Collins’
father, left, served in the First Presidency of the LDS Church and was well-known, probably an understatement.
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Joan’s
mother was Ida May Burton, born in Ogden in 1894, the fourth of eight
children.
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Ida
May’s paternal grandfather, William Walton Burton, standing center, had
married three sisters, ultimately moving his family to Star Valley to escape
persecution from federal marshals.
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Joan’s
paternal grandmother was Martha Telle Cannon, who lived in Nauvoo as a young
child. Martha is shown here with Betsy,
Joan’s oldest sister, who was born in Salt Lake City in 1915.
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Joan
was just one of my many aunts, and she also had many aunts. These are the sisters of her mother. Ida May is second from the left.
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Ida May and Collins, known to me as Nana and Daddy Cannon, married in 1915. Nana had three children within the next 37 months. |
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At
the end of World War I, Daddy Cannon moved his family from Salt Lake City to
Logan where he opened a woolen mill.
Although he had a partner, Grandfather borrowed the money and managed
the operation. At that time, the two
youngest children in the family were Dad and his sister Maydae, whose official name was Ida Mae. They are shown here modeling sweaters and
caps for a catalog advertising the mill’s merchandise.
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Joan was born in the spring of 1927. Of course, her family completely adored her. |
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Little
Joan was enumerated with her family in 1930, not long after their move to Salt
Lake City.
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Joan’s
family stayed in Salt Lake City for the next decade. She had a happy childhood with her sisters,
all shown here, plus friends (top left) in abundance.
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Joan dearly loved her family throughout her life.
As a child, her closest sibling was Janet who was five years
older.
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I
love seeing Joan with barrettes. I can
easily imagine Nana fussing with Joan’s hair and asking her to sit still.
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By
1936, Joan’s two oldest sisters and her only brother had graduated from high
school and were out of the house.
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About
the time the War ended, Joan and her parents returned to Salt Lake City.
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Portraits
of Barbara and Tommy hung in Nana’s living room by the front door for thirty
years where everyone saw them as they entered and left the house. No one ever forgot these children.
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After
losing their father in 1961, these Cannon siblings lost their oldest sister
Betsy in 1979.
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In
1983, the same year my mother died, Nana joined her husband in death.
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Dad was Joan’s next sibling to die. Reid and Joan came to his funeral, which was held in Salt Lake City in 2003. My sister-in-law Kay stands with Joan and Reid in this photograph. |
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Maydae and Joan were close, and Joan took Maydae’s death in 2011 very hard. Aunt Maydae was a guiding force for good to all of our family. |
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Joan’s older sister Janet died just a few days before Reid passed away last year, leaving Joan the very last one of her generation in our family. |