Eva Geneva Funk

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Eva Gneev Funk and Gardner Asa Beal Contributed By: contributorContactResponse.contactName · 26 August 2014

Eva Gneev Funk and Gardner Asa Beal Written and compiled by Bessie Baird Zeller I have been unable to find but very little about our grandparents. Grandma went by the name of Eva and grandpa by the name of Asa. They were both born in Manti, Utah where their ancestors had settled as part of the Mormon colonies settling that part of the country. They were married 16 October 1888 in Sterling, Utah, close to Manti and were sealed in the Manti Temple in 1892. They lived in that area until about 1903 when they moved to Alberta, Canada. They only stayed in Canada a couple of years before moving to Kane, Big Horn, Wyoming, where they settled and farmed. They lived in Kane until their deaths, Eva Gneev Funk died 5 May 1928 and Gardner Asa Beal died 21 June 1935.

These are memories from Gladys Durfee Davies, a granddaughter. Grandpa said that his mother died when he was young and he had really missed having her as he grew up. He was a great scriptorian, he knew the scriptures and where to find them. Many people came to him for help in understanding and searching out the scriptures. He opened the scriptures for me, I used to sit by him and he would talk to me about them. Then when I went on my mission those things that he had taught me really came back to me and helped me. Grandpa was English and thought that he was a blue blood and a little better than everyone else, especially grandma. He was a very proud man. Grandma was loved by everyone. She acted as a midwife and helped everyone, she would go and take care of the family and clean and cook. Grandpa didn’t want her to help the poor, but she didn’t listen, she helped everyone that needed her. She liked everyone. Grandma was a beautiful seamstress, she made dresses and many things. She did lots of patching and sewed on buttons. When she would come to visit us she would say, “get me some sewing so I can be sewing while I’m talking.” She sewed with an awful long thread, I wonder why she didn’t get it all tangled up, but she didn’t. When she wanted to call Grandpa she would go out and call, “yo ho, Asa.” When Aunt Emily died Grandpa didn’t like the dress that they buried her in, but the Lowe family was in charge as she was married to Merrill Lowe. Grandpa wanted her dug up and a new dress put on her. He was 80 years old and snoozing in his chair when Emily came to him and said, Pa, don’t fret, I’ve got the dress I want, I made it, so just simmer down. So he did. He said, “I never suspected you could sew in heaven.”