My sweet father-in-law just published his autobiography! He has been working on it since I first met him over 30 years ago. It's been a labor of love and many, many people have helped to make it happen. He and Rick went down to the BYU press a couple of weeks ago to pick up the 100 or so copies that were printed in a hard bound volume that is of course in Cougar Blue. He wrote the entire manuscript by hand over the years and many people have helped transcribe his writing in to a word processed document.
It's an amazing book of 414 pages that takes the reader on an incredible journey through the life of a man who has lived for 87 years. It is extremely well written, clever, humorous, direct, honest, very interesting and quite inspirational. It's entitled
Yale Avenue Kid
an Autobiography
VBR
an Autobiography
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The chapters go like this:
Chapter 1 - The Boy
Chapter 2 - The Soldier (WW II vet who saw heavy fighting in the Pacific Theater)
Chapter 3 - Enter Particia
Chapter 4 - The Missionary
Chapter 5 - A Wife and Washington
Chapter 6 - A Dozen Good Years
Chapter 7 - Bishop, Politician, Little League Coach
Chapter 8 - Big Decisions, Big Changes
Chapter 9 - Missionary Kids, Exit Politician and Bishop
Chapter 10 - Back to the Real World: Over the Point of the Mountain
Chapter 11 - Still Going
Chapter 12 - 1990
Chapter 13 - Three Score and Ten
Chapter 14 - West Virginia
Chapter 15 - The Jewel
Chapter 16 - Not My Best Years
Chapter 17 - Patriarch, Traveling Man, Rowena
Chapter 18 - Decider, Believer
Epilogue
Ancestors and Descendants
He gave copies to each of us and to our children. They have already started to devour their copies and I've been told that our two sons-in-law have already read the volume cover to cover. It's been a labor of love and my mother-in-law deserves a lot of credit for helping make it happen. It has wonderful pictures in it and some treasured family stories. He left us all a great legacy through the written word, telling it like it is/was. His faith and testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ shines through and it is a very interesting book to read. Well done VBR!
Chapter 1 - The Boy
Chapter 2 - The Soldier (WW II vet who saw heavy fighting in the Pacific Theater)
Chapter 3 - Enter Particia
Chapter 4 - The Missionary
Chapter 5 - A Wife and Washington
Chapter 6 - A Dozen Good Years
Chapter 7 - Bishop, Politician, Little League Coach
Chapter 8 - Big Decisions, Big Changes
Chapter 9 - Missionary Kids, Exit Politician and Bishop
Chapter 10 - Back to the Real World: Over the Point of the Mountain
Chapter 11 - Still Going
Chapter 12 - 1990
Chapter 13 - Three Score and Ten
Chapter 14 - West Virginia
Chapter 15 - The Jewel
Chapter 16 - Not My Best Years
Chapter 17 - Patriarch, Traveling Man, Rowena
Chapter 18 - Decider, Believer
Epilogue
Ancestors and Descendants
He gave copies to each of us and to our children. They have already started to devour their copies and I've been told that our two sons-in-law have already read the volume cover to cover. It's been a labor of love and my mother-in-law deserves a lot of credit for helping make it happen. It has wonderful pictures in it and some treasured family stories. He left us all a great legacy through the written word, telling it like it is/was. His faith and testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ shines through and it is a very interesting book to read. Well done VBR!
3 comments:
Thanks, Vonnie, for the kind post. It is a great, interesting, thorough history of Dad's life. His is a life well-lived, and the book is a great read. We're very proud of him.
That is so cool! What an accomplishment, and so great that so many are reading and learning from it!
It is a wonderful book and we have loved reading our way through it. Grampy rocks.
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