This week Mauri will turn 32 years old. What a wonderful woman, wife, mother, daughter and sister, she is. Not one to complain she has endured major health issues, but found the best solution to be relieved of them. She is a dependable person making it to work daily, caring for Aaron,Brayle and Hunter, fulfilling her assignments with the scouts regularly and so on.
I call her my beautiful daughter, because she is. She took the best looking genes from both Dad and I then perfected her makeup, a snappy hairstyle and good taste in clothes to complete a picture of beauty to rival any model.
This centennial baby was born, Thursday, April 22, at 7am weighing 7 1/2lbs. The doctor was Dallas Van Wagoner and her attending nurse was Mary Fitzgerald, who was my visiting teacher at the time. Mauri was a beautiful baby that was content when fed, loved attention and slept a lot, unlike her older sister.
As a child she took a lot of beatings from Jennifer but found a way to be heard. Temper tantrums became a norm when she wanted her way and wasn’t about to budge. She suffered many a cut, scrape and trouncing to rise above it all with her competitive nature. She walked, talked and rode a bike sooner than big sis did.
After starting school it was discovered she had a hearing problem, which was corrected with surgery at the Salt Lake Surgical Center by getting tubes. We called her x-ray ears after she recovered, because of her excellent hearing. She quickly made many girlfriends at school. Due to the fact there were eight boys her age in Primary, she hadn’t had many. Being a bright child, Mauri did very well in school and it also tamed her of the tantrums. A model student she was given the highest award in sixth grade, the Hope of America Award received by one boy and girl.
She loved to play tennis and lettered in it. Sewing, swimming, phoning friends and making caramel brownies were things she liked to do. She was the first one to sign up for family jobs and always completed them. It frustrated her that other siblings wouldn’t follow through with theirs. As a teen her goals were to attend EFY, go to college, achieve her YW medallion and a have temple marriage. She accomplished them all.
Boyfriends came, went and were illusive until Mauri decided to take shop in school.
Here she found many willing to help her with the projects she worked on. One young man, Aaron, bested the others becoming her first real boyfriend. Many dances and fun dates were enjoyed together. He was willing to take the challenge and join the Church to proclaim his love and devotion. Now here we are thirteen years later with happy, tough and memorable experiences along the way. Hunting, family and reading are her hobbies now. What a wonderful person she is. Thanks for being you, Mauri.
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