B.Vaughn Marshall History

1984 - 1985

B. Vaughn Marshall

OUR DAUGHTER'S FRIEND

That brings us to the end of 1984 and well into 1985. Our two youngest daughters had a friend who had recently moved into our ward. She was living with her father and as a new convert needed a lot of support. We found out that there was drug dealing going on in the apartment with her dad and his girlfriend. She spent a lot of time with the girls and we really hated to see her go back to that environment each day. The girls asked if she could stay with us. Vaughn and I discussed the situation and felt we could offer our home if we could be covered legally. We asked her father if he had any objections to our becoming her foster parents. He was very glad to have us take over so that’s what we did. She stayed with us until she turned 18 and then wanted to be on her own. During the time she lived with us Vaughn introduced the routine of reading scriptures every night at the dinner table. She was hardly able to read when we started this, but by the time she left she was doing pretty well. She said that, that was the way she learned to read.

ONE OF OUR DAUGHTERS

During 1985 one of our daughters was having some difficulties in her marriage and asked if Vaughn could come to Salt Lake, where they were living, and bring she and child to our home for a while. He flew there and helped her pack and drove her back in her car. In the meantime her husband packed all their furniture and arranged for a friend to transport it to our house. Her husband was terribly upset and depressed about her leaving. Later he came to our house too and they worked things out. During all that time Vaughn was a loving father and such a great support to our daughter. When they decided to go, he helped them pack again (furniture and all) and get safely there.

FURNITURE

Just a word or too about furniture. As I’ve looked at some of my own notes, it has brought to my mind how physically draining this period must have been for Vaughn. First, doing so much work on his mother’s property, and then all the furniture moving that he did. I’m referring to all the furniture involved each time someone stayed with us. It kind of went like this. When mother came to live with us her furniture had to be put in storage because her area wasn’t finished. So Vaughn, with some of the family helping, did that. Then he moved her furniture from there to her new room when it was finished. There was a lot that didn’t have a place to go for a while, so it went in the garage. When our son left for Washington State to start working for Boeing, Vaughn moved his wife and their boys into our house and their furniture into the garage. When our oldest daughter and her husband graduated from college, Vaughn moved her and their two little ones into our house and their furniture into the garage while Bob went to Washington State to find a job and a place to live. Just before that he had moved all of his mother’s furniture into our house and garage when she came to live with us. As people would come and go some furniture would remain behind in our garage. In fact our garage became the permanent residence of a great deal of furniture. Then the furniture moving for our daughte mentioned above. For a while we even had to store furniture on the back patio because the garage was so full. It seemed like Vaughn was always moving furniture somewhere. Then came the big move when we moved to Washington State. The furniture was moved by van but had to be stored in the rental house we had and the garage there and a storage facility that we rented. When we bought our home in Washington, Vaughn moved it again to the new home from our rental house and the storage shed. He helped our fourth daughter and her husband move into our home and then into their apartment when they returned to Washington from New York. Our oldest daughter and her husband moved during that time also into a different apartment (upstairs) and later to Salt Lake. That time Vaughn finally injured his shoulder helping with furniture.

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