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Lorraine Horton Ferguson

    I have lots of fond memories of growing up in Springville and attending SHS, and am grateful that I've been able to keep in touch with most of the “old gang.”
    After graduating from SHS, I attended Utah State and Brigham Young Universities. I worked at BYU in the Physics Department for a few years and then at University of Utah in the Ed Psych Department. I graduated from Classique Finishing & Modeling School in Salt Lake and taught classes there. When my roommate got married, I moved back home and worked at American Finance in Provo.
    I met the love of my life, John Ferguson, in 1969. We had only been dating a few months when he was drafted. After basic training, his assign-ment took him to flight school, where he earned his rotary and fixed-wing ratings. We were married March 16, 1970. While John was in the military, we lived in Texas, Alabama, Virginia, New Mexico and Utah. He also served a year in Vietnam at the Da Nang airfield. When John left the military, he used his G.I. Bill to get his jet rating and in September of 1980 we moved to Rexburg where he began his corporate flying career. He had flown for 32 years when he retired three years ago. Our 26-acre tree farm has proved to be a great retirement project for him.
    John & I have always loved the outdoors. We fish, hunt and play in Island Park, Idaho during the summer and fall. While John's in the trees in the early spring, I'm enjoying planting our herb, vegetable and flower gardens and getting the weeds out of the perennials. I love working in the yard all summer and in the winter I enjoy genealogy, family history work, antiquing, quilting, sewing, knitting and crocheting. I serve as a Scheduler in the Rexburg Temple every Tuesday and belong to a book club and Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
    We are very proud of our two beautiful daughters. Lisa, our oldest daughter, was born while we were stationed at Holoman Air Force Base in New Mexico, and Amy, our youngest, was born while we were stationed at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. Lisa and David Jones have six children, three girls and three boys, ranging in age from 16 years to 22 months, and live in Rexburg. Both Lisa and David teach at BYU-I in the Art Department. Amy and Justin Hackworth have two boys, 8 years and 6 years, and live in Provo. Justin is a photographer and Amy is an author. She just finished ghostwriting a book that became     available in stores the first part of April.
Needless to say, we love spending time with our family, and our grandchildren are the
light of our lives.

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