STEELE, Wanda-[79] ^{2 3 4 5}

   Ancestral File Number: 2NGD-V1.

   General Notes:

This was written by Wanda Steele Cox in 1963 for the book, "Memoirs of Mahonri Moriancumer Steele, Jr."

I am number eleven in a family of 12, one being stillborn. I weigh 123 pounds and am 5 feet, 3 inches tall, have light brown hair and blue eyes. In my younger days I was plagued with a generous supply of freckles, but thanks to modern makeup, I have been able to disguise them somewhat.

I was born in Junction, Piute, Utah where the family had moved to put the older children in school. The family moved to Murdock Academy in Beaver, Utah. Next, we pushed on to Delta, Millard County, Utah where a new frontier was opening up. All of my schooling in the grades was at Sutherland, about five miles west of Delta, Utah. I lived at my oldest sister's home the last three years of grade school. When I reached high school, I had to stop and work. I worked as seed analyst for the Norhrup King Seed Co. The company sent me to Idaho to work one season and one season in Salt Lake. This work was usually finished by New Year's, so I went back and finished high school. I worked in the summer at D. Stevems Co. dry goods store and saved my money and went on to college at the Branch Agriculural College in Cedar City, Utah. There I met my husband Rufus Reid Cox.

After a year of teacher training at Brigham Young University, I taught second grade in Delta, and in the spring of 1937 Reid and I were married. We lived in Cedar with his sister, Inez and brother Ted for six mjonths, then went to Denver, Colorado where Reid worked on a civil service job making maps fom arial photographs. We were happy there and we always called it our honeymoon. We later moved to Cedar City, and Reid went into conracting and building houses with his Uncle John S. Hamilton. We lived with Inez until 1948 when we moved into a lovely white frame house we had built after working hours, on a lot just north of Inez's. We are still here and enjoying every inch of it.

During the Second World War, Reid taught math and shop in the high school. During the Cadet Training Program, he taught at the B.A.C.and was later offered a job as building and grounds supervisor. He still has the same job but it is on a larger scale; his title is Chairman of the Division of Plant Operations.

I have worked in the presidency of the Primary and MIA, been chorister in the Primary and Relief Society; filled a one and one-half year Stake Mission and now teach in the MIA. Reid and I have been ordinance workers in the St. George Temple for evening sessions for twenty-one years. We still go twice a monh to do this work.

Reid was in the bishopric when I married him. He has been in the Stake Presidency and a member of the High Council in the Parowan and Cedar Sakes for fifteen years. At present he is the Stake Mission President. In 1951-52 I went back to school and earned my Bachelor of Science degree and a teaching certificate.

I enjoy oil painting, photography and cake decorating. We have four lovely children. Mary Lyona is teaching first grade in Lehi, Utah. John Reid is in the East Central States Mission for the Church. Charlote is a senior in high school and Nellie is a sophomore.

   Research Notes:

BIRTH: UT, Piute, Junction. Panguitch Ward Records - Junction, FHL film 026392: 2 Apr 1911.

Birth certificate, State of Utah: 2 Apr 1911.

1919 BAPTISM: UT, Millard, Sutherland. Sutherland Ward record, FHL film 6525: 3 Aug 1919.

1937 MARRIAGE: UT, Sanpete, Manti. Manti Temple record: 16 Jun 1937. [License, Fillmore, Millard, Utah.] [Fiftieth wedding anniversary open house June 13, 1987 at the home of John Cox, 835 North 350 East, American Fork, Utah.]

1937 SEALING_SPOUSE: UT, Sanpete, Manti. Manti Temple records: 16 Jun 1937l

1992 DEATH: UT, Utah, American Fork. Phone call from Jeniel Judd Fugal stating that Aunt Wanda died 8 Nov 1992. Funeral in American Fork, Utah.

Christmas letter from Nellie Cox Rowley 1 Dec 1992.

Wanda married Rufus Reid COX-[89] [MRIN:48] on 16 Jun 1937 in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, USA.¹ (Rufus Reid COX-[89] was born on 16 Apr 1909 in Hamilton's Fort, Iron, Utah, USA, died on 19 May 1995 in Mapleton, Utah, Utah, USA and was buried on 23 May 1995 in American Fork, Utah, Utah, USA.)

   Marriage Notes:

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