Brief histories of children

BRIEF HISTORIES OF RAPHAEL'S CHILDREN

A BRIEF HISTORY OF DON CLEMENT                     2001 

Don Raph Clement the oldest child of Raphael and Pearl Olsen Clement was born November 8, 1924 at Salt Lake City, Utah. We were living in Murray. My parents moved to a farm two miles north of Fairview, Utah. We did all our farming with horse-drawn equipment and that is one of the reasons for my great interest in horses. I spent about a year in Skull Valley riding for the Deseret Livestock Co. I was one of two riders there.

I attended school in Fairview to the 9th grade. The family moved to Taylorsville when I was in the 9th grade. I went in the U.S. Merchant Marine in 1942. In 1944-46 I was in the U.S. Navy. I spent another two years in the Merchant Marine.

In 1949 I married Dareen Brady at Vancouver, Washington. We were later sealed in the Logan, Utah temple. We settled in the Richland area in Washington. I worked in the powerhouse there. We had four children while in Richland: Trudie, Mitzi, Myra and Matthew. I stayed there for ten years and then went to California to the Livermore area.

I worked there for ten years mostly in the electronics field - the last nine years as an electronics engineer for the Marcom Corporation.

We had two more children in California: Benjamin and Tawna. We have six children, thirty three grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

We moved to Mt. Pleasant, Utah in 1970 where I worked at various jobs and started working with horses again. We lived here for 10 years and then moved to a farm our son-in-law had bought near Clawson, Utah, between Castle Dale and Ferron. I had a team of draft horses and some riding horses and this was my interest here -exploring the San Rafael Swell.

I am now 76 years old. Do a lot of walking and work as needed.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BUD LAVON CLEMENT             2001

I was the second child born to Raphael and Pearl Olsen Clement. I was born in Fairview, Sanpete County, Utah on December 5, 1925. I lived there 16 years on a farm north of Fairview. Moved from there to Taylorsville, Utah twice in 2 years.     

When I was almost 18 years old, I joined the Merchant Marines and went through training camp in California. Spent the next 3 years sailing on 5 different ships while serving in World War II. I was discharged in 1946. Returned to Salt Lake City, Utah and married Elizabeth Joy Jordan in the Salt Lake Temple. We left for Washington state where my parents Pearl and Raphael Clement were living in the government town of Richland, WA. Joy and I moved 7 times in 7 years but only in the areas of Richland and Kennewick.     

I worked in a food cannery in Kennewick. Safeway store in both Kennewick and Richland. We lived in Richland where our first 2 children were born. Worked for electrical distribution and then went to work for the Hanford Atomic Energy Commission. Moved to Kennewick, our third child was born there. Moved back to Richland where our last 2 children were born. I worked for the Nuclear Industries with the reactors and auxiliary equipment at Hanford, WA, retiring from work in 1988.     

Our 5 children LaVon, Connie, Terry, Jay and Virginia, are all married and have families of their own. We have 26 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. I have held many church positions, including Elders Quorum Sec., Scoutmaster for 25 years, High Priest Group Leader in Richland and Girl's Camp priesthood leader for 9 years. During that 9 years I and my wife were the Stake Girl's Camp Grandparents.   

One of our main interests is working in  the temple. We completed about 9 years in the Seattle Temple before putting in for a Mission. 

We went on a Service Mission in Dec. 1999 and are currently serving at the South Platte Farm in Greeley, CO. I am first councilor in the Greeley 4th ward High Priest Group. We will be released from our Mission on June 5, 2001. I enjoy golfing, fishing, hunting and working for and with my wife in my  spare time.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BEVERLY CLEMENT BEHLING             2001

I was born 26 November 1927 in my home in Fairview, Sanpete county, Utah, to Raphael and Pearl Olsen Clement, the first daughter and third of ten children. We lived in Fairview until 1940, then moved to Taylorsville, Salt Lake County. Moved back to Fairview in the spring of 1942, remaining there until summer of 1943. We then moved a second time to Taylorsville. In March 1944 our family moved to Richland, Washington. 

I met my husband, Glen J. Behling in Richland. He is from Ogden, UT, and a graduate of Utah State University with a degree in chemistry. He came to work for the Hanford Project as a chemist. We married in the Salt Lake Temple, 17 September 1946. It was a double wedding with Grandpa Charles Olsen and Amanda Tenney, Grandpa's second wife.

We settled down in Richland and stayed there until 1955, when we moved to Pasco, WA, about 15 miles away and bought a home there. Glen continued working at Hanford until August 1959, when we moved to Livermore, CA. Glen worked in San Jose, CA with General Electric as an Administrative Assistant in the Nuclear Energy Department.

In 1967 Glen was called as Stake Patriarch in the Hayward Stake in CA, and I served as his secretary. We were temple workers in the Oakland Temple for 6 years. And six years in the Bountiful Temple, so far. 

My other service in the church includes Primary presidency and teacher, and Stake Primary Board. Relief Society Homemaking Leader and Spiritual Living teacher.

In 1970, Glen transferred to Joliet, Illinois, and worked as Manager of the Laboratory in the same Nuclear Energy Department.

In 1975 we moved back to Livermore, CA, and stayed there until Glen retired. Then we moved to Bountiful, UT, 14 February 1993.

My hobbies are quilting, gardening early in the early morning, writing occasionally when the inspiration strikes. I love to walk with Glen on the foothills trail in Bountiful. Drawing, crochet, needle work including needlepoint, sewed clothing for my family while they were growing up and sewed my own draperies. I've done a lot of major quilting for my family and other people, and I now collect teddy bears of all kinds.

Glen takes our family backpacking in the California High Sierra's annually, whoever wants and can go with him of our children and grandchildren. Our children are: Larry, Leslie, Richard, Karl, Kathryn, Mary Ann, Paul. We have 34 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF DEVON CLEMENT                   2001

I was born to Raphael and Pearl Olsen Clement on December 29, 1929 in the Salt Lake County Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah and was given the name of DeVon "A" Clement (no middle name). I was their fourth child.

While awaiting my birth, my parents had moved to Salt Lake from Fairview (100 miles distant), and according to my mother, they "lived across the alley from aunt Erma and uncle Parley Stevenson" at the time of my birth.

I was then taken to our 82 acre farm two miles north of Fairview, Sanpete county, Utah, and spent the next 11 years growing up there.

We then moved to Taylorsville (Southwest of Salt Lake City) in September 1940 for a short period of time, where Dad continued to work for Utah Power and Light and Remington Arms Company. 

Then moved back to Fairview in spring of 1942 and stayed there until late summer of 1943, when we moved to Taylorsville a second time, different house.

Meanwhile, World War II had started and Dad took a job with the Hanford Atomic Production Project. When housing became available our family moved to Richland, Washington March 1944. I was 14 years old then.

After the war was over our family pretty much stayed in or around Richland and I lived there until October 1948 when I joined the US Navy.

After basic training I was sent to Norfolk, VA and assigned to the USS Catoctin (a communications ship) until late 1949 when I was assigned as part of a recommissioning crew and then stayed on as part of the ship's crew until September 1952. During that time the Korean war started and in October 1951 the battleship USS Wisconsin departed Norfolk, Virginia for Korea and I served on that ship on the firing line until April 1952. During that time the Wisconsin received the only direct hit from enemy fire during her three-war history.

In late August 1952 I left the Wisconsin and was discharged from service in September 1952 in Norfolk, VA.

After returning home to Richland, Washington I was employed by General Electric Company at the Hanford Atomic Plant as well as part-time farming and raising a family of two girls and two boys; Collette Marie, Douglas Earl, Linda Earlene and Mark Raymond.

After 6 years at Hanford I was laid off. I then went to Livermore, California and worked for Sandia Corp. (an atomic experiment Co.) for 2 years. I then went back to work for GE at Hanford and spent another 5 years before being laid off again for reduction of force.

I then moved to Roseburg, Oregon in February 1965 and worked for Oregon Water Corp. as a chief operator at the Municipal Water Treatment Plant until the City of Roseburg bought the water system in December 1977.

I worked for the City of Roseburg as water system superintendent until laid off in 1987. I then retired from the corporate work force and started ranching full time on a 196 acre ranch purchased in 1985.

On June 29, 1990 I married Kim McConnell, sold the Callahan mountain ranch in 1993 and bought a 180 acre ranch 7 miles west of Sutherlin, Oregon where we now reside.

Kim and I keep busy raising hay, cattle, registered Quarter Horses and over 1.5 million board feet of timber.

We enjoy living in a small valley surrounded by mountains and even own a small part of each.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CARROLL CLEMENT       2001

I was born September 21, l931 to Raphael and Pearl Olsen Clement in Fairview, Utah on an 82 acre farm 2 miles north of town.

     After a couple of moves from the farm to Taylorsville, Utah the family moved to Richland, Washington when I was twelve years old. World war two was going on and brothers Don and Bud were in the navy and merchant marines.

   After graduation from Columbia High School I started college at CWCE in Ellensburg WA. In my freshman year the Korean war broke out and I joined the navy. I served four years of sea duty aboard the battleship USS Wisconsin, with two tours of duty in the Korean conflict.

    I married Mary Alma Henderson from Kinston, North Carolina while still in the navy. We were married in the Salt Lake Temple.

    After the navy, we attended Brigham Young University.  Graduated in 1960. Worked for Conoco Oil Company for seventeen years and then resigned and Mary and I started our own businesses.

   We have five children, 21 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. We have lived at 4351 South 2700 East in Salt Lake City for 30 years. We have been married for 49 years.

    Activity in the church has included YMMIA President, Sunday School President, Elders Quorum President twice, High Priest Group Leader twice, High Council, Bishopric, Scoutmaster, Sunday School Teacher many times. Served a mission in the Charlotte, N.C Mission 1999-2000. Branch President in the Sparta N.C. Branch and presently teach with Mary at the ARTECH youth juvenile "lock up" in Salt Lake.

    Now retired and looking forward to another mission. Our children are Deborah, Dan, Karen, LeeAnn and Thomas.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BARBARA CLEMENT WRIGHT          2001

I was born in my home on our 82 acre farm, two miles north of Fairview, UT, to Raphael and Pearl Olsen Clement, 17 August 1933. The sixth child, I was named Barbara Eleane, after my mother's aunt Elean Olsen.

At the beginning of the school year 1940-41, we moved from Fairview to Taylorsville, Salt Lake County. Then back to the Fairview farm in the spring of 1942. Dad sold the farm and moved his family to Taylorsville again in the summer of 1943. Because it was wartime, Dad was working for Remington Arms Plant in Kearns, located in the west Salt Lake City area.

One day in 1943, Remington Arms suddenly closed down and government recruiters offered jobs at the Hanford Atomic Production Project in Washington state. Dad took it and went ahead to Hanford. When housing became available in Richland, WA, the family joined him in March 1944. I was in the fifth grade. 

When I was 16 yrs. old, my father Raphael was ordained Richland Stake Patriarch and I was his secretary for a year, typing the patriarchal blessings he gave to members of the Stake. After graduating from Columbia High School in 1951, I hired on with General Electric Company in the Department of Stores as a Typist Secretary in the 300 area of the Hanford Project. 

At this time I met Norman Wright from Pleasant Grove, UT. After graduating from Brigham Young University with a degree in mathematics, he came to Richland to work for the Hanford Project as a computer analyst, writing computer programs to serve the production of plutonium. We were married in the Salt Lake Temple 22 April 1952 and we settled in Richland.

We moved to Provo, UT in July 1963 where Norm worked at Brigham Young University as a Computer Systems Analyst and taught Computer Science as a member of the faculty for 30 yrs. He loves taking our family backpacking in the High Uinta's, UT. When a child in our family turns eight years old, they get to join in the annual family hike to the top of 12,000 ft. Mt. Timpanogos (Utah County), an 18 miles round trip hike.

In 1973-74 we went on sabbatical from BYU to Washington DC, living in Vienna, VA. Norm worked for the government Defense Communications Agency. I had the opportunity of researching genealogy all that year in the National Archives, DAR Library (Daughters of the American Revolution), and the Library of Congress. Helped with the Washington DC Temple open house, and served two simultaneous callings in that ward, and as usual, was a member of the ward choir.

My interests have leaned toward singing, a variety of sports, reading, domestic arts. Sewed my family's clothing during their growing up years. Gardening, pencil drawing and water color. Published several family histories. Currently finishing my dad's biography and working on other ancestral histories. Traveled extensively throughout the United States and a few foreign countries.

Some of my service in the church includes Primary presidency twice, Primary President, teacher many years in the different auxiliaries, Primary Stake Board. Young Women's presidency and YW Secretary. Relief Society Homemaking Leader, Ward Choir Director several years, Ward Music Coordinator, Ward Activity Chairman. Music Director in all of the organizations several times, Relief Society Visiting Teacher, Ward Home Teaching companion with my husband, Temple work. Team taught with my husband in Sunday School for three consecutive years.

I certified in the (Boy Scouts) BSA Leaders Basic Training Course. Served with the American Red Cross in Service to Military Families Overseas. Worked at the BYU bookstore for 10 years after my children were raised.

Norm retired in 1993 and we still live at 1554 Oak Lane, Provo, UT.  We have been blessed with 7 wonderful children. They are: Peggy, Randy, Kevin, David, Elaine, Amy, Bryan. We have 24 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren at this time. We are now looking to serve a mission for the L.D.S. Church.

I have a firm testimony that the gospel and the divinity of Jesus Christ are true, and that the Book of Mormon is a true record. Our Foote, Clement, Cox, Kelsey, Olsen and Frederiksen ancestors also knew it to be true. I shall always be grateful to them for accepting the Book of Mormon and for their personal testimonies of it, and their monumental sacrifices made in order to immigrate to Utah as Pioneers for the sake of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They have passed on a rich heritage to their descendants. Their great examples have enriched my life.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SHANNA LEE CLEMENT CZIRR           2001

A daughter of Raphael and Pearl Olsen Clement, I was born on 12 January 1935 in Fairview, Utah. I lived with my family in Fairview and Taylorsville, UT until 1944, when we moved to Richland, Washington. I had a very happy childhood and loved my family very much.

My mother was seriously burned when I was two years of age and in the months following I lived with one of my mother's relatives. 

I was in third grade when we moved to Richland. I lived there with my family until I graduated from Columbia High School in 1953. After graduation I married John Bartley Czirr (Bart) on 9 June 1953, in the Idaho Falls Temple.

We lived in Richland until we moved to Richmond, CA in 1956 where Bart enrolled at UC Berkeley in the Physics graduate program. We had 3 children by then - John Keith 1954, Camille 1955, Rebecca 1956.

Bart graduated with a PhD in Nuclear Physics from Berkeley in 1961 and we moved to Kenmore, Washington. We had added 3 more little girls to our family; Diane 1958, Carolyn 1959, Melanie 1961. In Seattle a baby girl, Shelley (1963) was born into our family.

We lived in Washington until the summer of 1963 when we moved to Livermore, CA. Bart had accepted a job with the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

Our family was always active in the LDS Church. Primary Presidency, Bishopric, teaching, home teaching, visiting teaching, missionary work, music and anywhere we were called to serve. This activity has brought joy and blessings into our lives and the lives of our family.

We lived in Livermore for 14 years and enjoyed it very much. (We have enjoyed all of the places we have lived). We added Lynette 1966, Kyle Raymond 1968, Karl Brandon 1971 and Rachel 1975. During these years I had the privilege of serving as ward YW President. I also sang in a civic choir.

In 1978 our family moved to Mapleton, Utah. Bart built a home at the foot of Maple Mountain on our 3 acres. We added a baby boy to our family, Raphael Dean 1979 making an even dozen.

I served as ward Relief Society President in Mapleton and later as ward Primary President. I also had many opportunities in ward and stake positions, music coordinator, choir director, advisor in YW as well as service in many capacities. Bart and I have recently served as ordinance workers in the Provo Temple.

I also had a great learning and growing experience serving as Vice President of the Mapleton/Springville/Spanish Fork chapter of the Utah Association of Women. I am planning now to help in our city's literacy program.

Bart and I are the ward Family History Consultants and just completed (with our children and grandchildren) temple ordinances for 22 of Bart's ancestors. We did work for his direct line several years ago. 

We have traveled extensively in Canada, England, France, Italy, Germany, etc, and continue to do so as Bart does testing in labs around the world and gives invited talks at Physics Conferences worldwide.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHARLES RAY CLEMENT                 2001

Charles (after Charles Peter Pratt Olsen) Ray Clement, born 23 January 1942 in Murray, Utah.  

I grew up in Richland, Washington on the banks of the Columbia, Yakima, and Snake Rivers. A lot of water for a desert!  And does it ever bloom!  Every kind of fruit, and oh, so many grapes!  

Father (Raphael Clement) died in 1955. Mother (Pearl Olsen Clement) moved us to Kennewick to the house Dad and sons had built just before his death.  

I graduated from High School there. Got on a Greyhound bus in Pasco and headed for the mission home in Salt Lake. I bore my testimony in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square before leaving for Denmark. Grandpa (Charlie Olsen) was there with other Olsen family members.  

As my mission wound down, I was excited about coming home and speaking some Danish with him, but that wasn't to be. I think he was pretty happy I went to Denmark. After a hitch in the Army in Germany, I got 3 degrees at BYU and went to work for the Family History Library where I have been ever since.

   I married Ruth Cluff of Pima, Arizona, 26 December 1964 in the Manti Temple. We have six children.    

A BRIEF HISTORY SUSAN CLEMENT KIRBY               2001

Susan Clement Kirby

6535 208th St. SW, #E113

Lynnwood, WA 98036

Hm. Ph. 425-776-6299

Tenth (and last) child of Pearl Olsen and Raphael Clement. 

Siblings: Don Clement, Bud Clement, Beverly Behling, DeVon Clement, Carroll Clement, Barbara Wright, Shanna Czirr, Charles Clement, Gary Clement (deceased).

Married to John Kirby from London, England, now deceased. Later sealed to John in the Salt Lake Temple, 7 December 1993.

(He was in the Queen's Guard and served as personal assistant to Princess, and then Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace).

We have a daughter, Jennifer, and a grandson, Devin, and have lived in the Seattle area since 1978.

Work History: 23 years administrative employment in the non-profit sector, with adults with physical disabilities, and children with terminal illness.

Leisure Time: I love to read, knit and crochet. My favorite thing to do is put together large social events, i.e., award shows, seminars, etc.

Church Service:

Primary: Teacher, 1st Counselor, President

Young Women: 2nd Counselor

Relief Society: President (2x), Teacher, Secretary

Stake Missionary

Visiting Teacher

I have a strong testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the magnitude of His atoning sacrifice made for me. I also have a testimony of the truthfulness of the book of Mormon, and am grateful for a living prophet to give us divine counsel. Our family ties are strong, and eternal, and together with our extended family, make the journey back to Heavenly Father a pleasant one!