Oral history interview with Cleona Larsen Remington about Cleona's husband, Walter Page Remington by Lapoint Elementary School sixth grader Monique Greedhead [Transcript]

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Title Oral history interview with Cleona Larsen Remington about Cleona's husband, Walter Page Remington by Lapoint Elementary School sixth grader Monique Greedhead [Transcript]
Creator Remington, Walter Page; Remington, Cleona
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 1987-04-05
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-05-02
Spatial Coverage Lapoint, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5777061/lapoint.html
Subject Baseball; Boy Scouts; Children; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Death; Family; Fishing; Friends; Golf; Humor; Leatherwork; Mountains; Personal narratives; Picnics; Philosophy; Ranching; Reading; Sports; University of Utah; Utah. State Road Commission; Woodworking; Yellowstone National Park; Youth; Salt Lake City, Utah; Uintah County (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Lapoint Elementary School sixth grader Monique Greedhead with Cleona Larsen Remington about Cleona's husband, Walter Poage Remington. Topics include: Walter's appearance and demeanor; His love of reading and participation in scouting and youth programs; Having lots of friends; Loving his family; Setting a good example for his children; His disciplinary philosophy; Taking his family of picnics in the mountains; Going fishing; Playing baseball and other games; Traveling to Yellowstone; Walter's good sense of humor and love of sports; Serving his community, country, and church; Ranching; Working for the State Road Commission; Supervising the maintenance of University of Utah buildings; Walter's love of working with wood and leather, cooking, and barbecuing; Walter's mother's death when he was age fifteen; Attending school in Salt Lake City; Enjoying golf; Walter's desire to become a doctor, but unable to afford medical school; and his kind and caring way of caring for those in need.
Collection Number and Name Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 3 leaves
Language eng
Rights
Source Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s6xfj4k0
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2535920
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xfj4k0
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