Item Detail
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Grigg, Julia Kathryn
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1915-2006
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MSS 1799
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Biography
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Julia Kathryn Grigg was born March 2, 1915 to Parley Mormon Grigg and Thankful Halsey Gardner in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho. She was educated in the grade schools there, and when twenty years old, married Warren Walters. The marriage ended in divorce, but soon after, Julia married Otis Harland Williams. He accepted the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the couple was later sealed in the Salt Lake City Temple on April 18, 1938. They moved from Riverton, Wyoming, to Choteau, and then to Helena, Montana. In 1951, Orin joined Julia's brothers, Golden and Nephi, in an Oregon Frozen Food Company. They last resided in Ontario. Julia died August 3, 2006.
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This brief one-page biography is part of Cleo Grigg Johnson Gilchrist's second book of remembrance. In this excerpt, Julia is described as a 'lively, ambitious, brown haired, blue eyed girl with a beautiful face and a graceful figure.'