Lloyd and Mirla Dunn
Information comes from the family files at the Bear Lake Family History Center in Montpelier.
Lloyd Crandell Dunn was born 5 June 1910 in Bennington, Idaho to Crandell Dunn and Ida Jane Wright. He married Mirla Bacon 23 May 1934. Mirla was born 30 Mar 1907 in Georgetown, the daughter of Albert Bacon and Charlotte Smith. Lloyd died 21 May 1984 in Sun City Arizona. Mirla died 5 Mar 2000 in Peoria Arizona.
Children of Lloyd Crandell Dunn and Mirla Bacon
1. Crandell Kay Dunn b-10 Nov 1939 in
Montpelier; d-5 Mar 2000 in Cincinnati Oh
2. Sheryl Dunn b-22 Apr 1942 in Montpelier; d-23 Dec 2003 in Peoria Arizona
Lloyd's formal education stopped when the Fielding Academy at Paris burned to the ground, but he never stopped learning. He became an avid reader, particularly law books. His nightly custom was to enter his den off the kitchen and settle himself for a night of studying his law books. He became an authority on the law and water laws in which he specialized. Lloyd was elected to represent Bear Lake County in the legislature. He became the man the entire legislature sought for advice about irrigation water rights.
As a child Mirla loved to wear overalls, even the discarded ones of her brother Myron. Most of the farm work she liked to do better than housework and she liked to plow, harrow and drive the slip and ricker teams. She would catch and carry live mice around in her pocket. Mirla attended two years of high school in Georgetown, then stayed with her sisters, Elva and Ardath in Montpelier until she graduated from Montpelier High School in 1925. She then went to summer school the next four years and taught two years in Crystal Idaho and rode a horse five miles to and from school each day. She also taught two years in McCammon. In the spring of 1931 Mirla was able to come back to Georgetown to teach and she stayed at this job until 1938 she left to stay home and raise a family.
In 1944 teachers were hard to find so Mirla began teaching the 5th and 6th grades in Georgetown while Silvia Larsen tended Sheryl and Kay. In 1955 Mirla attended summer school in Logan, took correspondence courses and attended night classes in Montpelier and finally graduated from Utah State University in June 1960. She retired in 1970.