Roscoe was born the 13th child of John Gainer Beall and Nancy Caroline Idella Reid on September 10, 1913. His family was living in the Lawrence Cove area, in Morgan County Alabama. John Beall worked as a farmer and a carpenter, and he called his wife Della.

Roscoe remembers watching his mother picking a row of cotton, then she would pause to nurse her baby. She would pick the next row, then pause to nurse her baby.

His older sister Lola Amanda was a public schoolteacher in nearby Eva, Alabama in 1915 when she received a newspaper clipping, from an Idaho newspaper. There was a shortage of teachers in Idaho. This piqued Lola’s interest, and she sent it to her parents, to see what they thought.

John Beall was interested in something on the back side of the clipping; there was a demand for farm laborers, and a housing shortage in Idaho. There seemed to be greater opportunities for his family in Idaho, where he could build houses, and his boys could work the farms during school breaks. John was enticed enough to visit Idaho in 1916, with son Jesse, to check it out. His brother Robert Augustus would also move to Idaho in 1918.

Della lost her 12-year-old boy Raymond Ramsey, to drowning in January of 1917. He was buried in Eva Cemetery, under the same grave marker as his baby sister Winnell. Shortly thereafter, Della brought the remaining dependent children to join her husband John in Jerome, Idaho. The dependent children included sons Carl Chester, Jesse Emory, Elmer Reid, John Dean (J.D.), Buford Emory, Roscoe Stuart, and Thomas Marshall (Tommy); daughters Sara Marie Jewell, and Winona.

The oldest daughter Dovie May lived on a farm in Eva, Alabama with her husband Bill (William Mathew) Morgan, until his death in 1934. She moved to Jerome in 1939, to help her mother.

Lola was surprised that her father suddenly went to Idaho. She continued teaching in Alabama, until she met John Jackson Graham. They were married in August 1917, and eventually purchased a large property in Scott’s Valley, California. They prospered by cutting and selling peat moss, which was in demand in San Francisco.

John and Della became somewhat partial to the Church Of Christ in Jerome. The Reverend would conduct many funeral services for the Beall family and friends.

John got a job as a carpenter, building a house for a family in Jerome. In December of 1917, he dropped dead of a heart attack while working on the roof. He had also been working on a small house for his own family on Avenue G, which had no windows and no bathtub installed.

Roscoe was just 4 years old at the time. He remembered climbing onto his father’s coffin, but not understanding what had happened. When the family sat together for a meal, Roscoe asked, “Why don’t Daddy come eat?” His brother Jesse replied, “He’s resting.”

When Jesse held his sister Winona up to watch their father’s coffin lowered into a big hole in the ground, she screamed and ran away. Winona later said she was afraid someone would likewise put her into a hole in the ground.

The loss of their main breadwinner left this Beall family in difficult circumstances. They collected cardboard to block winter winds from blowing into their unfinished house. Keeping nine children fed was now a challenging task for Della. She washed clothes for other families, with a washboard and tub, and maintained a large vegetable garden.

Jesse went to work at various mines in Idaho, Nevada and California, until his health suffered. He would send money home to his mother, which allowed her to purchase food, and shoes for the children. Each child received about one pair of shoes per year, and they never wore shoes in the summer months. When the shoes got holes worn through the soles, they would put cardboard liners inside.

Carl never got much smarter after he was 7 years old, but his disability didn’t prevent him from working for a canal company, or later sorting potatoes at the Charles Marshall warehouse. He was allowed to take home some of the lower grade potatoes, and he could walk to the market to purchase items on Della’s shopping list.

All who could work, did work. Roscoe worked with his mother and siblings, on onion and potato farms, weeding and thinning. They were paid $8 an acre. The money was used to buy school clothes. He sometimes helped his brothers steal coal from the freight trains. The older boys would jump onto the slow-moving rail cars, climb up the ladder, and toss off chunks of coal. Roscoe helped gather these chunks of coal into a bag; it was used to heat their house.

Della often served homemade bread and jam for dinner. When there was nothing else to eat, she told Roscoe to go along the ditch banks and gather dandelion greens.

When Roscoe was still 4 years old, his uncle Robert Augustus Beall left Georgia with his wife Mary Aveline Hicks and 4 of their 5 children, and established a home in Jerome.

Cousin Bradley Augustus Beall (age 21) registered for the draft there in August of 1918, and again in 1942. Aunt Mary died in 1923 and was buried in the Jerome cemetery. Cousin Jesse Alfred was living in Shoshone with his wife Augusta in 1940, when he registered for the draft. Cousin Claudia Marie was living in Jerome with her husband Albert Bateman in 1959, when he died.

Roscoe didn’t mention any interaction with these relatives.

Robert Augustus Beall moved to Yolo County, California after 1934, and his four sons eventually followed him with their families.

When he was about 5 years old, before he started schooling, Roscoe was sent to live with Jack and Lola Graham. There was a misunderstanding with Jack about feeding the chickens, and Jack gave him a beating. This made Roscoe resolve to never let anyone beat him when he got big.

Roscoe, along with most of his family, were not regular church-goers. He told a story about a time when he and a friend visited a Protestant church. The friend stayed outside, near a window, where he could see Roscoe seated at a pew. While the preacher was delivering a dramatic sermon, or show, Roscoe’s friend was pulling faces at him, which culminated in a burst of laughter from Roscoe. He leaned forward to cover his face.

Some public schoolteachers used corporeal punishment to keep their students in line. When Roscoe was in fifth grade, he heard that a teacher went on a date with someone he knew. He made a snarky comment about it, while passing her on the street. The next day in class, Roscoe was called to the Principal Teacher’s Office. The Principal was a man with a rubber hose, who said, “Young man, I’m going to teach you to respect your elders.” He used the hose on Roscoe’s backside, laying several stripes, so it hurt to sit on the wooden chair in the classroom. Roscoe put on a proud face, determined not to let his classmates see him cry.

Roscoe had acquired, through trading, a small pearl-handle pistol and a 22 gauge rifle, which he used for rabbit hunting on weekends. He gained a small following of schoolboys, anxious to go hunting with him. He also gained attention from a sheep rancher, who hired him to move his sheep across lava fields of central Idaho. Roscoe thus learned how to deal with rattlesnakes and rainstorms, and how to use sheep dogs.

Elmer Reid, J.D., and Buford Emory eventually enlisted in the navy, and were able to send money home to Della, which improved things for her. J.D. and Buford were trained as radio operators, among other things. This required them to send and receive Morse Code at a proficient level.

Elmer Reid developed chronic sea-sickness and received a medical discharge from the navy. He later worked as a racehorse jockey, then established his own jewelry business, making and selling jewelry out of a little shop next to his mother’s house.

Della’s family appears in the 1930 census. There were 5 children living at home: Jesse, Jewell, Roscoe, Winona, and Thomas. “Karl C” Beall (Carl) was living with his sister Dovie in Alabama.

For his Freshman and Sophomore years, Roscoe lived with Jack and Lola Graham in Scotts Valley, working on their farm to earn his keep. He attended high school in Santa Cruz. While there, he received some training in radio operation, which included Morse Code.

He returned to Idaho, and completed his remaining high school years at Jerome High School, where he competed in the 3 available sports: track, basketball and football.

During the summer of 1933, Roscoe joined a CCC camp (civilian conservation corps), building a road along the Salmon River. The CCC was part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, and it provided job training for about 86,000 boys at several locations in Idaho. The boys were issued surplus army tents, clothes, and gear, and they learned military-style discipline and teamwork. Roscoe earned about $25 a month, which was required to be sent to his mother.

After graduating from high school in 1934, Roscoe participated in Idaho State Amateur Boxing. He went to Boise for the finals. The Idaho Evening Times (June 19, 1934) reported Jerome Youth Victor / Junior welter — Roscoe Beall, Jerome, decision over Marcus Jerry, Malad. The Post-Register (June 21, 1934) reported that Glen Byorington of Ririe knocked out Roscoe Beall of Jerome.

Roscoe was a strong swimmer, and occasionally enjoyed swimming in rivers and reservoirs. He came upon a group of distressed swimmers, standing by a lakeshore — he didn’t mention it by name — where one boy was missing. Roscoe dove into the cold water, driven by adrenaline, and found it too murky to see the bottom. He manouvered along the bottom, feeling with his hands, until he felt a clammy pair of legs. He grabbed the legs and pulled the boy out to the shore. Roscoe was so distressed himself, gasping for air, he didn’t know what became of the boy, or if they revived him.

Thomas Beall (Tommy) attended Albion State Normal School, and Utah State University, where he played football as the star quarterback. He landed a teaching job at Albion, where he met Gladys Hogan. They were married in 1940. During World War II he enlisted in the army, and was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington.

Unfortunately, Roscoe never attended college. In the Summer of 1935, Roscoe and a friend worked on a farm, with the goal of earning enough money to enroll in a radio operator training school. The farmer didn’t pay the boys for their work, so it seemed the next best option was to join the army. They somehow got a ride to Salt Lake City, where they enlisted at Fort Douglas.

He enlisted in the Army of the United States as a private, and served with Headquarters Company, 38th Infantry, from 3 Oct 1935 to 2 Oct 1938. He spent time at Camp Ord on Monterrey Bay, when it was just a tent city. His Honorable Discharge certificate stated:

“This is to certify that Roscoe S. Beall, 6559367, Private Spce. 3’rd Class, Headquarters Co. 38th Infantry, THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, as a TESTIMONIAL OF HONEST AND FAITHFUL SERVICE, is hereby HONORABLY DISCHARGED from the military service of the UNITED STATES by reason of Expiration of Service. / Said Roscoe S. Beall was born in Eva, in the State of Alabama. When enlisted he was 21 years of age and by occupation a Student. He had Blue eyes, Auburn hair, Fair complexion, and was 5 feet 8 1/2 inches in height.”

The very next day, on 3 October 1938, Roscoe re-enlisted at Fort Douglas, Utah. In 1939 he was stationed at Presidio San Francisco for a few weeks. He was also stationed at Camp Bullis, and appears in the 1940 Census, residing in Bexar County, Texas.

He created a photo album or scrapbook during his time in the army, containing photos of Phil and Madge Bradley, Sherman and Barbara Schwinn, his brother Elmer, and sisters Jewell and Winona.

He developed a taste for earthy humor: “Blood in the gutter, and me without my spoon.”

First Sergeant Bowles called Roscoe into his office at Fort Douglas. He explained, “Roscoe, I don’t want to go shopping with my wife. Will you take her shopping?”

So he took Mrs. Bowles and her two children shopping on Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City. They went to S.H. Kress & Co. 5-10-25 Cent Store, and W.T. Grant Co. They encountered a little boy who was coughing, and Roscoe made an insensitive joke: “Cough it up, kid. If you don’t like it, our kids will eat it.”

Sergeant Bowles had a German Shepherd (dog) that followed him around everywhere. It was a one-man-dog who never got friendly with anyone else. Roscoe went on a hunting trip with Sergeant Bowles and his dog. They shot a small deer, and packed a hind quarter in the snow. When they were ready to eat the meat, and had nothing else to eat, they found that the dog had taken it and hid it somewhere else. So they followed the dog around to eventually find where he put the meat.

Roscoe was known to his friends as Rusty, due to his rusty red hair. He earned the nickname Tiger Beall while boxing in Golden Gloves tournaments at Fort Douglas.

Rusty transferred to the Army Air Corps in 1939, which allowed him to attend the Radio Operators and Mechanics Course, ACTS, at Scott Field, Illinois. While at Scott Field, he became bored with the Morse Code training, which he felt he already knew.

He was seated at a manual typewriter, where he was supposed to interpret the beeps he heard (dots and dashes), slowly typing one key at a time into English letters. His mind drifted, and he gazed out the window in a daydream. When the instructor approached him, he refocused, and rapidly typed the letters, as fast as his fingers would move. This irked the instructor, who said, “That’s not the way you’re supposed to do it!”

He graduated at Scott Field on 15 Aug 1941, and was kept on as an instructor. Was appointed Corporal at Scott Field, Illinois, on 2 Sept 1941. Honorably discharged on 2 Oct 1941.

While in the radio school at Scott Field, Rusty assembled a sturdy A.M. radio receiver, which he kept the rest of his life. The tank circuit consisted of an aluminum fin variable capacitor, in parallel with a shellac-coated antenna coil. There was an AC plug and cord, a switched volume control, a transformer, a loudspeaker, and various resistors and ceramic capacitors. There were about 5 or 6 vacuum tubes, not clearly identified; most likely a power supply rectifier tube, an RF amplifier tube, a mixer tube, an IF amplifier tube, a diode detector tube, and an audio amplifier tube. It was all mounted to an aluminum chassis. There were no solid-state semiconductors, and no cover or cabinet.

In early 1939, Rusty used some of his army pay to get his mother a new radio, and a washing machine, which he paid for in installments of about 10 dollars per month. According to a letter he sent in August that year, he was sorry the radio wasn’t working, and urged his mother to send it back to get it fixed.

Rusty also paid for a new refrigerator for his mother. When he was on leave from the army (home time), Rusty discovered that some of his neighbors in Jerome brought their milk jugs to be stored in Della’s new refrigerator. Not many people had refrigerators back then.

Rusty met and courted his sweetheart, Norma Louise Carlson, while stationed at Fort Douglas. She liked to be called Louise. She was originally from Pocatello, 7 years his junior, an active member of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints, and worked as a telephone operator at General Electric.

The couple was married in Salt Lake City on December 11, 1940 by John Harter, an elder of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints. Witnesses were Sherman H. Schwinn, and his wife Barbara.

The uniform Rusty wore in this photo was army-issued fine wool, dark green.

After Rusty left the army, he and Louise lived on 57 S. 7th West in Salt Lake City. They later moved to a house on Briarcliff Avenue, in the Rose Park area of Salt Lake City. Rusty worked as a security guard at Remington Arms. On his State Of Utah 1942 tax return, he indicated that his occupation was “Patrolman”. His taxable net income was $500.45 . His tax paid was 1% or $5.

His first child Sandy (Sandra Jean) was born in 1942. He kept several black & white photo prints of this time and place; most were photos of himself with Sandy. Digital cameras would not be available in Rusty’s lifetime.

Rusty was somewhat generous with his money, when family and friends were in need, but didn’t see a benefit in giving tithing to the church. He preferred giving directly to needy friends.

He told about visiting a friend from Tooele, identified as “a cook in the company” who was down and out. Someone allowed him to sleep in a room with a bed and a table, even though he couldn’t pay rent. Rusty took him for a ride in his car, and gave him the last two or three dollars he had in his wallet, literally. Their conversation went something like this:

Roscoe: “Here’s some money to help you out.”

“But you need this money.”

Roscoe: “Yes, I do. But I get paid next month. And you won’t. You take it and forget about it.”

“Nobody else in the world would do that for me.”

Roscoe: “You take it.”

“Say Rusty… if I got really sick, I wouldn’t put up with it. I’d get a gun and shoot myself. Wouldn’t you?”

Rusty didn’t know what to say about suicide. He was silent for a moment, until his friend nudged him.

“Well? Wouldn’t you?” He was looking for some assurance.

Roscoe: “Well… I guess so.”

Two weeks later, this man shot himself. Rusty read about it in a newspaper. He was saddened, because he didn’t give the man a better answer, and also because he was unable to attend the funeral. He probably recalled this conversation many times in later years, as his own body was slowly dying.

Louise naturally encouraged her husband to visit with the missionaries in her church, but he was reluctant to get baptized. That is, until the time was right for him.

The United States of America was thrust into World War II when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Rusty enjoyed time with his new daughter Sandy less than a year, then he was inducted into the Army on September 23, 1943. He was stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tuscon, installing and maintaining radios in B-24 aircraft. An Air Force officer picked Rusty to join his flight line maintenance division; they were deployed to the Pacific Theater of combat, on a General G. O. Squire-class transport ship, sailing out of San Francisco. It was probably the General H. L. Scott (AP-136), or similar ship.

Most of the trip was in strict radio silence. No electronic communication of any sort could be sent, or it could be intercepted by Japanese submarines. Stormy weather made things miserable for the men.

Rusty wore his life vest all the time on that boat, whether eating or sleeping, or walking between decks. One storm lasted 9 days. He later learned that four men slipped off the deck, and were lost at sea. But they weren’t reported, and no rescue efforts were made; it was a small price to pay for staying in formation, and avoiding enemy detection.

He watched the ocean for a few minutes, as the high waves were tipping the lifeboats, and decided that a man couldn’t survive 10 minutes in the water, even with a life vest.

Rusty had a knack for making comedy of distasteful subjects like seasickness. His boat carried nearly 4 thousand soldiers, who were told to puke into their helmets, but they didn’t want to do that; they didn’t want the added chore of cleaning out their helmets. Men puked in corridors, in sleeping quarters, latrines, and in the mess hall.

One soldier puked onto the mess table next to Rusty, and it splashed onto his plate of food. So he had to dump his plate of food.

He ate dry bread or crackers whenever he felt sick. While he was praying the ship wouldn’t sink, a bunk mate he called Tex was rubbing his belly, in pain, saying “I hope it sinks… I hope it sinks.”

When the ship stopped at Hawaii, none of the men were allowed to set a foot on land. Rusty heard that his brother J.D. (a Warrant Officer in the navy) was installing radar equipment on submarines nearby. He sent a message to J.D. with a Red Cross field officer. He was also concerned about his brother-in-law, Merlin George Carlson, who was fighting somewhere with the navy. The field officer gave him some hope and encouragement, that the Red Cross would be able to help him learn more at the ship’s somewhat secret destination.

J.D. made a trip to Rusty’s ship, on a small boat, with 2 bottles of whiskey. He later said he thought it was Buford Beall who he was visiting. The MP on duty had the task of inspecting everything brought onto his ship, and confiscating any contraband. However, J.D. pulled rank on him: “You’re not inspecting an officer’s bag.” So Rusty was summoned to the deck, where he met his brother. J.D. said, “let’s go down below.” When they were alone in his bunk, J.D. showed him the bottles of whiskey.

Rusty concealed the bottles in his duffel bag, and later offered a drink to his bunk mate, Tex, who didn’t believe Rusty actually had any contraband. After Tex took a shot of whiskey, his eyes lit up with surprise. The whiskey calmed his stomach problems. Later, Tex had another drink to celebrate Mussolini’s death. Tex later had another drink to celebrate Hitler’s death. Rusty didn’t drink any of the whiskey, himself.

He didn’t bother writing any detailed letters home, because he knew they were all read and censored. Any details of a soldier’s location, duties, or mission, were cut from the letters he wrote.

USA armed forces captured Guam in the Pacific Ocean, August 1944. Rusty was stationed there to support the B-29 aircraft used in the war against Japan. He was part of Flight Line 2, inspecting and replacing the radios, two on each aircraft. He would also set the assigned radar signals. He learned that a common problem was a bad VT-135 tube, used as an oscillator. Protocol was to swap out the whole modulator circuit, but Rusty saved time by swapping only the VT-135.

Only once did he have to ground an aircraft, due to a radio problem. Rusty, who was a Corporal, told his superior, a Captain, there was a problem in the line. The Captain told him to replace the whole radio. Rusty obeyed, but it didn’t fix the problem. He saw flares (arcing) near the connector. Rusty was sure there was a problem was in the line, and he declared, “It’s in the line. This ship is grounded.” The Captain responded, “You’d better be right, if you’re gonna ground a ship.”

Rusty was right. Someone in Flight Line 1 had wired the radio connector wrong.

Rusty himself was tasked with hauling coffee cans from the commissary to the shack used by the Red Cross Field Officer. The airmen returning from missions could stop at the shack, get a cup of coffee, a couple cigarettes, and even talk to a native girl from the island. Most of them weren’t interested and went out of their way to avoid the Red Cross shack. It seemed to Rusty that this Field Officer was posing to look more important than he was, to justify a salary that Rusty found exorbitant.

When Rusty asked the Field Officer to check on his brother-in-law, with a simple inquiry at the navy hospital, he replied, “I don’t have nothing to do with that.”

Rusty had to stay on duty for a month, before he was allowed a half day of personal time, to hike over to the navy hospital. He didn’t find out anything about his brother-in-law until the war was almost over. Merlin George Carlson was killed in a kamikaze attack at the Battle Of Okinawa.

Rusty found affinity with some servicemen, who were members of the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and attended Sunday services with them. After the war ended, he was baptized in the ocean. When he returned home and shared the news with Louise, she was somewhat perturbed.

Before his discharge (release), Rusty spent some time on Saipan, waiting for a boat to take him home. He walked along Suicide Cliff and Banzai Cliff, near the northern tip of Saipan, where hundreds of Japanese civilians and soldiers jumped to their deaths in July 1944. They believed that the American invaders would torture them. Rusty wished he could have been there to dissuade some of them.

While Rusty was on guard duty, he caught two civilian men, island natives, stealing clothes from an army private’s tent. He startled them with a click of his rifle. The men feigned innocence, with one exclaiming to the other, “Hello Charlie!” They walked away together in stride, saying “Dum de dum de dum.” Rusty decided he didn’t need to kill anyone for petty theft.

On the beach, Rusty was startled to see a small man with spindly legs pick up an abalone shell and carry it on his shoulders. He wasn’t sure if it was some type of explosive, and he ran after the small man, who dropped the shell and escaped. Rusty kept the shell as a souvenir.

He was released from the army on 22 Nov 1945, and went to work at the Jordan Steam Plant, part of Utah Power & Light. In less than 2 years, he decided to become a mailman. It was a physically demanding job, requiring him to walk up and down stairs on the Avenues of Salt Lake City, carrying heavy bags of newspapers and magazines. He liked to spend time chatting with his customers, getting to know them. He visited with working class people, as well as poor widows who waited anxiously for their Social Security or pension checks. If he noticed these checks at the post office, after finishing his route, he would make a second delivery, bringing the widows their checks on the same day. They were very appreciative, and rewarded Rusty with their home-baked goods.

Rusty saw lots of animal neglect in his work, and it bothered him. If he noticed a dog was chained up in the heat of the day, without any water, he would take time to bring it water.

Rusty continued to visit some of his army buddies, including Sherman Schwinn, and Phil Bradley. He also met a new lifetime friend, Irvin K Luker, a jeweler, while delivering mail. He spent probably more time than he should have, chatting with Brother Luker, as he was called. He brought letters from the Luker boys, who were serving as missionaries, and Brother Luker chatted with him about gospel topics.

Rusty enjoyed teaming up with other volunteers, to bring food to needy families on holidays. He didn’t enjoy hanging around to hear them say “thanks, thanks, thanks, a thousand times.”

Rusty’s second daughter Pam (Pamela) was born in 1947. His third daughter, Janet was born in 1949. Janet had a heart defect, which would require surgery, but the doctors advised waiting until the child got stronger. Rusty spent many hours holding Janet while she cried and cried. She didn’t get stronger, and died of acute heart failure, 5 days before Christmas. His fourth daughter, Patsy (Patricia) was born in 1953.

Della Beall (in Jerome), made baby blankets for each of Rusty’s girls, just as she did for all her other grandchildren. So far as we know, none of these blankets survived beyond their intended use.

Rusty would take his girls to private swimming pools, at homes of his postal customers. Sometimes the owners were not home at the time, which made the girls wonder if they should be there. Rusty assured them that it was okay.

He expected the girls to bring their plates and dishes to the sink after dinner. If they tried to leave the table without clearing their plates, he would holler, “Take your plate to the sink! Whadaya think this is, a hotel?!” Sandy and Pam would still laugh about it, years later.

Sandy enjoyed family trips to visit Earl & Winona Hollibaugh in Reedsport Oregon, because they had farm animals, and she could ride the horse.

For a time, Louise was not attending church, so Rusty would walk with his girls to the LDS wardhouse for church meetings. Pam recalls asking her father for a dime, so she could pay tithing. He replied, “That’s not how it works. First, you have to earn some money, then you donate ten percent of it as tithing, to the church.”

Rusty’s nephew, Bob Wall, came into Salt Lake City, looking for a place to stay. Rusty prepared a bed with a radio in the basement for him. Later, Bob worked for Mountain Fuel Supply as a meter reader. He found a 1949 Chevrolet he wanted, but he had no credit for a loan. Rusty offered to co-sign the car loan, so Bob could get his car. Bob remembered this act of kindness throughout his life.

Rusty enjoyed helping his neighbors, fixing bicycles and other mechanical devices. Louise complained that he was so busy helping the neighbors, he didn’t have time for his own family. Sandy lamented, “My father was very good to older people and animals, but he didn’t know how to have a relationship with children.”

Arguments between Rusty and Louise escalated, and Louise demanded a divorce. Her mother Myrtie (or Myrtle) Sims Renshaw exclaimed, “Louise?! What’s the matter with you? He’s a good man!”

In summary, it was decided Louise would have custody of the girls, the house with everything inside, and would receive support payments. Rusty would keep his Hudson automobile and have visitation rights.

Louise later met Bill (Wilbur John Clay Fahey), a divorced Air Force officer, CWO-F4. They married on June 26, 1959 in the Salt Lake Temple.

Rusty continued his friendship with Louise’s parents, John Carlson and Myrtle Renshaw. He would take Myrtle to her daughter Virginia’s house in Idaho Falls, to do cleaning. He would ride Myrtle’s two-seated tricycle with her. He would take John Carlson on rides in his car, after his knee joints became permanently flexed and calcified. He also made time to visit his mother Della in Jerome, when he hardly had money to buy the gasoline required to drive there.

He reported that Della received money from several of her sons, sometimes more than she felt she needed. When Rusty came to visit with no money in his wallet, she would give him $10 to help with the trip home.

In 1960, Rusty had a tumor removed from his chest, between his heart and a lung. It was an ominous sign of things to come.

Rusty was visiting Myrtle Renshaw (or Olorenshaw) when her friend Nora Hendriksen dropped in. Rusty was interested, and Myrtle was happy to give him the full scoop about her friend.

Nora had 4 brothers and 6 sisters. Her parents were Danish immigrants, converts to The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints. Nora was the only person in the Hendriksen family to have served as a full-time missionary, and the only girl never married. She was living alone in a house her father built. She worked at Mountain Fuel Supply (the gas utility) as a telephone switchboard operator.

Who made the next move, or who formally initiated the romance, is not clear. Anyway, Nora arranged a trip to Dinosaur-land National Park, with a newlywed couple: Chuck and Carol Gansauge.

Rusty’s marriage proposal happened at Nora’s place, on West Stratford Avenue. He suggested that it would be easier to live as a couple, rather than separate and single. Evidently Nora agreed. It was late at night, and the first thing Nora wanted to do was call her girlfriend on the phone, and share the news.

Nora didn’t have many suitors. When one of her brothers was asked why Nora would be interested in a divorced man, 10 years older than she was, he replied, “Rusty was her ticket to heaven.”

Rusty wanted to go to a Justice Of The Peace and get married quietly. Nora wouldn’t have it. She wanted family involvement, and most of all, she wanted to be married in the Salt Lake Temple. Small problem: Rusty did not yet have a temple recommend.

In a letter Rusty wrote to his bishop, he mentioned that Nora’s parents didn’t like him, because he had nothing (pertaining to worldly wealth). He took issue with the suggestion he wait for a season, to more fully live the commandments expected of a member of the Church, before getting a temple recommend. Nora wanted to start a family, and at her age (35) she was passing her prime for childbearing.

Rusty and Nora were married in the Salt Lake Temple in 1960. Nora’s parents arranged a wedding banquet at the Hotel Newhouse, where most of the Hendriksen siblings and their spouses attended. From the photos, it doesn’t appear that any of Rusty’s family attended.

The couple spent their honeymoon driving to meet some of Rusty’s relatives: Jewell in McCammon; Della, Jesse, Dovie, Elmer, and Carl in Jerome; Tommy in Portland; Winona in Reedsport.

It is not known if they visited J.D. in Chico, Lola in Scott’s Valley, or Buford in San Diego. Orval and Jewell Wall operated an old-fashioned motel in McCammon, and gladly took in Rusty and his new wife. The relatives in Jerome likely took up a collection so Rusty could pay for a motel in Jerome. Where they stayed in Oregon is not clear. Rusty would drive a similar circuit at least three more times with his family, when vacationing.

In Jerome, Nora was surprised to learn that Della used snuff (chewing tobacco).

Rusty moved into Nora’s place on West Stratford Avenue, and their bed was installed in the upstairs room. They had a clock radio on the headboard, and enjoyed waking up to easy listening music. Nora’s first pregnancy ended in miscarriage.

While having dinner with one of Nora’s sisters, Rusty noticed a small dog sitting by the table. He took some food scraps from his dinner plate, leaned down, and held it out to the dog. Nora’s sister was aghast, and reprimanded him. “Don’t you ever do that again!” Rusty didn’t see what the big deal was. He would in later years, do a similar thing at his own kitchen table, feeding scraps to the family dog.

Nora convinced Rusty to open a joint checking account at Valley Bank & Trust. He was accustomed to cash-only purchases, and was reluctant to write checks.

Nora gave birth to Rusty’s only son Stuart James in 1962, at the LDS Hospital.

In early 1962, prior to the time Stuart James was born, Chuck Gansauge helped Rusty get an affordable RCA television set. It had a black and white cathode ray tube, in a stainless steel cabinet. The only stations received in South Salt Lake at the time were the dominant networks: NBC 2, ABC 4, CBS 5, and PBS 7. Brigham Young University would begin broadcasting on KBYU 11 in 1965. According to Nora, Rusty was more interested in that television than he was in his wife and baby at the hospital. He especially enjoyed watching boxing events.

When Nora first bathed their boy at home, she used excessively hot water. Rusty heard his boy scream, ran to pull him to safety, and had some words with Nora about it. He would later bring his baby Stuart to visit family and friends, introducing him as “My number 1 boy.”

Bonnie Marie was born in 1963, and Joy Lynne was born in 1965.

Whenever Sandy, Pam, or Patsy came for dinner to see their father, they always helped Nora clear the table, and wash the dishes.

Rusty liked lemon meringue pie, and Nora could make it from scratch. She made the curd (filling) with egg yolks, corn starch, water, lemon zest, sugar, and lemon juice. When one friend named Edna made a pie for Rusty, Nora didn’t tell him who made it until he was stuffing it into his mouth. When he heard “Edna made that pie”, Rusty spit it out quick. He had been to Edna’s house, seeing her cats walking on the kitchen counters, and it disgusted him.

When Jesse Beall died in May 1965, Rusty traveled to Jerome for the funeral, held at the Hove Funeral Chapel. He announced to his mother and sister that he intended to speak at the pulpit about his brother. Since his baptism in The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints, he was not satisfied with the impersonal eulogies he’d heard in other churches. He felt his brother deserved something better. Della and Dovie were initially not happy with this idea. Rusty was not an ordained minister, and this was not how things were done in The Church Of Christ. They were afraid that Rusty was trying to promote his strange Mormon ideas.

Somehow, Rev. Clyde V. Moore allowed Rusty a few minutes at the pulpit. According to a niece Darlene Wall, Rusty gave one of the nicest talks she had ever heard. He did admit that Jesse had a drinking problem, or a fondness for liquor, but emphasized more of the good things Jesse had done for his brothers and sisters. The money Jesse sent his mother often put food on their table, when they otherwise had nothing to eat.

Della’s health rapidly declined after Jesse died. Her doctor advised family members should come to see her, while she was still alert and conversant. When her children inquired what they could do for her, Della said, “I want some hog meat.” Some argued that it wasn’t good for her. Nora said, “Let her have it!”

When the out-of-state visitors felt they had a good visit, and said their final goodbyes, they returned home. The only ones who had to stay and watch her die, were the two who resided with her: Dovie and Elmer. Della died the same month, and ownership of her house and property on Avenue G fell to Dovie and Elmer.

Rusty was having respiratory difficulties prior to the birth of Joy. He went to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Salt Lake City to get a medical exam. The doctor reported it was cancer, which had probably started in his thymus, and spread to his lungs. There were other issues, which the VA doctors refused to share with Nora, until she paid for a consultation. Rusty had significant hearing loss, which he managed to compensate by lip-reading. The standard VA cancer treatment was surgery and burning radiation. Even if that went well, Rusty’s life-expectancy was just a few years.

The surgery left Rusty with diminished lung capacity, so coughing up phlegm was more difficult. Pleurisy was a recurring problem. Initially, he didn’t use supplemental oxygen, or any other breathing equipment. He took medical retirement from the post office, and Nora went to work full-time at Mountain Fuel Supply.

Any encounters Rusty had with people smoking was now problematic. Ironically, the place he was most likely to encounter cigarette smoke was in the VA Hospital. Smoking veterans were allowed to smoke in any of the halls with impunity. They were only forbidden to smoke around oxygen equipment as it was a fire safety issue. Rusty was obliged to ask smokers around him to put out their cigarettes, or stay away. Even the smell of cigarette smoke on someone’s clothes would put him into discomfort.

Rusty did not use a hearing aid, until many years later. He misunderstood lots of conversations, especially with his young children. When Stuart asked where he could find his twinkle-twinkle (a musical lawnmower toy), Rusty replied, “If you got to tinkle, you go to the bathroom.”

Rusty was not a great cook, but he made sure the children had food for breakfast. Breakfast at the Beall house was usually oatmeal, cracked wheat mush, peanut butter on toast, fresh fruit (an orange, grapefruit, apple, or banana), and milk to drink. Nora later added two dry cereal choices: Wheaties and Cheerios. On Nora’s days off, she cooked waffles, pancakes, or French Toast. Rusty didn’t like traditional French Toast, which he compared to “dry bread”. He directed Nora to soak bread slices in the egg batter, so it came out more like a scrambled egg patty.

Rusty had a knack for peeling apples with his pocket knife, such that the entire peeling was removed in one single long strip. He did this sometimes while driving. The children didn’t like grapfruit without a generous topping of white sugar, but Rusty liked it with a sprinkle of salt.

There was a small wood-burning stove in the garage, which Rusty enjoyed when he was working on things in cold weather. He collected most of the firewood from a scrap pile at the Paetsch Cabinet Shop. He also collected sawdust, in cardboard boxes. This was used as tinder for the stove, and also as traction for vehicles stuck on ice. When he noticed a commercial truck stuck on ice, at a business on Stratford Avenue, he wanted to help. He put on a coat and hat, and grabbed a box of sawdust. He spread enough sawdust to give the truck tires traction, so the driver could get his truck off the ice.

He kept an odd postcard, hanging above the workbench in the garage. It said, “Even a fish would not get in trouble… if he kept his mouth shut.”

When Rusty blessed his baby Joy in the Burton Ward one Sunday, he held her up for everyone in the chapel to see. That was a very common thing for a proud father to do after blessing a baby in The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, but it was not enough attention for Rusty. On subsequent Sundays, when he was bored with the meeting, he would pinch baby Joy to wake her up and make her cry; this would give him an excuse to carry Joy out of the chapel, and show her off to everyone on the way.

He liked to drive his Ford Maverick. It was a small, mustard-colored two-door automobile. The rear seat had less leg-room than the front seats, but it was adequate for transporting three small children. He used the horn liberally, to get people’s attention, to initiate a conversation. It was not usually for safety reasons. He liked to wave at friends, and have window conversations. He often drove to a bank teller window, or restaurant drive-through window, and would tell jokes, getting people to smile. The bank tellers got to know Rusty on a more personal basis, and would cash his checks without normal identification.

In early spring of 1967, Rusty and Nora decided to take a drive to Yellowstone National Park. Without having any motel reservation, Rusty drove into West Yellowstone, Montana, looking for a room to rent. It was still cold, so camping or sleeping in a tent was out of the question. They drove a loop through the city, looking at “No Vacancy” signs. After three more loops, finding no rooms to rent, a park ranger noticed Rusty with his family.

The ranger walked out in front of his ranger station and motioned to Rusty to come up into his driveway. Rusty complied, and the ranger invited Rusty and his family to stay in the ranger station for the night. He introduced his wife and a small ranger dog.

Rusty and Nora slept in a bedroom, while the children slept on the floor of the front room, using their sleeping bags.

Bears were attracted to a nearby open dump site, where they foraged for discarded food scraps. This was the normal place for park visitors to watch bears at the time. Wildlife policies would gradually change, and open dumpsites would be removed.

Rusty had been a pistol and rifle marksman in the army, but he didn’t keep any firearms or other weapons in his house. The most scary thing he wielded was a yardstick, used to swat misbehaving children. He never went hunting or fishing, except when he visited relatives. Elmer Beall had a camper truck, as did Buford Beall, and Orval Wall, which they used for fishing trips. Rusty and the children would sometimes go on fishing trips with these relatives, while Nora visited with womenfolk.

Rusty sometimes took his younger children with him on errands, in the Ford Maverick. Stuart told him he needed to go to the bathroom, which was inconvenient at that moment. “Well…” said Rusty, “You’ll have to wait.” While Stuart waited for a bathroom stop, Rusty decided to check on his daughter Patsy, in Rose Park. He parked on her street, and contacted her by hollering “Hey!” through the car window.

Patsy had a long ponytail of hair, almost to the ground it seemed. She had a bag of candy, and reported that Santa Claus was chatting with children somewhere close, probably at the grocery store, and giving each a bag of candy. Rusty didn’t hesitate to take advantage of free candy. He invited the kids to go with him to see Santa Claus. Bonnie and Joy didn’t hesitate, but Stuart declined. He was on the verge of losing bowel control. Rusty tried to explain the opportunity again, as if Stuart didn’t understand the part about getting candy. He refused again, so Patsy tried to convince him. He refused again.

Stuart waited and waited in the car, alone, until he couldn’t hold it any longer. He messed his pants. Evidently, Rusty forgot about the need for a bathroom. The girls were all enjoying their candy, and Rusty felt sorry that Stuart wasn’t having any candy, so he pleaded with him again, “Wouldn’t you like to get a bag of candy from Santa Claus?” He tried to take the boy’s hand, but Stuart pulled away and yelled “No!”

Rusty purchased a battery-powered transistor radio, which he could carry with him, so he wouldn’t miss his sports programs. He usually tuned it to KSL 1160.

He sometimes met bums or hobos, who rode the freight trains that passed Stratford Avenue. He didn’t judge them as some might; he believed that a friend in need was a friend indeed. He would ask Nora to fix a bagged lunch for them. It might consist of a sandwich, celery sticks with cheese whiz, a hard-boiled egg, a few crackers, and a homemade oatmeal cookie.

One year, Rusty & Nora had to request help from their church. Canned food was dispensed through a bishop’s storehouse, maintained by The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints. People in the Burton Ward arranged for the Beall children to receive a joyful collection of Christmas presents, which were placed under a decorated tree, a few days before Christmas.

Rusty deferred major purchasing decisions to Nora, since she was the main breadwinner. When Nora wanted a piano, he agreed to buy a new piano. It was an Everett, spinet style. The initial plan was, Nora would take piano lessons, and later teach her children. While Nora did take piano lessons for a few months, her work schedule and duties as a wife and mother interfered with her plans.

Nora arranged to have Stuart visit the home of Naomi Chipman, an experienced piano teacher in South Salt Lake, where he would have one 30-minute lesson, on one day every week. It was close enough that Rusty actually rode a bicycle with his boy Stuart, to the Chipman house. Since Rusty did not have his own bicycle, he borrowed one from a neighbor. Nora soon began riding buses to her work in downtown Salt Lake City, to allow Rusty to drive the car as he needed. He enjoyed chatting with the piano teacher while in her home, but someone decided it would be better for him to wait in the car, where he could listen to the radio.

Rusty insisted that Stuart not let anyone ride his Schwinn 3-speed bicycle. Lots of kids liked that bicycle, and wanted to try it out. Stuart wanted to make friends with people, and he didn’t see the bicycle as something to be selfish about. Once on the bicycle, most kids would try to shift gears while pedaling. It had to be shifted while NOT pedaling, which was counterintuitive.

A strange boy came down Stratford Avenue, looking for new friends to play with. He was about 12 or 13 years old, and had a developmental disorder. He found Stuart Beall somewhat of a pushover, as he let him ride the Schwinn 3-speed bicycle, without much coaxing. Then he wanted Stuart to ride the bike simultaneously with him. The weight of two boys damaged the inner tubes, and tires. The initial reaction of the strange boy was, “I’m not gonna pay for it. Who’s gonna pay for it?”

Rusty was livid, that Stuart let another boy ride his bicycle. The tire repair cost hurt the family budget. Days later, when Rusty saw the boy who was the cause of this bicycle incident, he went outside and yelled at him, berating him for the damages, and telling him to never come around his house again. His anger carried the sound of his voice, so that several neighbors came outside to see what the commotion was about.

Nora arranged to take her family on a train ride from Salt Lake City to McCammon, because she wanted them to enjoy a train ride experience. Amtrak had the only passenger train service in Utah at the time, and it wouldn’t continue much longer. Most people preferred to drive their own cars. Jewell Wall picked up her brother’s family at the train station, and drove them to her motel for a night’s rest.

On another visit to McCammon, Darlene Wall (Olson) brought her girls, to visit her parents.

Initially, all the children were put into one motel room, where they could sleep on the floor in their sleeping bags. Stuart was okay with this, until Darlene suggested the children should each take a sleeping pill. This frightened Stuart, who decided he wanted to sleep with his dad instead, in a different room.

When Rusty and his boy were alone, Stuart mentioned that the girls had to take a sleeping pill. Rusty laughed and laughed about that, and couldn’t keep it quiet, or just between the boys. He told Darlene about it the next morning, and they had another laugh, much to Stuart’s embarrassment.

Rusty took his last drive to Reedsport Oregon about 1970. It was summer, the children were out of school, and he wanted to see his sister Winona Hollibaugh. Winona’s husband had died, and she was living with her son Kenny, who worked at a paper mill in Gardiner. Kenny’s wife had divorced him and their daughters, so Kenny was sharing a large mobile home with Winona.

It seems amazing that Winona was able to accommodate Rusty’s family with her own family in that mobile home, for several days. She was incredibly jolly, and pleasant to all the children. She loved to make people laugh. On Sunday, all the children visited a local ward of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints. Winona herself declined to visit that church. She later explained, “That church has corners. I don’t want the devil to corner me.”

Winona was delighted to prepare meals for Rusty and his family. She was a plump lady, anxious to fatten-up her brother. She hardly got the kitchen cleaned before she was making plans for the next meal.

Despite Winona’s best efforts, Rusty didn’t gain any weight.

One benefit the Postal Service offered to all employees and retirees was a family fun Day at Saratoga Springs in Lehi. There were swimming pools, filled from natural hot springs, plus an assortment of amusement rides. This was an annual event, scheduled during the summer break. The Beall family would go there and enjoy a boxed lunch, plus unlimited rides, all provided free by the Post Office.

Saratoga Springs was not as big or fancy as the nearest competitor, Lagoon (in Farmington), but it had an impressive collection of rides, including a wooden Roller Coaster, Ferris Wheel, Flying Aces, Bumper Cars, Tilt A Whirl, Wild Mouse, The Octopus, Rock O Planes, Terror Ride, The Rocket, and a Zoo Train. Rusty went on most of the rides with his children, at least once. Nora did not enjoy amusement rides, but she enjoyed watching her children having fun.

Nora noticed that some friends, neighbors, and people in her church (The Burton Ward) were leaving South Salt Lake. A few of them invited their friends from South Salt Lake to visit their new, spacious houses in other towns and cities. Classroom sizes were declining at Madison Elementary School, and Stuart’s third grade class actually combined with fourth graders, under one teacher. Nora’s father had died in 1965, and her mother had moved in with her sister Ann Brown. Nora was worried that there wouldn’t be many good friends for her children if the family stayed in South Salt Lake. She wanted to move into a new house, in a new neighborhood, where her family could have a fresh start. Rusty reluctantly agreed.

The new Beall home was on Moorgate Avenue, in Granger. The children would be enrolled in Robert Frost Elementary School by August of 1971. Rusty enlisted help from neighbors to move his furniture to the new house. Someone loaned him a small moving truck.

Stuart and Joy continued piano lessons after the move, but Nora began driving them to their lessons. Rusty grumbled that it took a good amount of gasoline to drive his kids to South Salt Lake every week. It took a good amount of money to pay the teacher. The children weren’t enthusiastic about practicing piano at home, 30 minutes every day, but Nora was undeterred.

Rusty enjoyed fast food as much as anybody, and when it was cheap or free, he enjoyed it even more. He usually had a dollar or two of coins in his change pouch. He could buy soft-serve ice cream from Arctic Circle for a quarter. He could buy four tacos for a dollar at Taco Time. He could buy onion rings at Frostop for thirty-five cents. He loved root beer floats in a fancy glass mug, but it was usually much cheaper to make your own, at home.

When a car dealership advertised a free Thanksgiving Dinner Buffet, as a gimmick to get people to come look at new cars, Rusty took his 3 young children. He was delighted with the meal, while his children were not too sure. They weren’t accustomed to eating dinner while standing at car dealerships.

During the first winter in the Moorgate Avenue house, in late 1971, the cancer had returned to Rusty’s lungs. Someone suggested he try an herbal remedy, from a woman in Chicago.

Buford Beall and Lola Graham wanted Rusty to try yet another alternative therapy, or treatment. Lola sent $500 to cover the cost of airline tickets to San Diego, where Rusty could stay with Buford. They could drive across the border into Mexico, where Rusty could receive Laetrile treatments, which was illegal in the USA. They wanted Nora to come with him.

Nora was not only skeptical of that therapy, but she didn’t want to go to San Diego. She had her three children to take care of. She tried to negotiate a deal with Rusty; if he would wait until the schools let out (had a break), then they could take the whole family on a drive to San Diego. There was no meeting of the minds on this.

Rusty decided to spend some time with his brother Buford. He flew to San Diego, and Buford met him with a camper RV, which he drove into Niland, near the Salton Sea. There they stayed several weeks during the winter. It is not known if he actually tried any Laetrile treatments.

When the mailman came to the Beall house, he oftentimes would park his mail truck, and chat with Rusty by the mailbox. Rusty did most of the talking. During warm weather, these encounters could last over an hour.

Rusty found joy in simple activities with his children. He played Chess and Stratego with Stuart. He enjoyed folding newspapers, and driving Stuart and Joy on their paper delivery routes, every morning. He drove to early morning seminary. He drove several kids to school, as part of a carpool arrangement with other parents.

When Stuart came walking home from a summer job after working just 4 days, Rusty asked, “Did they fire you?” Stuart nodded. Rusty didn’t ask why or how. He knew.

At certain Boy Scout award meetings, mothers were given awards of recognition, simultaneously with their sons. It was a lapel pin, that the boy could pin on his mother’s dress, over the breast. Rusty and Nora were attending with their children, at the church ward building. At the instant a boy was attempting to pin the award on his mother, Rusty hollered, “Ouch!” Everyone in the room burst out laughing.

Irvin Luker took Rusty and his three children on a camping trip, with his pop-up tent trailer. Nora didn’t attend.

Nora’s employer (Mountain Fuel Supply) hosted a family fun day at the Lagoon amusement park, which the Beall family attended for a few years. Rusty’s energy levels had declined enough that he didn’t want to go on amusement rides with his children anymore.

He was slowly losing weight, and appeared emaciated. Nora began sleeping alone in a separate bedroom. She couldn’t get a good night’s sleep in Rusty’s bed, because of all his coughing. He was given supplemental oxygen tanks, to help him breathe. He would not live to see his three youngest children graduate from high school, or go on missions for the church, or graduate from college, or get married.

About 1977, Rusty reached out to an old acquaintance from California, an Air Force pilot, and football coach, Wilton von Gease. They exchanged a couple letters, and Wilton sent a cartoon sketch depicting Roscoe as a “Future All-American”.

Rusty also began typing some of his life story, directed to his grandchildren.

When Rusty went into the hospital for the last time, none of the children dared say that he was dying, but they knew. Although Rusty and Nora were not a “touchy-feely” pair, or affectionate in public, Nora gave him a big hug, which meant a lot to him.

Stuart tried to get one last audio recording of his father, but the quality was very poor. Rusty asked Stuart to ask the nurse for more orange juice, which he did. The nurse wasn’t happy to get more juice, as she had just provided a glass of juice to Rusty, but she got more juice. That was the last time Rusty spoke to his children.

Ann Brown (Nora’s sister) drove Nora and Stuart to see Rusty the next day. He was awake, but he wasn’t talking. He died during the night. Ann Brown again drove Nora and Stuart to the hospital, in the night, for one last look. Rusty had no pulse. His Timex automatic wristwatch had stopped. Cause of death: congestive heart failure.

The funeral was held at the local church or ward building. It was remarkable for the variety of people who participated. The prelude and postlude organ music was played by Beverly Kellersberger (the next-door neighbor on Moorgate Avenue). Rex Taylor (Rusty’s bishop) read the eulogy. Bob Wall (Rusty’s nephew), Irvin Luker (Rose Park Jewelry), and Rex Taylor spoke about their friendship with Rusty. Mike and Ruth Hendriksen (Nora’s nephew and his wife) played a violin and flute duet. Oscar Hendriksen (Nora’s brother) and most of his large family sang the opening and closing songs. Casket bearers were Elmer Beall (Rusty’s brother), Phil Bradley (Rusty’s army buddy), Helmer Johnson (a neighbor from Stratford Avenue), Lynn Shaw (Nora’s auto mechanic), Orval Wall (Rusty’s brother-in-law), Grant Gardiner (Nora’s brother-in-law), and Tommy Beall (Rusty’s brother). Prayers were given by Joe Hendriksen (Nora’s brother), and Charles Gansauge (family friend). Henry Bawden (a former bishop, Granger High School teacher, and corn farmer) dedicated the grave.

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References

* Official U.S. Census records.

* Death Certificate for John Gainer Beall, issued in Lincoln County, Idaho.

* Death Certificate for Janet Beall, issued in Salt Lake County, Utah.

* Obituary notice for Della Beall.

* Newspaper clipping about Lola Graham, published in Scott’s Valley.

* Obituary notice for Jesse Beall.

* Obituary notice for Roscoe S. Beall.

* Obituary notice for Claudia Marie Bateman.

* Driver License for Roscoe S. Beall, issued by State of Utah.

* Roscoe’s State of Utah Tax Return, 1942.

* Divorce application, by Norma Louise Carlson (Beall).

* Marriage certificate for Roscoe & Nora.

* Handwritten letters from Roscoe Stuart Beall, to his mother.

* Recollections of John Herbert Hendriksen, Darlene Olson, Sandra Olsen, Pam Miller, Pat Dressen, Sally Beall, and Stuart James Beall.

* Audio recordings of Roscoe Stuart Beall, Nora Beall, Winona Hollibaugh, and John Dean Beall.

* My Life As I Try To Write It / Autobiographical data typed by Roscoe Stuart Beall.

* Roscoe Stuart Beall scrapbook / A collection of photos.

* Funeral Service for Roscoe Stuart Beall / The complete audio recording, provided by Mike Hendriksen.