Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire 1892-1969
2010
Clara Lzina Barker was born to goodly parents John Thompson and Jane Pickett Barker in St. Charles, Idaho in the year of 1892. She was the youngest of many siblings and spent her life in close relationships with them. Her mother died when she was sixteen. She married Justin Gerald Pugmire in Paris, Idaho. They lived their lives primarily in Salt Lake City and Midvale, Utah. My grandmother Clara became the mother of nine children. Seven survived to adulthood. They are Gerald, Devearl, Lavon, Farrell, Theora, Glenn and June. When she died of cancer in 1969 she was the grandmother of 35. She was buried in the Midvale City Cemetery in Midvale, Utah next to her husband Justin who died almost twenty years earlier. Also buried with her are two infant daughters: Clara and Fawn. She was a blessed wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, friend, missionary, temple worker, daughter. Her legacy of love, frugality, generosity, faith and resourcefulness lives on in her children and grandchildren who love her and long to see her again.
The migration of Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire
Idaho to Utah