Orvil Edwin Beckstrand

1896 - 1993  (96 years)  Submit Photo / Document    Has more than 100 ancestors and 3 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Orvil Edwin Beckstrand
  Birth	20 Aug 1896	Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States
  Gender	Male
  Census	1900	Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States
  Image Transcript Ln Hhold Given Surname Relation Gender Race BirthDate Age Status Years Married Children Born/Living BirthPlace BirthPlace of Father BirthPlace of Mother Immigration Year Occupation 47 1813 John A Beckstrand Head Male White Mar 35 Married 0 Utah Sweden Sweden 48 1813 Mary E Beckstrand Wife Female White Oct 35 Married 0 Utah England England 49 1813 Morela J Beckstrand Son Male White Apr 6 Single 0 Utah Utah Utah 50 1813 Orvil E Beckstrand Son Male White Aug 3 Single 0 Utah Utah Utah 1 1813 Arnold S Beckstrand Son Male White Sep 1 Single 0 Utah Utah Utah  ED:  0107  Sheet:  11A    Microfilm:  1241683   Transcript ID is  dbid=7602&iid=004115258_00740
  Initiatory (LDS)	8 Nov 1916	SLAKE
  Census	1930	Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States
  FamilySearch ID	KWCV-JBZ
  Death	17 Mar 1993	Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States
  Burial	Meadow Cemetery, Millard, Utah, United States
  Headstones	Submit Headstone Photo
  Person ID	I33309	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	John August Beckstrand,   b. 19 Mar 1865, Deseret, Millard, Utah, United States d. 16 Apr 1951, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Mary Elizabeth Stott,   b. 5 Oct 1865, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States d. 29 Oct 1946, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	30 Nov 1892	Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States
  Family ID	F3883	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Grace Stewart,   b. 28 Jul 1901, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 27 Mar 1933, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	3 Oct 1923	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Children	1. Orvil Lael Beckstrand,   b. 6 Jun 1925, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 6 Jun 1925, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 0 years)   2. DeLyle Beckstrand,   b. 18 Sep 1928, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 19 May 2016, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 87 years)   3. Ray L Beckstrand,   b. 22 Mar 1933, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 17 Jul 2011, South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F9502	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Dorothy Bertha Magny,   b. 30 Oct 1903, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 24 Apr 1994, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	11 Mar 1937	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Family ID	F14217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 20 Aug 1896 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Census - 1900 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Initiatory (LDS) - 8 Nov 1916 - SLAKE Marriage - 3 Oct 1923 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Census - 1930 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Marriage - 11 Mar 1937 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Death - 17 Mar 1993 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Burial - - Meadow Cemetery, Millard, Utah, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Headstones

  Beckstrand, Orvil b1896 - Stewart, Grace b1901 - Magny, Dorothy b1903

  
  

• Notes

  Orvil Edwin Beckstrand was a stubborn, honest, fair, no-nonsense man w h o took all assignments very seriously. He was proud of his Swedish heri ta ge. He suffered great sorrow when his first born son, Lael died on th e da y he was born, then eight years later his wife, Grace Stewart, die d due t o complications following childbirth. He turned the raising of hi s two so ns, DeLyle who was 5 years old, and Ray who was a new-born infan t, over t o his mother-in-law, Elizabeth E. Duncan Stewart, while he work ed out o f town, along with farming and ranching on his own land. He eve ntually m et Dorothy Bertha Magny through a mutual friend and married her . She wa s from Salt Lake City, Utah and was willing and very capable o f moving t o rural Meadow, Utah to raise two small boys and run a farm . Orvil suffered a severe stomach ailment in mid-life that required surge r y to remove half of his stomach. This required him to eat small meals t hr oughout the day for the rest of his life. Grandpa taught me how to drive a tractor. He would have me roll bales wh e n it was time for my brothers to haul hay with Grandpa and Dad. A child ho od memory from way back: When I was little and would cry he would catc h m y tears on his big, cracked finger and tell me that he was going to f reez e them. That always made me stop crying because I would be so busy t hinki ng about how he was going to do that! Grandpa suffered a number of strokes as he aged. One stroke took his spe e ch for a few weeks. All he could say was "Damnit." We were relieved wh e n his vocabulary returned to normal. Another stroke hit him while he a n d Grandma Dorothy were driving down the lane above town by his dry far m . They ended up in the ditch but were not harmed. Eventually the strok e s took his balance and he used a cane to walk. When Orvil was old and had turned the farm over to his son DeLyle, he w o uld sit outside on his lawn chair and swat flies with the flyswatter du ri ng the hot summer months. With his cane he delighted in poking the gr eat -grandchildren and it became quite a game for the kids to get close a nd n ot be touched by the cane. He enjoyed this and would laugh a lot. H e even tually became very hard of hearing and I'd have to sit right nex t to hi m and yell in his ear for him to hear what I was saying . Orvil's wife, Dorothy, took extraordinary care of him during all their d a ys together which I think contributed to his longevity. He died when h e w as 96 years old. When he was gone, Grandma's reason for living was al so g one and she passed away a year later . ~Cindy Beckstrand Iverson