I am very proud of my Gran, Rosa Vivian Call. She was a lady. I know this partly because her daughters are ladies. The other part lies in the lore of our family.
Among her many accomplishments, she went to Utah State University. According to my knowledge of history, it is a pretty neat thing when your grandmother goes to university. It is even neater when she went during the Great Depression.
I have heard that this is not her favorite picture. I do not know why. Usually, women LOVE pictures of themselves in bathing suits.
I can tell that she was a loved grandmother: because in her plentiful female posterity, several upon several granddaughters carry at least part of her name. I think that we honor her that way.
I had a chance to think of her while we were in Logan during the Easter weekend. While driving down the main street towards the temple, I saw this.
I remembered hearing that she worked in a place that had the word, 'Blue' in it. I thought, 'this HAS to be it'. The 'since 1914' gave me great hopes that I had hit upon the historic spot.
It is still a popular place with amazing comfort food. It has been on national tv, featuring their malts, which are still a tradition for youth to feast upon after dances, or following baptisms.
I wondered if, when I am gone, my daughters and granddaughters might make pilgrimages to places that I had frequented or worked. I hope so.
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And what woman doesn't just love looking at herself in a bathing suit?
Oh, yes, maybe they can tour the Plasma Center in Provo, where I spent many fine hours and viewed my first Rocky movie.
Here lies Andrew Rail
The only Mormon not directly related to Anson Call.
Aunt Liza and I are trying to become Aunt Gladys and Aunt Ruth also legends in our family. We are doing a pilgrimage to Sacto in their honor, but we don't know where they ate!
We love that you are such a Bagley/Call and tell Andrew we send condolences that he is the only one on the planet not directly related to Anson!