Sunday, August 6, 2017

Just so we don't forget the home and its primary dwellers-Don and Pearl Blackett Snow

The Nephi, Utah address is 691 North Main. Don and Pearl Snow raised their kids there, which consisted of Colleen; Clark, Don and Robert. Pearl was born in 1908, the daughter of Sarah Jane Worthington and Andrew Jackson Blackett. Her family lived on the Foote Farm until she was eight, then moved to town. Early in life she knew how to thin beets(getting five cents a row), tramping hay, riding the derrick horse and herding milk cows. She attended the Nephi North School(on the southeast corner of 6th North and first east intersection), and when old enough, attended dances at the Arlington, and fell in love with the lead man, and Don Snow became her lead man, which modified with his passing in 1978 after 54 years of marriage. Don was the son of A.C. Clark and Sarah Ellen Freshwater Snow, who was educated in Utah County, but in Nephi doing road construction when he met his Pearl. Don did a variety of work including being a Nephi police officer; operated the Blackett farm; Nephi Water Department, Thermoid, and spare time was making burial vaults, which he did in the garage pictured to the right of his home. Prior to her passing, Pearl was always a good neighbor, and took great care of her family, including her mother and a sister-Alberta Jones. Nobody could tend a garden better than Pearl Snow.

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