50th Anniversary

Engaged the day Man Walked on the Moon

50 years of Marriage

Reception at Cottonwood 10 Ward after marriage in SLAKE

friend,
Camilla S Wood (1926-1999) and Kirt DeMar Wood (1923-1987),
 Jonathan,
Fay W King (1915-1999) and Arthur KING (1912-1977),
Wesley, Brad, 

Ray and Gaye, 

friend, Lark, Corinne, Denise, Margaret Haney, Jeanine Swan,
and grandmothers 

Clara Lucille Stoker King (1884-1974), Amy Ella Hawkes Smith (1897-1971)

Ray and Gaye

Groom's Parents and brother - Bride's Parents 

Fay W King (1915-1999) and Arthur KING (1912-1977),

Brad King

Ray and Gaye

Camilla S Wood (1926-1999) and Kirt DeMar Wood (1923-1987),

 Kirt D. and Camilla WOOD, Ray and Gaye

Arthur KING and Fay W King and Ray and Gaye

Ray, Gaye, friend Leslie Larson, Bride's Three Sisters, friend, friend, 

Bride's Grandmother Ella SMITH

Bride's two brothers and three sisters

 friend, Corinne, Lark, Gaye, Denise, Leslie Larson, friend

Jeanine Swan, Leslie Larson, Denise, Lark, Corinne, Margaret Haney,

Wesley ,Ray, friend Brad, friend

Grandmothers of Groom and Bride

Clara Lucille Stoker King (1884-1974), 

Amy Ella Hawkes Smith (1897-1971) 

Sandy Baird, Joan Larsen, Barbara Bjorn, friend, friend, Kathy Baker, Wendy Bird, Carrie Millner

Brigham Young University Folk Dancers

 bride speaks to a groom's men

 Wedding Cake

Guests - left Wendy Bird, Kathy Baker, Corinne 

 Ray and Gaye

Setting Up or Cleaning Up

"Those we call dead are not dead at all."

....The more we know about our ancestors, the more we know about ourselves. Today while we are able we may turn our hearts to parents and predecessors and bless them with our love - and labor. Those we call dead are not dead at all. They are alive - on the other side of the veil. Family ties can continue beyond death because of ordinances performed in the temple. While our kindred wait for us, for what do we wait? Where do we begin? Important advice was given by *President Boyd K. Packer, who said: "I came to see that any one of us by himself can care about them, all of them, and love them." President Packer thus identified the true starting point in this great vicarious work.

Some among us still have perceived neither the spirit of Elijah nor its power. Yet we are bound by this warning: "Now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters," saith the Lord, "let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as...they with out us cannot be made perfect - niether can we without our dead be made perfect." (D&C 128:15.)

This doctrine and its ordinances are laden with love and are intended to perpetuate the sweetest of life's relationships - in families forever. Just as Jesus gave his life vicariously for each of us, we can serve vicariously for our kindred.

For our beloved ancestors, perhaps we cannot do everything, but we can do something. Meanwhile, we may keep ourselves free from the bondage of sin, worthy and able to endure to the end. Then, when our turn comes to pass through the gateway, we can say as did Paul: "The time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." (2 Timothy 4:6-7.)

*Boyd K. Packer, The Holy Temple (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980), pp.238-39.

(Russell M. Nelson, The Gateway We Call Death, (Salt Lake City: Deseret book company, 1995) pp.106-107)

Celestial Marriage

Marriages are intended to last forever, not just for our mortal lives.


27 August 2009 Ensign and Ella will celebrate their 90th Wedding Anniversary

In "The Family: A Proclamation to the World," the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles proclaim that "marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His children." When a man and woman are married in the temple, their family can be together forever.

19 February 2010 Andrew and Laura
will celebrate their 100th Wedding Anniversary
Sealed St. George Temple

President Spencer W. Kimball taught that “marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects. … It affects not only the two people involved, but their children and … their children’s children. … Of all the decisions, this one must not be wrong.” He recommended “that all boys and girls from their infancy up plan to be married only in the temple … to keep their lives spotless so that this can be accomplished” (“… The Matter of Marriage,” devotional address, Salt Lake Institute of Religion, 22 Oct. 1976).

11 June 2009 "Dee" and Camilla
celebrated their 63rd Wedding Anniversary

Jean Marie and Jack AIRD wedding photo

Jack Alma Aird (Patriarch) (1924-2006) son of John Aird and Julia Deane Imlay . Married Jean Marie D. in 1947 in the Salt Lake Temple.

I am hoping to share this photo with the family of Jean Marie DAVIES and Jack AIRD. My mother Camilla SMITH WOOD is the maid of honor standing next to Jean Marie. Jean Marie D. and Camilla SMITH were friends at South high school they kept in contact for many years.

Click on the photo to enlarge then it can be saved.

Dee and Camilla

Married: 11 Jun 1946 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
SS: 11 Jun 1946 SLAKE

Six children BIC.
Thirty grand children.
Thirty Seven great grand children (2009)

left to right: Jean Marie Davis, Demoines "Dee" CLUFF, Kirt DeMar WOOD, Camilla SMITH, Leona SMITH WINSOR, Lois Shupe, Myrle SMITH.