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Show 1 Go DailySHerald SATURDAY,FEBRUARY 18, 2006 LIFE & STYLE EDITOR| Elyssa Aridrus - 344-2553 - eandrus@heraldextra.com LaRae Free Kerr It’s All Relatives RAIDERS OF LOST MEMORIES, B ig mining trucks lumbered towardhim in the night on the Utah desert. Only a dog, arifle and a legal claim stood between him andthe lineof trucks, powerful representatives of a large maining concern determined to jumphis claims. It was the early 1960s, and bene Ijum was better than gold. He had prospected the ore body and contracted tosell it. How could he stop this force? With onewell-aimed bullet, straight into the radiator. The rest, as they say,is history. Hestopped the truck, maintained his contract, and the beryllium was mined. * That's how my 10-daytrip, Raiders of Lost Memories, began, with that and otherstories from my wonderful Dad. The next day,at the gravesideservice for a dear uncle in Pioche, Nev., my cousin. and I held onto eachother, reriembering. Mycousin reminded meof chasing salmon upstream in Idaho, three-foot-long fish in tiny freezing mountain streams. Our dads sent us after a really big salmon, with no other equipment but our arms. Wejumped in the frigid water, running bent-over, so we c grrab the fish. The salmonwas tired from its long journeyuphill from the ocean to the Sawtooth Mountains, butstill strong, sleek andslippery. Wegrabbed andran until finally wefell on the salmon, hugging it to us, soaking our jeans.Finally we founda place whereall three of us could flop onto the Our dads ran up panting and laughing,lifting the fish from our locked arms. Our mothers cooked it for us for supper. By the way, this was a long time ago and was perfectly legal. Don’t try it now. Mydad and cousin raided their hordes of memories and rescued these stories forever from obscurity. And that was just in'thefirst two days of mytrip. On the third day,at the Federation of Genealogical Societies/Utah Genealogical Association (FGS/ UGA)Conferencein Salt LakeCity, I learned ofan electrifying new project that will raid lost memories and forever make them accessible. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsis creating a program whereby anyoneand everyone can index records and submit them to make them availabletoall. When membersofthe audience pressed the speakers for more details, they were not forthcoming. So don't ask: Just watchfor official Former Salt Lake City Bishop George Niederauer FILLING THE VOID Utah Catholics wait to see whowill becometheir new spiritual leader Cody Clark DAILY HERALD 66 get asked all the time whoiit's going » tobe,” said Silvio Mayo.“Wehave no idea.” Mayo, a | Catholic deacon,is chancellor for the Diocese of Salt Lake City, the branchof the Roman Catholic Church that administers the 47 parishes and 16 missions in Utah. The mystery,at least for the moment,is who will become Mayo’s diocesan superior. Forjust the eighth timesinceits creation in 1891, the diocese is awaiting the appointmentofits next bishop,the presiding diocesan authority. The office of bishop,also called a “see,” was formally vacated on Wednesday whenthe Most Reverend George Niederauer was installed as Archbishop of San Francisco, Yet, although Niederauer’s new appointment was announced in January, his successor may not be named for several months — perhaps longer. Mayosaid that one diocese in the Midwest recently waited two years between bishops. “It’s just a waiting game,for a while,” he said. That doesn’t mean that there’s nobody minding the store.“In the Catholic Church, someoneis alwaysin charge,” said the Reverend MonsignorJ. Terrence Fitzgerald. “That guarantees the stability of the church.” At the moment, the person in chargeis Fitzgerald himself, the diocese’s vicar general. Fitzgerald will continuetofill the leadership void until the six diocesan priests (including himself) who arealso “consultors” haveselected an interim administrator to preside until the installation of the next bishop. There maynot be muchofa changein store — Fitzgerald was administrator during the year that eebetween the departure of William K. Weigand (currently Bishop of Sacrariento) an the installation of Niederauer on Jan. 25, 1995. He may be asked to fill the role again, thoughit’s not an, it he aspires to. “All can say is I won't vote for myrerald ith a laugl announcements. Another explosion of memories jumped outat us when another cousin andI searched Hannah Free ‘Well's autobiography which her granddaughter Abbie hadsalted away. During the winterof 1838, our ioeor great-grandmotherof ‘St. Clair County,Ill., received word that oneof her sons,great-, greatUncle Joe, in Caldwell County, Mo., had been beaten by a mob until the blood ran, downintohis boots. His wife had jumped out of bed, ‘ing herself between mob memee and her husband, thinking to protect him. But the mobpulled off Her clothing. When the mobbers Jeft, the husband roused himself to fire both shotguns at them. Family letters indicate this great, great uncle never recovered ful y from the beating, though he suffered through another15 years, Talk about saving lost memories! This reminiscence is the only place wehave anyhistorical information about our grandmother.It’s the first time we had the story about Uncle Joe's blood fi his boots. Thank you to Hannah for taking a few minutes to write these dozen pages. Thanks to her granddaughter Abbie, who made sure it was safely preserv atrip. What a magnificent 10 days Weliterally raided Jost memories and will eventually publish them, so they are lost no more forever, Only ue can ~ and save your own family’ LakeCity; Father i q Elizabeth Parish in Richfield; and Father Colin Bircumshaw ofSt. Anne Parish in Salt taper The trator chosen by the See BISHOP, B2 } UREDPRES, WAINARERALDEXTRA.COM — CALL975-5103TO SUBSCRIBE 3 ‘ ‘ sss a o mpenst em. sree aaei uw |