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Show Page A4 Thursday, August 2, 1990 Park Record Diaries reveal victim's love for home, children Editor's note: This is the second part in a series looking at the Journals Jour-nals kept by Nadalee Noble. The Kamas area woman was shot and killed by her estranged husband in February of this year in front of Albertsons market. He had been served with divorce papers and a restraining order just one hour before. Nadalee was returning to the area to move into a place of her own after a brief stay in the Salt Lake City Ci-ty Women's Shelter. The journals were given to me by Nadalee's mother three weeks ago in hopes of having her daughter's story told. It has been a painful process to touch and turn the pages that Nadalee wrote on and to hear, so clearly, her voice from her very private world. It would have been easier to have decided Nadalee's story didn't need to be told. It would have been easier, but it would have been wrong... be TEKI ORR Record editor There are stairs everywhere in Nadalee's house they are steep and tiny and not easy to navigate. Some lead down to her husband Donald's library a basement room lined with books from Carl Sagan to Sinclair Lewis. Some stairs lead to the children's bedrooms where a trundle bed rests, dismantled. Some stairs go up and then down to the kitchen where the tiny sink area still has dishes sitting out. Some stairs head up to the liv- ingroombedroombathroom space, where there is a rockwork fireplace and a bathtub sunk into the cement floor and a toilet inside a clothes closet. There are televisions and stereos and a microwave alongside the woodstoves. Nadalee's tatting work lines the cupboard shelves behind the glass doors in the kitchen. The carpet in the basement is a series of carpet squares pieced together. It in no way blends with itself or the orange floral thin carpet that covers the curved stairs leading downward into the room. The stairs in the rest of the house are un-carpeted un-carpeted wood. There is no main floor in the house, and except for the children's rooms upstairs, no two rooms are on the same level. In the house that Donald built there are contradictions contradic-tions in construction. Outside there are two curved metal porch chairs, facing out, rusting in the yard filled with weeds. In fact, since no one has lived liv-ed in the house for months there is not even a clear path to the front door. The animals that once filled the yard the cow, the horses, the rabbits, rab-bits, the chickens are all gone. There are half a dozen vehciles rusting in the yard. No family lives here now. It's hard to imagine that one ever did... Jan. IS, 1979 ..."Friday morning Jason fell agenst the wooden bench that we have in front of the fireplace. He cut a bad 2 inch gash in his forehead, just above his left eye. I called Don Curtis and he was here to take us to the doctor and help hold Jason down well the doctor put ten stiches in his head. It was realy rough, the cut was real deep and Jason fought with everything he had. I was sick and nearly ready to faint. I could never have made it without Don's help. He was so thoughtful. 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Call Jana at 649-1266 or Michael Martin at 322-3120 took Monaca to the drug store for an ice cream, then he came back to the office to help with Jason. After Jason stoped fighting. I had to sit down or I'd have passed out. But Don staid with Jason and helped the doctor with as much care as I have ever seen. Don Curtis brought us home just as my Don was coming home for lunch. I made both Don's a sandwich sand-wich and coffee and laid Jason This town has lost a great man and they don't even know it. Few people nowdays would stand up for what they belive as John did. His family and those who new him well are proud of him..." for more..." March 9th, 1979 ..."Don was right, my children I were retorted. Amy at 13 years ojd could not cook or even take care of j Nadalee Noble 7risA 7 s Iffy PAGE UP.. J.t At jU j22terC&( J- 2 . r.wji m. .A 7 ? - 'ike , yji.. - ..Jt4. ?ltr - UtflAi xt sOlts Uru z yTUtt , ... Lien -o,c-vva ywy . rt . . r ,1. S -4- jtJoL - bin cwj -v;' 7 . tJ. ! y.fcS-dU? ... Of SCOT. . trtA S- l-f . . Qr 2 7 S 1 aAAlx, down for a nap. My Don didn't seem to interested in Jasons head, he didn't even go down to see him..." Feb. 22 1979 ..."So much has happened sense I last took time to write. Of course we were shocked and upset over the shooting and death of John Singer. I was even more saddened and upset over the treatment Vicki and the children were put throw during the 10 days that followed. I was surprised how upset Don was over the matter. For days it was all people wanted to talk about. Don and I both tried to stjx awax frra & the talk. Don was outraged'at tne f number of people who thought it was alright. He was amazed at the hate people could have for a person after he is dead. I talked to Vicki the day after she came home.lt was so hard and so sad. I wanted so much to do something: to find some why to help: to show John I was on his side: to tell the world that this is America and it can't happen here: But mostly I just wanted to help Vicki and those poor little kids. I am so glad Shirley is there and Vicki is not alone. Vicki is so dear and so much stronger than I might have guessed. She will make it. her own room and clothes. Nether Amy or trina could see what needs to be done or pickup anything without being told, trina who will be 11 in 3 months, still can not tell clean clothes from dirty and still puts cloths on wrong side out and backwards at times. I told Don that they needed to go more places with kids their age. Would he please let go over tothe high school and go roller skating from 7 to 8 on thursday night. Or couldn't they go to the movies with a friend. Couldn't Amy go to the school ball games or church ac-tivies. ac-tivies. But no, he wouldn't hear of it. Amy was not responsble enough td cook or use the sewing machine. So Don and I went to bed. I told Don he was wrong and they could learn we just couldn't just let it go on like this. But I could get no feeling feel-ing of help, his last words were that we were not cut out to be parents. I was as hurt as I'v ever been, I felt so alone. I prayed all night and all next day and as always, when I was right at the bottom and alone, God did not let me down. Don came home from work and said he would need to work late and on some Saturdays, this would give me the chance I needed to teach Amy to cook well Don wasn't around.. ...It's been a few weeks now. I'v never been more proud of Amy and trina. Everyone has noticed the wonderful change in Amy, she is no longer a child but a lovely young lady. She sees what needs to be done and dose not need to be asked. When I come home she has the house straight, the table set for dinner, din-ner, the coal and wood brought in and the animals tended. She no longer fights with Monaca. she thinks it's Monaca who has changed. chang-ed. Holly has left her little girl here for Amy to tend and was so em-pristed em-pristed by Amys extra care she gave Amy $2.00 without Don knowing. know-ing. Don has not changed, neather Amy or trina have been able to leave the house. Don was real ' ' ' u, mean to Amy when she ask if she could go to a movie with her friends. But I still think things are going to be better. Amy and trina are learning... May 11, 1979 ..."In years to come I wonder what my kids will remember when they think of me? Monaca and Jason will think of me always milking milk-ing the cow every morning and every night and tending the animals. Amy will remember me tending the sick animals and Continued on AS " )r .... r ISilattfiiii 0 PKO PIRTIII it m .i.i.....lAta4-..,,i.. J--1 -ftp |
