Mida DASTRUP

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Called Lydia in the 1930 census. Called Mina in the Utah Cemetery Inventory. That Inventory says that her mother was Minnie Snow.

Buried:
Grave location B.20.15.03

Mida married Joseph B JOHNSON on 28 Jan 1914 in Manti, Sanpete County, Utah. Joseph (son of Martin Johannesen JOHNSON and Anne Marie Olsdatter) was born on 20 Nov 1890 in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah; died on 18 Mar 1976 in Salt Lake City, Utah; was buried on 22 Mar 1976 in Richfield City Cemetery, Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
Grave location B.20.15.01

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The Johnsons’ only daughter, named Gwendolyn, is listed in the 1920 census as five months old.

In the 1930 census, the daughter named Gwendolyn is 6 years old and Maggie B is 10 years old.

The information presented here for Gwendoyn is from the Maurine Anderson Family Tree on Ancestry.com.

Gwen and Phillip had four children.

Her obit from the Provo newspaper, included in her Find A Grave entry, created by Connor:

Gwen Johnson Christensen passed away in Provo, Utah on April 16, 2007. She was born September 1, 1919, in Sigurd, Utah, to Joseph B. and Milda Dastrup Johnson. On June 19, 1941, she married Phillip V. Christensen in New Orleans, Louisiana. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple.

Gwen was born with a unquenchable thirst for knowledge and an ardent love of reading. She enjoyed school and took particular pleasure in drama. In grade school she recruited her friends to portray Tarzan and Jane from the treetops. In junior high school she wrote and produced her first play and continued to act, write and produce throughout high school. She worked her way through college and graduated from Brigham Young University with high honors. Completing a double major in English, Speech and Dramatic Arts, she also obtained a teaching degree. She met her husband-to-be, Phil, while they were both acting in plays.

As a young bride during World War II, Gwen worked in New Orleans at the Port of Embarkation. Since she had acted in plays all her life, she possessed a remarkable memory and was once investigated by a major in the Army as a spy because she had unintentionally memorized long numbers and secret codes. Imagine the major's surprise when he learned that the FBI already had a full dossier on Gwen since she was married to an FBI agent.

In her spare time, Gwen continued acting, presenting a three-act play in the French Quarter. After living and working in Indiana and New Jersey, Phil and Gwen were transferred to Los Angeles, California. They then moved to Utah so Phil could take over the family law business. By this time Gwen had begun a new role in life, that of a mother to a son and later three daughters.

People were Gwen's passion, and she loved serving others whether it was offering a needed shoulder to cry on or sponsoring families from a foreign country. As a member of The LDS Church, Gwen was Relief Society President many times, her first experience when she was in her early twenties. She completed a stake mission and two missions with her husband: one in Greece, where they served as international missionaries and one to Missouri, where they were Directors of the Independence Visitors' Center. She served as a temple worker in the Provo LDS Temple for many years and was active in the PTA all during her children's school years.

She was a wonderful, loving mother to one son, Bryce Christensen (wife Elizabeth), and three daughters; Mrs. Scott (Betty) Briggs, Mrs. William (Ann) Bunker and Mrs. Michael (Mary) Patterson. She was also loved and will be sorely missed by fifteen grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren. She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Dennis (Beth) Bradshaw and was preceded in death by a brother, Hugh Johnson.

Gwendolyn married Phillip Van Buren CHRISTENSEN on 19 Jun 1941 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Phillip was born on 23 Oct 1911 in Utah; died on 4 Aug 1988 in Utah; was buried in Manti Cemetery, Manti, Sanpete County, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1920 census, the Johnsons’ only daughter was named Gwendolyn, age 5 months.

In the 1930 census, the daughter named Gwendolyn is 6 years old and Maggie B is 10 years old.

Maggie married Dennis Bitton BRADSHAW on 12 Sep 1950 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dennis was born on 22 Jan 1927; died on 16 Jun 2014 in California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Kimball, a friend to everyone he met, passed away at 5:30 a.m., September 25. He was a grizzly old bachelor who spent most of his life engaged in physical activities: work and play. He was a long-distance runner, using both workplace and his beloved hills as his racecourse. But his runs were always solitary.

His working life was also one of physical vigor, working as a custodian for the University of Utah for almost 20 years, working on machining equipment at both Easton Aluminum and Black Diamond. He also did temporary custodial work for the Salt Palace and South Towne Exposition Center. He also kept his mind active reading scholarly books of many technical and historical subjects.

He was the first of the three children born by his mother, Beth J. Bradshaw, deceased 2011. He is survived by his siblings, Daniel Reed Bradshaw, and Claudia B. Herrera, and by his father, Dennis B. Bradshaw, (Of course, there are also nieces and nephews who survive him.)

At his request, there will be no funeral service and no viewing. Kimball will be cremated and his ashes will be scattered on the hills that he loved to run.