Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: 1910, Provo, Utah, Utah, USA

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Sherman was born on 24 January 1908 in Provo, Utah. After marrying Evelyn, they moved to Alaska where they homesteaded property. He was a weather bureau meteorologist for the United States government and then he owned a chainsaw sales & service business, later adding outboard motors and Boston Whaler boat sales and service. After Evelyn (Sid's) death on 2 May 1947, he left his daughters: Joy, Judy and Janet to live with Evelyn's sister June in Montana. After 9 months, June wrote him a letter asking to adopt the girls. He immediately had them sent alone by train to Pocatello, Idaho, where he met them and they returned to Alaska. Soon, they had a new mother. Sherman Married Hazel Luella Reisewitz on 2 April 1948 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Additional children included Nina Hazel, Dawn Eileen, Lizette Phoebe, Erna LaRae, Rada Luella, and Marion Alys. Hazel died 24 March 1989. Sherman died of congestive heart failure 12 December 1992.

John blev gift med Hazel Luella Reisewitz den 2 apr. 1948 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Hazel (datter af Franz Ernst Reisewitz og Nina Bentley) blev født den 8 feb. 1917 i Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA; døde den 24 mar. 1989 i Douglas, Juneau, Alaska, USA; blev begravet den 1 apr. 1989 i Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

John blev gift med Evelyn Joy Pitman den 28 aug. 1934 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Evelyn (datter af George Finley Pitman og Elvene Sophia Anderson) blev født den 15 nov. 1913 i Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, USA; døde den 2 maj 1947 i Grass Range, Fergus, Montana, USA; blev begravet den 5 maj 1947 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Dawn blev gift med Arthur Keith Pendlebury den 10 nov. 1978 i Manti, Sanpete, Utah, USA. Arthur (søn af James Edward Pendlebury og Gladys Eileen Delilah Crawford) blev født den 18 jun. 1947 i Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada; døde den 9 dec. 2015 i Fort Saskatchewan, Strathcona, Alberta, Canada. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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The years continue to go by. At 5 the local school which had just finished a new grade school had a community activity. We all got to go and get a polio shot. Judy wanted her shot in one dose so they gave me one dose too, instead of a little in each bum cheek. I remember shuffling out to the car for the ride home because I couldn’t lift my foot off the floor, for the pain.
In fourth grade we had just come home from a summer in Montana. The dress I wore in the school picture in one Aunt June bought me. She wanted to give me a perm. The “in” style was a poodle cut, and I didn’t want one. So she bought me this beautiful dress with colored “cheerios” all over it. She told me it would be just perfect to have a hair style to go with the dress. So I got a nice new dress and a perm.
Daddy (Sherm) started a chain saw business in 1952. It progressed from the front porch to a little place in down town Juneau. I remember his chain saw tree (that he invented), and learned to help him by sharpening chain saw blades. Dad also went together with a company in California for a chainsaw mill he'd invented. I would lift it to show people that even a 10 year old girl could lift it. I helped him with that until I was about 14 and vanity arrived. What girl wants hands cut up from chain saw blades?
We went to 4-H and learned to bake and sew. Over the years I have sewed most of my party dresses and my wedding dress. My first party dress was a hand me down from Judy. We got nice dresses for the Green and Gold Balls at church. In fourth grade I met Loreen Oyler. We were best of friends and when her family fell apart we were able to have her come and live with us. There is more to tell on that but we will put it in her own story. I changed her name from Loreen to Lori and we did almost everything together. I went to her church with her and she went with me to mine. We sang songs together at school assemblies. We shared clothes and were a solid support to each other. After about a year the Social Services came and moved her because our house was too small and had too many children as well as other considerations we didn’t feel were justified as we didn’t want to lose her. She had become one of the girls.

After a year of school in Springville, Utah living with my father’s sister Pete (Phebe) I went to Idaho and helped Joy complete her boards from beauty school. When we finished there we went up and spent the rest of the summer with June and Ed at the ranch. Joy had a lot of fun playing with my hair. We decided that with my olive skin I didn’t make a very good red head, so I became a blonde. We rode horses and camped up Porcupine Canyon. I enjoyed the horse - Pete - very much and like riding him though I didn’t know how very well. No one ever taught us to be with horses and as much as I love them, I am also a bit afraid of them.. Judy arrived with a group who came South for Youth Conference in Vancouver, BC. They stopped at the ranch and left Judy and took Joy and me back to Alaska.

I graduated from Juneau-Douglas High School 22 May 1964. I worked as an office girl through out the summer and attended Sheldon Jackson Jr. College in Sitka, Alaska school year of 1964-65. I attended Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah winter of 1965-66 and after a few of life’s vicissitudes ended up at the Ranch again. I moved into an apartment down the hall from my Grandmother Pitman. It was a wonderful time getting to know her better. Whenever I would go out for job interviews she would dress me up. Fancy dresses and high heels and bows. I told her it was an interview not a party. Her reply was “ they’re men aren’t” I couldn’t argue because I got the job. It was a very friendly office and they all helped me get ready for my mission. I received a mission call December 1966 and left for the Northern Far East Mission in February 1967. Judy met me in Salt Lake City and went to the temple with me. I attended a week of classes with church leaders and went straight to Tokyo, Japan.
My first week was in Tokyo attending a missionary conference. President Adney Y. Komatsu was our Mission President. His wife told us it didn’t snow in Tokyo, so then of course it did. Sister Gushikin had just arrived from Okinawa and had never seen snow. She wandered all over the garden and looked up to see the snow, it was such a wonder to her. President Komatsu had to catch up with her to put a coat on her, she didn’t even realize it was cold.
My first area was Kyoto. The first week I caught a cold and we attended church in an old Japanese house, so I spent the day on a futon on the kitchen floor in front of a heater. What a way to begin anything. My first companion was Sister Janet Lang, from Las Vegas, Nevada. TK From Kyoto I transferred to Hiroshima, where the A-bomb was dropped in 1945. It had a very western feel to it and moves at faster pace than the other places in Japan I have visited. This is a picture of Hiroshima Jo (Hiroshima Castle) Most of the Jo’s you’d see in Japan look a lot like it. Some have more or less stories, but the basic shape is the same.
My first companion in Hiroshima was Marilyn Miller, 5’10”. She was always turning heads. One day a car with two gentlemen drove by, looked at her and drove into a ditch.. She went home and my next companion was Kiyoko Nakagawa who came back to American with me when my mission was over. From Hiroshima I transferred to Nagoya, and North Tokyo, Central Tokyo.At Central the building was an old Japanese Mansion.

Sister Tanner with large rock with red veins. Was offered $10,000. for this rock. The rules to build in Tokyo is a minimum of 5 stories. They have now built a new building which houses a stake center, a mission home, and other office space; these two items have been incorporated in the décor.

The large monument was created for a young girl who died from radiation sickness. According to tradition if you make 1,000 paper cranes you wouldl be healed. She made over 800 from when she got sick until she died. Now each year the school children make cranes and hang them in streamers to be hung under the center of the monument. While I was in Japan I helped to make 1,000 cranes to send my brother, John and Donna for their wedding.

I returned home from my mission February, 1969 and worked in Bozeman until July. Kiyoko Nakagawa came with me. Then she went back to Japan and I went to Hawaii and visited Elder William D. League who had returned from his mission in May 1969. We became engaged July 12, 1969 and married 1 August 1970 at Idaho Falls, Idaho. We were blessed with three wonderful children: Genji Tanner League 18 November 1972 - Hof, West Germany in Hof Stat krankenhouse. Married Mia Kerensia Wolfe 15 July 1995 Juneau, Alaska. Sealed 15 October 1996 - Seattle, Washington

Janet blev gift med William Donaldson League den 1 aug. 1970 i Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, USA. William (søn af Milton Jackson League og Jane Toshiye Sakamoto) blev født den 18 maj 1946 i Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; døde den 24 okt. 2016 i Juneau, Juneau, Alaska, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Obituary: 29 jul. 2006, Bellevue, King, Washington, USA
• Obituary: 13 aug. 2006, Alaska, USA

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Joy was petite, with almost black hair, sparkling brown eyes and deep dimples. She was strikingly beautiful.

Joy Evelyn Tanner was born to John Sherman Tanner and Evelyn Joy Pitman 30 May 1943 in Anchorage, Alaska. Her family moved to Juneau, Alaska the following year, where she grew up in their homestead located at Auke Bay. She had 1 brother, John and two younger sisters: Judy and Janet. Her mother died when she was almost 4 and her father married Hazel Luella Reisewitz (2 April 1948) and she then got 5 more younger sisters: Nina, Dawn, Lizette, Rayda and Marion (Mae).
She married Thomas William Bearman 27 December 1964 In Raymond, Washington. They eventually settled in Auburn, Washington and had 5 children: Joanne Lynn 16 April 1966, Debra Suzanne 23 February 1976, Rebecca Joy 26 October 1970, Charles Ragnar 1 April 1972 and Michael James 13 August 1973. Their family was sealed in the Logan Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1 August 1979.
Joy died after a 15 year long struggle with Liver, Lung and Heart Disease 25 July 2006 (Age 63) while at the beach with her loving family in Gearhart, Oregon and is buried in Auburn, Washington.
Joy was an incredible lady. Throughout her lifetime she has known and touched the lives of so many. She lived life to its absolute fullest. She gave 110% toward everything she did. Her life demonstrated the scripture, by small and simple things, great things are brought to pass. Her drive, determination, and energy were a marvel to behold. Her attitude was infectious and she made people smile.
To say she magnified her church callings and assignments, doesnt do justice to the effort she put into them. No matter what was asked of her, she jumped in with both feet without complaint. She embraced each new challenge with excitement and zeal. When she was a Ward Missionary, she wore her badge everywhere, and never missed an opportunity to share the gospel. She had several companions at once, since she was always available and eager to do the work.
As a teacher in Young Womens. Every Sunday after church she would personally visit the home of each girl not in attendance that day, to give her own, individual lesson.
She was also an ever faithful Visiting Teacher and Home Teaching companion to her husband, Tom. No matter her struggles she was always serving and helping those in need. In fact, with all that was happening in her life, her last months visits were a priority and her assignments were fulfilled. Church service was such a large and beautiful part of her life. Among them all, perhaps her two very favorite church callings were Primary Chorister, since she loved music and children, and Gospel Doctrine teacher, as she loved discussing the restored gospel of Christ.
Perhaps her greatest missionary accomplishment was during the first 13 years of her marriage. Tom was not an active member of the church when they married. Joy never missed a Sunday. After the kids came along she continued to set a tireless example. Attending church with five children created quite the challenge to her, yet she never wavered.
Joy did indeed love her family. Mike and Charles were such a handful that at one point it was suggested that she stop coming to church until her boys learned how to behave a little better. Yet through all these challenges she endured and remained a faithful example to us all, praying every night with her children, for Dad to return to church. During an interview with the stake president, she was promised that if she doubled her fast offerings and temple offerings, that her husband would, indeed, return to church. She faithfully followed this counsel, and her prayers were answered. The members of the ward were very grateful when dad starting coming to church, as the two boys became instantly better behaved.
Joy was also very protective of her children. Her children were the best kids in the world, and she would say as much to anyone willing to listen. Joys love and acceptance was not limited to her family. She welcomed everyone into her home, accepting them, encouraging them, and making that little home on 18th street a safe haven for all. Her famous chocolate chip cookies certainly encouraged friends to stop by as well.
Joy baked pies and delicious brown bread as well. The children often asked who the baking was for, in hopes that they would get to keep some of the treats for themselves. All too often, it seemed, these special treats went right out the door to some other lucky recipient.
Joy loved music, art, plays, and all things beautiful and artistic. She instilled in all of her children a love for the theatre. From the time they were very young she was directing plays. All of the children performed in various plays she directed. She directed plays for church, was stage manager for semi-professional productions, and directed various elementary school plays around Auburn. She loved helping people show their talents and had a talent of bringing out the best in them. Her last calling in the church was as the cultural arts director.
Joy had an absolutely beautiful voice. The sound of vocal scales and singing was common in her home. She sang many solos in the chapel building, and sang professionally at various churches in the area. She loved to sing and created deep and lasting friendships with her singing groups and accompanists. Her voice could be heard during every congregational hymn in church.
Joy also loved making people look beautiful. The family home regularly smelled of Apple Pectin perm solution. There were always people there getting hair cuts, perms, and colorings. She even gave free haircuts to all missionaries in our area. She continued doing hair up to the week she passed away. She touched many people through her service to them with her beautician skills.
Joy struggled for many years with her health (she lived 15 years beyond the doctors predictions). As with everything in her life, she went about taking care of this problem with energy, determination and stubbornness. She refused to accept everything the doctors expected of her. She explored all kinds of natural and holistic healing. Some were very helpful to her, while others were less so.
Joys grandchildren grew up being very familiar with her natural oils. She had an oil for every occasion. She even wore them as perfume. If she overheard that one of the grandkids had a bump, or scrape, a bug bite, or an upset stomach, Joy would apply oils liberally. After each visit they came away smelling like grandma.
Joy was an awesome grandma! She could have been a professional! She loved and adored all 22 of her grandchildren. She spoiled each of them and made them all feel individually special. Every year there was a family reunion at a beach house in Gearhart, Oregon. Her last year, Joy knew that she wouldnt be with the family for Christmas, and did not want to miss seeing her grandchildren open their gifts from her. She spent months shopping and sewing in preparation. Even when not feeling well, she worked and worked up until leaving for the vacation at the beach. Thanks to her amazing efforts, the family had Christmas in July with her. The joy she had being surrounded by her grandkids was evident in her beaming eyes. Joys eyes always had happiness and love in them and were the window to her soul. At her funeral most of her granddaughters were there, all wearing dresses or skirts sewn by their grandmother.
During her very last moments on earth, Joy was spending time with her family. She passed away, surrounded by, and talking with, those she loved most -- those who all love, adore, and admire her. She was a wonderful mother, grandmother, and wife. She recently mentioned that she is extremely grateful that she can continue to be a grandma in heaven. Charlie & his wife had a stillborn daughter named Faith, who is no doubt overjoyed to see her grandmother.

Joy blev gift med Thomas William Bearman den 27 dec. 1964 i Raymond, Pacific, Washington, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: ml. 1 jan. 2000 og 12 dec. 2001, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
• Obituary: 15 dec. 2001, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA

John blev gift med Donna Jean Criddle den 3 jun. 1968 i St Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, USA. Donna (datter af Charles Henry Criddle og Ethel May Allen) blev født den 10 nov. 1939 i St Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, USA; døde den 3 okt. 1989 i Seattle, King, Washington, USA; blev begravet den 7 okt. 1989 i Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]