Hearing our Heritage is a podcast that showcases the life stories of elderly individuals in their own words. Each episode delves into the triumphs, tragedies, family relationships, and life experiences of one featured individual. The podcast is readily accessible on all major streaming platforms, enabling loved ones to easily access and listen to the stories of their parents and grandparents.
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27: Nancy Warren: A Life of Faith, Fun, and Family
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Nancy Warren is an adventurous, hardworking, and caring woman. She was raised in Salt Lake City, where she had a childhood that she called a little rebellious, but a lot of fun. That culminated in her eloping with her sweetheart, Kenny, when she was only 17 years old. They shared over 60 years of marriage, and welcomed five kids into their family. …
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26: Bette Brown: Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life
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Bette Brown is a beautiful, caring, and selfless woman who has dedicated her life to raising her family and doing what is right. She has a lovely perspective on facing hard times, following the Lord, and loving others. Raised in Utah, she was surrounded by good friends and neighbors who helped her along the way. Later, she met and married her sweet…
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25: Reta Oyler: Focused On The Family
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Reta Oyler is an compassionate, caring, and Christlike woman. She has dedicated her life to helping those in need through her incredible nursing career and also as a missionary. Her greatest role, however, has been as wife and mother to her husband of 60 years and her seven amazing children. She was raised as a horse-riding, cheerleader in rural Id…
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24: Dick Oyler: Dentist, Dad, and Devoted Saint
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Dick Oyler is a dedicated saint, father, and husband. He was raised farming in Northern Utah where had many exciting and unique experiences as a boy. He also was taught, from an early age, that hard work would get you where you want to go. That later led him to attend college and dental school, serve a mission in New Zealand, and met and marry his …
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23: Maggie Olson: Motherhood and Mountains
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Maggie Olson is a creative, kind, loving mother and grandmother. She grew up in Marin County, California where she enjoyed being in nature and developing her artistry. She has lived many places, both for school and to help her kids and grandkids. She has many talents including storytelling, puppetry, clowning, face painting, design, drawing, painti…
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22: Darlene Robinson: Joy in the (Bus) Journey
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Darlene Robinson is a bright, positive, beautiful, wife, mother, and grandmother. She was raised in California and spent her summers waterskiing in Lake Tahoe with her brother and cousins. She attended BYU, became a dental hygienist, and eventually met her sweetheart, Gayle in California. Together they raised their three daughters while running a b…
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21: Miriam and Dean Morrell: No Empty Chairs
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Miriam and Dean Morrell have shared an amazing lif e and raised 6 fantastic kids. Their dream is to have “no empty chairs” when they get to the other side. Having an eternal family is what is most important to them. They had fairly different childhoods but both learned the value of hard work early on. They’ve lived all over the country, had some re…
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19: Norma Christiansen: 101 Years of Wisdom
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Norma Christiansen is an incredible, sharp, witty, kind, 101 year old woman. She has spent her life in Wisconsin where she grew up as the only child of hardworking parents. She played the clarinet in the band and studied to become a teacher. She taught school for many years and worked as a school librarian. She met and married Eugene and together t…
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18: Margene Koller: Two Kids and Traveling (NO MUSIC)
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Margene Koller has had an amazing life full of adventure. She is an avid family historian with many fascinating stories from her heritage. She worked as a school teacher for many years before marrying her husband Frank. Together, they raised two children while moving all over the world. She's a positive, bright woman who has been close with the Lor…
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17: Margene Koller: Two Kids and Traveling
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Margene Koller has had an amazing life full of adventure. She is an avid family historian with many fascinating stories from her heritage. She worked as a school teacher for many years before marrying her husband Frank. Together, they raised two children while moving all over the world. She's a positive, bright woman who has been close with the Lor…
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16: Rees Bandley: A Rock'n'Roll Redemption Story
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Reese Bandley has one of the most dramatic yet inspiring stories I have ever heard. He has had some major highs and some serious lows. On many occasions and through faith in God, he has found the strength to turn his life around. He's an avid car enthusiast, burn survivor, serial entrepreneur, music lover, father, husband, and follower of Christ.…
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15: Joan Furner: Farming, Five Kids, and First Grade
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Joan Furner is the salt of the earth. She is kind, funny, beautiful, and faithful. She is part of the Parrish family, who are prominent in Centerville, Utah where she has lived most of her life. She grew up on a farm and enjoyed singing in her younger years. She met her husband, Blair, through a blind date set up by her mom. Together Joan and Blair…
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14: Richard and Anna Wilstead: From Meeting at the Mezona to Seven Kids
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Anna and Richard Wilstead are a wonderful couple from Arizona. They have been married since 1969 after meeting when Anna was sixteen and Richard nineteen. Together they have seven children, Lorianne, Gregory, Jeffery, Elizabeth Kenneth, Curtis, and Deborah They have worked hard their entire lives, since they were young teens, to provide for themsel…
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13: Thom Rothey: Bears, Brokerage, and Being the Best Husband and Father
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Thom Rothey has had an amazing life. He has five great kids, five bonus kids, many grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. His life began in Ogden, where he had a fun childhood but faced some serious hardships in his family. He met his eternal companion, Helen, in high school, and they were married after he returned from his mission to the Northern…
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12: Richard Smith: The Painless Dentist and Faithful Patriarch
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Richard Smith is a wise, gentle man who has lived a faithful and blessed life. He is married to his lovely wife, Norma, and together they have four sons and have many grandchildren, and even a great grandchild. He was raised in Utah and after attending BYU, working many jobs, joining the reserves and getting married, he ended up in Kansas City for …
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Norma Smith is a happy, bright bubbly and beautiful woman who loves her family more than anything else. She was raised in humble circumstances as a young girl before her mother remarried. She was an actress and she attended Brigham Young university where she met her husband, Richard. Together they have built a beautiful life and have four wonderful…
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10: Dorothy Tall: A Teacher, a Mother and a Saint
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Dorothy Tall is a beautiful, vivacious, caring woman. She is the mother of five children and has been married to her sweetheart, Tom, for fifty-eight years. She is the daughter of German immigrants and had a very happy childhood. She has devoted her life to her family and her faith in God. She had an incredible career as an elementary school teache…
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9: Tom Tall: Husband, Father and Western Wear Extraordinaire
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Tom Tall has a remarkable story. His journey began in the hills of Los Angeles. He eventually landed at Snow College before being drafted into the army and stationed in Germany. He graduated Brigham Young University at the age of thirty-three and travelled all over the western United States selling western wear. As an expert salesman, he has overco…
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Gloria Melendez is one of the most beautiful, kind, positive and resilient people I’ve ever known. She has had a fascinating life full of learning and travel. She is a devoted mother and grandmother who has been a faithful member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints her whole life, including serving three missions. Her story takes pla…
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7: Gary Bikman: A Tribute On His 80th Birthday
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If you spend five minutes with Gary Bikman, there's a good chance he'll have you laughing. He's a quick-witted eighty-year-old with a fascinating history and an inspirational life. He married his first wife, Suzy, after falling in love at BYU, and together they had nine wonderful children. After tragically losing Suzy to cancer, he remarried his no…
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Lester Broadhead is a kind and humble man, who has learned some really profound life lessons throughout his journey. He explains those lessons through entertaining and unique stories from his 80 years on earth. He was born in rural Utah to fairly old parents, he played sports and loves cars. He has 4 kids to whom he was a single father to for a whi…
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5: Bill Cranney: Airplanes, Africa, Auto Parts and Ann
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Bill Cranney has spent his life providing for his family, enjoying sports and the outdoors, and diligently serving the Lord. From his stories it’s clear that he has tried, all his life, to do the right things and do what he has been asked to do– which has actually quite a bit. He and his wife Ann raised four strong, successful, athletic kids. Bill …
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4: Ann Cranney: A Life Fueled by Service
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Ann Cranney is a gentle, kind soul. She has devoted her life to raising her four amazing children and serving in the church. She is a capable and hard worker who says she has hard time sitting still for long. She has always enjoyed being busy and doing good. She met and married her sweetheart Bill when they were just freshmen at BYU and together th…
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3: Ellis and Carolyn Allred: A 70 Year Legacy
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Did you know that only .1% of marriages make it to 70 years? Well, Ellis and Carolyn Allred are in that tiny group that makes it to their platinum anniversary. The two met in high school, have 5 amazing children and one foster son. The couple worked hard to build a faithful family, served in the church, and loved each other the whole way through. T…
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If you talk to Rea Rader she will probably try to tell you that she's had a very ordinary life, but she has nearly 90 years of stories that say otherwise. She spent her childhood in rural Utah— at times without power or plumbing! She met her sweetheart, Bill, when she was still in high school, and they raised their six children together. They also …
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1: Jan Johnson: Cheaper by the Dozen, Almost
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Jan Johnson is a kind, happy and beautiful 84 year old woman. She has filled her life with love, service, and laughter and has shared it with her beloved husband Ted, their 11 children, 48 grandchildren and many great grandchildren. Listen as she shares the funny stories from their family farm and the inspiring perspective that has carried her thro…
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