Birthplace
- Garcia, Chihuahua, Mexico (Mormon colony)
Occupations
- Herded cows with her brother in Colonial Garcia
- Helped her mother with cooking and sewing for her family and her Aunt Sarah’s family (her father’s first wife)
- Her father died when she was 14 years old from acute appendicitis and she took care of her younger siblings so that her mom could work
- Resourceful, persistent and loving caregiver, especially to Gordon after the hunting accident
- She was very charitable and said “Charity covers a multitude of sins”
- "I've never met anyone who did more compassionate service than she did." - Joe Ann
- Was a loving mother and woman of great faith.
Accidents / Hardships
- She cared for her younger siblings after her father passed away from acute appendicitis and her mother worked to support the family
Hobbies / Interests
- She loved dancing
- Garth remembers her and Richard dancing together at Ward dances
- In their early years, “Dick & Zet” as they were known, went to all the dances and brought home many blue ribbons for being the best dancers
- Liked camping and the outdoors, but NOT an outdoor privy
- Sewing, quilting, crocheting
- She was always crocheting handkerchiefs
- She was an excellent cook
- Well know for her Sunday Roasts
- I remember the taste and the smell of her roasts, beans, pork chops, hams, chili, home-made bread and lemon meringue pies"-Myra
- She had a great ability to make holidays special
Dating / Spouse
- Izetta met Richard in Thatcher, Arizona. After turning down his initial proposal she and Dick went with her cousin while they went to get married. After returning it was discovered that Dick and Izetta also got married.
Childhood
- She grew up in Colonial Garcia, Mexico in a polygamist family
- They lived on a farm with two houses, one for Aunt Sarah his first wife and the other for Izetta’s mother Susan
- Izetta and her brother played up in the pines behind their house, they made little dishes out of clay, they found on their property and would have tea parties in their play areas in the pines
- They loved to play in the hills near their home and built a little hideout
Schooling
- Her mother, Susan taught Izetta to sew and cook
- She was taught the gospel by her parents and was very strong in her convictions
Interesting Fact
- She was a fast driver
- One Christmas in Honeyville after the children had opened their gifts, she asked them all to select 1 gift to give another family in grave need.
- “I’ll always remember that frosty, crispy morning, all of us trailing behind that Christmas box being pulled on a little sled and delivered to the needy family.” - Bev
Family
- She was the oldest of 6 children
Event / Memories
- “She told of a time when she and Lavon took a hammer from Grandpa's tool box and went up to their favorite place in the pines to nail something together and then coming home to supper without the hammer. After being asked what they had done with the hammer when they had gotten home, they realized that they had left it up in their little retreat. Well, you just didn't leave valuable tools lying around in those days, so they had to go back in the dark and try to find the tool. They took a lighted lantern with them, but it was such a black night that even with the light it was hard to see very clearly and it was so scary. She said that every little noise scared them. They looked and looked and having no success, they decided to kneel down and pray to Heavenly Father for help in finding it. They knelt down by a big log and said ta prayer, then got up and walked around the log and saw the hammer lying underneath it on the opposite side to where they had been playing. Mama said she learned a great lesson that night, actually two lessons because she then knew that God did answer prayers and secondly, that you just didn't leave precious tools here they could get lost.” – Joe Ann
- Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolutionaries would come through the towns and be very demanding about food and other supplies that the people would have to give them. Mom said that many a time they had to hand over all their bread and prepared dinner foods if they came through at dinner time. Sometimes the townspeople would hide their little children in the large sawdust piles to keep them away from the soldiers. According to Mom, Pancho Villa wasn't the villain that he was portrayed to be. She said that he did warn the people to leave their villages before the soldiers did great damage and maybe harm to them. Mother said, that one day Pancho Villa came riding by her place and she was leaning on the top of a fence and actually talked to him. When the Americans were finally forced to leave their holdings and go back across the border, Mama and her family were already visiting relatives in Arizona so they weren't part of the exodus or expulsion from Mexico.- Joe Ann
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