My Mother's Aunt and Her Husband, Kate Marie Brandley Coburn and Elmo Coburn

Uncle Elmo Coburn

Ruth and Marie

 Marie is the next youngest than my Grandmother Mina Geneve.  Grandmother is the oldest of the family, children of Carl G. Brandley and Jane Jeremy.  She was married to Elmo Preston Coburn in 1912 in Salt Lake City.  They made their home in Saint Anthony, Utah.  They were the parents of five children.   Elmo passed away in 1970 and Marie in 1976.  They are buried in Ammon, Idaho.

Mina Geneve and Marie Brandley

Elmo and Marie in back row

My Grandmother's Sisters, Aunt Ruth and Aunt Marie

Aunt Ruth

Ruth and Kate Marie

Aunt Marie

My grandmother had two younger sisters.  Kate Marie Brandley was three years younger than my grandmother.  She married Elmo Coburn and they had five children.

Ruth Naomi Brandley was born nine years after my grandmother.  She married Theron Nielsen.  This union ended in divorce.  They did not have children.

Growing up, Aunt Ruth, much of the time, lived with Grandma Wright.  She had the slobberiest kisses you can imagine, but all the same, we were expected to kiss she and grandma whenever we visited.  Her bedroom was the first on the right going in the back door; across from the bathroom.  She always had nice hair combs and other treasures in her room, but we didn't go in there very much.