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Deniece, Lynn with Dad, Ivan Davis

5 generation picture!--2003

2003

Story about Shane and Jeff

Dad and I were out. Kids home alone. They were playing ball in the back yard when a fight developed between Shane and Jeff. Suzette, and the brothers defended Jeff. Shane, being the outcast, decided to run away from home, and grabbed his bike. JEFF wasn't about to let him go alone so he tagged along. When we got home they had been gone for a few hours. Dad drove around the neighborhood, we called all the neighbors. We decided we would wait till dark, allowing them time 'to come home' on their own, but they didn't. At 10:00 p.m. I called the police. They came to the house, gathered information, and left. For hours we watched their car drive around the neighborhood, flashing their search light. They were building some new houses across the street from us, lots of dirt piles, holes etc. Sometime after midnight we went to bed, but didn't sleep. About 5:00 a.m. I heard the garage door come up. I was out of bed and at the kitchen door as they came in the house. Shane was still mad, he said the only reason he came home was he couldn't get Jeff to go without him. They had been in a gravel pit behind us by the canal. Police were called. The lost are found, all is well. "I am confident dear family or friends, if any of you are running away from home, Jeff is there to show you the way home."

Ivan Davis family 1977

Ivan Davis family 1976

Francis Beck family 2000 Christmas letter

No car

Way back, when we lived in Pocatello; Dad was the Bishop of our ward. It was a mutual night. I received a call from the church from our dau. Suzette. Randy was engaged in a war with the older men who had come to play basketball, even though the mutual still had gym time, I drove to the church, settled everything as best I could, then sent the kids on home. I stayed at the church to come home with my sweetheart when he finished his interview. We checked out the building, locked it up, and went out to the parking lot. NO CAR. Somehow I had sent the kids home with both cars, AND, they had better be in bed. Rather than walk home, we called our good friends, Fred and Pat Chase. They were happy to pick us up and we went out for milk shakes and chatter. And That Was When I Had A Mind!--By Deniece Beck

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Ivan Davis