My Sister Charlene (Age 20)

Here Charlene is waiting for her date to pick her up and take her to the big dance.  She is standing in our living room in Price.  About this same time, Charlene was Miss Carbon County, and the 3rd runner up to Miss Utah National Guard.  She has composed well over 100 songs-- some of which have been published in the LDS Hymn Book, the Primary Children's Song Book, and the Friend, which is the publication for children in the Primary. She won the LDS Church Song Writing Contest in 1977 by writing "A Woman's Prayer," so this song has been performed in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City and at Nauvoo for the dedication of a special Relief Society Monument. She played Carmen in the opera, Carmen, when she lived in Hawaii. She has also performed in The King and I (while at BYU) and Teahouse of the August (while still living in Price).  She has taught music in the public schools, everyone is always welcome in her home, there is always room for one more to eat at her table, and her greatest accomplishment is that she is the mother of 12 wonderful children.  

I love you, Charlene!