Thoughts and stories, by Pal

Originally Blog # 109.  Pictures through the years of Blaine D and Wayne D Eckman, March 1, 2014 . These are pictures through the years of the identical twins, Blaine D and Wayne D Eckman.   Blaine was about 15 minutes older than Wayne, and born at home.  Read of them first in blog # 3.   Then their father Roy Waldamer Eckman's story is in blog # 93.  Their mother Gladys Dayton Eckman is told about in blogs #106 and #107.   More of their lives will come in the future.  This is a record of  photos through the ages!   Some of them have been in previous blogs, but it is nice to get them together here, chronologically.   They were born on September 18, 1930, and Blaine passed away suddenly at age 68, on March 19, 1999, and Wayne is now 83 years old, March 2014.  Joyce is still living, in St. David, Arizona, near their daughter Janise Wooten. Some are copied from our book, and I will rewrite the captions, as they are hard to read.  Above it says "The twi

For the next 3 weeks I may have more than one entry on some days, because I will put a story about my husband Wayne on each day until it has been a year since he passed away  -- Febuary 21, 2016.  I woke up early to a call that I had another great grandchild!  A boy, born healthy and weighing 8 pounds 2 ounces!  We now have as great grandchildren:  7 boys and 9 girls!  Did Brigham Young Reject Lucy Mack Smith’s Book on Joseph? By Scot and Maurine Proctor  · February 1, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE To celebrate this year of study in the Doctrine & Covenants, we are serializing  The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His Mother ,  one of the most important historical sources we have about Joseph Smith, made even better because it is just a compelling read. In this article,  published yesterday, we talked about how Lucy’s Preliminary Notes were extensively edited before they became the book we have had f