This is the biography of Pearl Hoopes.
This is the biography of Pearl Hoopes.
Pearl Jensen Falslev was born In Benson, Utah August 15, 1906 to Marius Jensen Falslev and Mariane Jensen. Anne Reese was the Midwife and for a while they afraid the mother and baby wouldn't survive, but both finally came through.
She was the eighth child of twelve children. Three died in Denmark. Marinus, Harold, Oga, and Lydia were were born in Denmark and traveled by boat to America with their parents. Pearl was the first to be born here in America.
Pearl had to work hard in the fields hoeing, thinning and topping beets, loading and tromping hay, and herding pigs and turkeys.
She had to take turns with her sisters mixing bread. No matter how late they would come in, they would have to mix bread and let it raise overnight. They learned bread making and all kinds of cooking while they were very young.
One year they were topping beets and it had stormed so much they had to make flat racks to put the beets on. They would pull the beets out by hand, top them load them onto the flatracks and the horses would pull them onto the road.
They had a large orchard of many kinds of apples trees, such as, Ben Davidson's, Jonathan's, Dutch, Roman Beauties, Wolf River, etc. Their hedges were Gooseberries, Currant, Blackberry and Raspberry. There were crabapples by the garden gate.
When there was a beet vacation, the family had to pick apples. They fill up train cars of apples to send off. They had a big cellar to keep apples in. They also made apple cider. They said the cider made with frozen apples was the best. They had to pick the apples up out of the smow and it was cold their hands would freeze.
The children walked to school. When the snow was deep the older brothers would go down through the fields ahead of them in their big boots and make a path so the girls could follow behind.
By the time they got to school, the lunches were be frozen like bricks, and sometimes they would stick their lunches under the big potbelly stove to thaw out. They had to huddle up to the stove to get warm. The stove was as big as a furnace and was in the corner of the room. There were two rooms, one for the first four grades and the other was for the next four grades. There was a hall in the middle of the two rooms.
The girls got dresses once a year. Mariane didn't sew so she had Mrs. Henrick in Smithfield, Mrs. Hobbs of Benson, and Mrs. Jensen of Logan make dresses for them. It was usually a white one with lots of ribbons
Pearl went to school as far as the ninth grade. The ninth grade was at North Cache and they had to ride a bus with no windows. She quit school so she could work and have nice dresses like other girls her age. She worked for Mrs. Allen, owner of Allen's Lady Shop in Logan, She also worked for Mrs. Cronquist, Lenora Petersen and Wesley Johnson's wife. She worked for other ladies in the ward when they were sick or had a new baby.
There was always a Danish dinner once a month at Grandma's and Grandpa's. At least once a week were other gatherings at other Danish friends. Grandma would cook and prepare the meals and the girls would serve the meals. When they got older, the girls helped with the cooking.
The family made their own fun. Lydia would play the piano and the rest of the family would gather around and sing. They would gather with the neighbors, singing songs and playing games, like "run sheepie, run" and "no bears are out tonight".
Marius would take them sleigh riding in a big bob sleigh and placed heated bricks to keep their feet warm. There were bells on the horses and everyone liked to go.
Pearl was working at the Cronquist's when she met Warner. They met at the Hyrum dance. Marvin went with Edith. Pearl and Warner usually doubled with them. Marvin had a car and that is how traveled on their dates. However, times they would ride out on horses to see them.
On Sunday, Pearl amd Edith had to change their clothes and go do chores. They had 15 cows to milk by hand. They each milked their share. All the cows had a name. Warner and Marvin would come visit after the milking was done
Pearl and Warner was married in the Logan Temple on October 20, 1926. Their first home was with Warners parents. Then they lived on the corner across the street from Levere Ricks in Benson. They also lived with Leo and Lydia. They lived in the Dowdle place for several years and then in the Donald Saunders home in Upper Benson. Warner built a new home in Benson 1950-1951.
Warner Hoopes was born in Logan Utah on February 1, 1907. He was the first child of the union of Daniel Lewis Hoopes and Ella Clarinda Hinckley Cardon, each of whom had been previously married and had lost their spouses in death. Warner was the 13th child of his father and the 6th child of his mother. He was born a year after his parents wre married. His father was almost sixty years old when Warner was born. Warner had really curly blonde curls, which covered up all over his head.
One day Warner decided he was going to have a birthday party and itwasn't even his birthday. Some children told Warner's aunt they were going to his birthday party. The family didn't even know about it. Warner's mother made some icecream and cake anywayand he had his party.
Each fall, Warner and his father would go to Brigham City for a load of fruit. Peaches, pears, grapes, cantaloupe, and watermelon was brough back by this tired boy and man after a two day trip.
His father had a stroke when he was 12 years old, making it necessary for him and his mother to take over his milking and care of the cow. He soon had to go to work to earn money to help out and would ride his bike to Cornish and stay for a week or two with older men. This experience taught him he had to work hard and do a good job to keep up with the older and experienced men.
There was always a big celebration for the 24th of July. The day before Richard was born, Warner won 50 cents for the high jump. Richard was their first child, and was born on the 24th of July 1927. Richard was born with crooked feet. Pearl was concerned and wanted to do all she could about getting his feet straightened.
After going to several doctors, she finally agreed to an operation. Mother took Richrd to Primary Chidren's Hospital where he was operated on. His muscles were set because they had been in that position too long. Richard was in casts to his hips for 6 months. His shoes were expensive and had to be built up for him. He wore braces for a long time. Richard was operated on at age 5. Mom would go down on a train to see Richard and take him to the movies. When she took him home from the hospital she would rub his feet with coconut oil. Richard said, "It sure made them feel better."
When Marlene was born, it was beet harvest time and mom had a lady stay with her to weigh beets. Ben Larsen came up to see mom and the new baby, and she had not named her yet. Ben said he liked the new movie actress, Marlene Detrich and told her to name her that. Mom thought about it and like it so she named her Marlene.
Tess was born in the hospital. Warner was so thrilled when he saw her curly hair that he wanted to name her after his sister Tess.
Pearl had her appendix out when she was 8 months pregnant with Donna.
Mother was so happy with her four children, that when she had a chance for another to come into the family she took it. Elden Pierce came to stay with them. He was a good worker and he always helped mom with the chores and other things. He was always willing to work
Everyone came to love Elden very much, and mom and dad took adoption papers on him. Elden was really happy they had and always spoke of his appreciation. When he was in Korea he would often write home and express his thanks for giving him a home.
We all used to love to go with dad in the wintertime. We'd all bundle up in coats, leggings, mittens, and hats, climb up on the bunk sled, cover up with quilts and blanket, and visit the neighbors. Or the whole neighborhood would line up and everyone would go sleigh riding.
Mom was always a hard worker and very hospitable. The railroad tracks ran from Logan to Cache Junction through Benson, which was only a block away from her home. She would feed the tramps that road the train, giving them sandwiches, a large meal or anything she could.
Many people came down to our place because mom always had something fun to do. She would pull taffy, and pop corn on the old coal stove.
Mother had a big garden and would do a lot of canning out of it. When a pig was killed, she would make lard and soap, the soap she used for washing clothes on the wash board. Mom would take us out into the fields with her while she worked, hoeing, and thinning. Then she would go in and make dinner from the garden. One year, she plowed 35 acres with a team of horses. She used to make bread, cakes, cinnamon rolls, pies, doughnuts, and all kinds of danish pastry. She was a very good cook. She was always fixing candies, popcorn balls, or some kind of goodies.
Mother taught the Gleaner girls in Primary. She also taught in the trail builders. She was a good sport and would play baseball and all kinds of games with them.
Mother was called P.H. by many of her nieces and nephews and Elden also called her that. Elden said, "P.H. is a very lovable person, very kind and honest."
I can remember the Thanksgiving dinners with the danish goodies, pumpkin pie, turkey and all the trimmings, and carrot pudding.
Christmas was another nice time at home. We always had a tree. One year Ross Jorgenson and I decorated the tree and we placed all the trimmings on one side. When mom came home from work she looked at the tree and started crying. Needless to say I was never asked to help decorate another tree.
Mother was a very loving and thoughtful person. If we were working late in the fields she would get the cows from the pasture and start milking. She would carry the milk cans down to the barn and put them in trough when they were full. Richard said, "When I started driving a car she would lay awake waiting for me to come home and worry that something had happened to me. If she happened to fall asleep and she couldn't remember me coming in and talking to her, she would get up and go out on the road to see if my car was there."
Whenever we had whooping cough, chicken pox, mumps, measles, or something like that, she would fix us eggnogs, lemonade, or some kind of treat.
When I had cancer in my leg, Mom would drive me several times to Franklin, Idaho during the week. We would go every other day at first then every two days. One time we were coming back in a blizzard and we couldn't see where we were going. Mom put her headout the window and I put my head out my side to see the side of the road. We couldn't see a thing west of Smithfield on home. I don't know we ever got home that night.
I was out of school for three months. When I was good enough to walk to the car. Mom would take me down to Aunt Edie's to stay during the day so I wouldn't be alone. One day when we got home Donna was roller skating and Mom told her to get off the skates. Donna said, "just one more time." By the time Mother got me into the house, Donna was screaming. Mother got me to the couch and ran out to see what happened, I heard Mom say, "I knew it, I knew it." When mom brought Donna in in, her arm was all buckled up. Mom put the phone over by the couch and took Donna to the hospital. The break was so bad, Donna had stay the overnight. A few days later, Marlene had her first baby, Vickie. Donna had to stay in bed for a few days with her arm propped up on a pillow, so at one time Mom had all three of her girls in bed.