Whitaker, Pat, 1946-

Hilda Oliver Perkins (1912-1999) married Owen Kent Nielson and when he died she married Owen's second cousin, Ray William Perkins.

Hilda Oliver Perkins was born 11 August 1912 in Blanding, San Juan, Utah to John Henry and Sara E. Dalton Oliver. John died when Hilda was only six weeks old of typhoid fever. Her widowed mother eventually moved her family to Bluff, Utah, when Hilda was seven-years-old. Hilda first married an Owen Kent Nielson. He died in March of 1952. Hilda married Owen's second cousin, Ray William Perkins, on 29 August 1952 in Aztec, San Juan, New Mexico. She died 19 May 1999.

From the guide to the Oral history interview with Hilda Oliver Perkins, 1972, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)

Gene Foushee built up a successful tourist business and restored many buildings in Bluff, Utah.

Gene Foushee grew up in North Carolina and received a degree in geology from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He joined the Air Force after college and served in Germany, then moved west after his tour of duty to find work. His first job was with Union Carbide in Uravan, Colorado. He and his wife Mary were married shortly thereafter and moved to Bluff, Utah. There Gene built up a successful tourist business and restored many buildings in the town.

Dorothy Caroline Johnson Nielson was born about 1918 in Utah. She was raised in Nephi, Utah, and moved to Bluff, Utah, to teach school in 1940. There she boarded with a Mrs. Nielson and married her son Richard two months later. Richard was a stockman and a farmer. They lived the rest of their lives in Bluff, Utah.

From the guide to the Oral history interviews with Gene Foushee and Dorothy Nielson, 1972, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)