Item Detail
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Dewey, Joy Olsen
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1918-2003
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MSS 827
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Biography
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Joy Olsen Dewey was born September 22, 1918 in Scipio, Utah to James Christian and Ruth Shearsmith Olsen. She attended grade school through the eighth grade in Scipio, and thereafter attended Junior High and High School in Fillmore, Utah, which she graduated from in May of 1937. She went to Salt Lake City for employment after graduation, and she later met and married Charles Harry Dewey, with whom she had seven children. They Lived in Salt Lake City until 1948, after which they moved to Tod Park. They moved again in 1952 to Grantsville. Joy died February 15, 2003.
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Part of the J. Allen Parkinson collection, this is a one-page typescript biography located in the fifth folder of the collection, which is labeled, Biographies, DA-DU. There is a short description of the efforts it took for Joy to attend school, as she had to take a busy twenty-four miles from were she lived. She was an active member of the LDS Church and served as President of the Primary for several years. In 1960, she fulfilled her dream as she and Charles vacationed in Hawaii. In 1961, she and her family went to see the Rose Parade in Pasadena.