- Calpurna BURTON was born [on 29 August, 1900], in the little town of Afton, Wyoming. There she received her schooling through high school. She also received her religious training in her home and in the ward. Her father was in the Stake Presidency for 27 years. During that time, many of the General Authorities of the Church spent time in her father's home when they came for quarterly conferences. It was in her father's home that Hyrum G. Smith, Patriarch of the Church gave her her patriarchal blessing. These visitors made a profound impression on her.
She attended summer school in the summer of 1913, in Laramie, Wyoming, and filled her first teaching contract when she was eighteen years old.
She married Lyman Wilford Fluckiger on June 5, 1924,[ in the Salt Lake Temple, Utah.] They had four children, three sons, and one daughter. [Hubert Burton Fluckiger, 29 Mar 1925, Afton, Lincoln, WY; Don Burton Fluckiger on 17 Feb, 1927, Afton; Louise Fluckiger, 27 Mar 1929, Afton; and Lyman Burton Fluckiger, 27 May, 1930, also Afton, Lincoln, WY.]
When Hubert enlisted in the Navy, Calpurna went back to teaching. She taught school in Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada. She taught a total of twenty-eight years in the grade schools. Calpurna received her B.S. Degree from the Branch Ag. College at Cedar City, in the spring of 1954.
Calpurna has served as Counselor in the Primary, Mutual, and Relief Society. She had nearly always had a teaching job in one of the auxiliaries of the Church.
When Lyman and Calpurna returned from their mission to Georgia in the Southern States, they again took up their work as officiators in the St. George Temple. Calpurna had the privilege of taking her granddaughter, Joyce Stirling, through the initiatory ordinances at the time of Joyce's marriage to Don Brotherton, December 28, 1972. Many of Lyman and Calpurna's Star Valley friends came for the winter to do Temple work and live in the Temple apartments in St. George, Utah.
Calpurna writes, at the time, "It is good to have our daughter, Louise Stirling, and her family living near us here in Leeds. We enjoy our home. We love our fireplace and our gardens.
Now in November, 1973, our roses are prettier than they have been all summer and the mums and marigolds and zennias are in full bloom. We are happy that our fruit jars are all full. We had a wonderful fruit crop here in Utah's Dixie. We farm our acres near our home: we have 3 calves, 14 sheep, 6 hens, and 2 porkers getting fat. As our grandchildren get married, we have had several new grandchildren in-laws added to our family. We find ourselves promoted to the status of great grandparents with three little great granddaughters joining our family. Our family is growing. We are proud and pleased with them all."
[this life history was taken from the book, "The Family of William Wilkinson DIXON and Sabra LAKE Dixon (these are Calpurna's maternal great grandparents), compiled by Robert Boyd Jackson, 1983)]
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Writings in Sept. 1993--Calpurna's earliest recollection, of her life, extends back to infancy, when she tried to give away her baby sister, Helen, to a lady visiting the family. Calpurna got Helen's hood and coat, then cried when Mrs. Bruce didn't take Helen; [ I must have been jealous of her]. Years later, when Aunt Sarah said she was taking Elsa Mae home, Calpurna set up such a wail as to put a coyote to shame.
Oct, 1933 - Dixon [Arthur Dixon, Calpurna's older brother] was the only boy in the family for 19 years. Since the family always had some large freight horses and several cows, Mama didn't like to have him go about his work alone, so Calpurna was always sent to be with him.
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1900 - 1978 (77 år)
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