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| Name |
Elmo Hansen Lund |
| Birth |
4 Mar 1909 |
Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
28 Nov 1934 |
SLAKE |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWZK-2Y8 |
| Death |
31 Dec 1970 |
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Burial |
4 Jan 1971 |
Glen Haven Memorial Park, Sylmar, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I4977 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Jens Peter Alfred Lund, b. 3 Dec 1870, Gundslevmagle, Torkilstrup, Maribo, Kongeriget Danmark d. 20 Jan 1960, Mayfield, Sanpete, Utah, United States (Age 89 years) |
| Mother |
Julia Anna Christiansen, b. 23 Dec 1872, Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States d. 24 Jul 1956, Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States (Age 83 years) |
| Marriage |
29 Jan 1892 |
Mayfield, Sanpete, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F3214 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Ethel Irene Callister, b. 14 Sep 1915, Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 15 Dec 1998, Rosamond, Kern, California, United States (Age 83 years) |
| Marriage |
28 Nov 1934 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F3465 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2024 |
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 | Birth - 4 Mar 1909 - Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 28 Nov 1934 - SLAKE |
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 | Marriage - 28 Nov 1934 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Death - 31 Dec 1970 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States |
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 | Burial - 4 Jan 1971 - Glen Haven Memorial Park, Sylmar, Los Angeles, California, United States |
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- ELMO H LUND
Elmo's parents, Jens Peter Alfred Hansen Lund was born in Denmark in 18 7 0 and Julia Anna Christiansen, was born in Ephraim, Utah in 1872. Julia ' s parent were both born in Denmark. Elmo was the tenth of eleven childr en ; Leo, Le Roy, Caroline, George, Mildred, Novella, Alva, Elvira, Ivan , El mo, and Ada.
Jens Peter Alfred Hansen Lund (see his life story), commonly called Alf r ed held a variety of jobs until homesteading some land in Gunnison, Ut a h as a farmer raising sugar beets and alfalfa. He and Julia were marri e d January 29th, 1892 in Mayfield, Sanpete, Utah. On December 6, 1893 th e y were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. Elmo's Grandparents Ramus Hanse n L und and Perrine Jensen settled in Pleasant Grove, Utah, (see their li fe s tories) and Fredrick Christiansen and Elisa Larsen settled in Ephrai m, Ut ah.
The home Alfred and Julia raised their children in was a very small l o g cabin that barely had room for the family. On warmer nights, the boy s s lept in the barn. The cabin was located about 12 miles outside of Gun niso n. This piece of land later became part of their son Ivan’s farm. Iv an wa s two years older than Elmo. The original farm was eventually divid ed bet ween two brothers, Ivan and Alva with a creek separating the two f arms wh en their father no longer farmed. At that time Elmo’s parents mov ed int o a small home in town.
The family was quite poor and most of the children never finished schoo l . His sister Ada told stories of riding into town to school in the wint er , when many times, Elmo didn’t have any shoes or a warm jacket. He wou l d arrive at school so cold that the teacher had him sit close to the po tb elly stove until he could warm up. Elmo left school around the sevent h gr ade to help on the farm. The entire family was members of the Mormo n Chur ch, but their attendance depended on their father; if he was happ y abou t the way things were being done in the ward, the family was all t o atten d church, but if he was displeased with the Bishop then none of t he famil y was allowed to go to church. Alfred was a very strict fathe r and wha t he said was the law in the household, no one was allowed to g o agains t it. Being raised that way left only some of their children act ive in th e church.
Elmo’s sister Ada told that their father was not only strict, but on ma n y occasions his actions were very harsh and he didn’t hesitate whippin g t he boys. For some unknown reason, he never whipped Elmo.
As a young boy Elmo had a horse named Peanuts that he loved very much . O ne winter he found his horse dead in the mountains, apparently havin g bee n killed by a mountain lion.
The family has a picture of Elmo playing basketball with his brother Iv a n and a future brother-in-law George Bauer. The uniform had CENTER on t he ir jerseys. Possibly the name of the ward they were living in .
Elmo eventually went to Salt Lake City to find a job, as he didn’t real l y want to be a farmer. The 1930 Census, when Elmo was 21, shows him liv in g with his sister Mildred and her husband Coy, their new born daughte r Do lores, Elmo's sister Elvira and her husband Verl De Mill. Elmo was a ble t o get a job at a gas station in Salt Lake City .
He met his future bride (Ethel) Irene Callister while living with Mildr e d and Coy. Irene was visiting a friend next door. They would talk ove r th e fence and this led to a courtship and marriage in the Salt Lake Te mpl e on November 28th, 1934. At some point in their marriage he starte d call ed Irene “Peanuts”. It was a loving nickname he gave her and it wa s neve r used by anyone other than him. Irene gave birth to their first c hild, E laine, who was born at St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Uta h on Apr il 29, 1936. Sometime after Elaine’s birth there was a robbery a t the ga s station where Elmo was working and he was knocked unconsciou s after bei ng hit on the head with a gun.
The young family decided to move to California looking for better emplo y ment opportunities. They initially lived with Elmo's sister Ada and he r h usband George Bauer in Atwater District, California. Atwater lies be twee n the Los Angeles River to the West and Glendale to the north and ea st. E lmo got a job at a gas station behind the duplex they rented. It wa s jus t down the street from where Elmo’s sister Novella and her husban d Lyma n Sander lived.
Their son, Lynn Elmo, was born at the Glendale Adventist Hospital on M a y 5, 1939. After Lynn’s birth, Elmo got a job with a Plumbing Company a n d they moved to the Long Beach area. They only lived there a few month s ; Irene developed asthma and after a few very bad attacks the doctor to l d them Irene needed to move to an area that wasn’t so damp. They move d ba ck to Atwater, renting a small house across the street from where No vell a and her family lived.
Elmo continued working for the plumbing company, driving a truck that d e livered the supplies for their jobs, he eventually started learning th e p lumbing trade. The owner of the plumbing company was very fond of Elm o, i mpressed by what a hard worker he was. Knowing that he was a famil y man h e encouraged Elmo to purchase one of the new homes they had don e the plum bing for in North Hollywood. He offered to loan him money so t hey could p urchase the house. They paid $5,000 for the house at 5242 Be n Ave., Nort h Hollywood, CA and moved in the summer of 1941. A few year s later, the y purchased a half a lot next door to their house from his s ister Novell a Sanders. ------apartments? They lived here until Elmo's de ath in 1970 a nd Irene continued to live there until she moved to Rosamon d, CA to be cl oser to her daughter Elaine and husband Bob in 1995 when s he could no lon ger drive and was suffering memory loss.
Although Elmo was not active in the Church most of his life, very few m e n did more service in their ward and in the neighborhood. Bishop Watt s o f the Studio City Ward would always call Elmo and some other less act iv e to go the Welfare Farm or to help someone move or to help someone ne edi ng some work done. He always said these are the men that I can depen d on . When the Studio City Ward building was being built, Max Willard, m y Da d and Lynn, a young Deacon did all the plumbing. This meant that Elm o wou ld be there almost every night after work and on Saturdays. Elmo, M ax Bre nner, Mack, Brownie and Stan Daily worked more hours on the buildi ng of t he Studio City Ward building than all the other brethren in the w ard pu t together.
If Elmo considered you a friend there wasn’t a thing that he wouldn’ t d o for you. You knew where you stood with him, he either liked you o r he d idn’t. Family was very important to him and he taught his childre n that f amily would always be there for you. Family and good friends, b e loyal an d true to them always. He didn’t tell you often that he love d you, but yo u knew it by his actions and the things that he did for yo u .
Elmo at some time must have been discouraged with work or his income, t e lling Irene that he thought they should sell their home and move to Gun ni son where he could farm with his brothers, Alva and Ivan. Being a wis e su pportive wife, Irene suggested that he take a week vacation and the y woul d go to Gunnison so he could farm with his brothers, making sure t hat wa s what he wanted to do. Before the week was over Elmo knew that fa rming w asn’t for him and of how good their life was in California with t he job h e had at that time.
Unknown to their children, Elmo and Irene struggled some financially. T h ey both took some side jobs to supplement their income. Irene took in i ro ning and Elmo did a variety of side jobs. He put in yard sprinkler sys tem s (this was before PVC pipes). Elmo would measure and Lynn would cu t an d thread the pipe then Elmo would put it all together. Of course h e and L ynn had to dig the trenches for the sprinklers as well. On the ha lf lot t hey owned next to their home, Elmo raised rabbits and would butc her, dres s and sell to neighbors. He would put the rabbit skin on stretc hers and s ell them to the feed store. He also had a large vegetable gard en that wa s used for his family and some excess was sold to neighbors. E lmo kept ch ickens and sold the excess eggs to neighbors as well. Elmo an d his son di d yard work for neighbors on Saturdays. Included in the yard s they did we re the Marcy's apartments which covered more than half a bl ock, keeping t hem very busy on Saturdays. Occasionally they started yard s after he go t home from work on Fridays as well. Elmo had the best look ing yard in th e neighborhood including a perfect Dicondra lawn from whic h you would se e him pull any weed that came up. He would be shirtless o n his knees pull ing weeds almost every night after work .
Elmo and Irene could never afford a new car or even close to a new ca r . For years they had an old one seat Ford or Chevrolet. Elmo would dri v e and Elaine would sit in the middle with Irene against the window wit h L ynn on her lap. This lasted until about 1951 when then bought a 194 0 fou r door Dodge. It had a special light on the top of the front fender s tha t were used during the War so the light pointed down for blackouts . Year s later his sister gave or sold them her Pontiac which they drov e for yea rs.
Elmo's knees and neck always seemed to bother him. He had a handheld ma s sager and always worked on his sore knees in the evening. Later it wa s di scovered that it was his hips, eventually leading to hip replacemen t surg ery for both hips. Some of his siblings also had to have hip repla cements . He went to the Chiropractor to get an adjustment on his neck th at seeme d to bother him most of his life.
Elmo loved his family and they were the most important things in his li f e. He was also a great sports fan. Elmo loved almost all sports and Ly n n remembers that on many Saturdays his good friend, Stan Daily and he w ou ld watch ice hockey games in their den and eat lunch together. He list ene d to all the Dodger baseball games and University of Southern Califor ni a (where Lynn would later attend graduate school) football games and o f c ourse watched them on television if the game was televised. Long befo re t he Dodgers came to Los Angeles, Elmo was a big fan of the Los Angele s Ang els, a minor league team that was owned by the Chicago Cubs. He wou ld lis ten to the games on the radio and take his son Lynn to many of th e games . Lynn was a big Notre Dame fan (the love for them didn't last lo ng) an d he begged Elmo to take him to the game so he could see the grea t Johnn y Lattner play. When they got to the game the tickets were expens ive, s o Elmo decided he wasn't going to pay. He was about to leave but L ynn wa s so upset that Elmo gave in and they went to the game. Johnny Lat tner wo n the Heisman Trophy in 1953 and won the Maxwell Award twice, i n 1952 an d 1953. There wasn't much that Elmo wouldn't do for his two kid s. In 1959 , while Lynn was attending L.A. Valley College, the Dodgers wo n the penna nt, so Lynn skipped football practice and a scrimmage to driv e to L.A. an d purchase tickets for him and Elmo. They attended two game s and watche d the Dodgers defeat the Chicago White Sox for the Champions hip. It was o ne of Elmo's fondest moments. The Los Angeles Dodgers move d to Los Angele s in 1958 and played the first few years in the Los Angel es Memorial Coli seum. In 1962, they moved to their present home in Chave z Ravine. Elmo pr obably listened to Dodger games on his little radio fro m 1958 until his d eath in 1970.
When his daughter, Elaine, and Bob Thompson started dating and became e n gaged, Elmo told Bob that he might as well move in and share Lynn’s ro o m since he came right from work every night to help Elmo on the duple x th at he was building on the half lot attached to their house by a bree ze wa y. With Bob moving in, he could rent out his home in Sun Valley unt il h e and Elaine got married. This also allowed for him to save money an d pa y off any of his bills. Bob and Elaine were married .
Elmo was basically very shy, seeming to relate better to kids. When h i s first grandson, Elaine's son, Bob Thompson was born in 1960, there w a s nothing Elmo wouldn't do for Bobby. Later, when other grandchildren w er e born, he wasn't as nice to them as he should be, showing strong favo rit ism to Bobby. This caused problems and bad feelings for the family.
After graduating from Brigham Young University, Lynn started dating Ela i ne Eyre whom he noticed while at BYU and later went to her home in La s Ve gas to take her on a date. A short time later Elaine moved to West C ovin a to start teaching. They dated until he went into the Army for si x month s. After finishing basic training at Fort Ord, CA, Lynn came hom e for sev eral weeks before finishing his six months at Fort Gordon, Geor gia. Lyn n wanted to buy something for Elaine as a reminder of him whil e he was go ne. He was concerned because Elaine was writing to an LDS mis sionary in F rance who would be coming home while he was in Georgia. Elm o said why don 't you just ask her to marry you and give her an engagemen t ring. Elmo an d Irene had become quite fond of Elaine on her visits an d they had take n her with them to see Lynn at Fort Ord. Lynn listened t o Elmo's advice , and became engaged in December of 1962. They were marri ed in the Los An geles temple on July 6, 1963.
Elmo eventually went to work for the Southern Pacific Railroad as a pip e fitter and worked there until he developed lung cancer. Early in 197 0 h e wasn’t feeling well and went to see the Southern Pacific doctors. A fte r being examined by their doctors he was sent to their hospital in Sa n Fr ancisco. After spending some time in the hospital his son Lynn convi nce d Irene and his sister Elaine that the three of them needed to go t o Sa n Francisco and visit him. They needed to know what the doctors ha d decid ed was wrong with him and they weren’t getting any answers from E lmo. The y visited him and he told them the doctor wanted to see them. Th ey were t hen told by the doctor that he had lung cancer and that it wa s terminal . The cancer was too advanced for surgery or any treatment oth er than t o keep him comfortable and to drain the fluid as the lung fille d. The doc tor told us that he was glad that we had come since Elmo didn’ t want to b e the one to tell us, he wanted the doctor to do it. Elmo's f amily was sh ocked. Elmo had told them the doctors wanted him to go to th e hospital t o check to see if he had TB. They were so upset that Lynn su ggested the y drive to the Oakland Temple and walked around the grounds u ntil they we re calm and ready to talk to Elmo more about what the docto r had told the m. They offered a prayer for his recovery and to help the m stay strong fo r him. They stayed there at least one night and returne d home. A month la ter Elaine and her husband Bob (Leonard Robert Thompso n) decided to driv e up to see him, taking their older four children (Bob by, Ric, Lisa and R on) with them to cheer him up.
Elmo was sent home over the Christmas holidays to spend time with his f a mily with the knowledge that he would need to be back to the hospital r ig ht after New Year’s. The doctors were trying to figure out the origi n o f the cancer, wanting to check the thyroid, but never getting the cha nce . The cancer might have come from the fact that Elmo smoked cigarette s , a pipe and cigar for many years. When his oldest grandson Bob was abo u t three years old he told his grandfather that he didn’t want him to sm ok e or to drink coffee anymore. That’s all it took and Elmo quit smokin g an d drinking coffee. He hadn’t been active in church while his childre n wer e growing up, but when his grandson told him that he needed to go t o chur ch, he started attending with Irene. By the time Bob turned eight , Elmo w as worthy and baptized him. Elmo had recently had a hip replacem ent, so h is son in-law, Bob, helped him down into the font and was ther e to stead y him. It was a very emotional moment for his family as he ha d never give n his children a blessing and they had never heard him pray . It took th e courage of a grandson to tell him what he should do when h is own childr en hadn’t felt they could, they loved their dad so much an d didn’t want h im to get mad at them. At some time before the baptism, h e started wearin g his Temple garments.
On New Year's Eve, December 31, 1970, while sitting in his recline r i n their family room he had a heart attack and died. The family has al way s felt that he willed himself to die there at home as he didn’t wan t to g o back to the hospital and be so far away from his family and frie nds.
Bob and Elaine had gone out for the evening to celebrate the New Year a n d when they arrived home their dear neighbor, Celesta West, was standi n g in their driveway waiting to tell Elaine about the death of her fathe r . Celesta felt that it would be easier for her to give them the news th a n their young babysitter, Steve Nielsen. Lynn and his wife Elaine (ne e Ey re) (same first name as his sister) and their young son (Roger) wer e in L as Vegas visiting Elaine's parents for New Year’s when they got th e call , from the daughter of the Davidsons across the street, with the n ews o f Elmo's passing. It was Elaine's mom that suggested they all kne e and Gr andpa Eyre offered a prayer. Lynn and his family then returned t o Califor nia the next day.
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