Meagan's Birthday

This picture was taken when Meagan moved me to Orem last May.  She has been such a wonderful granddaughter to me.  We had a nice talk.  She is so beautiful!!!

 

The Stewarts Visit

The Stewarts and friends are on their way to the Family Ranch in Wyoming and stopped to visit.

Such a beautiful family!

 

Mucus

A Good Chart to Save

It has bee very healthy.

 

Kelsi. The Athlete

James brought Kelsi up to BYU on Sunday for Sport Camp which starts Tuesday.  She took 2nd in Beginner Girls at 8.6.  While James was here

    

It was 95 degrees while they competed and just too hot to do too much.  Kelsi did not do any running this day even though that is one of her specialties, too.

Kelsi is right in the middle of this picture.  She said she really enjoyed this Sport Week at BYU.

While James and Kelsi were here we saw the new movie about Elvis and enjoyed it very much.  He died too soon.  it is so sad how stars are over worked and over drugged and die young.  Too many people making money on their talent.

 

Ron Martin Obituary

Ron Martin was the new Bishop in Clear Creek Ward when I moved to Lake Almanor, CA in March of 1999.  He soon called me to be Relief |Society President and we had a good working relationship.  He was truly a caring Bishop of this small ward.  It became so small it was later changed to a Branch.  This was due to the destruction of the logging industry by enviromentalists.  His wife Jean soon became a dear friend.  After I had been out in the field for several months in my new job as a Disaster Reservist Loan Officer in 2001 I was released.  He continued to see that I  always had wood in my wood bin for as long as I lived there.  It was so sad to hear about the dementia taken over his life.

Official Obituary as printed in the Plumas News.

Ron Martin passed away quickly and peacefully on Saturday, July 2, 2022, after enduring a few tough years of dementia. Services will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints chapel in Clear Creek, 3384 CA-147 Westwood, CA 96137, Saturday, July 9, 2022, at 11:00 am. He is survived by his wife Jean; sons Scott (Nichole) and Greg (Lorie); grandchildren Portia, Kendrick, Morgan (Jordan), Paige, Trevor, Calista, Brooklyn and Amelia; great-grandchildren Shane, Kodiak and Callen; and his sisters Norma and Kathy. He is preceded in death by his sister Donna.

Ron’s childhood was spent in northern Idaho with some of his teen years in southern California and Washington. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1956 at the age of 17. He was honorably discharged in 1960. While in the Air Force he played on the Air Force tennis team and flew all over the States in the back of cargo planes to get to his tennis tournaments. He was also on the Air Force Pistol team. Most of his stay in the service was at the Condon, Oregon, radar base where he was a draftsman. He was proud to report that while serving on the radar base no Russian bombers made it through their radar defense and America was safe for the years that he was there. Post-Air Force, he worked in the alarm industry in southern California and in the Bay Area. In the spring of 1979, he moved his family to Prattville. In 1980, he got a job at the Collins Pine sawmill. Later in 1980, he started his own alarm company. He went full time with his alarm company from 1985 until his retirement in December 2016. He had a busy retirement working around the house and chasing the grandchildren in all their varied activities.

His favorite pastimes were cooking large breakfasts, hunting, fishing, dirt biking, geocaching and serving in his local church. Most of his fishing was done with his sons on Butt Creek. His other fishing spots were Yellow and Soda creeks with his close friend Tony. His hunting was mostly done locally from Ohio Valley to Mud Creek Rim overlooking Chester, with many favorite secret places in between. He also spent many years traveling to Wyoming on elk hunts with his family buddy, Evan. He never brought home much meat but he had a ball with Evan in Wyoming. One summer he ran a small fishing camp up in Alaska where one of his clients was the famous Miami Dolphin, Larry Csonka. If you had the chance to go outdoors with Ron you found out quick that you needed to suffer and sacrifice while fishing or hunting or you were not be doing it right. You never sat while fishing or came back dry. Prime fishing was while you stood in the snow. Hunting was the same. Hunting tree blinds that would put your legs to sleep and you went into the hunting area by flashlight and left by flashlight. No sitting while dirt biking or racing.

He married his wife, Jean on June 22nd, 1962, and they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary just the other day.

Ron was 82 at his passing and stated to his family a few times he never thought he would live this long. He had a great run. When he did something, he was all in and would take anything to the bitter end. His memory faded pretty fast at the end and to get him talking and visiting at the last you had to go back in his memories 40 to 50 years to catch a spark from the past and fan it into a grand story where he would say repeatedly, “Those were the good ol’ days!”

He loved to shoot the bull and loved hearing others speak of their exploits. You did not need to know Ron long to know him well and he will be missed by all.

We say goodbye to Ron in the flesh but we race on, run on, work hard, love much and appreciate the day as we have his memories and stories still with us. To those examples, experiences, memories and stories we will never say goodbye to, but will be able say, “These are the good ol’ days.”

Thanks to all that knew him. You were all part of his long life.

Sincerely,

The Martin Family

Rowan Finn Torsak

Kelly is looking so tired but Rowan looks content.  First babies are a challenge to new Moms, how well I remember.   So sweet a boy.

 

Baby Cohen

 

Carole at Silver Gate

Jon caught a great picture of Carole with Index Mountain and Pilot in the background.

 

Cheri's House

Cheri is the granddaughter of Mom's sister Elenora.  She shared the beauty of the flag flying on the 4th of July.

 

Dementia Diary to the Rescue

 Marilyn's Calendar which I keep up for her.  Steven created it from a App called Dementia Diary.  A man had created it for his own Mom or Grandma.  Jeanne has one, too, and it really helps for them to stay in control of their life by knowing what is happening that day.  A tablet sits by their TV Screen and it shows just one day at a time and shows the events and moves down the tablet as things occur.

Cohen and Rowan

January baby Cohen and May baby Rowan.