Utah, Here We Come!
This Utah city was the favorite vacation destination for the Wimmer children, who visited their grandparents and cousins there.
What is American Fork?
Lawrence raised these little yellow farm animals in his hatchery, carefully placing them in cardboard boxes.
What are chicks?
Lawrence would pile all eight family members into this vehicle for evening drives around Joseph City.
What is a Chrysler sedan?
This was Edna's unwanted nickname in high school.
What is Fredna?
This sibling served as president or counselor in church organizations for approximately 48 years.
Who is Myrleen?
This was the name of the grandparents whose home the children visited in Utah.
Who are Grandma and Grandpa Shelley?
Instead of turkey, the Wimmer family traditionally ate these birds for Thanksgiving dinner.
What are hens?
On some evening drives, the family would stop at Blancett's service station for this treat.
What is an ice cream treat?
This sibling made clocks out of tree trunks.
Who is Duane?
Lamon earned this professional license about 20 years after college.
What is a CPA license?
On a drive to Utah with Sharon and Myrleen, this sibling stopped on the side of the road to go to the bathroom behind some bushes, only to discover while going that there was a little archway in the bushes, visible to the road.
Who is Lamon?
The family grew this snack, removed the kernels from the cob with a wooden tool, and poured the kernels between buckets on windy days to remove the chaff.
What is popcorn?
The neighborhood children played this game at night in the street under the corner streetlight.
What is kick-the-can?
Edna remembers this brother as a high school basketball star whom the girls loved.
Who is Lamon?
Sharon and John spent approximately 49 years combined attending or working at this university.
What is Brigham Young University?
When Ethel took the children to Utah by bus because Lawrence couldn’t leave the farm, the children all experienced this, leaving Ethel scrambling to find containers.
What is motion sickness (or throwing up)?
Once when Ethel was picking cucumbers on the farm, she spotted this frightening animal and called to Lamon for help.
What is a rattlesnake?
As a child, Edna belonged to a club in which members brought this household item to someone's home and carved it into creations.
What is soap?
When this sibling was born on Halloween, Lawrence and Ethel had to wait for Holbrook's town Halloween parade to finish before they could get Ethel (who was in labor) to the hospital.
Who is Sharon?
Loran earned a high school sports letter playing this infield position for Holbrook High School.
What is Third Base?
These siblings currently live in Utah.
Who are Edna and Sharon?
When Sharon helped her mother prepare eggs for market, they washed and cleaned them in this special room on the Wimmer farm.
What is the egg room?
When the Wimmer kids wanted to have a dance, they sometimes cleaned out this place to make room for fun!
What is the neighbors’ garage?
When this sibling was just two years old, his five-year-old sister would lift him up so he could ring the new doorbell at their nearly completed new family home.
Who is Loran?
This sibling served in the Army in Germany, and later became a highly-awarded instrument technician for APS.
Who is Duane?