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| Name |
Herman Lees Greenhalgh |
| Birth |
12 Oct 1902 |
Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States  |
| Christening |
7 Dec 1902 |
Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States |
| Gender |
Male |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
14 Mar 1949 |
SLAKE |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWCB-V57 |
| Death |
19 Jun 1972 |
Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States |
| Burial |
29 Jun 1972 |
Bountiful Memorial Park, Davis, Utah, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I5115 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Peter Lees Greenhalgh, b. 3 May 1875, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 28 Aug 1955, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 80 years) |
| Mother |
Anna Jennett Duncan, b. 21 Aug 1880, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 23 Mar 1917, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 36 years) |
| Marriage |
4 Sep 1901 |
Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F3417 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Ardella Page, b. 4 May 1902, West Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States d. 31 Jan 1984, Layton, Davis, Utah, United States (Age 81 years) |
| Marriage |
30 Jul 1924 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Dean Lees Greenhalgh, b. 2 Apr 1925, Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States d. 11 Dec 1994, Layton, Davis, Utah, United States (Age 69 years) |
| + | 2. Jay Page Greenhalgh, b. 16 Jul 1926, Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States d. 15 Nov 1985, North Salt Lake, Davis, Utah, United States (Age 59 years) |
| | 3. Colleen Greenhalgh, b. 27 Dec 1927, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States d. 12 Sep 2018 (Age 90 years) |
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| Family ID |
F3592 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 12 Oct 1902 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States |
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| Christening - 7 Dec 1902 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States |
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 | Marriage - 30 Jul 1924 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 14 Mar 1949 - SLAKE |
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 | Death - 19 Jun 1972 - Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States |
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 | Burial - 29 Jun 1972 - Bountiful Memorial Park, Davis, Utah, United States |
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| Notes |
- Herman Lees Greenhalgh was a coal miner, a delivery driver, a peach farm e r, and an equipment repairman. He was a loving husband and father of t w o boys and a daughter. He enjoyed fishing from Fishing Bridge in Yellow st one National Park.
Herman was born on the 12th of October, 1902. He was the oldest of thr e e children. When he was young, Herman lived in Salt Lake City (1062 Sou t h 8th East) with his parents and brother. His father, Peter Lees, wa s a “ pharmacist” manufacturing medicines for the Greenhalgh Remedy Co. T hey li ved in a nice neighborhood and lived next door to Owen Snelgrove ( the ic e cream company family) and James J. Woodruff (son of Wilford Wood ruff).
When Herman was 15 years old, his mother died. He and his father and bro t her moved back to the family’s home town of Meadow, Utah. The 1920 cens u s shows Herman at age 17 living with his grandmother Ann Duncan (widow ) a long with his father, Peter Lees (44, widower) as well as his brothe r Lyn n (13). He and his brother were listed as general farm laborers. Hi s da d was listed as shearing sheep. Also in the household was Ann Duncan ’s 18 -year-old daughter Naomi Duncan.
Herman married Ardella Page on July 30, 1924. They were both 22 years ol d . A year later, they had their first of two sons, Dean Lees. Their seco n d son, Jay Page was born a year after that. Herman was a coal miner i n th e mines in Coalville, Utah. The 1930 census shows the family livin g in Sa lt Lake City near Fayette Avenue and 1st West (present day West T emple ab out 10th South). The records show that the family rented a hom e for $18/m onth.
Money was very tight for the family during the depression. Their son Ja y , told how he had a paper route as a young boy that he used to help sup po rt the family. One day before delivering papers, his mother had bake d a b ig chocolate cake and had told the boys explicitly to leave the cak e alon e. While delivering papers, Jay found a $5 dollar bill. So he cam e home a nd cut himself a big slice of the chocolate cake. Soon his mothe r was yel ling at him and asking him what in the world he was doing. He e xplained t hat he just thought he’d buy a slice of that cake with this $ 5 dollars, w hich he handed his mother. His family was so excited becaus e $5 was a lar ge amount of money in those days. The money helped them pa y their bills f or their month and the whole family considered it “mone y from heaven.”
By 1940, Herman had built a home in West Bountiful at 590 North 500 We s t (just north of J&L Garden Center today). His grandson recalls that t h e home was very modest and was built out of old palettes and junk wood . H erman and Ardella would live in this home until they retired in the l at e 1960s. The 1940 census records that Herman was a delivery driver f o r a dry cleaning company. He drove a 1936 Ford delivery truck .
Herman and Ardella were born and raised members of the LDS Church. As th e y grew up, they were sometimes more active in the Church than others. T he y were endowed and sealed in the Salt Lake City temple March 14, 1949 . Th eir grandson remembers Herman always wearing his long underwear (gar ments ) which he tucked into his socks and gloves when he went out to wor k in h is orchards to seal out all the dirt and dust.
On the same property as the house, Herman had seven acres of peach tre e s which he worked as a second job. He spent many hours pruning and till in g and irrigating his orchard. During the summer he irrigated at night , wa king every four hours to move the water. He often referred to wate r as li quid gold. When the Weber Water Irrigation District finally was i nstalled , Herman was greatly relieved that he no longer needed to wake i n the mid dle of the night. He was very proud of his peaches. People woul d drive fr om Brigham City or Fruit Heights just to buy them. He employe d his grands on, Dennis, to help on the farm. Dennis recalls being “peach ed out” afte r all the work in the orchard and after all the cobblers, pi es, and bottl ed peaches his family made him eat.
One of Herman’s favorite places to vacation was Yellowstone National Par k . He liked to camp in the park over the 4th of July and loved to fish o f f of fishing bridge. He would make his own heavy lead weights to whic h h e rigged a four-foot leader with a worm. He would drop the weight ove r th e bridge then “walk” it down the current over the edge of a sandbar . Herm an would always catch his limit of spawning cutthroat trout, somet ime ret urning in the evening (in different clothes as to not be recogniz ed) to c atch a second limit.
Herman really liked to drink beer. On his camping trips he would often d r ink three or four after everyone else had gone to bed. In the morning , h e would claim that the bears must have broken into the cooler.
Herman worked up at Hill Air Force Base as an equipment repairman. He wo r ked on steam cleaners and other machinery .
Herman loved automobiles. He owned 1947 and '48 Chevrolets, as well as 1 9 50, '52, and '54 Oldsmobiles. He also bought a 1960 Ford F100 pickup tr uc k which he used to haul peaches on the farm. It was in this truck tha t hi s grandson Dennis learned to drive. Dennis has lovingly restored thi s tru ck and still owns it today.
When he retired in the late 1960s, Herman and Ardella sold their home a n d the peach farm and moved into a condominium on 400 North in Bountifu l . Herman died unexpectedly of a heart attack at age 69 the 19th of Jun e , 1972.
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