Margaret Eleanor Smurthwaite Heywood
Chronology
Date
|
Age[i]
|
Event
|
Comment
|
9 Oct 1895
|
0
|
Birth
|
Ogden, Weber, Utah
|
5 Dec 1895
|
2 mo
|
Blessing
|
By James Weatherspoon,
Ogden
|
29 Nov 1904
|
9
|
Baptism
|
Logan Temple
|
29 Nov 1904
|
9
|
Confirmation
|
By J. F. Whitney
|
1915-1972
|
20-77
|
Teaching
|
Utah,
California, Arizona, and Hawaii
|
1916-1917
|
21-22
|
Teaching[ii]
|
Plymouth,
Utah
|
1917-1919
|
22-24
|
Teaching
|
Wellsville,
Utah
|
10 Sep 1917
|
22
|
Patriarchal Blessing
|
Alexander Spence
|
1917-1919
|
22-24
|
Teaching
|
Wellsville,
Utah
|
1919-1921
|
24-
|
Teaching
|
Smithfield,
Utah
|
3 May 1919
|
24
|
Patriarchal Blessing
|
Richard S. Horne
|
Jan 1920
|
25
|
Leland Heywood returned
from his mission
|
Hawaii
|
3
Jan 1920
|
24
|
Census
|
Smithfield,
Cache, Utah
|
10
Jan 1920
|
24
|
Census
|
Salt
Lake City
|
20 Mar 1920
|
24
|
Engaged to Leland Heywood[iii]
|
Courtship occurred in Logan
and Smithfield where Margaret was teaching.
|
17 Aug 1921
|
26
|
Initiatory and Endowment
|
Salt Lake Temple
|
18 Aug 1921
|
26
|
Marriage (Sealing) to
Leland Heywood
|
Salt Lake Temple, Hyrum G.
Smith
|
1921-1922
|
24-27
|
Teaching
|
St.
Johns, Arizona.[iv]
|
Sep 1922
|
27
|
Teaching
|
St. Johns
Leland living in Mesa and
working as a Pharmacist in Chandler
|
18 Nov 1922
|
27
|
Birth: Margaret Josephine Heywood
|
Mesa[v]
|
Jan
1923- Jun 1923
|
27-28
|
Teaching
|
Youngberg,
Pinal, Arizona until 1 Jun 1823
|
Jun 1923
|
27
|
Teaching
|
Bingham Canyon, Utah. High School
|
1925-1928
|
30-33
|
Teaching
|
Center
Street School, Los Angeles
|
1928
|
33
|
Leland graduated from
Dental School
|
University of Southern
California. Honor Society: Phi Kappa Phi. Started practice in Holbrook.
|
1 Apr 1928
|
32
|
“Life Diploma”
|
To teach elementary school
in California.
|
2
Oct 1928
|
33
|
Birth: Barbara Lea Heywood
|
Los
Angeles
|
12
Apr 1930
|
35
|
Census
|
Holbrook
|
22
May 1930
|
35
|
Possible teaching position
California mentioned in a letter
|
|
1930-1937
|
35
|
Teaching
|
Hooper
Avenue School, Los Angeles
|
17
Jun 1930
|
35
|
Birth: Alfred Leland Heywood
|
Snowflake
|
10
Apr 1933
|
38
|
Birth: Richard Neal Heywood
|
Snowflake
|
1934
|
39
|
Leland started dental
practice
|
Mesa
(practiced for 29 years)
|
3
Jul 1940
|
45
|
Birth: Carol Jayne Heywood
|
Rose
Hill Township, Johnson, Missouri
|
17
Oct 1943
|
48
|
Marriage: Margaret
Josephine Heywood to James Albin
Pitton
|
Mesa
|
8
Jul 1947
|
52
|
Adoption: Carol Jayne Heywood[vi]
|
Mesa
|
May
1948
|
53
|
Honorary Golden Gleaner
|
Maricopa
Stake, Mesa
|
30
Jun 1948
|
53
|
Sealing: Carol Jayne Heywood and Margaret and Leland
|
Mesa
Arizona Temple
|
9
Jul 1948
|
53
|
Marriage: Barbara Lea Heywood to George F Price Jr.
|
Mesa
|
1950
|
45
|
Received Master’s Degree
|
Tempe,
AZ
|
9
Jun 1955
|
60
|
Marriage: Alfred to Phyllis Stokes
|
Idaho
Falls Temple
|
17
Sep 1959
|
64
|
Marriage: Richard Neal Heywood and Carma Smith
|
Mesa
Arizona Temple
|
8
Dec 1961
|
66
|
Member: Delta Kappa Gamma Society, Omicron
|
|
1
Jul 1962
|
67
|
On Tour
|
Letter
to Ella Kvist.
|
1963
|
“Teacher of the Year”
|
Future
Teachers Club
|
|
1963
|
68
|
Congratulatory letter
|
From
Rulon Shepherd, Superintendent of School, Mesa
|
1963-1969
|
68-74
|
Teacher
|
Church
College of Hawaii, Laie[vii]
|
1963-1969
|
68-74
|
Temple Worker
|
Laie
with Leland. Released 15 May 1969
|
21
Jul 1965
|
70
|
On Tour
|
Letter
to Leland from Rome
|
Jul-Aug
1965
|
70
|
European Tour
|
Cooks
Coach Tours, Great Britain
|
1
Aug 65
|
70
|
On Tour
|
Letter
to Leland from Hyde Park
|
17
May 1969
|
72
|
Letter of appreciation for
work done in the Temple
|
Leia
Temple President
|
25
Apr 1969
|
74
|
Article bids Margaret
Heywood, “Aloha…”
|
Leia
|
15
May 1969
|
74
|
Release as Temple Worker
|
Leia.
|
15
May 1969
|
74
|
Grand Marshal
|
Margaret
leads the Academic Procession as Grand March, Church College of Hawaii, Leia.
|
1971
|
76
|
Remodeling of Home
|
Sirrine
Street Mesa
|
17
Aug 1971
|
76
|
50th Wedding Anniversary
Celebration
|
In
newly remodeled home.
|
6
Dec 1976
|
81
|
Leland’s Death
|
Mesa
|
9
Dec 1976
|
81
|
Leland’s Burial
|
Mesa
Cemetery
|
3
Jan 1991
|
95
|
Death: Josephine
|
Newport
Beach, Orange, California
|
8
Jan 1991
|
95
|
Burial: Josephine
|
Mesa
City Cemetery
|
7
Feb 1992
|
96
|
Death: Margaret Eleanor Smurthwaite Heywood
|
Mesa
|
11
Feb 1992
|
96
|
Burial
|
Mesa
City Cemetery
|
[i] Most
are exact, some are close approximations.
[ii] Teaching Entries 1916 through 1937 were
taken from a Personal Record found in a family Book of Remembrance.
[iii] Leland proposed in the kitchen of
Margaret’s second story apartment over a candy kitchen or shop. (The dishes were still on the table!) Margaret was living with Leland’s sister,
Velma, at the time. After the engagement,
Leland’s mother came to Logan immediately to check up on the potential
bride. Leland was working at the
Lewiston Sugar Factory at the time of courtship.
[iv] Taught 4/5 grades and music to all grades. Leland worked in Drugstore in St. Johns and
then Pharmacy in Chandler.
[v] Margaret lived at “Mother Heywood’s” home
on 1st Avenue in Mesa.
[vi] Final Order of Adoption, No.
1186, Amy Lou Hastings by Leland Heywood and Margaret Smurthwaite Heywood. . .
. the said child shall bear the name of Carol Jayne Heywood. DONE IN OPEN COURT
this 8th day of July A. D. 1947. EDWIN BEAUCHAMP, Judge of the Superior Court,
State of Arizona, in the county of Maricopa.
[vii] Laie is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the Koolauloa District on the
island of Oahu in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States.
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