Walter P. Monson Memorial (1935)

[Kris’ Note:  There was a beautiful hand-lettered pen-and-ink card among the family documents.  It was a card sent to the family when Grandfather died. Some of the writing was in gold ink, some in black.  Really like artwork.]

Walter P Monson

To the family of our Co-Worker and Associate

Walter P. Monson

The Presidency of the Granite Stake and Members of the High Council extend this sympathetic greeting while we are still keenly conscious of our own losses and of your sad bereavement.  Not only our small group and the highest officials of the Church and State came forward to do him honor, but thousands of the unfortunate to whom he had administered, found expression for their gratitude and love in flowers, in music, in song, in discourse and prayer.  Inasmuch as we had an opportunity to visit you as a group and express to the members of the family individually our love and sympathy, we do not desire to indulge in vain repetition.  He was laid away beautifully and fittingly.

The object of this letter, written to you by his immediate associates, is just to make a record, and present something sufficiently tangible that you may retain our names, and our friendship for him, in a way that they may be preserved with other mementos of his splendid life.

Stake Presidency:  Hugh B. Brown, M. O. Ashton, Staynor Richards

High Council:  D. Carlos Kimball, G. McQuarrie, Frank G. Taylor, Howard J. McKeon, George A. Goff, J. Ray Free, William McEwan, Milton H. Ross, Campbell M. Brown, Lynn R. Fairbanks, J. A. Smoot, Calvin W. Rawlings

Alternates:  W. W. McBride, Claude Richards, S. T. Bennion, Mark B. Garff, Clyde C. Edmonds, Elbert R. Curtis (clerk)

[Kris’ Note:  Those names were written as personal ink signatures.  Some are easier to read than others.]