family and being the last member of the family to pass away.

When he was two years old he came to Weber county with his parents where they lived for several years and where Mr. Mikesell spent his early childhood. 

Later the family moved to Cache County settling at Paradise. While living there he met Harriet Osborn whom he married in the Endowment House at Salt Lake on April 10, 1883. Following their marriage they lived at Lewiston, Utah until 1887 when they moved To Kamas, Utah where they lived until 1901 when they came to Idaho settling at Victor. Later they moved to Ashton where they lived until Mrs. Mikesell passed away on July 8, 1926.

After this Mr. Mikesell lived at Driggs for awhile and for the past 16 years he has lived in Spokane and Bonners Ferry, with his daughter. Mr. Mikesell was very active and was engaged in logging and cutting timber nearly his entire life.

To this union 11 children were born 10 of whom survive. They are Charles A. Mikesell, St. Anthony; Ernest J. Mikesell, Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Sarah E. "Libby" Aller, Bonners Ferry, Idaho; Jefferson O. Mikesell, Spokane, Wash.; Henry D. Mikesell, Driggs, Idaho; Frank A. Mikesell, Victor, Idaho; Willard Mikesell, Pocatello, Idaho;  Walter H. Mikesell, Ogden, Utah; Mary L. Dean, Spokane, Wash., and Mrs. Lucille Bressler, Jackson, Wyoming.There are also 40 grandchildren and 54 great grandchildren surviving.

Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at the Hansen Funeral Home Chapel with Bishop Robert Smith of the St. Anthony second ward officiating. The opening song "Not Understood" was sung by Bruce Reynolds of Ashton with Mrs. Vera Orr acting as accompanist.  The invocation was offered by a grandson Walter Mikesell.  The obituary was then by Bishop Robert Smith followed by the first speaker J. R. Cluff of Victor.

Mrs. Julia Richins and Reed Richins, accompanied by Mrs. Carrie Laurizen, all of Victor, then sang "In The Garden".  The concluding speaker was Bishop Delos Laurizen, formerly of the Victor ward, after which the closing remarks were offered by Bishop Smith. The closing song "Somewhere A Voice is Calling" was sung by Bruce Reynolds with Mrs. Vera Orr acting as accompanist. The benediction was offered by Max Johnson a grandson.

Internment was in the Pineview cemetery at Ashton under the direction of the Hansen Funeral home and the grave was dedicated by W.M. Hansen.  Pallbearers all grandsons were Walter J. Mikesell; Earl Mikesell; Harvey Mikesell; Hyrum Mikesell; Gene Mikesell and Dell Bressler. Flowers were carried by Granddaughters and they were Wilma Mikesell; Emma Jo Mikesell; Erma Mikesell; Sherry Mikesell; Marie Johnson; Mabel Sewell; Carma Jenson; Grace Browning; Alice Fransen; Mae Bressler and Maxine Jacobson under the direction of  Ada Thornock and Audrey Hathaway of the St. Anthony second ward Relief Society.

[No photo with original obituary]

Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokane Washington - J. O. Mikesell  D. 31 March 1962, Spokane WA.

Jefferson O. Mikesell, 74, manager of the Blue Bird Motel until his retirement about a year ago, died today in a hospital.

A Spokane-area resident since 1938, he was a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He is survived by his wife, Florence, at the home, E1214 Rockwell; two sons, Ernest, Salem and James Mikesell, Moses Lake; four daughters, Mrs. Betty Erlandson, Mrs. Della Binder, Mrs. Leslie Wood and Mrs. Thelma Winters, all of Spokane; 14 grandchildren; five brothers, including Ernest Mikesell, and three sisters, including Mrs. Elizabeth Aller and Mrs. Mary Dean, all of Spokane.

The body is at Hazen & Jaeger's.

[No photo with original obituary]

 Obituary, 1966 Copeland, Boundary Co., Idaho - Funeral Services are Held Wednesday for Mrs. Elmer Aller [Marjorie Adaline (McDole) Aller - 11 May 1919-22 Dec 1966] 

Mrs. Elmer (Marjorie Adaline) Aller, longtime Boundary county resident, passed away at her home in Copeland Dec. 22nd following a lingering illness.

She was born May 11, 1919, at Touchet, Wash., the daughter of Albert S. and Esther Bosley McDole.  At the age of five she moved with her parents to Troy, Ore., where she grew up and received her education.

On Sept. 1, 1934, she married George Elmer Aller at Lewiston, Idaho.  They farmed in Oregon, Idaho and Washington until 1944, when they moved to Boundary county and purchased a farm at Copeland, where she resided at the time of her death. 

She was a member of the Bonners Ferry Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 

Surviving are her husband, at Copeland; two sons, David of Palouse, Wash., and Elmer at Moscow, Idaho; two daughters, Ethel Heinemann of Copeland and Ellen Irons of Springfield, Va.; two brothers, Albert McDole of Woodland, Calif., and Harris McDole, in California; a sister, Bonnie Carter of Seattle; also six grandchildren.   

Funeral services were held Wednesday at Hillcrest Memorial chapel, with Elder Wayne Winters officiating.  Interment, directed by Hillcrest, was in Grandview cemetery.  Pallbearers were Marvin Houck, R. J. (Bud) Roland, Edward Houck, Dale Nieman, D. O. Haagenson and Hugh Brazee. 

[Photo not with original obituary.]

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  OUR MIKESELL FAMILY OBITUARIES - page 2

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     Charles "Charlie" Andrew Mikesell - 19 April 1883-23 Oct 1967-  Area

"Pioneer Dies At 84  (Special To The Post-Register)   ST. ANTHONY, Oct. 25 -

Charles Andrew Mlkesell, 84, a resident of Idaho since 1900, died at an Idaho Falls rest home Monday morning following a lingering Illness.

He was born April 19, 1883, a son of Andrew J. and M. Harriett Osborne Mikesell at Hyrum, Utah.

He received his early education at Hyrum and the family moved to Idaho Falls In 1900 where he lived for a short time working In the Idaho Falls and Ucon area.

He then moved to Fremont County where he was employed as a laborer and logger and married Minnie Louise Porter, Jan. 9, 1908, at St. Anthony.

Following their marriage they homesteaded at Sarilda where they farmed for many years. He also raised cattle and had a private fish pond and sold fish commercially untll 1931. They then moved to St. Anthony where he was employed by the Fremont County Weed control. In 1952 they moved to Idaho Falls where they have continued to reside.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Minnie Mikesell and eight out of nine children. They are Earl Mikesell, St. Anthony; Mrs. Grace (Elmer) Browning, and Mrs. Marie (Max) Johnson, Idaho Falls; Frank Mikesell, Aberdeen; Leroy Mikesell, Blanding, Utah; Mrs. Alice (Albert) Storms, Ashton; Ted Mikesell, East St. Louis, Ill., and Mrs. Lyle (Wayne) Reneau, Rigby. There are also 34 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren surviving.

The following brothers and sisters also survive: Ernest Mikesell and Mrs. Elizabeth Aller, Spokane, Wash.; Henry D. Mikesell, Idaho Falls; George W. Mikesell, Pocatello; Walter Mikesell, Ogden, Utah; Mrs. Mary S. Dean, Spokane, Wash.; and Mrs. Lucille Bressler, Jackson, Wyo.

Funeral services will be con­ducted Friday at 1 p. m. at the Hansen Memorial Chapel, St. Anthony, with Bishop Irvon Murri of the St. Anthony LDS Fourth Ward officiating. Friends may call at the Hansen Memorial Chapel from 7 to 9 p. m. and Friday until time of services. Interment will be in the Pineview cemetery at Ashton under the diretion of the Hansen Memorial Chapel, St Anthony."

[Photos, not with original obituary, provided by Lyle Mikesell Reneau.]

Ernest "Ernie" Osborn Mikesell, 5 April, 1922 in Victor, Idaho - 24 January 1976, Salem, Oregon. Deer Park WA newspaper March 25, 1976 - Obituary "Ernest O. Mikesell of Salem, Ore., a 1940 graduate of Riverside high school, died Jan. 24 of an unexpected heart attack. He was 53 years old. Survivors include his wife, Edith, at the home; one son, Jeff, of Salem; his mother Florence Mikesell of Spokane; three [four] sisters and one brother, including Mrs. Evan (Betty) Erlandson, of Loon Lake. The deceased was an employee in the poultry division, agriculture department of the State of Oregon. He spent his leisure hours visiting the elderly and the shut-ins in Salem and wrote many children's stories. Interment was in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Ore. for the World War II veteran."   [1975 photo was not with this obituary.] [Ernie's genealogy page]

Spokane Washington  1976  [Florence Vivien (Allen) Mikesell - 15 Dec 1900 Salt Lake City, UT-30 Nov 1976 Spokane WA]

Mikesell, Florence V. - Passed away November 30, 1976 in Spokane.

Her home W629 33rd Ave.

Mother of Betty L. Erlandson, Loon Lake, Wash.; Della A. Binder, Spokane; Thelma F. Winters, Yakima, Wash.; Leslie A. Wood, Rockford, Wash.; James A. Mikesell, Spokane; 16 grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; sister of Grace Wells, Gooding, Idaho; Anita Walston, Bliss, Idaho.

A member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints. A resident of Spokane for 40 years.

Funeral services Friday, December 3, 1976 at 2 p.m. in the Gothic Chapel, Hazen & Jaeger Funeral Home, N1306 Monroe St. Burial at Spokane Memorial Gardens. 

[Photos were not with original obituary.]

  [George "Willard" Mikesell - 08 Sep 1893-21 Feb 1980]

POCATELLO -

George W. Mikesell, 86, Pocatello, a former Teton Basin resident, died Thursday morning at a Pocatello hospital.

He was born Sept. 8, 1893, at Kamas, Utah to Andrew J. and Harriet Osborn Mikesell.

At the age of 7, he moved with his family to Teton Basin where he was reared and educated. He also attended Washington State College.

In 1917, Mikesell enlisted In the U.S. Army and served in France during World War I in the 142nd Rainbow Division, under  General MacArthur. He received a Purple Heart.

Following his discharge from the Army, he was employed as a machinist by Union Pacific Railroad. He was later employed as a machinist at the Pocatello Naval Ordnance Plant, where he worked until his retirement.

Mikesell was a member of the LDS Church, Pocatello Post No. 4 American legion, and Pocatello Post No. 3 Disabled American Veterans.

He is survived by his widow, Della L. of Pocatello; a son, Hyrum W. Mikesell, of Pocatello; three daughters, Mrs. David H. (Emma Jo) Weller, Idaho Falls, Mrs. Donald (Wilma) Oler, Portland, Ore., and Mrs. William (Erma) Wade, Clearfield, Utah; two brothers, Ernest Mikesell, Spokane, and Walter Mikesell, Ogden, Utah; two sisters, Mae Dean of Spokane, and Lucille Bressler, Jackson Hole; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by four brothers and two sisters.

Services will be conducted Monday, 1 p.m. at the Henderson Funeral Chapel with Chester E. Dorsey, former bishop of the LDS 30th Ward, officiating. Military ritualistic services will be conducted by Pocatello Post No. 735.

[Photo not with original obituary. See Della's obituary below.]

   Obituary 1982   [Elmer George Aller - 01 Oct 1907-18 Jan 1982]

Elmer Aller died on Jan 18 in Blaine, Wash., while staying with his son, Warren Aller. 

Funeral services were held Saturday, Jan. 23, at 11 a.m. in the Bonners Ferry Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Wayne Bell officiating.  Burial was held in the Grandview Cemetery.

He was born Oct. 1, 1907 in Camas, Idaho, to George and Sara Aller.  He attended schools in southern Oregon, where he lived until 1933. 

On Sept 1, 1934, he married Marjorie McDole in Lewiston, Idaho.  They lived and farmed eastern Washington and Oregon. 

In 1935 they had twin daughters, Jane and June, in Lewiston.  In 1937, the Allers moved to the Wenatchee area where a son, David, was born in 1941. In 1944, they moved to Copeland, Idaho, to farm, and another son, Warren, was born in Bonners Ferry. Aller continued to farm until 1966, when he retired.  He has lived with his children until his death.

Elmer Aller was preceded in death by his wife, Marjorie, in 1966 and also by two great-grandchildren.  He is survived by twin daughters, Jane Irons of Boston, Mass., and June Heinemann of Bonners Ferry; two sons, David C. Aller of Bonners Ferry and E. Warren Aller of Blaine, Wash.; 14 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. 

[Photo not with original obituary.]

  Unknown newspaper obituary, 30 Jan 1983    [Walter Hyrum Mikesell, 29 Jan 1896-28 Jan 1983] Washington Terrace - Ogden, Weber County, Utah Walter Hyrum Mikesell, 85, of 4712 S. 475 W., died Friday, Jan. 28, 1983, in an Ogden nursing home. He was born Jan. 29, 1896, in Kamas, Utah, a son of Andrew Jackson and Harriet Osborn Mikesell. He married Katie Marie Jones Sept. 2, 1919, in St. Anthony, Idaho.  The marriage was later solemnized in the Logan LDS Temple.  She died in July of 1966. He then married Anina Evans in November of 1969 in the Logan LDS Temple.  She died July 3, 1975. He retired as a civilian guard at Hill Air Force Base after 25 years of service.  He also worked for the Railroad Ranch in Teton Basin, Idaho, and had worked for the Clark Seed Co., and the Idaho Industrial School in St. Anthony. He was reared and educated in Teton Basin, Idaho, where he later farmed. He had also lived in St. Anthony, moving to Ogden area in 1943. He was a veteran of World War 1, having served in the Army.  He was a member of the American Legion and the disabled American Veterans.  He was a high priest in the Washington Terrace LDS 10th Ward, and had served as a home teacher in the Washington Terrace LDS 2nd Ward. He organized the first Little League Baseball team in Washington Terrace, and was instrumental in organizing other recreational programs in Washington Terrace. He is survived by three daughters: Mrs. John (Fern) Kay, Groton, Conn.; Mrs. David (Tennis) Hunt, Washington Terrace; Mrs. Leo (Sherry) Metz, Chandler, Ariz.; three stepsons and three stepdaughters: Lawrence Evans, Phoenix, Ariz.; Paul Evans, Ogden; Dee Evans of Colorado; Mrs. Larry (Barbara) Byington, Sunset; Mrs. Vern (Delores) Bingham, Ogdon; Mrs. Kent (Thelma) Nielson, Farmington. He was preceded in death by a son, Walter J. Mikesell. Also surviving are 19 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren; one brother and two sisters: Earnest Mikesell and Mrs. May Dean, both of Arizona, and Mrs. Lucille Bressler, Jackson, Wyo. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 11 a.m. at the Lindquist and Sons Colonial Chapel, with former Bishop James A. Carter of the Washington Terrace LDS 10th Ward officiating. Friends may call at the mortuary Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Monday one hour prior to services. Interment will be in the Washington Heights Memorial Park.

  Spokane Washington newspaper obituary  [Ernest "Ern" Jackson Mikesell - 25 Nov 1884-01 May 1986]

Mikesell, Ernest (101) -

Passed away May 1, 1986 in Spokane. 

Survived by two sisters, Mary L. Dean, Spokane, Lucille Bressler, Jackson, WY; numerous nieces and nephews. 

Member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. 

Funeral Service, Monday, May 5, 1986 at 2 p.m. Ball & Dodd Funeral Home - North, W5100 Wellesley, Rev. W.G. Wallace, officiating.  Private Interment, Chattaroy, Cemetery.

[Photo not with obituary]

  Obituary: Post Register, Friday 03 June 1988  [Della Leona (Aller) Mikesell - 07 Oct 1907-01 Jun 1988]

Della Leona Mikesell, 80, 4949 Joy, died Wednesday afternoon at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls.

She was born Oct. 7, 1907 in Lewiston, Utah, to Hyrum and Eliza Neilson Aller.  She attended schools in Star Valley, Wyo. and in Lewiston, Utah, where she graduated from Lewiston High School.

She  married George Willard Mikesell in October 1931 at Pocatello. He died Feb.21, 1980.

She enjoyed sewing and gardening.

She was a member of the LDS Church.

She is survived by one son, Hyrum W. Mikesell, Pocatello; three daughters, Mrs. Don (Wilma) Oler, Portland, Ore.; Mrs David (Emma Jo) Weller, Idaho Fails; Mrs. William (Erma) Wade, Clearfield, Utah; 14 grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchiIdren, three brothers, William, Jess and Kanzel Aller, all of Pocatello.  She was preceded In death by one brother and one sister.

Funeral services will be 2 pm Saturday in the Henderson Funeral Chapel 431 N 15th Ave. with Bishop D. Lee Merrill of the Pocatello LDS 33rd Ward conducting. The family will receive friends on Saturday from 1 pm until service time at the Henderson Funeral Home.  Burial will be in Mountainview Cemetery.

[See photo with her husband's obit above.] 

James Allen "Jim" Mikesell - 4 November 1927, Sam, Teton County, Idaho - 23 November 1992, Tualatin, Washington County, Oregon. James (Jim) Allen Mikesell was the son of Jefferson Osborn "Jeff" Mikesell and Florence Vivien (Allen) Mikesell, born in Sam, Idaho, November 4, 1927 and died on November 23, 1992 in Tualatin, Oregon. Sam was a small mining village located in the Teton Mountains.He grew up in southern Idaho, and moved to Mt. Kit Carson, near Spokane, Washington when he was around 12. While living there, the previously Mormon family was acquainted with the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and Jim was baptized on April 14, 1940. Jim had suffered from rheumatic fever as a child, but dropped out of school at age 16, and joined the Merchant Marines. He complained that he could not swim, and was seasick the entire time he served. He was a cook's helper, and seemed to spend most of his time peeling potatoes and upchucking over the side of the ship. He enlisted in the US Army at age 18 in December of 1945, and served in Europe as a mechanic, rifleman, and light tank driver, receiving an Army of Occupation Medal, and a World War II Victory Medal, until his honorable discharge as a corporal on September 27, 1948. He returned to the Pacific Northwest, earned his GED at Lewis and Clark High School in December 1948, and went to college at Oregon State College in Corvallis studying agriculture, near where his older brother, Ernie lived. After a couple years, his GI bill stopped and he returned to Spokane, where he met the love of his life, Wilma LeNeya Martinson Wahl and married her on the 30th of May 1952 in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington. Jim and Wilma and her little boy, Michael Wahl, welcomed a baby girl, Jaime Lee Mikesell in 1952. Jim retired from Northwest Bell Telephone Company with 27 years service in the plant and construction, and eventually as a manager. Because of his job, he and Wilma lived in many different towns. After retirement he enjoyed tinkering around the house, traveling, fishing, and playing with his grandchildren and his small poodle dog. He was a very kind, considerate family man. Jim was a deacon in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and enjoyed teaching an adult class in Sunday School. Surviving him were his wife, Wilma, his daughter Jaime, step-son, Mike, grandchildren Kevin and Colin Wahl, Jared and Rachel Musgrove, and four sisters, Betty Erlandson, Della Binder, Thelma Winters and Leslie Wood. He was preceded in death by his parents, and his brother, Ernest Mikesell.Addendum, a great granddaughter, LeNeya Rae Musgrove (daughter of Jared) was born after his death in 2005. Written October 17, 2011 by Jaime Mikesell Musgrove, Visit Jim's findagrave.com Memorial Page. See photo album.

   Lydia "Lucille" (Mikesell) Bressler - 23 Apr 1902 - 04 Oct5 1993                                 

  Jackson Wyoming newspaper obituary, 1993 

[Notice that date of death is given as Oct. 2.  Funeral Memorial program & Social Security Death Index give date of death as Oct. 4.]  

Services set for Thursday for Bressler -   Funeral services for Lydia Lucille Bressler, 91, a long-time resident of Jackson who died Oct. 2 at the St. Johns Nursing Home, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Jackson LDS church with Bishop Phillip Nethercott officiating. There will be a visitation at 1p.m.Thursday at the church.

Born April 23, 1902, in Chapin, Id., to Andrew and Harriett Osborn Mikesell, she married Lyle Bressler on Nov. 20, 1917, and moved to Jackson in 1932.

She was a member of the LDS church, a charter member of the Sour Doughs and cooked for many years for the area's dude ranches and the employees of Grand Teton National Park. She is said to have loved fishing, hunting and gardening.

She is survived by five sons, Roy Bressler of San Antonio, Tex., Bob Bressler of Star Valley Ranch, Wy., Jack Bressler of St. George, Utah, Vern Bressler of Jackson, and Dell Bressler of Red Bluff, Calif.; two daughters, May Luscher of Cardston, Alberta, Canada, and Maxine Jacobson of Alpine, Wyo.; one sister, May Dean of Spokane, Wash.; 20 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, one son, three sisters, nine brothers and two grandchildren.

Burial will be at Aspen Hill Cemetery The family requests donations be made to the St. John's Nursing Home in lieu of flowers. 

[Photos not with original obituaries.]

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